The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-01-26

Senator LaFollette said If another
than the republican party afforded a
better agency for reform he would de-
sert his present affi]iation
Admiral Bob Evans died at WASH
ington in two hours after being taken
ill.
Gladys Madden, % years of age. an
actress, was shot and killed in Chi
cago.
Taft and Roosevelt are still good
friends, all reports to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
According to a witness the profits
Of packers on dressed beef products
is very modest.
Postmaster General Hitchcock Is
planning a reorganization of the rail-
way mail service.
Lawrence w. Abbott. editor of the
Outlook. says Roosevelt is not a
presidential candidate.
Seven hundred imperial troops are
reported to have been killed in a bat
tie near Hankow, China.
Senator Bristow of Kansas introduce
ed a bill for a government Panama
canal steamship line.
Radical reductions in livestock rate
have been ordered by the interstate
commerce commission.
The warden of the Atlanta federal
prison asserts Banker Morse attempt
ed to bride him.
Bryan was tentatively launched as a
presidential candidate by progressive
democrats of Ohio.
The Nebraska protest against the
appointment of Judge Hook has arriv-
ed at Washington.
France will back up President Taft
in any movement he makes looking to
international arbitration.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska de-
rOunced the arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France.
The house passed the senate bill
providing that the circuit judges sit
on circuit court Of appeal.
The equal suffrage association OF
Colorado is preparing to wage a vigor-
Gus campaign in other states.
In a magazine article Theodore
Roosevelt says courts are prone to err
and are not above criticism.
Pay for actual transportation serv-
ice is the recommendation of the sec
Ond assistant postmaster general.
The government frightened its case
against the packers insofar as the en-
istence of a beef pool is concerned.
The first dinner Of the season to
President Taft by cabinet members
was given by Secretary of State Knox.
Salt Lake City passed under the
commission form of government Jan
l. when Mayor Samuel c.. Park and
four commissioners were indicted in
to office.
House and senate conferees are
hopelessly divided on the resolution
providing for election of United
States senators By direct vote Of the
PEOPLE
Miss Anna Thornton vas found
dead from starvation in her luxurious
home in Bay Side. Long Island. Coro-
ner Amber gave his verdict as death
by starvation.
At Pittsfield, H.. John c. Gingery
and Henry Hatfield lost their lives
when they overturned a stove and
burned to death in the house at Gin
gery's farm in a fight.
Attorney General Wickersham and
Secretary Nagel and Samuel Inter
meyer of New York have been asked
to appear before the house rules COM
mittee January - and give their
views upon the proposed %investiga-
tions by congress.
Formal calls have been sen out
for a conference of the Wisconsin sup
ECrters of the democratic presidential
candidacy of Governor Woodrow Will
son of New Jersey to be held in Mad
ison about January IS.
At Hot Springs, Ark. n thousand
persons escaped with difficulty from
the First Presbyterian church of that
city when the church was burned.
The congregation had assembled to
hold special watch services, when the
flames burst forth.
Representative Bartholdt Of Mis-
souri, introduced a bill to appropriate
$4,000 for erecting a monument over
looking the Panama canal, to CONNIE
morate the ipOth anniversary Of the
discovery of the Isthmus of Panama
by Balboa. the Spanish explorer.
The house committee on foreign al
fairs concluded hearings on the Sui
ger bill intended to carry into effect
the recently promulgated treaty be
..z 49, Ty:,l C%nt., FVuD@t DIT
tain, Russia and Japan for the prOtec
ton of fur seals and sea otter in the
north Pacific ocean.