Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-20

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Washington,
The Republican national committee,
N session at Washington, ratified the
program which had been arranged in
advance for its deliberations. The
national convention to nominate can
didates for president and vice-presi-
dent will be held in Chicago, begin
ming Tuesday, June Is. Former Gov.
chairman, vice Frank H. Hitchcock,
resigned.
The Sherwood "dollar-a-day" pen
sion bill. which. it is estimated, adds
from $35,O00,000 to S45,000,000 to the
pension roll. passed the national
house of representatives. The vote
was along non-partisan lines, the
great majority of Democrats and Re-
publicans favoring it.
Senator Burton OF Ohio laid before
the senate memorial appealing to
congress to place an embargo upon the
use Of the expression 80 help me
God" in oaths taken in court and else
where under the jurisdiction Of the
government.
Postmaster General H1tchcocks an.
nual report says that the postottice de-
partment shows surplus for the first
time since 1888. 1t tells of the sue
cess Of the postal savings banks and
urges the establishment of parcels
post and readjusthment OF postage
rates and OF railway mail pay.
The biennial convention OF the
Anti-Saloon League of America open
ed In Washington.
In his annual report to the pres1-
dent. Secretary of War Stlmson said
the contingency OF war with first
class power would find the army OF
the United States unprepared. He at
tributed this largely to the fact that
the army was scattered out over the
country" in too many posts, and to a
lack OF reserves.
The battleship Maine was blown
up In Havana harbor by an explosion
from the outside. This is the gist of
a short statement issued by the navy
department in Washington. based On
findings made by the joint army and
navy board. which spent several
months In Havana harbor investigat.
Ing the wreck.
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A monument erected to the memory
Of the unknown dead of the Civil war
was unveiled at Newton, Kan. 1t was
given by the Women's Relief corps
and cost $500.
Five miners. alive and we'll, were
found In Cross Mountain mine at
Briceville, Tenn, which was destroyed
by terrific explosion and fire. The
rescue parties are searching for the
hundred or more other persons known
to have been in the shafts at the time
of the disaster
In Ariz0na's first state election the
Democrats swept the state and elect.
ed George w. p. Hunt governor.
Mark A. Smith of Tucson and Henry
F. Ashurst Of Prescott are recon-
mended to the legislature for the
United States senate, and Carl Hay
den OF Phoenix is elected congress-
man.
Five thousand men and women who
had gathered in Carnegie hall in New
York city to hear Joseph H. Choate,
Col. Henry Watterson, Andrew Car
hegte, DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler and
other eminent advocates of universal
peace speak in behalf of the arbitra-
ton treaties with Great Britain and
France Joined in a riot before the
meeting was half over.
The work of weeks Of court proceed
ure at Kansas City, Mo-, was undone
and the trial of DR.. B. Clark Hyde
brought to a standstill when Harry
Waldron. one of the Jurors, escaped
from his room at the hotel, eluding
two deputy marshals set to guard the
jury and has not been found.
A campaign to further interest II
the national parks of the country and
to induce congress to create a fedora
bureau of national parks was started
by the American Civic association il
convention at Washington.
President Frank Smith of district
No. Is OF the United Mine Workers o.
America and other officials say E
strike Of 10000 miners In the south
ern Colorado fields is imminent because
of the dissatisfaction OF the men owe
the conditions under which they work
Tariff. railroad rates. federal con
troll of semi-arid grazing lands an,
other questions are under discussion
by the American National Live Stool
association, in convention at Denye,
Colo. -~.. sa
Certificates of election have bee,
issued to municipal officers electe,
November Z. following decision O
the state supreme court ,upholdinE th
constitutionality Of a commissio