Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1912-11-29

'NSAANW NlESuu says ne mas mot
made a single offer OF a cabinet port
folio.
Governor-elect William Sulzer of
New York state viii begin a hunt for
wild turkeys in the mountains of Vir-
ginia.
Part of jamaica was swept by q
tidal wave and causing the loss of
many lives.
Woman suffragists claim to see the
triumph of their cause within the next
few years.
Prospects are bright for the early
settlement of the West Virginia strike
of coal miners.
A court order restraining an in
crease to Woodmen rates was issued
at Springfield, Ill.
The government scored an impor-
tant victory in its prosecution of the
hath-tub combine.
j. H. Harthem, a veteran German
editor, dropped dead at Shenandoah,
la, from heart failure.
Games and fancy dress dances are
being taught the girls in the state
industrial school in Iowa.
A German correspondent pictures
the awful condition of Turkish troops
along the Tchatalja lines.
Chairman Prouty of the Interstate
Commerce commission says railroads
should treat all tates alike.
A half million dollars in election
bets is tied up in California awaiting
definite result of the vote.
Major Henry Clay Merriam, retired,
died at Portland, Maine, after an i'll
ness of nearly two years.
The constitutionality of the news
paper publicity law is soon to be at
tackled in the supreme court.
The American federation of labor
will urge support of alleged dynamit-
erS until they are proven guilty.
Testimony was given to show that
dynamite leaders were constantly in
search of recruits to their ranks.
Hundreds of Dakotans attended
Dakota day" at the northwestern
products exposition at Minneapolis,
A mailman with a box of dynamite
invaded the Los Angeles police sta
ton and gave the officers a bad hour.
President Taft will open the annual
sessions of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress in Washington De
cember 4.
President Taft will be the final ar
bitter in constituting the law passed at
the last session of congress admitting
shipbuilding material, machinery and
equipment to the United States free
of duty.
San Francisco's fight for the use OF
the Hetch Hetchy valley in the Yo-
semitic National park as a reservoir
for the city's water supply will be
waged before Secretary Of the Interior
Fisher.
Figures received by the health de,
partment from Washington, show
that government staticians place Chi
cago as the most healthful of the
worlds great cities.
When Mrs. Pansy Ellen Lesh,
charged with poisoning two women in
Pettis county, Missouri, several years
ago, appears in the criminal court at
Sedalia she will plead not guilty.
Ten dead and thirty-six injured is
the record of the 1912 football season.
Last year there were fourteen deaths
and s~ixty-seven injured, according to
statistics compiled by a Chicago news
paper.
An addition of $4,000, 900 to the en-
dowment fund to the Carnegie foun-
dation for the advancement of teach
ing was announced By Andrew Car
negie at a meeting OF the trustees of
his foundation.
In accordance with Kinkaid bill
passed at the last session of con-
gress, 613 acres of the Fort Niobrara
reservation have been set aside by ex-
ecutive proclamation as a preserve for
breeding prairie chickens.
Mildred Shehan, aged -, who, with
a party of school children was enjoy
ing a picnic in the mountains, fell 500
feet down the Devils Slide in Chey-
enne canon, near Colorado Springs,
and was instantly killed.
The appointment of Fred H. Abbott
of Aurora, Neb., as Indian commits
sioner is expected to be announced at
the White house DON Abbott called
on the president at the request of Sec
rotary Hilles, and it is believed that
several Indian matters We're discussed
preparatory to the final appointment.
At Ell Paso, Tex, the last transpor-
tation gwen to refugees from Mexico
was issued by the army quartermas-
ter's department. Congress made an
appropriation for sending these peo-
pie to a point in the United States
they wished to go when they were
forced by the rebellion to leave
Mexico.
The president has approved the SEN
tence of court martials desmissing
from the army Captain A. H. Bishop,
First Infantry, and Second Lieutenant
Armine w. Smith, third field artillery.
Captain Bishop was convicted of false
entries and embezzlement and Lieu
tenant Smith of deceit in the solu-