The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-02-10
Democrats are holding up Taft's

4 Democrats are holding up TAFT:
hands for the Canadian treaty.
Roosevelt says he is a progressive
and could not be anything else.
President Taft expects to visit Kan
sas the week of September "a to 80
next.
The new senator from Connecticut
says his position cost him $4,000.
The senate confirmed the presi
/ dents nominees for the court of com
nerce.
Money appropriated to raise the
Maine has run out and work has been
stopped.
New York and Iowa legislatures
show no signs of agreeing on senator
ial choice.
Twenty deaths from the plague
have occurred in the Chinese hospi'
tai at Tien.
A movement is under way to form
state branches of the national repub.
lican progressive league.
American Ambassador Leishman,
who has rad a hobby in America, re-
turned TO his post in Rome.
The Hartman lines are to do much
double tracking. Pullman berth rate
reductions are now in effect.
Athletic Manager Eager says 1t Is
not certain Michigan and Nebraska
will clash on the football field.
Congress is showing. considerable
anxiety over the embarrassment caus-
ed by the proposed reciprocity pro-
gram.
Speaker Kuhl OF the Nebraska
house was presented with a new gavel
made of the old flag pole of old Fort
Kearney.
The California state senate passed
a bill providing for the initiative and
referendum and the recall for NUM-
cipalities of California.
President Taft has accepted the
resignation from the army of Captain
Peter c. Hams, Jr., coast artillery
corps. effective January 2s.
The committee on foreign affairs
of the Austrian delegation adopted a
resolution in favor OF President
Taft's disarmament proposition.
As president of the national conser-
walton association, Gioffrd Pinchot is
sued statement commencing Presi-
dent Tafts water power policy.
j. {. Sunny of Waterloo, Ia, who
claims TO be an athlete of Ames col
lege, was taken into custody at Chi
cago pending examination as to his
mental condition.
a man giving the name OF Charles
Smith was arrested in Oklahoma City,
charged with implication in the blow.
ing up OF the Los Angeles Times.
Smith Is from Joplin, Mo.
Montana's vote was cast In favor
OF the income tax amendment to the
OF the United States.
The senate concurred in a house re-
solution ratifying the amendment.
II Is reported that Geo. J. Gould,
the president Of the Missouri Pacific
railway company, the only one of the
great Gould system Of railroads in
which he Is still dominant will retire.
President Taft has decided to ap-
point Judge Martin. of the court OF
common pleas of Lancaster. o., to the
United States court of customs ap-
peals. TO succeed Judge William II.
Hunt.
William Hackett. paying teller OF
the Easton pa National bank, com.
mitted suicide in the same way as
William Gayle. friend, ended his
life, by taking carbolic acid and
shooting himself.
Juan Sanchez Azcona. whom the
Mexican government sought to extra
dite for trial on the charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses. was
set free by the supreme court OF the
District of Columbia.
Thirty-two individual defendants in
the socalled bathtub trust criminal
cases filed a general demurrer in the
federal court in Detroit Monday af.
ternoon. II was expected the case
would come up for trial in March.
Mrs. Mary Celia jumped to her
death and her two daughters were
probably fatally burned in a spec
tacular fire which destroyed a four.
story tenement building at Thirty.
seventh street and Sixth avenue, New
York.
II. 7. Griffin. assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Chicago, Milwau.
kee & ST. Paul railroad. died In chi
cago, aged 63 years. He was con-
nected with the road for forty-three
years. He was a brother-in-law of
Sir Thomas o'Shaughnessy. presl-
dent of the Canadian Pacific.
A caucus of the supporters OF La
fayette Young for United States SEN
ator was held at Des Moines. When
the caucus adjourned IL was an
nounced that every man present had
pledged himself to vote for Young
until the end Of the session, unless