The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-05-26

Japanese trade and m treaty
Senate and house conferees reached
an agreement on the rivers and har
bOrs bill.
The Kansas senate voted to estab.
fish a state school for mines at Weir,
Cherokee county.
Two new battleships and some
smaller craft are provided for in the
naval appropriation bill.
Arizona's constitution was affirmed
by 1912 of the total vote, accord
ing to the official
Damage to strawberry and other
crops in the vicinity of Amity City,
La. is estimated at $500. 900.
The British army estimates for
l9l1-12 issued by War Secretary Hal
dane show a total of $13S.45O 900.
st. Louis vas selected as the next
meeting place of the National Edu-
cation association, department of SUI
p~erintendents.
The Montana senate voted unani-
hously to pass a bill providing the
commission form of government for
municipalities.
Judge Advocate Crowder has de-
cided the war department is at lib
erty to accept the breeding horses
given by August Belmont.
The Kansas house has passed a
resolution that names of candidates
for United States senator shall not
be placed on the ballot at primary
elections.
Pleny Stokes, the 2~O-year-old Texas
box convicted of the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Wood, was sentenced to
be hanged at the Florence (Arizona)
prison on April 26.
Thomas B. Smith has been con-
firmed as postmaster at Philadelphia
to succeed Richard l.. Ashurst. who
mysteriOusly disappeared while visit
ing in Jersey City.
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
ilege Of filing a suit against Tennes-
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
After a lively debate, the Iowa
house. by a vote of 60 to SO. vote to
postpone the attempt to pass the Ore
gon primary plan bill over the gov
errors veto until March s.
Secretary Of Commerce Nagel will
investigate the charge that figures of
the department Of statistics have
been distorted to show other than the
true state of exports and imports.
The Missouri senate has passed a
bill requiring mail order houses to
take vi a license to do business in
the state for which the fee shall be
! to ) per cent of the aggregate
sales.
The committee having charge of
raising the share of Washington, D.
c., toward the $500, 900 memorial
convention hall to George Washing
ton reports s524,95O already sub
scribed.
A joint resolution authorizing the
secretary Of war to receive for in
struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig-
mated by that government, was passed
by the house.
Ambassador O'Brien and Count Ko-
the Japanese foreign secretary,
have exchanged congratulations on
the ratification of the treaty between
the United States and Japan. The
press and public are highly pleased
over the attitude of the United States.
Marconi's patent covering the tun-
ing OF both transmitters and receiv-
ers used in wireless telegraphy was
sustained by the British courts in a
suit brought by the MarcOni Wireless
Telegraph company of London agains,
the British Radio-Telegraph and Tele-
phone company.
An attempt to obtain consideration
for the bill to make Robert r. Peary
a ear admiral, failed. The house
was considering private bills when
Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania, proposed that the Peary bill
be taken up. Representative Mann
blocked the attempt by a parliament
airy motion.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in the
last of his formal speeches in Chica-
go before the Union League club
banquet, warmly advocated the pro-
posed reciprocity trade agreement
with Canada and scored congressman
who, he said, We're responsible for
h~indering the confirmation of the
agreement by means of an %"annexa-
ton scare"
BY means of poisoned wax balls,
wild animals and beasts of prey in
the Black Hills national forest are
being rapidly exterminated. Recent
IL nrlnns from WaShinotnn Wera iS.