The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-04-19

, Another murder occurred at the
Nebraska penitentiary, Convict Tom
Davis killing Convict James Strong.
Vice President Wood of the Penn
sylvania railroad says the steel "7r'
poration should quit carrier Dusi'
ness.
The Colorado republican state cou-
vention instructed delegates for l~''
A strike broke out among the EN-.
ployes of the Northern railroad OIL
Spain.
Investigation Of an alleged coal
trust has been undertaken by Tue
government.
A compromise on a ; per cent IN
crease to miners has been sugges1ed
at Cleveland.
Major II. Glacke, United States in
ternal revenue collector, died at his
home at Cheyenne.
BY a vote of 90 to EOS the house
of commons rejected the cancellation
bill on its second reading.
In an address at ST. Paul, Minn.,
Colonel Roosevelt discussed conserVa-
ton and the lack Of it.
The senate rejected the dollar a
day pension bill and substituted the
measure OF Senator Smoot.
A. B. Fall and T. B.. Catron, repub-
licans, we're elected United States
senators in New Mexico.
Colorado has joined with Nebraska
in protesting the Union Pacific -four
hundred feet Of right-of-way.
Congress needs no coaching from
the tariff board according to Demo-
cratic House Leader Underwood.
A pile of coal and a wharf compos-
ing the naval station at Sitka. Alaska,
was ordered abandoned by the navy.
Legislation for the protection OF
Niagara Falls probably will go over
until the next session of congress.
AS between the ultra radical and
the reactionary. Colonel Roosevelt
pronounced himself the happy me-
dium.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of George l.. Town
send to be United States marshal for
Delaware.
The remains of the heroes eco
cred from the wrecked battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, We're laid
to rest at Arlington.
The United States was asked to
contribute $500, 900 toward the nation
al conservation exposition to be held
in Knoxville. Tenn.
William Ludwell Shepard, c%onfeder-
ate veteran and widely known as an
illustrator and designer OF sculpture,
is dead at Richmond. Va.
The money trust investigating com
mittee announced the employment Of
an accountant to begin a compilation
Of "i~nterlocking directorates.'
Millers from Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri, comprising the
southwestern millers' league, began
their annual meeting at Kansas City.
The house committee on eXpendi-
lures in the interior department de-
cided to conduct a full investigation
into the Indian bureau.
An unidentified Italian was burned
to death and a property loss of $780,
600 was incurred in a fire in the bust
district OF Blairmont. Ala.
The interstate commerce committee
unanimously voted to report favora-
bly, a bill providing for physical valu-
alton of all railroads of the United
States.
Resort to the courts will probably
be made at once for a review of the
decision Of the interstate
commission announced in the Louis
lana rate case.
The house elections committee vot-
to recommend unseating of Repre-
sentative c. G. Bowman, Eleventh
Pennsylvania district, on charges of
frauds.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway has placed orders for $3.50
tons of rails. The order was distribute
eastern companies.
tive Hanna of North Dakota.
1t is planned to make P%ittsburg
by using electrical power
developed from the nearby rivers and
streams. Over 100000 horsepower
can be obtained in this way.
Legislation for the suppression of
and the white slave" traffic is
be discussed at the state anti-vice
to be held in Bloomington,
Ill.,, April Is and 16.
Representative Mann of Illinois in
troduced a bill to require all railroads,
lines or other common car
riers to provide food and water for
poultry in transit.