The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-12-08

Chinese navy have zone over to the
rebels.
The government will not appeal
from the ruling in the tobacco case.
Attorney Hanccy, counsel for Lori.
mer, said there was a conspiracy to
drive the senator out of politics.
Governor Harmon, in an address at
Kansas City, complained Of the lack
of business ability of the government.
Herr Pletschiker, an aviator, fell
while making a flight over the johann
nisthal field at Berlin, and was killed.
The p~ostoffice at Horick. Ia. was
raided by cracksmen and $500 In
money and stamps secured.
Rumors circulated at Washington
that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
is to resign are regarded authentic.
On application by counsel for Mrs.
Russell Sage her assessment for per-
sonal property va reduced from
100000 to $2.51O,OOO.
Increased dividends have been de-
clared by the Hooking Valley n
Kanawha & Michigan Railroad com
panies.
Eight million persons are in need
of immediate relief owing to the fail
ure of the crops in twenty Russian
provinces.
United States Senator-elect Hoke
Smith. governor Of Georgia. stated
he would offer his resignation as chief
executive of the state.
The Rev. C. '. T. Richeson of Bos-
ton, will be placed on trial ca the
cargo of numbering Miss Avis Linnell
on January Is, 1912.
Beet sugar refiners have formed a
temporary organization to carry on
their fight to maintain the tariff on
sugar.
With a note Of bitterness. General
Allen confesses Europe has outdis-
tanced the United States in army
aeronautics.
James Freeman, IS years old, has
been sentenced to Imprisonment for
life at Murphysboro, H., for the MUIR
der Of his wife.
The seedless lemon, to produce
which botanical experts have unsuc-
cessfully labored for years, has been
discovered at San B%ernandino. Cal.
DR.. George Edmund Meyers, former
ly Of Washington. D. c., has been in
%augurated head Of the Kansas Manual
Training Normal school at Pittsburg,
Kan.
The contract for the new building
of the bureau of engraving and print
ing was awarded to j. Henry Miller,
incorporated. of Baltimore, whose bid
of 81, 197,420 las the lowest.
The democratic house will attempt
to amend the Sherman antitrust law.
Attorney General Wilkinson says he
can find no evidence to support a
prosecution Of cotton bears.
Announcement was made that the
supreme court of the United States
would take a recess after announcing
opinions Monday, November 20,
until Monday. December +.
The Mexican cabinet decided to
send a large force of fighters into
Morelos and adjoining states where
Emilano Zapata has been waging war
with more or less success for several
months.
New York's streets have become So
Uttered with piles of garbage as the
result OF the street cleaners strike,
that Street Cleaning Commissioner
Edwards will begin the use OF disin-
f%ectants.
The famous old warship Nipsic,
which survived the Samoan hurricane
and which for many years has been
the prison ship of the Bremerton
navy yard. has been condemned as
~unsanitary.
Formal notice of the purpose OF the
Jap~ese government to appoint
Baron Chinda ambassador to Wash
ington to succeed Niscount Uchida,
who was made minister Of foreign af-
fairs, has reached Washington.
The method of choosing directors
and the preponderance of banking
representation in the proposed Aldrich
currency plan were criticised by Prof.
F.. w. Kemmerer of Cornell university
in opening a session on currency and
baking reform of the Western Eco
nomic society.
Mrs. Elizabeth Atchison of Sydney,
Y. S. w, in a letter lays claim to the
land upon which Atchison. Kansas, a
city of nearly twenty thousand, is
built. The land, she claims, was CIV
en- before the Louisiana purchase"
to David T. Atchison, of whom she
cayc cho iS a descendant