The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-09
Senator Elkins left an estate valued

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debt on West Virginia.
Governor Colquitt of Texas says
the question of prohibition should be
submitted to the people.
There is a movement among house
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
Paul Norton, president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
died suddenly at New York.
At a delNocratic house caucus
Champ Clark was made the nominee
Tor speaker by reclamation.
Senator Fletcher in an address de-
clared Secretary Ballinger an unfit
man to remain in the cabinet.
Andrew Carnegie is giving ten mil
lions more as an endowment to the
Carnegie institution at Washington.
The Michigan house and senate,
voting separately, chose Charles E.
Townsend to succeed Senator Bur.
rows.
Senator Hitchcock, in a speech be-.
fore the Nebraska legislature, was
optimistic with regard to the pro.
gressive work of lawmakers past and
future.
At Aberdeen, S. d.. the division
headquarters. local freight houses
and passenger station OF the Milwau'
kee railroad. were burned. The loss
is estimated at 500, 900.
AT Danville, ILL.,, J. S. Mead. an am
bulance driver, and Robert Shut. a
veteran of the soldiers home. were
shot and instantly killed by Howard
Tucker, another veteran.
At Los Angeles, Howard Wilcox.
driving a National, broke the Ameri.
can tive-mile competition speedway
record at the motordome. His time
was 3 minutes q seconds.
With a greater number Of delegates
in attendance than ever before. the
United States Civil Service Retire.
ment association convened in wash
ingtOn in annual convention.
Oscar Johnson, a farmer living neal
the Pierce county (Nebr.) line, at
tackled his wife with a butcher knife,
and after killing her he committed
suicide with the same weapon
The Panama national assembly
called in extraordinary session to
deal With the financial situation.
!;Oted 100000 in gold in aid of the
projected Panama worlds fair in 1915
nearly perfect counterfeit bill that
has been made in Is years came tc
Chief Wilkie in the secret service
from Wichita, Kans. 1t is a $40 bill
The naval affairs committee of the
house which is to vote on the mat.
ter soon, will probably provide fol
the two battleships and two GOLFERS
Meyer.
During last year %iorty-nine men
were sent to the penitentiary and
500 to jail for selling liquor to In.
dams. The facts are stated in a re.
port by Special Officer William F.
Johnson.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle %one-quarter of the time
from now on until markets improve
if a recommendation made by the
Arkwright club in Boston is general.
ly accepted.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich's long.
awaited plan for the revision of the
national banking legislation as he
calls it, was submitted to the ma.
tiOnal monetary commission at a
meeting called for the purpose.
The petition for a rehearing Of the
judgment and order sentencing Abra.
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on q charge of bribery of the
Ruet-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California SUI
preme court.
Caution in the extension of fedora,
control over the issuance Of securi.
ties by railroads was urged by Mar.
vim Hughitt, chairman of the board
of directors of the Chicago & North
western railroad in the hearing of the
securities commission.
Nearly half the members of the sen
ate judiciary committee are said to
have taken positions against the con.
firmation of Judge William H. Hunt.
now serving as a member of the court
of customs appeals, and promoted to
a circuit jCdgeship.
Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, who
have been interesting guests in New
York, are now at Colorado Beach,
Cal, where they are enjoying the
balmy breezes of the Pacific and play
ing polo. Later they expect to visit
Texas and see the cowboys on the
great ranches.
The first death in Pecking since the
%Outhro.k Of the nreSent endemic Of