The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1911-01-20

President Taft gave appreFGi 10
the report of the board of engineers
on reclamation projects.
The supreme court finds ii dif1cnft
to draw the line between legal ana
Illegal restraint of trade.
The plan of refunding the Hondur-
an debt is regarded as amounting TO
a United States pr~otectorate.
The aeronautical club of Paris dis
cussed the award of the statue of lib
erty prize to John B.. Moisant-
Captain Peary told a house commit
tee that the man who discovers the
pole must make his own roadway.
Members of the Missouri valley
conference stood pat on the question
of eliminating thanksgiving day loot
ball.
that the sale of beer in bottles In
cases is a sale al retail and not whole
sale.
Assets of the WaShington-Alaska
bank. now i'm the hands of a receiver,
are $1,100, 900 and its liabilities are
$500. 000.
A reduction i'm the freight rate on
cotfonseed from points in Missouri.
Arkansas and Louisiana to Memphis.
Tenn. is made.
A strong movement, supported by
the bishop of Liverpool and leading
churchmen, has been started against
Mormon activity there.
The grand jury has returned an in
dictment charging perjury against
William L. Brewer, former vice presi-
dent of the Northern bank of New
York.
IL is now IS years since the opening
gun was fired of the campaign for
popular election of senators which is
now clearly approaching a successful
issue.
The $500, 600 appropriation made by
congress at the last session for re-
moving the wreck of the ~battleship
Maine in Havana harbor win be in
sufficient.
Refusal of the Interstate Commerce
commission to assume Jurisdiction of
the railways of Alaska vas sustained
by the supreme court of the District
OF Columbia
One fatality out of o. 500, 600 pas
sengers carried by steam vessels OF
all classes plying to and from Phila-
delphia was the remarkable record
made in 1910.
In a fit of rage because she had
gone to live with her mother, Walter
Osgood. of Omaha. shot and killed
his wife and fatally wounded a man
who came to her assistance.
Declaring the merit system recent
ly ~inaIgurated by the postal depart
ment gives room for grave injustice
on the part of officials. a deputation
of clerks left for Washington to enter
a protest
The state department has finally
given its 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.
Lieutenant Governor Ogiesby Sc
verely criticised the Illinois senate,
when he found that moi enough SEN
ators TO make a uorum had re-
manned In Springfield, and that, as q
result NO action was possible ON the
election
Bills to put most of the necessities
Of life on the free list were offered
in the house by Representative Mann
of Illinois. There were Is Of these
measures. covering leather, cotton
goods. lumber. cereals. vegetables.
meat products and the like.
Mrs. Lydia A Gear, who came to
Chicago seventy-eight years ago,
when Chicago consisted of Fort Dear
born and fourteen log cabins. and
whose marriage was q society event
of the fort, In dead
Senator Burrows refused to desig-
nate a day for q vote on the question
OF unseating Lorimer.
w. r. Hearst must either pay dam
ages or prove to a court of law that
he cannot be held responsible for the
fire works explosion of election night.
1902, in which several were killed or
wounded.
A stamp tax on sale for future de-
livery of stocks, grain, provisions or
other commodities may be imposed
by a state without violating the fed.
eral constitution. according to a de.
cision of the supreme court of the
United States.
The canal when completed" says
the president in his message. will at
ford the only convenient route fol
water communication between At
lantic and Pacific coasts and virtual
ly win be a part of the coast line OF
the United States. Its assured pos
session and control will contribute Il
our peace. safety and prosperity as Z
nation"
Personal.
The New Jersey senatorial row il
soon to break forth afresh.
Senator GaIlinger introduced his re
yised ocean mail subsidy bill.