The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-01-20

ice Of second deputy commissioner
Of pensions.
/ President Taft gave approval to
The report Of the board of engineers
On reclamation projects.
( The supreme court finds 1t difficult
70 draw the line between legal and
Illegal restraint of trade.
The plan of refunding the Hondur.
an debt is regarded as amounting to
1 United States protectorate.
The aeronautical club of Paris dis.
cussed the award of the statue of lib.
erty prize to John b. Moisant
Captain Peary told house commit.
tee that the man who discovers the
pole must make his own roadway.
Members of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
Of eliminating thanksgiving day foot
ball.
Supreme court OF Nebraska holds
that the sale of beer in bottles In
cases is sale at retail and not whole
sale.
Assets of the Washington-Alaska
bank, now in the hands of a receiver.
are sl.100OGO and its liabilities are
$500, 900.
reduction in the freight rate on
eottonseed from points in Missouri,
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
Tenn, is made.
A strong movement, supported by
The bishop of Liverpool and leading
:hurchmen, has been started against
Mormon activity there.
The grand jury has returned an in
iictment charging perjury against
William l.. Brewer. former vice presi.
lent OF the Northern bank of New
York.
II is now IS years since the opening
gun was fired of the campaign for
popular election of senators which lie
now clearly approaching a successful
ssue.
The 100000 appropriation made by
congress at the last session for re-
moving the wreck OF the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor will be in
sufficient.
Refusal Of the Interstate Commerce
commission to assume jurisdiction of
the railways of Alaska was sustained
by the supreme court of the District
Of Columbia.
One fatality out OF 32,500,000 pas
sengers carried by steam vessels OF
all classes plying to and from Phila.
delphia was the remarkable record
made in 1910.
In fit Of rage because she had
gone to live with her mother, Walter
Osgood, of Omaha. shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded a man
who came to her assistance.
Declaring the merit system recent
ly inausurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave injustice
on the part of officials. a deputation
Of clerks left for Washington to enter
protest.
The state department has finally
given its consent to the Haitian loan
and bank contracts and has so cabled
Minister Furniss. These involve the
creation Of the National Bank of Hal
ii instead Of the existing French
bank.
Lieutenant Governor Oglesby Sc.
verely criticised the Illinois senate.
when he found that not enough SEN
ators to make a quorum had re-
manned in Springfield. and that. as a
result, no action was possible on the
election canvass.
Bills to put most of the necessities
of life on the free list were offered
in the house by Representative Mann
of Illinois. There were 15 of these
measures, covering leather. cotton
goods, lumber. cereals, vegetables, .
meat products and the like.
Mrs. Lydia A. Gear. who came to
Chicago seyenty-eight years ago.
when Chicago consisted of Fort Dear.
born and fourteen log cabins, and
whose marriage was a society event
OF the fort, is dead.
Senator Burrows refused to desig.
nate a day for vote on the question
of unseating Lorimer.
w. II. Hearst must either pay dam.
ages or prove to a court OF law that
he cannot be held responsible for the
fire works explosion of election night,
1902, in which several were killed or
wounded.
A stamp tax on sale for future de.
livery of stocks, grain. provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by a state without violating the fed.
eral constitution, according to a de .
cision OF the supreme court Of the
United States.
THE canal when completed" says
the president in his message, will AT /
ford the only convenient route fol
water communication between At
lantic and Pacific coasts and virtual I
ly will be part of the coast line oil |
the United States. Its assured pos .
session and control will contribute te /
our peace. safety and prosperity as Q