Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-11-22
The vote in New Jersey fell far be-

| low that of four years ago.
One of two train robbers in Califor
mia was killed by brakeman.
All hope of floating the stranded
liner Royal George has been aban-
doned by it's owners
Secretary Stlmson is going to Colon
to inspect the canal
Methodist bishops, in session at To-
ledo, o., planned a campaign of pub.
Iicity.
The resignation of Ambassador
Bryce may tie up the arbitration
treaty.
Governor Deneen has decided not
to call an extra session of the Illinois
legislature.
President-elect Wilson is keeping
his mind open on the question of an
extra session.
Roosevelt says he is proud of the
showing made by the progressives in
the first battle.
The French armored cruiser Mon
tam has been ordered to proceed at
once to Constantinople.
the British government in the house
Of commons over the home rule bill.
The second trial of John Beal
Sneed, banker and cattleman, charged
with the killing of Captain AL. G..
Boyce, was begun at Fort Worth,
Tex.
Hundreds Of southern women wear
ing the red and white ribbon of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
arrived in Washington.
e. H. Horndon, a farmer near
Shawnee, Okl., shot and killed his
mother, ninety years old, and then
committed suicide. He is believed to
have been insane.
Three craftsmen blew open the
safe in a saloon on West Madison and
Halsted streets, Chicago. and escaped
with $4,000 after binding the barten-
der and porter with ropes.
The Armour Packing company was
indicted by the federal grand jury at
Kansas City on the charge of violat-
ing the national pure food laws in a
shipment of eggs from Kansas City to
New York.
Attorney General Wickersham will
not retry the criminal antitrust suit
against the so-called "bathtub trust"
until the supreme court of the United
States decides the civil case against
the same alleged combination.
Attorney General Wickersham, it
was learned, will not retry the crimi-
nal antitrust suit against the bath
tub trust until the supreme court of
the United States decides the civil
case against the combination.
Arthur Capper, republican candidate
for governor of Kansas, said that Of
fetal returns from eighty-six of the
105 counties in Kansas gave him
plurality Of thirty-eight votes over
George H. Hedges, his democratic op-
ponent.
Postmaster. General Hitchcock an
nounced that approximately $28,OO0,-
900 had been deposited to date in
postal savings repositories by 100000
individuals averaging 500 per deposit
tor. The system is now operated in
12,773 postoffices and 1857 banks
have qualified to received postal saw
ings funds.
The general railroad rate advances
on the transportation of horses and
mules on carloads between Chicago
and st. Louis and other points and
stations in South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and
Wyoming were further suspended by
the Interstate Commerce commission
until May ~, 1913.
The Kansas public activity commits
sion issued an order that all railroads
doing business in Kansas shall re-
duce joint freight rates to the same
basis as through rates. This will
mean reduction in joint rates of Is
to 20 per cent. The new rates are to
apply to all commodities mentioned in
the Kansas maximum freight rate bill.
Formal notice of the ratification by
the state of Louisiana of the income
tax constitutional amendment reached
the state department. Thirty-three
safes have given notice of their ap-
prevail of this amendment and the de-
partment is daily expecting notice
from the state of Ohio, whose legislat-
lre has already acted favorably.
The interstate commerce commits |
sion was advised at Washington by
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad that
the roads Michigan connections were |
returning coal car equipment more
freely, as the result of which the |
Chesapeake & Ohio has discontinued |
for one week it's embargo on the load |
ing OF its coal cars for points beyond |
Toledo.