Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-02-16

Ex-senator Allen Of Nebraska thinks
Taft is sure of republican nomination
and that Harmon 10 the only man
with show of defeating him.
The fate Of the steel bill in the SEN
ate is problematical.
Henry Watterson is disguised with
both Harvey and Wilson.
There will be no boost in binder
Irvine rates by western railroads.
Clarence barrow, union labor attor-
ney, was indicted on bribery charges.
Men behind the Roosevelt move
ment are going right ahead at Chi
cago.
Great Britain and Russia are about
to revise their joint agreement con-
corning Persia.
At New York dinner Judge Gross
cup and George w. Perkins took turns
In flaying antitrust enactments.
With assurances of pensions and re-
tention of titles, the Chinese throne
is preparing to abdicate.
The steel corporation and 1nd1v1du-
al defendants filed answer to the gov
ernment's dissolution suit.
The pope ratified the decision OF the
consistorial congregation creating a
new diocese of Des Moines.
The Rockefellers, father ana son.
Joined in disclaimer of government
charges IL the steel suit.
Testimony of witnesses went to
show that the minds Of packers on
prices were remarkably alike.
The senate passed the Borah bill to
create children's bureau in the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor.
More than $1,OOO,000 is to be distrib-
uted in charitable requests provided
by the will Of Caroline Neustadter,
which was filed at New York.
The English admiralty has ordered
from Vickers Sons & Maxim three
submarines bigger than any existing
type and capable of long voyages.
The pension appropriation bill, car
rying $152,579,O0O for the coming
year, was reported to the house ana
debate on the measure began at once.
The state of Minnesota will expert
ment with oleomargarine to deter
mine whether it can be given the
color of butter without adding color
ing matter.
The annual convention of the inter-
national association of factory lnspec.
tors, which is to be held this year IN
Washington, will be on June 4 anu
continue until June 8.
The senate committee on military
affairs agreed to report favorably
bill by Senator Penrose for monu-
ment to the signal corps in the civil
war at Gettysburg. Pa.
The senate refused by vote OF IL
to 80 to pass bill authorizing the
sale of 100000 acres of fertile unal'
lotted land in the standing Rock re-
servation in North and South Da-
kota.
There are 270 Indians entitled to
allotments in the White Earth reser-
walton for whom there is no land, &C
cording to testimony given by Agent
Howard.
Fire at Kansas City almost com.
pletely destroyed the stock OF the
Margolis Jewelry company at 1907
Main street, causing a total loss OF
nearly 100000.
Primary election bills. both includ-
ing the nomination of United States
senator and excluding the selection OF
presidential electors were passed IN
both houses of the Kentucky legisla-
ture.
The Steel tariff revision bill was
referred to the finance committee OF
the senate without discussion. Sen
ator Reed withdrawing his demand
that the committee report within
twenty days.
State Senator Thomas F. Grady,
long identified with Tammany Hall
and known as the siIver-tongued ora
tor of that organization, is dying at
his home in New York.
Senator LaFollette reintroduced his
antitrust bill of last session extending
it's provisions to prohibit the govern
ment from buying from trusts and for
feiting patents on articles manufac-
tured by trusts.
Inquiry into the rates, classified
lions. regulations and practices OF ex-
press companies, begun by the Inter-
state Commerce commission several
weeks ago in New York, will be re-
s,lmed in Washington at once.
Operation of the pure food decision
prohibiting the use of saccharine in
food stuffs which was to have become
ecective February 1, after two post
ponements, again has been EXTENDED
to March 1.
Federal Judge Angel in Detroit
denied a motion of the attorneys Tor
the bath tub trust to compel the gov
eminent to elect which of the two
counts of the pending indictment 1t
would proceed to trial under.
The Bradley bill appropriating
s25O,O0e for the celebration at Savan-
nah, Ca, in 1913 of the semi-centen-
NAL of President Lincoln's emancipa'
ton proclamation, will be reported IA
vorably by the senate committee on
industrial expositions.
Representatives of coal operators In
Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania
urged the senate interstate commerce
commission to create an interstate
trade commission with such control