The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-03-24

State militia officers are invited to
join in the troop movement.
The New York legislature is still
balloting for senator without results.
Influential Mexicans say interven.
ton by the United States means
war. !.
Seven hundred marines from the
Philadelphia navy yard left for the
south.
President Diaz is enjoying good
health and personally tends to the du
ties Of his office.
American soldiers of fortune are
numerous among the bands OF in
surrectos of Mexico.
Clarence d. Hillman, a Seattle mil.
lionaire, was found guilty of using
the mails to defraud.
The United States supreme court
sustained the constitutionality of
the corporation tax law.
A bill providing for adopting the
Oregon plan has passed both houses
of the Kansas legislature.
The supreme court held the gov
eminent had a right to pursue and
confiscate bad egg shipments.
President Taft treasured Mexicans
that there was nothing serious in the
troop movement to the south.
The instruction in Mexico it is
generally admitted, is a leading
cause for sending troops to the bor-
der.
John Barrett urges the south to be
ready to grasp the opportunities af-
forded with the Panama canal open
ing.
1t was declared in that
Great Britain must keep building
ships as long as Germany is ambi-
tious.
Secretary of State Knox, who Is en-
joying a vacation in the south. will
visit Cuba before returning to Wash
ington.
According to official Washington
the troop movement southwark is
to maneuver and watch Mexican in
%surrectos.
Four convicts made their escape
from the Nebraska p~enitentiary
through an opening where bars were
sawed off.
Russia will be represented at the
conference in Washington in April
over the preservation of North Pa
cifc fauna.
AS the result of a special investiga-
ton, the entire force of customs in
spectors at San Francisco will be
r~eorganized.
Cows eating from a straw stack
near Walnut, H.. uncovered an iron
pail containing a quantity of gold and
silver coins.
The levy of / per cent on all state
banks in Oklahoma is being made to
provide the guaranty fund under the
guaranty law.
The Kansas legislature passed a
bill appropriating $50, 900 to found a
state tuberculosis hospital. No loca-
ton Is named.
Justice Hughes Of the supreme
court has been appointed head OF
the commission to investigate maya
zine postage rates.
There has been eight deaths from
the bubonic plague and eight from
smallpox reported in Annoy, China,
within the last two weeks.
The fire that threatened to destroy
the town of Douglas, Alaska. was x
after 1T had destroyed
property valued at 100000.
Professedly because of the recent
rate decision, the New York. New
Haven & Hartford will order extens-
i've reductions upon its system.
The comptroller of the treasury Is
a call for a statement of the
of national banks at the
close of business on Tuesday, March
the 7th.
Continuing its attempt to relieve
the distress of the starving millions
of China the American National Red
Cross cabled $4,000 more to the strick-
en- people.
The American battleship Delaware
arrived at Valparaiso, Chile. with the
body of Anibal Cruise, who died at
Washington while serving as Chilean
minister to the United States.
President Taft has appointed for
mer Senator Cockrell of Missouri as
commissioner on the part Of the Unit
ed States to re-trace and definitely
the boundary lines between
Texas and New Mexico.
The nrst venire was exhausted
without a jury being secured in Chi
cago to try Charles Erbstein and Ar
thur Mcbride on the charge of con-
spiracy to defame the character OF
States Attorney Wayman.
Russia has tent an ultimatum to
China insisting upon a closer adher-
to the provisions of the treaty
of 1881, which has been the subject
of negotiations between the two
tries for some weeks past.
With the white house and police
headquarters each one block away
and the United States treasury just
r the street, a robber entered
the Office of the Grand hotel on Penn
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