The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-01-12

Twelve persons, nearly all OF them
revolutionists. escaped from jails al
Mexicali.
A Christmas present of $4,000 was
voted to the employees of the Contra
Trust company by directors Of the
concern.
Both houses of congress have ad'
%journed for the holidays.
Congress-. on reassembling afte.
holidays. will get to work on the wool
measure.
The house cOncurred in the action
of the senate abrogating the treaty
with Russia.
Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is
going to put in another season at the
show business.
A re-survey of public lands in the
Sixth Nebraska district is urged by
Congressman Kinkaid.
Congressman G. o. IObeck Of Ne
braska will file as a candidate for
denomination as congressman from
the Second Nebraska district.
Twenty-Five damage suits, aggregat-
ing $S2,4OO, were filed against the
Bayless Pulp and Paper company OF
Austin, Pa, and against President
George c. Bayless.
Edward Sawyer, secretary and as
sistant treasurer of the Great North
ern and n of the pioneer railroad
officials of the northwest. will retire
January I.
Diamonds valued at between $4,000
and $1,000, enclosed in a jewelers. wal
let, were stolen from the diamond
room of a jewelry firm in Minneapolis.
The thief escaped.
Suits in bankruptcy of the Western
Steel corporation, showing liabilities
of $1,493,4O and assets of ~s7,""39.965.
We're filed in the United States diss-
trict court at Seattle.
Z. G.. Lewis of St. Louis. publisher
and promoter of realty and banking
enterprises, was reindicted by the
federal grand jury on the charge OF
using the mails to defraud.
Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery. aged 81, edi-
tor of the official paper of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution and
prominent in club and educational
work. died in Cleveland, Ohio.
The will of John R. Walsh, the Tor
mer Chicago banker who died early
in November following his release
from the Leavenworth ~penitentiary,
was admitted to probate.
The Jewish Chronicle says that the
leading Jewish institutions in London
have decided to urge the a%brogation of
the Anglo Russian treaty. which diff
ferentiates against the English Jews.
Edward H. Shuster. cousin OF
Morgan Shuster, treasurer general of
Persia, is in New York, en- route to
Teheran from the Panama canal zone.
He is going to help the treasurer gen
eral in his trouble with Russia.
Tw%enty-three sticks of high-power
dynamite were found by a gardener
buried in %shrubbery at the residence
Of Arthur Let's, owner Of two of the
largest department stores in Los
Angeles.
Rose Eytinge, at one time one of
the most popular leading on
the American stage, died on the 21st
at .Amityville, L. L., from a paralytic
stroke. The body will be taken to
Washington for interment.
Captain Samuel H. Harper, 6S years
old, mayor OF Ottumwa, former state
commander Of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and twice state senator,
died of heart trouble. He was cap
tain of the Forty-sixth regiment Unit
ed States colored infantry during the
Civil a
Twenty-Five damage suits, aggregat.
ing $S2,40O, We're filed against the
Bayless Pulp and Paper company OF
Austin, Pa. and against President
c. Bayless. individually, to re-
cover for losses caused by the going
out Of the mill company's dam at
on September 80 last.
At New Rochelle. n. Y, character
.zing the age as one of the greatest
unrest and discomfort which the
ever knew, Jacob Gould
president of Cornell uni
versity, discussed conditions and pro
posed remedies in an address before
the Peoples Forum.
From an authoritative source it was
learned that the likelihood OF any
further advance in prices by the
United States steel corporation is
rather remote.
State department advices continue
Indicate feeling Of unrest in Cuha
as a result of the retention in Office
of officials who signally opposed
Cuban independence.