The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1911-01-20

Congress will legislate on tolls ant
Qualifications of the Panama canal.
ReappOrtionment is giving the re
publican leaders in the house no enc
Of trouble.
Railroad men out of Chicago fol
the west get a 10 per cent raise Jan:
uary 1st.
Friends of Charles w. Morse will
concentrate their efforts for a pardon
on President Taft.
AT a white house conference the
need of early Panama canal legisla.
ton was discussed.
Aviator Arch Hoxsey smashed all
altitude records at Los Angeles by as
cending 11.474 feet.
An international railway commits.
sion for the United States and Cana.
da is practically assured.
Plans for an international railway
commission. United States and Cana
da, are being formulated.
Another revolution is on in Hondur
as. development of which United
States g%unboats will watch.
Three leading house democrats are
after the appropriation committee
Craftsmanship of the next congress-.
Gambling houses and kindred re.
sorts have been ordered out of Gary.
Ind, as menace to public safety
and public morals.
After being in quarantine at her
nome In Akin. s. c., for more than
two years, Miss Mary V. Kirk, a leper
died a few days ago.
Judge H. D. Hastings, in a Wiscon.
SIN circuit court. declared that a
woman was not eligible to hold a pub.
nc Office because she was not an
elector.
Major William II. Huxford. U. S. A.,
retired, who for the past 90 years has
oeen recorder of the military order of
the Loyal legion, died at his home in
Washington.
The Wright company will settle an
annuity OF approximately 81 900 on
the WIDOW and children of Ralph John
stone. a Wright aviator who was kill
ed at Denver.
Dr. Donald M. Gallie. of the Univer.
slty OF Illinois. was elected president
OF the Institute of Dental Pedagogics
at the sixteenth annual convention
in Washington.
Governor Hadley, of Missouri, has
decided to substitute ectures for
written messages to make known to
the legislature the needs of the var.
ious state institutions.
Upon his own request Major Gener.
al William p. Duvall, commanding
the military forces in the Philippine
islands, has been granted leave OF
absence by Secretary of War Dickin.
son.
Secretary Gagel's annual report sent
to the president, contains many import.
ant recommendations for changes and
improvements in the various bureaus
and branches of the department oil
commerce and labor.
Frederick Brown, a circus perform.
er OF Buffalo, N. Y, while attempting
to make a balloon ascension at Ha.
vana, Cuba, struck a projection of a
building. He fell 100 feet to the
ground and was killed.
Thirty-five hundred men employed
as motormen, conductors, elevated
railway trainmen, station masters
and inspectors by the Boston Elevat.
ed Railway company received gold
pieces aggregating $4,000.
A fight for a rule to permit consid.
GRAFTON of tariff schedule revisions
without running the gauntlet OF
wholesale amendments will be led ir
the house by Representative Long
worth OF Ohio and Hill Of Connect
cut.
Mrs. NJ. A. Banner, a widow y years
old, who kept a boarding house in
Pittsburg for 16 years. is dead. II
was her boast that she had fed nearly
a million persons, and that she had
given away hundreds of meals to the
unemployed.
More men who have received an
academic education before studying
deltistry are needed in the dental
profession, according to DR.. ]. O. BY.
ram of Indiana, who delivered an ad.
dress before the institute of dental
pedagogics in Washington.
Governor Charles n. Haskell affixed
his signature to the state capital bill
while sitting on a stool in a railway
eating house in Guthrie. The bill
which was passed at a recent special
session of the legislature locates the
capital at Oklahoma City.
President Taft. Secretary of State
Knox, Secretary of Agriculture Will
son and Senator Dick of Ohio have
accented invitations to respond &c