Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-01-20

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Both houses OF congress adjourned
~ mark Of respect for Senator El-
kins.
The house voted to abolish the Of
nee Of second deputy commissioner
q pensions.
President Taft gave approval =
the report Of tho board u enginesrs
on reclamation projects.
The supreme court Mnds It dimeuat
to draw the line between legal and
Illegal restraint Of trade.
The plan Of refunding the Hondur-
an debt - regarded ~ amounting to
. United States protect0rate.
Members Of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
OF eliminating thanksgiving day foot
ball.
Supreme court of Nebraska holds
that the sale of beer In bottles In
cases is sale at retail and not Whole
sale.
Assets of the Washington-Alaska
bank, now in the hands OF receiver,
are $l.100,O0O and it's liabilities are
5000, 1000.
A reduction in the freight rate ON
cottonseed from points in Missouri,
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
Tenn, is made.
A strong movement supported by
the bishop of Liverpool and leading
churchmen, has been started against
Mormon activity there.
The grand jury in the Los Angeles
Times explosion case returned %
indictments. All of the indictments
charge murder in connection with
that crime.
The 100000 appropriation made by
congress at the last session for re-
moving the wreck of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor will be In
sufficient
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce
commission to assume jurisdiction Of
the railways Of Alaska was sustained
by the supreme court Of the District
Of Columbia.
One fatality out of 32,50O.O00 pas
sengers carried by steam vessels Of
all classes plying to and from Phila-
delphia was the remarkable record
made in 1910.
gone to live with her mother, Walter
Osgood, Of Omaha. shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded . man
who came to her assistance.
Declaring the merit system recent
ly inaugurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave injustice
on the part of oficials, deputation
of clerks left for Washington to enter
protest.
How to meet the inroads of west
ern apples in markets until now held
by eastern orchardists is the main
concern of the New York State Fruit
Growers association, which is hold.
ing it's tenth annual meeting.
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby Sc
verely criticised the Illinois senate,
when he found that not enough SEN
atOrs to make a quorum had re-
NAMED in Springfield, and that, as q
result, no action was possible on the
election canvass.
Bills to put most of the necessities
of life on the free list were offered
in the house by Representative Mann
of Illinois. There were Is of these
measures, covering leather, cotton
goods, lumber. cereals, vegetables
meat products and the like.
The Aetna Indemnity OF Hartford,
Conn.,, and the Farmers and Mercan-
tile Insurance company of Lincoln,
Neb., have been barred from writing
new business in Ohio on orders from
Superintendent c. C. Lamert, of the
insurance department, under penalty
of revocation of their license.
The question as to how the United
States shall be re-apportioned into
congressional districts in accordance
with the 1910 census was discussed
with the president by Representative
Crumpacker Of Indiana, chairman Of
the house committee on census. Mr..
Crumpacker thinks the membership
of the house should be increased.
Mrs Lydia A. Gear, who came to
Chicago seventy-eight years ago,
when Chicago consisted of Fort Dear
born and fourteen log cabins, and
whose marriage was society event
Of the fort. is dead.
Senator Burrows refused to desig-
nate a day for vote on the question
of unseating Lorimer.
Jere F. Lillis, whom John p. Cud-
ahy cut with knife March s, last,
retired as president of the Western
Exchange bank at Kansas City.
w. r. Hearst must either pay dam
ages or prove to court of law that
he cannot be held responsible for the
fire works explosion of election night,
1902, in which several were killed or
wounded.
A stamp tax on sale for future de-
livery of stocks, grain, provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by a state without violating the fed
eral constitution, according to a de-
cision of the supreme court of the
United States.