The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-03-17

The Sulloway age pension bill,
passed by the house, failed in the
senate.
Reciprocity failed Of enactment in
congress-. hence the call for an extra
session.
DR.. Vasquez Gomez says he has re-
ceived overtures for peace from the
Diaz government.
The American National Red Cross
cabled another $1,000 for the relief of
the starving in China.
Mrs. Maldwin Drumluond was rob-
led of $4,000 worth OF jewels or
board an Atlantic liner.
Washington. d. c., has raised $34,-
Geo as its share of the $4,000 Red
Cross endowment fund.
The total number of bills introduced
during the three sessions of congress
just closed reached 33,015.
William H. Lewis. a negro, has
been nominated by the president to be
assistant attorney general.
Presidential suffrage for women
was voted down by the Kansas house
in committee Of the whole.
The government has begun pro-
ceedings against an alleged combine
in manufa ,ture of electric lights.
Kansas City ne of the Luck
Tiger mine in Sonora. Mexico, have
been advised that the rebels have
seized the property.
Lord Amphill. in the house of lords.
declared England's inaction is respon-
sible for Canada desiring reciprocity
with the United States.
The English cabinet is reported by
the Times to have agreed on reten-
ton of Irish members in the imper-
ial parliament, but in reduced num-
bers.
Two hundred most of them
accompanied by their husbands. at
tended a boxing match in Syracuse,
n. Y. given for the benefit Of a hos
pital.
Two hundred citizens OF FL Paso
have petitioned President Taft and
congress that the United States take
revolution.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion wants congress to relieve it from
n connection with mediation and
arbitration proceedings under the
i.rdman act.
Congressman Champ Clark was ell
dered an informal banquet by Phila
delphia democrats who have been &C.
tive in reorganization plans for the
city and state.
Governor Colquitt sent a message
70 the Texas Legislature ~censuring it
for voting to adjourn Saturday merely
because their pay drops from s. to 81
a day on that date.
After spending nearly six years in
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Frank G.. BigeloW, the Milwaukee
banker. was released. according to
authoritative reports.
The California assembly adopted
a resolution condemning the United
States senate for seating LOrimer
and rebuking the two California SEN
ators for voting for him.
Fifty thousand business men Of
Georgia and nearby states have been
invited by telephone to attend the
Southern Commercial Congress in At
lanta, Ga. March s to 10.
President David r. Kerr of West
minister college, Fulton. Mo, has ten
dered his resignation. He has been
offered the presidency of Whitworth
college at Tacoma, Wash.
The house approved a bill to pro-
vide for the erection OF a monument
over the grave of President John Ty-
Ter at Richmond, Va. The limit of ex-
pcnse in the bill is 100000.
Secretary of Commerce Nagel will
investigate the charge that figures of
the department of statistics have
been distorted to show 9th err than the
true state of exports and imports.
Dr.. Theobald Smith, professor of
comparative pathology at Harvard
medical school. says that if bubonic
plague starts in the west it might be
spread to the east through the me-
diUm of milk.
The main building Of Mount St.
Mary'S college, a large and we'll
equipped Roman Catholic institution
on Watching mountain, neal Plain
field. \. J., was burned Thursday. en-.
failing a loss of more thar 100000
The Missouri senate passed a bill
submitting to the people at a special
election to be called by Gov. Had
ley. a proposition to vote $4,000, 900
bonds for rebuilding the burned CAPT
tol at Jefferson City