Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-10-04


inquiry into strike conditions in West
Virginia.
Eugene Chaffin. prohibition candt
date for president, invaded Delaware
on q speaking tour.
Mrs. Helen Pierce Gray was ar
rested in Washington at the behest Of
the Indian office.
The battleship Wyoming was turn
ed over to the government at the
Philadelphia navy yard.
The Chinese foreign minister has
settled with President Yuan Shat Kai,
on an energetic policy in Mongolia.
Three women were appointed to
serve on the state committee of the
progressive party Of Massachusetts.
A third party ticket in Wisconsin
was assured at when members OF the
progressive central committee met
and definitely decided on the move.
Immediate withdrawal of the armed
forces Of the United States now In
Nicaragua is demanded in circular
drawn up by residents of San Jose.
Costa Rica.
A widespread warning has been
sent out from Red Cloud. Nebraska,
that practically all the horses that
have been vaccinated for the new dis.
ease, are dying.
In his journey from Montana to
Idaho William j. Bryan made several
speeches from the rear platform of
his train and in all he assailed
Colonel Roosevelt.
Governor Carroll OF Iowa, started
on a two-weeks' trip through Colora-
do, Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia,
for the purpose Of studying road-build-
ing by prisoners.
The first stone OF a monument to
Victor Hugo was laid at Wateroo.
Belgium, on the battlefield immortal
ICED by the French poet and novelist
In Les Miserables."
Sixteen persons were injured. one
seriously. ner Tates. Kansas. when
eastbound Missouri Pacific passenger
train No. 40 was derailed. A broken
rail caused the accident.
Gentlemen burglars or highway
men" were declared to be much
more honorable than the Roosevelt
leaders in Kansas" by John Maynard
Harlan in recent speech.
The treasury department author.
lied the return of horses belonging to
Mexican federals which have been
held at Eagle Pass on the American
side of the Mexican border.
There were els mine workers killed
! in the hard coal mines of Pennsylva-
MIA in 1911, according to the annual
report issued by James E. Roderick,
| chief of the state bureau of mines
Oyster beds in Jamaica bay, Long
Island, and the Potomac river, seven
ty-five miles down from Washington,
are endangered by typhoid germs, ac-
cording to the secretary of agricul-
ture.
Armed with stout club Weldon b.
| Cooke, an aviator Of Oakland, Cal,
defended his wrecked aeroplane for
several hours in Chicago against a
crowd of several hundred souvenir
| hunters.
The Maid of the Mist, the little
| steamer that has for years carried
| tourists close to the tumbling waters
| of Niagara Falls, ran on the rocks
| Sunday short distance from the
| cataract.
E. M. Clendening, secretary Of the
Commercial club of Kansas City, was
elected president of the Central As
ISOLATION of Commercial Secretaries
in Indianapolis. Next years meeting
will be in Omaha.
An amateur parachute jumper was
killed at the column of victory in Der.
lin. He was paper hanger named
Bittner, who climbed to the summit
Of the column to experiment with a
self?invented apparatus.
Plans for an advertising campaign
| in behalf Of the Panama canal have
been formulated. Secretary of the
Navy Meyer announced that with the
cruise of the Atlantic fleet to south
| ern waters this winter, he will arrange
the schedule SO that all sailors and
officials will visit the canal.
! Mrs Helen Pierce Gray, known as
a champion of Indians before con-
gress, has been arrested on a charge
of concealing public records. Mrs.
Gray admits that she took the Grow
tribe allotment rolls, involving lands
worth s1oO,OOO,OOO. because she was
afraid they would be destroyed.
Housewives of Philadelphia are en-
joying the lowest prices in produce
known there for years. Produce is
abundant, cheap and of high quality.
Market experts declare the potato
crop is larger than in ten years;
apples the best since 1896. and on
ions are four times as plentiful as
ever before.
I A dispatch to the navy department
| rom Rear Admiral Switzerland an
bounced the arrival of Major Butler
md force of marines at Granada
18th Red Cross supplies for the citi-
Ems and pupils of the French college,
mo had been isolated nearly fifty
lays.
Personal.
The resignation of Colonel Roose-
| oJt &c a mpmhpr Of tho renuh1i,, -