The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-02-03

Virginia wants the supreme court
to shift part of her staggering state
debt on West Virginia.
Governor COlquitt of Texas says
the question of prohibition should be
submitted to the people.
There is a movement among house
democrats to frame a new code OF
rules for the next congress.
Paul Morton, president Of the
Equitable Life Assurance society,
died suddenly at New York.
At a democratic house caucus
Champ Clark was made the nominee
FOR speaker by reclamation.
Senator Fletcher in an address de-
claTed Secretary Ballinger an unfit
man to remain in the cabinet.
Andrew Carnegie is giving ten mil
lions more as an endowment to the
Carnegie institution at Washington.
The Michigan house and senate,
voting separately, chose Charles f.
Townsend to succeed Senator Bur
rows.
Senator Hitchcock, in a speech be-
fore the Nebraska legislature, was
optimistic with regard to the pro-
gressive work of lawmakers past and
future.
At Aberdeen, S. d., the division
headquarters. local freight houses
and passenger station of the Milwau-
kee railroad. were burned. The loss
is estimated at 500, 900.
AZ Danville, Ill.,, J. S. Mead. an am
bulance driver, and Robert Shut, a
veteran of, the soldiers home, were
shot and instantly killed by Howard
Tucker, another veteran.
At Los Angeles, Howard Wilcox,
driving a National. broke the Ameri-
can tive-mile competition speedway
record at the motordome. His time
was 3 minutes p seconds.
With a greater number of delegates
in attendance than ever before, the
United States Civil Service Retire.
ment association convened in wash.
ington in annual convention.
Oscar Johnson. a farmer living near
the Pierce county (Nebr.) line, at
tackled his wife with a butcher knife.
and after killing her he committed
suicide with the same weapon.
The Panama national assembly
called in extraordinary session to
deal w;th the financial situation.
voted 100000 in gold in aid of the
protected Panama worlds fair in 1915.
What is declared to be the most
nearly perfect counterfeit bill. that
has been made in Is years came tC
Chief Wilkie in the secret service
from Wichita. kans. 1t is a $40 bill
The naval affairs committee of the
house which is to vote on the mat,
ter soon, will probably provide for
the W. battleships and two GOLFERS
and all Of the program of Secretary
Meyer.
During last year forty-nine men
were sent to the p%enitentiary and
566 to Jail for selling liquor to In
dians. The facts are stated in a re.
port by Special Officer William E.
Johnson.
Millions of spindles in cotton mills
will be idle one-quarter of the time
from now on until markets improve
If a recommendation made by the
Arkwright club in Boston is general.
~ 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 d
meeting called for the purpose.
The petition for a rehearing of the
Judgment and order sentencing Abra.
ham Ruef to San Quentin for fourteen
years on q charge of bribery of the
R~uet-Schmidt board of supervisors
was granted by the California su,
court.
, Caution in the extension of fedora.
owe the issuance of securi.
ties by railroads vas urged by Mar.
vim Hughitt, chairman of the board
directors of the Chicago & North.
railroad in the hearing of the
securities commission.
Nearly half the members of the sen.
judiciary committee are said to
have taken positions against the con,
firmation Of Judge William H. Hunt.
serving as a member of the court
Of customs appeals, and promoted to
circuit ~judgeship.
Lord and Lady Tweedmouth, who
have been interesting guests in New
York, are now at Colorado Beach,
Cal, where they are enjoying the
balmy breeZes of the Pacific and play
ing polo. Later they expect to visit
Texas and see the cowboys on the
great ranches