The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-02-02

better agency for reform he would de
sert his present aff]iatiOn
The supreme court will shortly
hand down a series of opinions on i'm
portant cases.
Former Governor Joseph M. Brown
was elected governor OF Georgia. A
very light vote was cast.
Radical reductions in livestock rate
have been ordered by the interstate
commerce commission.
A sympathy strike, involving 3oo,-
900 railway shop employees, may be
called within two weeks.
Senator Lorimer pleaded his own
cause as a witness before the senate
Investigating committee.
The black powder" law enacted IN
Kansas in 1907. to protect coal Mill
ers. was upheld as constitutional.
The Equitable building was burned
at New York. with a cost Of six lives
and a property loss of $4,000, 900.
Major General Carter told the mill
tary committee that $4,000 Japanese
subject to recall in war time, lived IN
Hawaii.
The report of the monetary commits
sion on the reorganization Of the cur
rency system is completed and ready
for congress-.
Representative Humphrey of Wash
ington introduced a bill providing that
Chinese shall enter the United States
only through a Pacific coast port.
Mystery surrounds the deaths OF
four persons whose bodies, fully
clothed, We're found in a zoe of the
boarding house of Mrs. Bridget Fla
nagan OF Philadelphia.
New members of committees chosen
by the democratic caucus were elect
ed by the house, including Dan V.
Stephens. Nebraska, accounts and In
dian affairs.
In the burning OF the John Benyon
home at Farmersburg. Ia, Martha
Beuyon was burned to death and her
sister, Mary was badly burned and
frozen.
A band Of Bulsarians threw three
bombs into an open air mass meeting
at ZikOwa. near Uskub, European Tur-
key, killing three persons and injurins
twenty-five.
The Turkish vessels destroyed by
Italian warships We're those which
took refuge at SueZ W weeks ago.
according to a dispatch to a news
agency from Rome.
Pennsylvania's Gettysburg anniver.
a r commission urged 100000 aprro.
s>riotior h1f0,N rottt-1l,nr nOvn-n,
sional committee for erection Of a
permanent memorial.
New MeXico's first members Of con,
gress, George Curry, republican, and
H. B. Ferguson. democrat, were
sworn in as members of the house
amid generous applause.
Representative Smith of Texas at.
tackled President Taft in the house,
for alleged failure to protect Ameri-
cans on the border during the MeXi.
can revolution last year.
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio.
in an address before the St. Clair
County Democratic club at East st.
Louis. attacked the financial policies
of the recent republican administra-
ton.
Senators Hitchcock and Brown and
Congressman Kinkaid of Nebraska
will call on Director Newell of the re-
clamatiOn service to seek an extension
rigated district may pay for their
lands.
To be blown through the broken
walls of their home, imprisoned under
meath their bed out in the yard and
yet escape uninjured was the fate of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex Sansing. whose
house was blown up by dynamite at
Parkt.ill. near Tahlequah, Okla.
Frank Wells, Wherefore Sully, Ru-
fus ]. Ireland and George w. Daily
must stand trial in Wyoming on IN
dictments charging them with con
spiracy, on June /. 1906, to defraud
the government by obtaining 1,760
acres of coal and belonging to the
United States.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Neagh awarded an aggregate of $751;
900 to two infOrmers in customs
frauds cases. Joseph l.. Payne will
be given $50, 1000 for the evidence he
contributed in the Duveen art ase
and Peter Redling will receive $4,000
for his service.
William Twlman, a negro, consider
ed insane, murdered his father at
their home in Scottsville, a village
near Rochester, y. Y, shot dead a
deputy sheriff and wounded foul
others who were endeavoring to enter
the Twiman home in which he had