The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-01-05
The estate of the late John w.

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OF 1911 are valued at 1888, 991, 154.
Protests are pouring into the SEN
ate against p%recipitate action on the
Russian treaty.
Democratic Leader Underwood said
1t was unlikely the house would pass
an omnibus building bill.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad
were acquitted of the shooting of Mil.
~lionaire W. E. D. Stokes.
The report Of the investigating
board on the wreck Of the Maine was
sent by the president to congress-.
Legislation for direct election OF
United States senators apparently is
hopelessly hung up in conference.
The foreign affairs committee
agreed to favorably report the Sulzer
resolution for abrogation If Russian
treaty.
More than So OO,O 900 animals were
inspeced during the last fiscal year by
the United States bureau of animal in
dustry.
A report crrent in London is that
Prince Arthur of %Connaught will sue
coed General Baron Hardinge as vic
eroy of India.
The flour output Of Minneapolis is
Appropriated at 100000 barrels
and will turn the high water mark,
according to the millers.
Louis d. Brandeis of Boston, dis
cussing trust regulation before the
interstate commerce committee, urged
the competitive system.
The $4,000 women suit makers and
5000 tailors who have been on strike
in Berlin since November % have
abandoned the struggle.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of China. which went ashore on July
81, forty miles from Yokohama during
a fog, was relocated.
A personal campaign to ecure SEN
atorial support for the British and
French arbitration treaties was be-
gun by President Taft.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to open the twelfth lnterna-
tional Association of Navigation con-
gress at Philadelphia, May 30.
The Omaha railway announced the
installation of a 1912 per cent milling
in transit rate per %houndred pounds
on wheat from Kansas City to Chi
via Minneapolis.
The committee OF the German Aero
club has decided that the interna-
tional balloon race for the James Cor
don Bennett trophy is to be held at
Stuttgart next year.
The general tariff situation, n
particularly President Taft's forth
coming message to congress on the
wool tariff schedules. were discussed
at length by the cabinet.
Two young officers from the presi-
dents yacht Mayfower, Lieutenantss
J. S. Dowell. Jr, and A. l.. Bristol, Jr.,
have been ordered to Berlin to study
s%hipbuilding methods.
Wire and nail product prices have
been advanced one dollar a ton
BY the American Steel Wire com.
pany. a subsidiary of the steel cor
DOratiOn. ,
An investigation to determine why
he price of sugar was increased sew
aral cents a pound last summer was
by the house committee APP
to investigate sugar conan
tons.
Enough ammunition to supply the
United States army, nav n state
for three and a half years will
be in the %arsenals and strong boxes
80 %l~ J-,;%~I Cto+-c ~ %L~ r,I nf
present al
Mrs. Agnes Taylor Schwartz, sister
to the late President John Taylor OF
the Mormon church, and mother-ln-
of President Joseph +. Smith,
died at Salt Lake City. She was nine
ty years old.
On account of two vacancies in the
court Of the United States,
a movement has been started to
have the group of state railroad rate
cases assigned for argument on Jam.
8, 1912, postponed for a full bench.
Complete information of the oper-
alton of the parcels post in twenty-one
lands has been compiled for
the use of the senate committee on
and post roads. to be used
considering proposed legislation to
establish a parcels post in the United
i
After a running battle of thirty
miles with a company of state militia
and a posse of armed citizens, John
who shot and killed
Sheriff Moody Of Wahpeton, was sur