The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-12-14

Abrogation Of the treaty of friendly
relations between the United States
and Russia, made in 1882, was urged
In speeches delivered by dozen or
more men Of national prominence and
held in Carnegie hall, New
York city.
Mah-Een-Gance, a Chippewa witness
In a land fraud hearing at Fergus
Falls, Mimi, startled the examining
board by admitting he told an un-
truth for $1,000 and would do it again
for that amount.
Five bandits who descended on an
isolated farmhouse near Croton Lake,
N. Y, November 9, and murdered
Mrs. Mary Hall, were sentenced to
death in the electric chair during the
week Of January Is.
James B. Mcnamara, confessed muir.
derer of twenty.one persons in the
dynamiting of the Times building, was
sentenced at Los Angeles to life i'm.
prisonment in San Quentin. His bro.
Their, John j. Mcnamara, secretary OF
the International Association OF Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers, who con.
fessed to the dynamiting of the Llewel.
Ign Iron works, was sentenced to TT.
teen years in the same prison.
Job Hartman, Socialist candidate
for mayor of Los Angeles, was defeat
ed in the municipal election. Mayor
Alexander, good government" candi
date, being reelected by large ma
jor1ty.
The National Irrigation congress
opened in Chicago and because the
reclamation of swamp lands has a
prominent place on the program the
number Of delegates from the south
and east was unusually large.
The trial of Ethel Conrad and LII
liam Graham, show girls, for the shoot
ing of w. E. D. Stokes, millionaire
owner of the Hotel Ansonia OF New
York, was postponed, owing to the
illness of the plaintiff, who, his physt.
clan said, is confined to his bed by a
severe attack of heart failure.
Ilnfnnfjvnc FL ~r{1o b
ers' association have under ar
rest at New York James F. Long,
tWenty-three years old, said to be the
son OF a prominent planter of Roberts
Vile. Mo-, on the charge of having
forged check for $4,000 on the First
National bank of Chicago.
San Jose scale will be fought Wig
orously in the orchards of Kansas by
three parties of entomologists from
the state university, who are begin.
ming extensive spraying campaigns at
points IN the central part Of the state.
United States District Judge Jacob
Trieber at st. Louis quashed the in
dictment against E. G. Lewis, charg-
ing him with using the mails to de-
fraud.
The Kansas Flour Milling company,
with capital stock OF $9,OOO,OOO, has
been granted a charter by the state OF
Kansas. The new company is mer.
ger of five large milling concerns.
John D. Rockefeller resigned as
president and director OF the Stand.
ard OIL Company of New jersey John
d. Archbold was elected as Mr.. Rookie.
feller's successor
Nearly $100,00O.OOO worth of domes.
tic merchandise from the United
States was transported across the
1sthmus of Panama in the fiscal year
Of 1911, via the two railway lines.
Rudolph Blankenburg was 1naugu.
rated mayor of Philadelphia. For the
first time in q years the city is gov.
erned by man who was not elected
by the Republican organization.
United States District Attorney
Sherman T. Mcpherson and o. E.
Harrison of the department OF justice
filed antitrust proceedings at Cinc1n.
natl alleging conspiracy in restraint
Of trade against the National Cash