The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-29

United States district judge for Arl-
IONA.
California is to be a battle ground
between Taft and Roosevelt.
There is a prospect that Omaha may
become an arch Catholic diocese.
In AN address at Chicago Secretary
Stimson declared himself for Taft.
William Haskins, a we'll known
horseman, is dead at Oskaloosa. La.
The Massachusetts house defeated
the bill to abolish capital punishment.
Both houses Of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
A hot fight is expected in congress
over the sugar tariff and income tax
bill.
The home rule bill is not to be in
troduced into the house of commons
before Easter.
Senator Norris Brown led off in ad-
vocacy of the ratification of the arbl'
tration treaties.
Hugh Webster OF Ames won the an
nual contest of the Iowa state oratori-
cal association.
There was a mutiny of soldiers at
Peking, and the city was given over
to pillage and burning.
The belief at Toxic is that interna-
tional interference is necessary to re-
store order in China.
Old letters of Colonel Roosevelt are
resurrected in an attempt to show the
inconsistency of his position.
President Madero will attempt to
placate Mexican insurrectos by MAX
ing changes in the cabinet.
Theodore Roosevelt contends his
Columbus speech was simply a plea
for more power for the people.
Directors Of the Lake Shore q
Michigan Southern Railroad company
declared an I..tra dividend of q per
cent.
\. draft Of a uniform drainage and
levee law was completed by a commit
tee Of the National Drainage congress
IN session at st. Louis.
Thirty-one cities in Prussia, includ-
ing Berlin and other large centers,
have been affected by the strike of
10000 mems tailors.
California wine producers protested
to the judiciary committee against the
bill to prohibit liquor shipments from
wet into dry states.
Congress passed the bill authorizing
that a commission of ensign be given
to midshipmen upon graduation from
the naval academy.
Rattlesnake venom has been used
successfully as a cure for tuberculo-
sis. according to a report to the Mary
land state board of health.
No decision of the question of Pana-
ma canal tolls was reached at the
meeting OF the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce.
A meeting of labor leaders, which,
according to reports from Chicago
early in February was to have been
held at Kansas City, has been post
poned indefinitely.
A very heavy movement OF news
print paper, with a moderate decrease
in stocks on hand, is the feature Of
to January statistics Of the American
Paper and Pulp association.
The department of justice has or
dered the United States marshal in
eastern Oklahoma to enforce the fed
eral prohibition law in the old Indian
territory the anne as prior to state
hood.
Where a father has lost control of
his children through a divorce suit.
he may not claim the right to attend
the funeral of n of them, according
to a decision handed down in the SUI
preme court Of Iowa.
Fifteen children of strikers at Law
renee, Mass, arrived in Washington
and We're me- by Victor Berger of
Wisconsin,. the socialist representa-
tive. They came to testify before the
house rules committee of the house.
Cairman Sulzer of the foreign az
fairs committee, after a talk with
President Taft and officials of the
state department said that he was op-
posed to any Intervention whatever in
Mexico by United States troops.
The Oklahoma traffic association
filed complaints with the interstate
commerce commission alleging the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and
several other roads operating east Of
the Missouri river exacted excessive
and discriminatory rates.
The national Roosevelt h%eadquar-
tiers made public a statement disput-
ing the claim Of the national Taft bu-
reau that President Taft, in his candi-
dacy for the denomination, has the
support of Governor Hooper of Ten
nessee. Governor Oddie of Nevada