Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-09-20

gOlia, according to g Peklng dispatch
to the Daily Mail in London.
The American Red Cross society
allowed $1,000 for the purchase of
food supplies for the suffering people
in Nicaragua.
Roosevelt will speak in Omaha
September 9th.
Government veterinarians have ar
rived in Nebraska to aid in extermin-
ating the deadly disease among hors-
es.
Secretary Wilson of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has decided to
establish an experiment station on the
Manti national forest near Epraium,
Negotiations in connection with the
Canadian Pacific telegraphers' strike
were transferred from Winnipeg to
Montreal, the headquarters of the
union.
The right of the progressive delega-
ton of South Dakota to place on
the republican state ticket is to be at
tackled in an application before the
supreme court.
The yield Of the Klondike gold
placer mines for 1912 was $5.00O,000,
an increase of $1,000,000 over 1911.
The increase was due to the employ
ment of more dredgers.
That the strike situation in the
Knawhala valley coal fields in West
Virginia, which has been under mar
tial law for the last few days, is grow
.~o14 sC fnH
Director Mulvane at national repub-
lican headquarters announced that
John M. Harlan of Chicago would fol-
low Colonel Roosevelt through Ore
gon and other Pacific coast states.
Starting from Detroit, Governor
Johnson made flying trip through
Michigan on a special train, delivering
seven speeches during the day and an
address at Grand Rapids at night.
"A panic is on the way, it is sure
to come no matter who is elected
republican. democrat or progressive"
said Eugene V. Debs, socialist candi-
date for president, at Phoenix. Ariz.
The International Association of
Electrotpyers in convention in Chica-
go decided on policy of arbitration
of labor troubles through national
committees in order to avere strikes.
Governor Woodrow Wilson intimat-
ed that he would probably take part
in the senatorial fight in New Jersey
in which former United States Sena-
tor James Smith, jr, has again be-
come a candidate.
Taking OF testimony in the govern
ment's suit to recover possession OF
2 1000, 900 acres of land in western Ore |
gon valued at $100,0OO,000, which the
federal government gave to the Ore
gon & California Railroad company
in 1866, was resumed.
Shocking reports of famine and
sickness, brigandage and brutality in
the rebel zone in Nicaragua, sent to
the outside world by couriers, are be-
ginning to reach the State DEPART
ment and are being referred to the at |
tention of the American Red Cross.
The Navigation bureau officers
were surprised Sunday to learn that
a woman wireless operator had been
from the steamer Mari |
posa, on a transpacific line on the
ground tina, the government was OPP
posed to such employment of women.
The Minneapolis Civic and Com
mercial association appealed to the
Interstate Commerce commission to
correct what are alleged to be dis
by a number of western
railroads against it's commercial in
terests in favor of Chicago and st. |
Louis.
Republicans OF North Carolina came |
to the parting of the ways and two
state conventions were held, one by |
the supporters of President Taft and
another by the followers of Colonel
Roosevelt. AS result of the clash |
there will be two electoral and two
state tickets in the field.
The possibility of great confagra-
ton threatens every big city in the |
country it was declared by Richard L.
of Philadelphia, structur-
al materials expert, at the closing
session of the International Associa-
ton for Testing Materials in New
York
James B. Mcnamara, serving a life
sentence in San Quentin penitentiary
for murder in connection with the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, was operated on Tuesday at |
the prison hospital for appendicitis.
This became known Sunday, with the
announcement that he would recover
c. W. Berlin, former land commits
sioner Of the Southern Pacific, testi-
flying in the Southern Pacific land
foreclosure hearing at Portland, Ore,
blamed the Booth-Kelly Lumber COM
pany for the Hartman orer of 1903
withdrawing 100000 acres of the
Oregon and California grant lands
from entry or sale.
Personal.
The kaiser favors grant of land
on Lake Greibuitz for a golf course.