Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-01-27

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Lawyers have pronounced the will
Of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy to be void.
Railroads In western trunk terri
tory pleaded for a right to raise
rates.
Senator Elkins left an estate valued
at 100000.
Conditions are growing worse In
the famine district of China.
The president sent a message to
congress asking for money to fortify
the canal.
Judson C. Clements was made
Chairman of the interstate commerce
commission.
The house voted to abolish the Of
| fee of second deputy commissioner
of pensions.
Charles F. johnson, of Waterville,
Me-, a democrat, was elected United
States senator.
The census taken in December
shows that the population in Vienna
numbers 2,004,291.
Bids for canal supplies submitted
by United States manufacturers are
regarded too high.
A fire in the pension Office at Wash.
ington burned records, but caused
only minor financial loss.
The plan of refunding the Hondur-
an debt is regarded as amounting to
United States protectorate.
Captain Peary told house commit
tee that the man who discovers the
pole must make his own roadway.
The legislature of North Dakota
elected Porter j. McCumber and AISLE
J. Gronna United States Senators.
The Michigan house and senate,
voting separately, chose Charles E.
Townsend to succeed Senator Bur-
rows.
The Iowa house of representatives
endorsed New Orleans as the loca-
ton for the 1915 Panama exposition
over San Francisco.
Senator Hitchcock, in speech be-
fore the Nebraska legislature, was
optimistic with regard to the pro-
gressive work of lawmakers past and
future.
Among the nominations which the
president sent to the senate was:
Joseph E. De Olivares of Missouri,
consul at Madras, transferred from
consul at Managua.
A measure providing for limited
parcels post on rural free delivery
routes was reported favorably to the
senate from the committee on post
offices and postroads.
The reign Of martial law which was
instituted in the disturbed sections of
Rio Janerio after the recent revolt in
the navy had been crushed, was end
ed by the government decree.
What is declared to be the most
nearly perfect counterfeit bill that
has been made in Is years came to
Chief Wilkie in the secret service,
from Wichita, Kans. 1t is $40 bill.
There is concern almost approach
ing panic in the ranks of New York's
four hundred, due to an epidemic Of
scarlet fever, which has claimed as
it's victims some of the leading 80
Colorado's cities having popula-
ton in excess of 5000 increased 1876
per cent in the last ten years and
contributed AZ per cent increase of
the states total population of 259,324.
Montana cities having a population
in excess of 5000 increased 1871 per
cent during the last ten years and
contributed 423 per cent of the
states total increase in population of
1924.
The old battleship Texas which was
the forerunner of her class in the
United States navy, has outlived her
usefulness as fighting machine and
will be converted into target for ma
val practice.
The state department has finally
given it's 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.
The house committee on judiciary
reported favorably a bill providing
that there shall be no retrials grant
ed in civil or criminal cases on tech
nicalities, unless they are such as, in
the opinion of the trial judge, would
change the verdict
Governor Carroll in his message,
pleads for less political strife in Iowa.
The grand jury returned an indict-
ment charging perjury against Will
liam L. Brewer, former vice president
of the Northern bank of New York.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle one-quarter of the time
from now on until markets improve
i recommendation made by the
Arkwright club in Boston is general
ly accepted.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich's long
awaited plan for the revision of the
national BANKING legislation" as he
calls it, was submitted to the ma
tional monetary commission at q
[ meeting called for the purpose.
Personal.
The new governor of Alabama de-
clared prohibition to be failure
Democrats of New York in caucus
ooro;potod VIZ n Choohan for con-