The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-06-02

, The senate confirmed the presi.
| dents nominees for the court of COM
merce.
Speaker Kuhl of the Nebraska
house was presented with a new gavel
made of the old flag pole of old Fort
Kearney.
Money appropriated to raise the
Maine has run out and work has been
stopped.
The United States senate will work
under high tension during the re-
maindes of the session.
The Hartman lines are to do much
double tracking. Pullman berth rate
reductions are now in effect.
New York insurgents said they
would continue their fight on Shee-
han if it continued until fall.
Champ Clark is opposed to any
state losing its present number OF
representatives in the house.
In an extended address Elihu Root
Of New York declared it the duty OF
the senate to unseat Lorimer.
The Missouri capitol building at
Jefferson City was struck by light
ming and was completely destroyed.
The amount paid by the govern
ment to the railroads for carrying
the mails is again being looked into.
Print paper manufacturers are
against the proposed reduction IN
duty provided in Canadian reciproc-
ity.
Full military honors marked the
burial in Arlington national cemetery
Of the body OF Rear Admiral Charles
S. Sperry, U. S. n.
The California state senate passed
a bill providing for the initiative and
referendum and the recall for NUM-
cipalitles of California.
The treasury department bill, pro-
bonds as security for national bank
notes, a passed by the senate.
The committee on foreign affairs
Of the Austrian delegation adopted a
resolution in favor Of President
Taft's disarmament proposition.
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walton association, Gioffrd Pinchot is
sued a statement commencing Presi'
dent Taft's water power policy.
J. c. 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.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad
company was sentenced in the fed,
eral court at New Orleans to pay a
fire Of $500 for violation Of the Sher
nan antitrust law.
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 H..
Hunt.
The board of managers of the New
York produce exchange endorsed
the reciprocal agreement with Cana
da as proposed by President Taft
and recommended its ratification by
congress.
William Hackett, paying teller of
the EastOn (Pa.) National bank, com
mitted suicide in the same way as
William Gayle, a friend, ended his
life, by taking carbolic acid and
shooting himself.
Although North Dakota has the re-
putation of being an exclusively agri-
cultural state. a bulletin issued by
the census bureau shows the manu-
featured products of that state in
1909 to have been s19,150,0o0.
Mrs. Mary Celia jumped to her
death and her two daughters were
probably fatally burned in a spec
fire which destroyed a four
story tenement building al Thirty
seventh street and Sixth avenue New
York.
The historic capitol building OF
Missouri, burned last Sunday, was
erected in 1888 at a cost of S35O,O0O
and in 1887 remodeled at a cost Of
$25, 900. While it was built Of stone,
the roof was covered with much in
fammable material which fed the
flames.
Land estimated to be worth $780,
coo, 900 has been "grabbed' from
the public domain of Illinois by pri-
vate interests, according to the re-
port of the Chepertield commission
on submerged lands which is ready
for presentation to the legislature of
Illinois.
H. T. Griffin, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railroad, died in Chi
cago, aged 63 years. He was con-