Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-22

The United States is now amons
the leaders in rapid warship building
Clifford Pinchot says good republic
ans and good democrats look much
alike to him.
Richard L. Metcalfe. democrat. has
filed for governor Of Nebraska.
Two pension bills are fighting for
right of way in the house.
Persia has made an appeal for help
from the aggression Of Russia.
Heavy punishments were meted
out to the English spies arrested ct
Hamburg on March 10.
The commission appointed by the
president opposes the plan Of federal
control OF railroad securities.
Legislation for direct. election OF
United States senators apparently is
hopelessly hung up in conference.
The battleshipi Maine was destroyed
by an explosion from the outside, &C
cording to the report Of q naval
board. -rs.
The foreign affairs committee
agreed to favorably report the Sulzer
resolution for abrogation of Russian
treaty. Az.
James B. McCreary, in whose cleo
ton Kentucky returned to the demo-
cratic column, was inaugurated .as
governor.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
Of China which went ashore on July
q, forty miles from Yokohama during
a fog, was refioated.
A personal campaign to secure SEN
atorial support for the British and
French arbitration treaties was be-
gun by President Taft.
President Taft has accepted an In
vitation to open the twelfth lnterna-
tional Association of Navigation con-
gress at Philadelphia, May %.
The Omaha railway announced the
installation of 1914 per cent milling
in transit rate per houndred pounds
on wheat from Kansas City to Chi
cago via Minneapolis.
The committee of the German Aero
club has decided that the interna-
tional balloon race for the James Cor
don Bennett trophy is to be held at
Stuttgart next year.
The general tariff situation, and
particularly President Taft's forth
coming message to congress on the
wool tariff schedules, were discussed
at length by the cabinet.
Two young officers from the presi-
dents yacht Mayflower, Lieutenantss
]. S. Dowell, Jr., and A. L. Bristol, Jr.,
have been ordered to Berlin to study
German shipbuilding methods.
The eight hour labor law, enacted
by congress in 1892, controls the con-
struction of leyees as well as other
work for the government, according
to a decision by the supreme court. !
Members of the socialist party OF
Lima, O., have demanded the resig-
nation of Mayor-elect Corbin d.
Shock, who headed the socialist ticket
this fall. Shock will not resign.
Dispatches from Teheran say Persia
is ready to enter into friendly nego-
tiations with Russia with regard to
the matters contained in Russia's re-
cent ultimatum.
Wire and nail product prices have
been advanced one dollar a ton
by the American Steel Wire COM
pany, a subsidiary of the steel cor
poration.
A number of witnesses were examin-
ed at Huntsville, Ala, in the case OF
John W. knight, on trial on five
counts charging fraudulent use of the
United States mails and involving &c.
Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, sister
to the late President John Taylor OF
the Mormon church, and mother-ln-
law of President Joseph F. Smith.
died at Salt Lake City. She was nine
ty years old.
For the first time since 1883 the an
nual financial statement of the Post
Office department shows surplus IN
stead of a deficit. This is the bur-
den of the annual report Of Postmas-
ter General Hitchcock.
On account of two vacancies in the
supreme court of the United States,
a movement has been started~-to
have the group OF state railroad rate
cases assigned for argument on JAM.
8, 1912, postponed for a full bench.
Complete information of the oper-
alton of the parcels post in twenty-one
foreign lands has been compiled for
the use of the senate committee on
postoffices and post roads, to be used
in considering proposed legislation to
establish a parcels post in the United
States.
After a running battle of thirty
miles with a company of state militia
and a posse of armed citizens, John
Weidemeir, who shot and killed
Sheriff Moody of Wahpeton, was sur
rounded near White Rock, S. d., and
killed after he had wounded three OF
his pursuers.