The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-01


and that Harmon is the only man
with a show of defeating him.
Great Britain and Russia are abou'
to revise their joint agreement con
corning Persia.
The house army bill provides for a
material reduction in cavalry strength.
President Madero has been weighed
in the balance, and it is feared he is
found wanting.
w. ]. Bryan is to be the first wit
ness called in the money trust investi-
cation at Washington.
Thirty-two indictments against al
legged dynamiters were returned by the
grand jury at Indianapolis.
Samuel Gompers reiterated his de-
NAL that he willfully defied an injunc.
ton OF the court.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Ba-
den-Powell arrived in Chicago with a
message of peace.
The United States is again called
upon to keep a watchful eye on the
malcontents of Mexico.
A system of wireless telegraphy in
the Philippine islands was recon-
mended by President Taft.
Testimony was given to show the
Swift group Of packers had knowledge
Of the system Of margins.
A reputed holy man is welding, oc-
COrding to the duma. O. great influ-
ence with the Russian court.
Testimony of witnesses went to
show that the minds of packers on
prices We're remarkably alike.
Field Marshal Wilhelm von Hahnke.
n of the best known and most pOpu-
lar soldiers in Germany, is dead.
A bill reducing from five to three
years the requirement for settlement
on homesteads passed the senate.
The health OF Morse. the paroled
banker. is improving, and he will
soon go abroad for recuperation.
At a New York dinner Judge Gross
cup and George w. Perkins took turns
IN flaying antitrust enactments.
The senate finance committee de-
bated the Hepburne bill to repeal Ca
madam reciprocity, but took no action.
The house resolution declaring
against a third term for presidents
was withdrawn without vote being
taken.
President Taft and Rear Admiral
Wainwright will speak at a peace
meeting of the navy league on Friday.
February %.
The 1912 convention of the Amer
lean bankers association will be held
in Detroit in the week beginning Sep
TENDER 8.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Hal J. Cleve OF
Washington to be registrar of the
land Office at Spokane.
Brigadier General Charles A. Whip
pie, paymaster general 81 the army,
applied to be placed on the retired list
under the thirty-year service law.
There are 27O Indians entitled to
allotments in the White Earth rese--
walton for whom there is no land, &C
cording to testimony given by Agent
Howard.
The government brought three &C
tons in the federal district court
against the Erie railroad for violation
of the s~iXteen-hour law in relation to
employees.
Two army officers made an aero
plane flight in a war department ma
chine from Doeberitz, lear Berlin, to
Hamburg in two hours and fifteen
minutes.
Fire at Kansas City almost com
pletely destroyed the stock of the
Margolis Jewelry company at 1907
Main street, causing a total loss of
nearly 500. 900.
Inaugural day in Arizona has been
changed from Monday. February II.
to Wednesday, February II, according
to a statement made by Governor
Elect W.. p. Hunt.
The nomination of Former Cover
nor Myron r. Herick OF Ohio to be
ambassador to France was sent by
President Taft to the senate. He will
succeed Robert Bacon.
Secretary McVeagh announced hat
he would appoint, before February Is,
an entirely new board to prepare
standards for testing purity of tea i'm
portations next year.
One fireman was seriously injured
and a loss of $4,000 was caused when
fire destroyed a three-story brick
warehouse of the Chicago Railways
company at 3907-11 West End avenue.
The Turkish cabinet decided to put
into force the order for closing all
Italian institutions in Turkey, includ-
ing private banks, insurance com
panies and the orpharage Of Scutteri.
Major Frank White, twice governor
Of North Dakota and who served with