The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-03-10


The senate added $4,000 to the
louse pension bill.
There is small hope for ship sub
sidy atsc1is session of congress-.
General Navarro. ut the head OF
a thousand fedcrals. marched into
Juarez.
A new rule was adopted in the
house which stopped the filibusteI
II short order.
Elliott Northcutt. the newly ap.
pointed Ameri AN minister to Nicara.
qua, assumed his post.
Former Secretary OF State Olney
declares the United States should not
tortify the Panama canal.
Henry Richardson Chamberlain,
London correspondent of the New
York Sun since 1892, died.
Convicted officers of the Naval
Stores company have been granted a
rehearing by the supreme court.
The directors of the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey declared a
dividend o: SIS for the quarter.
The supreme court Of the United
States ruled that advertising could
lot be exchanged for transportation.
Proceedings in the lower house OF
congress were held up an entire day
by a filibustcr by Representative
Mann.
The directors of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad company decided
% increase the capital stock by $685.
300. 900
Nicaragua has been placed under
martial law by President Estrada as
4 result of the magazine explosion at
Managua.
Fire destroyed the garage of the
Atchison Motor company. with a loss
Of $4,000. About twenty automobiles
w,re burned
Joseph ID. Ro%ckefeller. cousin of J.
d. Rockefeller died at his home in
South Bend. Ind. Mr.. Rockefeller
was born in Pennsylvania.
Frank JIotchkiss, known to Yale
men for two generations as the Off
cial in charge of the grounds and
buildings, died. aged 20 years.
Directors of the Southern Pacific
Railroad company authorized a $780,.
900. 900 issue of collateral trust 4 per
cent bonds payable in France.
Rumors Of the bubonic plague
spreading into the coast cities of
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to go a half cent
higher.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es.
tablish a hero fund of 100000 in
Denmark. The foreign Office already
has expressed its gratitude for the
proposed gift.
The King Lumber company, OF
Charlottesville, Va. has been award.
ed the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege.
Neb., at $6S,325.
The Mark Twain library, built as a
memorial to Jean l.. Clemens. daugh.
ter Of the humorist. who was drown.
ed at Stormfield, Dec. "a, 1909, was
formally dedicated.
The will of Richard l.. Ashhurst,
the aged postmaster Of Philadelphia,
who mysteriously disappeared at At.
lantic City on January 80. was filed
in the Office of register Of wills.
Under the terms of the treaty pro.
viding for the arbitration of the
ChamiZai zone case, the United
States and Mexico exchanged pre-.
sensations of their respective cases.
A typically Rooseveltian program
that will allow the former president
but little i die time in the thirty.
six hours he is to be in Chicago will
await Colonel Roosevelt when he
reaches that city.
c. c. King. formerly a banker in
Pierre, S. d., who was sent to the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
in 1907 for violation of the national
banking laws. completed his term
Monday and was released.
The French government is not
much interested in the plan for re.
ciprocal trade relations maturing be.
tween the two great governments of
North America, while French export.
ers are plainly apprehensive.
The Tennessee house of represen,
tatives adopted a resolution urging
President Taft to call an extra ses,
sion of congress March 4, 1911, to
make an Immediate downward revi.
sion Of the tariff on the necessaries
of life
Two hundred and forty-eight rail.
way mail clerks at Syracuse, N. Y.
took a revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by afIiliating with the
American Federation of Labor, re.
ceiving a charter and electing and