The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-01-13

The army appropriation uAi "a
nearly ready to report
Iowa is full of candidates for the
Oolliver senatorial succession.
Five men were killed in a train col.
Iision at Cheney. Wash.
nary 1st.
Senator Elkins OF West virginia
died suddenly at Washington.
Action was begun at Jew York to
annul the so-called steamer compact
Both houses of congress adjourned
as a mark of respect for Senator FL
kins.
Reapportionment is giving the re
publican leaders in the house no END
Of trouble.
A Cleveland Judge says the high
cost of living is responsible for most
Of the divorces.
Rhode Island has three candidates
for United States senator and the out
look is for a deadlock.
An international railway commits
sion for the United States and Cana
Ia is practically assured.
Secretary MacVeagh favors issuing
gold certificates againts bullion In
lieu of the actual coinage.
Trinity college, Durham, y. C., was
visited by fire which destroyed the
Washington Duke dormitory.
Convicted members OF the naval
stores company have asked the SUI
preme court to review their case.
If Senator Jorimer retains his seat
II will be only after several senators
have expressed themselves freely.
At Augusta, Me-, Charles +. johnson
Of Waterville was nominated for the
United States senate to succeed Sena
tor Eugene Hale.
Gambling houses and kindred re-
sorts have been ordered out Of Gary,
Ind, as menaces 20 public safety
and public morals.
After being in quarantine at her
home in Akin, S. C., for more than
two years, Miss Mary V. Kirk, leper
died few days ago.
Jere +. Lillis, whom John p. Cud
ahy cut with a knife March 8. last
retired as president of the Westerr
Exchange bank at Kansas City.
The grand jury in the Los Angeles
Times explosion case returned %
indictments. All of the indictments
charge murder In connection with
that crime.
Major William ii. Huxford, u. S. A.
retired, who for the past % years has
been recorder Of the military order OF
the Loyal legion. died at his home In
Washington.
DIR. Donald NJ. Gallie, of the Univer
sity of Illinois. was elected president
of the Institute OF Dental Pedagogics
at the sixteenth annual convention
in Washington.
Governor Hadley. of Missouri. has
decided to substitute ectures fol
written messages to make known tc
the Legislature the needs of the var
ious state institutions.
The receiver of the Abilene. Kans.
/ State bank has sued Mrs. Dahlham
mer, a widow, for siSS pension mon
ey paid her by John Flack, the de
faulting cashier of the bank.
William T. Wardell. prohibition
candidate for mayor of New York In
1896 and for governor in 1900, was
taken i'll in the subway Tuesday af
ternoon and died Is minutes later.
Thirty-five hundred men employed
as motormen. conductors. elevated
railway trainmen, station masters
and inspectors by the Boston Eleyat
ed Railway company received gold
pieces aggregating $4,000.
How TO meet the inroads of west
ern apples in markets until now held
by eastern orchardists Is the main
concern of the New York State Friu,
Growers association, which is hold
ing its tenth annual meeting.
President Taft, Secretary of State
Knox. Secretary - Agriculture VII
son and Senator Dick of Ohio have
accepted invitations to respond &c
toasts at the annual banquet to be
given BY the Ohio society this month
on the anniversary Of the birth o,
President Mckinley.
The Aetna Indemnity of Hartford
Conn, and the Farmers and Mercan
tile Insurance company of Lincoln
Neb., have been barred from writing
new business in Ohio on orders from
Superintendent c. c. Lamert, OF the
Insurance department, under penalty
of revocation of their license.
The question as to how the United
States shall be re-apportioned into
congressional districts in accordanc,
with the 1910 census was discussed
with the president by Representativ,
Crumpacker OF Indiana, chairman o
the house committee on census. Mr.
Crumpacker thinks the membership
Of the house should be increased.