Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-09-15

VpSA dCAOAs
1t is reported that the government,
is about to take action against the
steel trust, the biggest trade com
bination in the United States.
Frank Gotch defeated Hacken
schmidt in straight falls at Chicago.
Every demand of the American as
ISOLATION was rejected by the ma
tional baseball commission.
A campaign which has for it's pur
pose a reduction of the high prices
of food has started in Paris.
The American mission at Wahu has
received report that 100000 persons
have been drowned by the floods.
A total production of 12,918,20C
bales of cotton as the final yield this
year is indicated by the department OF
agriculture's official report on August
rs.
At Parame, France, Roland G. Gar.
ros, the French aviator, broke the
worlds record for altitude in an aero
plane. He assembled 1880 meters
(13943 feet).
September LIST marked the beginn.
ing of the operation of the workmen's
compensation law in Wisconsin by
which the state inaugurates system
of compulsory industrial insurance.
A Chicago street car conductor
took an 1853 half-dollar as fare, and
turned it in at the barn. The cashier
replaced it with another, sold 1t for
$500, and its present owner values it
at $4,000.
The emperor of japan presented H.
w. Denison, the American adviser to
the Japanese foreign office, with a
silver bowl as an expression Of graft
tude for Mr.. Denison's service in con-
nection with the treaty revision.
Lady Cook, formerly Miss Tennes-
see Claflin, famous Anglo-American
suffragist, has decided to abandon
her campaign for Votes for women"
and begin crusade for uplift of
young men and women of Chicago.
David Rockefeller Smith, cousin
of John D. Rockefeller, died at his
home in Warrensburg, Mo. Mr.. Smith
was born in Sunbury, Pa, eighty-one
years ago. He served during the Civ
il war in the Fourteenth Ohio caval-
~.
The Chinese cruiser Hai-Chai, the
biggest war ship in the Chinese navy,
is due to arrive in New York early
next week. She will be the first
Chinese warship that ever visited this
port. She comes as the guest of our
nation
Advices to the public health service
at Washington indicate that between
August 13 and 10, inclusive, there oc-
CURED in Italy 1904 cases of cholera,
with 636 deaths. There have been no
cases of cholera reported as having
developed in here since July.
Gen. Benjamin H. Crierson, aged
seventy-five years, is dead at his sum-
mer home at Omena, Mich. His death
leaves but two of the major generals
of the civil war. In 1868, he was COM
missioned a brigadier general by
resident Lincoln for gallant and dis
tinguished service in Ceierson raid
through Missori.
The big 16-inch gun on the coast
defenses at Sandy Hook may be TAX
en- away by the war department to be-
come a part of the defenses of the
Panama Canal, according to advices
received by army official tests to be
the most powerful piece of ordnance
in the world.
A sensation was caused at the
joint session of the coast and noun
tain sawmill men of British Column
bia, when it was alleged that Amer
lean competitors have taken advan-
tage of the absence of duty on rough
lumber to sell thousands of dressed
lumber in the prairie markets with
out paying duty as required by Ca
madam customs tariff.
With 100 prairie dogs captured near
Rawlins, Wyo., as a part of his bag
gage" Perry Williams, glove manu-
facturer of Gloversville, N. Y, passed
through Cheyenne, to his home,
where, he said, he was going to start
a prairie dog farm as an adjunct to
his business. Experiments with prai-
RE dog pelts shows them to be valu-
able in the manufacture of fur gloves.
William Loeb, jr., collector of the
port of New York announced that an
American art connoiseur now in Eur
ope is under surveillance by the for
eign agents of the United States gov
ernment-co-operatin with the French
government in the search for the pic
ture Mona Lisa" Leonardo De
Wincis masterpiece, which disappear
ed from the Louvere some time ago.
President Taft sent the following
cablegram of congratulation to Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands upon
the thirty-first anniversary of her
birth. ION this anniversary of your
majesty's birth, extend the assur-
ance of my high regard and best
wishes and the hope that your ma
jesty's country may continue to en-
joy peace and prosperity"
The only change brought about by
the death of the Standard Oil COM
pany will be in the bookkeeping
thirty sets will now be kept in place
Of one.