The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-02-24

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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 mouse
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
Paul Morton. president OF the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
died suddenly at New York.
At a oe.Nocratic house caucus
Champ Clark was made the nominee
Tor speaker by reclamation.
Senator Fletcher in an address de-
clared Secretary Ballinser an mt
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 f.
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 100000.
a: 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.
al tive-mile competition speedway
record at the motordome. His time
was 3 minutes 81 seconds.
With a greater number Of delegates
in attendance than V e 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
l tllt "CdI,OA.
The Panama national assembly.
called in extraordinary session tC
deal With the financial situation,
voted 100000 in gold in aid of the
Projected Panama worlds fair in 1915
What is declared to be the most
nearly perfect counterfeit bill that
has been made in Is years came tC
Chief Wilkie in the secret service
from Wichita. Hans. 1t is a $40 bill
The naval affairs committee of the
house which is to vote on the mat,
ter soon, will probably provide for
the two battleships and two GOLFERS
and all Of the program Of Secretary
Meyer.
During last year forty-nine men
were n to the penitentiary and
566 to Jail for selling liquor to In,
dians. The facts are stated in a re.
port by Special Officer William +.
Johnson.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle ~one-quarter OF the time
from now on until markets improve
i a recommendation made by the
.Arkwright club in Boston is general,
" 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 d
meeting called for the purpose.
The petition for a rchearing of the
Judgment and order sentencing Abra
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on 9 charge of bribery of the
Ruet-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California su
preme court.
Caution in the extension of fedora
control over the issuance OF securi
ties by railroads vas 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 tt
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 t(
a circuit judgeship.
Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, who
have been interesting guests in New
York, are now at Colorado Beach
Cal, where they are enjoying the
halmy breezes of the Pacific and play
ing polo. Later they expect to visi
Texas and see the cowboys on the
great ranches.
The first death in Picking since the
nutLraGk of tho nraCnnf Qnilamin n