Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-17


Washington
President Taft INDUCED in some
plain talk in explaining to Is members
of the National Grange that he does
not intend to play politics with the
Canadian reciprocity agreement, even
II the enactment of that measure by
congress costs him the farmer vote.
He said he believed reciprocity to be
the best thing for the whole country
and that he did not intend to argue it.
Investigation of the American Sugar
Refining company and all other con-
Germs engaged in the manufacture or
refining of sugar, to ascertain whether
or not there have been violations OF
the antitrust law, was recommended
by the house of representatives CON-
mittee on rules.
BY the overwhelming vote of 236 to
100 the farmers free list bill passed
the house amid Democratic applause.
There were % Republicans voting for
the bill on final passage, made up of
the progressives from the middle
west.
A change of the date Of the inaugu-
ration of the president is assured OF
ratification, and it is not improbable
that similar action will be taken to
change the date OF holding the ma
tional elections.
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Domestic
What was perhaps the f1ercest bat
tie Of the Mexican revolution was
fought at JuareZ, Mexico, but without
definite result. It is estimated that
from 80 to so rebels and felerals
were killed and about 100 wounded
ing.
The application of John J. McNa-
mara for the fixing Of bail on the
charge Of dynamiting was disallowed
by Superior Judge Bordwell at Los
Angeles, CAL, without prejudice and
with leave to renew it at any time.
Search is being, made at Danville,
ILL.,, for two thugs, who are thought
TO be members of an organized band,
whose methods rival in fendishness
the product of the imaginatlons of
the writer's Of the most weird melo-
dramas. One man is dead and an
other is dying after having been at
tackled and knocked unconscious and
their bodies placed across railroad
tracks in the path of approaching
trains.
Three companies of rebels, com.
prising 2SO men, are camped In the
buildings and streets of Tijuana, Low
er California. The town was taken
by assault, the battle lasting four
hours. Conservative estimates of the
dead and wounded on both sides place
the number at IS.
Northern Wisconsin and upper
Michigan are in the grip of forest
nres. They are burning in hundreds
Of places on all sides of Lake SUI
perior. A settler, Kitto Mikalla, liv-
Ing near Eveleth, Mimi, was burned
to death. Several hundred men are
lighting the fires. The property loss
already has been great
Two thousand tracts of unallotted
Indian land in the Seminole, Cherokee
and Greek nations, Oklahoma, are to
be offered for sale by the government
ut auction, beginning May Is and
closing May %.
President Taft will visit Newark,
N. J., as the guest of St. Johns lodge
Of Masons on it's one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary. The president
will attend also a reception in honor
Of former Gov. Franklin Murphy.
Marshal Busby of Patton, Ia. and a
robber were killed and another bandit
was seriously wounded in a fight be.
tween q sheriff's posse and the bandits
ut schoolhouse two miles from Pa.
ton. The robbers broke into the post
Office at Patton, blew open the safe and
took several hundred dollars in
stamps and money.
Forest fires are spreading along the
Minnesota Ontario frontier line.
threatening number of settlements.
The body of Kitto Wikalla, a farmer
In Eveleth, Mimi, was found in the
ruins of his home, supposed to have
been destroyed by forest fires.
College professors Of Colorado re-
fused to translate into Greek an in
,vitaton to Gov. Woodrow Wilson Of
New Jersey to address the Denver
Press club, on the ground that Wilson
was one of the greatest authorities
on Greek In the country.
Indictments against three SENATOR.
two representatives and sereeant.at.
arms OF the Ohio senate were returned
by the Franklin county grand Jury.
The legislators were indicted on the
testimony Of three Burns detectives
and are accused Of soliciting brides.
" $3.50
The eight hour day will 70 into e,-
feet for all telegraphers EMPLOYED in
Western Union Offices, beginning June
1, according to statement from the
omces OF the Commercial Telegraph.