Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-12-15

The United States is ready to fur.
nish troops to keep communication
open in China.
Congress will not do much work
until after the holidays.
When congress opened nearly every
member was in his seat.
Detective Burns says J. B. McNama.
ra in his confession told only part of
the truth.
Italians claim to have killed over
five thousand Turks in the oasis bat
tie of Henni.
For the second time within sixty
days the price of beer at Chicago has
been raised.
A Denver jury acquitted Gertrude
Gibson Patterson of the murder OF
her husband.
Mayor Alexander was reelected in
Los Angeles, largely defeating the So
cialist candidate.
Samuel Gompers said he considered
the penalty for the McNamaras appro-
pirate to the crime.
Ad Wolgast was stricken with ap-
pendcitis on the eve of his fight with
Welsh at Los Angeles.
The forthcoming message of the
president will deal almost entirely
with the question of trusts.
Senator Miles Poindexter, of Wash
ington will open the LaFollette cam
paign in North Dakota.
The supreme court of Missouri sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the
Kansas City billboard ordinance.
Frank B. Morrison said Clarence
barrow drew a fee of fifty thousand
dollars for defending the McNamaras.
A gigantic conspiracy which will be
probed to the bottom, is what Pros
ecutor Ford says of the Mcnamara
case.
At Los Angeles sentence was pro-
nounced on the McNamaras. James
B. to life Imprisonment John ]. for
fifteen years.
Mrs. John L. Grifiths, wife Of the
American consul general in London,
gave a reception to the society OF
American women in London.
Less enthusiasm marked the open
ing of the first regular session of the
second congress than characterized
any of its predecessors in the last five
years.
Thirteen insurrectionists, captured
at Halacho, Yucatan, after their COM
panions had been routed by Mexican
troops, were shot without Formally
OF trial.
Richard L. Jervis, one Of the secret
service men who watched over Presi.
dent Taft on his recent $1,000 trip,
successfully underwent an operation
for appendicitis.
A plea for the free use by all ma
lions OF the completed Panama canal
is made by John Barrett. director gen.
eral of the Pan-American union. in
statement to be published.
Local labor leaders at Salt Lake
are bitterly aroused over the impllca-
ton that the Mcnamara confessions
were arranged with a partial purpose
of shielding men higher up"
The armored cruiser Colorado OF
the Pacific feet has carried on the
honors among American battleships
and armored cruisers for the various
forms of target practice in the autumn
of 1911.
German military authorities are
planning to build an aerial cruiser,
with a carrying power of 300 persons
and a speed of fifty miles an hour.
Its gas capacity will be 10000 cubic
meters.
Rudolph Blankenburg was tnaug-
urated mayor of Philadelphia and for
the first time in twenty-seven years
the city is governed by man who
was not elected by the republican or
ganization.
Mrs. Anna Gaffney Langley, the girl
wife who shot and killed her husband
In San Francisco several months ago.
alleging that he had squandered her
earnings as stenographer for liquor.
was discharged from custody.
Richard Barry. the writer, won his
fight against the Players club when
the appellate division of New York
court granted him a peremptory writ
OF mandamus demanding the club to
restore him to membership.
Already Twenty-Five states have &C.
cepted invitations and indicated their
intention of participating in the If
teenth international congress OF hygi-
enc and demography to be held IN
Washington September 1928. 1912.
The removal of Dr. Alvah H. Doty,
health officer of the port OF New
York, is recommended In report to
Governor Dix by Charles N. Bulger,
appointed by the governor to investi-
gate the business affairs OF the office.
Lord" George Sanger. the circus
Snowman, was murdeded by an en-
ploye on his farm at Finchley. Lon
don.
Fourteen men, including DR.. Raj
fael Molina, were arrested at Ell Paso
charged with conspiring against the
Madero government in Mexico.
Personal.