The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-04-12

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Vice President Wood Of the Penn
sylvania railroad says the steel cor
poration should quit carrier busl'
less.
Ben Lewis. agedSk business mana
ger of the Quincy, ILL.,, Journal, com
mitted suicide.
Investigation of an alleged coal
trust has been undertaken by the
government.
General John w. Noble, secretary or
the interior under President Harrison,
died in st. Louis.
Miners at Cleveland rejected a pro
posal Of operators to continue at the
present scale of wages.
The result in North Dakota is cold
comfort for political managers OF Tart
and Roosevelt.
The home rule bill is not to be in
troduced into the house Of commons
before Easter.
A wholesale dynamite plot was
thwarted, according to the police, by
the arrest of six men.
A presidential primary may be held
in Illinois by the ruling of Judge
Windes at Chicago.
The right of the people to rule was
the theme of an address by Theodore
Roosevelt at New York.
Senator LaFollette is the benetic-
larry of the first presidential primary
to be held in any state.
Progressive democrats gathered IN
Lincoln at a birthday banquet to do
honor to Bryan.
John P. White. head of the united
mine workers, can see no other out
come than a strike April l.
Senator La Toilette has a substan-
tial lead in the North Dakota presi-
Dental preference primary.
There is to be no resumption OF
mining in Great Britain until the min
imum bill has passed the commons.
If an amendment to the govern
ment canal bill is adopted, railroad
owned ships cannot enter the water
way.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion ruled that wood pulp should take
ordinarily a lower freight rate than
lumber.
The statewide prohibition bill pre-
pared by the anti-saloon league OF
Maryland was passed by the house of
delegates.
Senator Smoot introduced a bill for
consolidation of all federal health
agencies into the United States public
health service.
A resolution of regret at the res
ignation of DR.. Wiley offered by Sen
ator MARITIME, was objected to by Sen
ator Gallinger.
The remains offs the heroes recov-
cred from the wrecked battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, were laid
to rest at Arlington.
Woman suffrage and the election
Of United States senators by direct
vote were defeated in the Massachus-
ettS senate by a close vote.
Senator Simmons advocated
reading and writing test for immi-
grants as an amendment to the Dill
bingham general immigration bill.
James J.. Hill, railroad builder, paid
800 for a city directory OF st. Paul,
Mimi, of 1857 in which his name ap-
pears as a clerk in a brokerage Office.
Two bills amending the patent laws
and intended to meet the ''legalized
monopoly decision of the supreme
court were introduced by Representa-
tive Hanna of North Dakota.
Representative Kahn of California,
introduced a bill to appropriate
500. 900 to establish a small arms
target range for the navy on the
Pacific coast.
Representative Jones OF Virginia,
chairman of the house committee on
insular affairs, proposed 'probation-
airy independence" for the Philippine
islands from July 4, 1913, to July 4,
1921.
At least thirty-two men We're kill.
ed and parts of their bodies strewn
for blocks around when a big pas
senger engine in the Southern Pac-
iic shops blew up at San Antonio,
Texas.
Charges that railroads of the cen.
trail west have Disseminated in the
distribution If coal cars in favor of
their own mines are to be Investigate
ed by state officials from Kentucky,
Indiana and Illinois.
Senator Cummins of Iowa intro
duced in the senate a nationwide
presidential primary bill. the effect
of which would be to do away with
local state and national conventions
of the various political parties.