Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-03
The senate added $4,000 to the

The senate added $4,000 to the
house pension bill.
There is small hope for ship sub
sidy at this session of congress.
A new rule was adopted in the
house which stopped the flibuster
in short order.
Elliott Northcutt, the newly ap-
pointed Ameri ,an minister to Nicara-
qua, assumed his post.
Former Secretary of State Olney
declares the United States should not
fortify the Panama canal.
Henry Richardson Chamberlain,
London correspondent of the New
York Sun since 1892, died.
Convicted officers of the Naval
Stores company have been granted a
rehearing by the supreme court.
The directors of the Standard OIL
company of New Jersey declared q
dividend Of SIS for the quarter.
The supreme court of the United
States ruled that advertising could
not be exchanged for transportation.
| The commerce commission has or
dered a reduction in refrigerating
charges on citrus fruits from the
west.
Proceedings in the lower house OF
congress were held up an entire day
by filibuster by Representative
Mann.
The directors of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad company decided
to increase the capital stock by $685.
| 100000
Word from New York states that
negotiations between the Bell and In
dependent telephone companies have
reopened.
Joseph D. Rockefeller, cousin of J.
D. Rockefeller died at his home in
South Bend. Ind. Mr.. Rockefeller
was born in Pennsylvania.
Rumors of the bubonic plague
spreading into the coast cities of
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to go half cent
higher.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es-
tablish a hero fund of 100000 in
Denmark. The foreign Office already
has expressed it's gratitude for the
proposed gift.
The King Lumber company, of
Charlottesville, Va, has been award
ed the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege,
Neb., at $6S,325.
The Mark Twain library. built as a
memorial to Jean l.. Clemens, daugh-
ter of the humorist, who was drown
ed at Stormfield, Dec. "a, 1909, was
formally dedicated.
Pleny Stokes, the 20-year-old Texas
box convicted of the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff Wood, was sentenced to
be hanged at the Florence (Arizona)
prison on April 26.
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv.
ilege of filing a suit against Tennes-
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
The will of Richard L. Ashhurst,
the aged postmaster of Philadelphia,
who mysteriously disappeared at At
lantic City on January 30, was fled
in the Office of register of wills.
OuuCT Lu0 ICIulS VI Lu0 ~ OSty PAO-
viding for the arbitration OF the
Chamizai zone case. the United
States and Mexico exchanged pre-
sensations of their respective cases.
A joint resolution authorizing the
secretary of war to receive for in
struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig-
mated by that government, was passed
by the house.
The French government is not
much interested in the plan for re-
ciprocal trade relations maturing be-
tween the two great governments of
North America, while French export
ers are plainly apprehensive.
The Tennessee house of represen-
tatives adopted a resolution urging
President Taft to call an extra ses-
sion of congress March 4, 1911, to
make an Immediate downward revi-
sion of the tariff on the necessaries
of life."
Two hundred and forty-eight rail-
way mail clerks at Syracuse, N. Y,
took revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by afhllatlng with the
American Federation of Labor, re-
ceiving a charter and electing and
installing officers.
Marconi's patent covering the tun-
ing of both transmitters and receiv-
ers used in wireless telegraphy was
sustained by the British courts in
suit brought by the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph company of London against
the British Radio-Telegraph and Tele-
phone company.
An attempt to obtain consideration
for the bill to make Robert E. Peary
a rear admiral, failed. The house
was considering private bills when
Representative Butler of Pennsyl.
vania, proposed that the Peary bill
be taken up. Representative Mann
blocked the attempt by parliament.
airy motion.
Personal.
british uniOniStS will fight the veto