Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-03-22

become an arch Catholic diocese.
L. c. Ohsehreiter, the Dubuque. Ia.
business man who is on twenty-day
fast, passed the fifteenth day.
Captain Robert F. Scott is reported
to have reached the south pole.
The Massachusetts, house defeated
the bill to abolish capital punishment
Both houses of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
President Taft wants 1t understood
there will be no Intervention in Mex
leo.
Mr.. Rooseyelt's pre-conventdon cam
paign will be limited to six or eight
speeches.
w. J. Bryan defended the judicial
recall before the Ohio constitutional
convention.
The parcels post was discussed by
the laundrymen of Iowa at their fourth
annual convention.
The home rule bill Is not to be in.
troduced into the house Of commons
before Easter. e..
Hugh Webster OF Ames won the an.
nual contest of the Iowa state orator.
cal association.
There was a mutiny Of soldiers at
Picking, and the city was given over
to pillage and burning. e
The government renewed its light
against the merger of the Union and
Southern Pacific railroads.
The belief at Toxic is that interna-
tional interference is necessary to re-
store order in China.
Congress is expected to act promptly
in an effort to offset the supreme
court ruling on patents.
Henry Harig of st. Louis accident
ally shot and killed his 11-year-old son
while shooting at target.
The plan of the war department to
make Fl. Smelling a brigade post has
begun to assume definite form.
President Taft insists that there be
no more personalities in the campaign
SO far as his side is concerned.
The house committee on judiciary
has completed it's anti-injunction bill
and will report it to the house.
President Madero will attempt to
placate Mexican insurrectos by max
ing changes in the cabinet.
Theodore Roosevelt contends his
Columbus speech was simply a plea
for more power for the people.
Two delegations will probably be
sent to the national republican con-
vention in Chicago from Louisiana.
Democratic Leader Underwood says
that the democrats will consider no
tariff schedule after the wool bill Is
passed.
The eighteenth annual meeting OF
the northeast Iowa teachers conven-
ton will be held at Waterloo, March
%. 20 and 30.
. Woman's suffrage will be submitted
to Ohio voters at separate measure
when the revised draft of the consti-
tuition is voted upon.
No decision Of the question Of Pana-
ma canal tolls was cached at the
meeting of the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce.
The interior department expendi-
lures committee practically decided to
investigate the Indian bureau during
Roosevelt and Taft administrations.
The new German navy and mill
tary bills. which are to be discussed
by the reichstag this session. have
been completely drafted and sub
mitted to the federal council.
Chairman Adamson of the house
commerce committee introduced a
bill providing for a physical valuation
of all of the common carriers OF the
United States by the Interstate Com
merce commission.
Sugar refining companies alleged to
be involved in customs Irregularities
brought to light in Philadelphia re-
Gently by a federal grand jury. have
been notified they owe the treasury
$4,000.
Public buildings committee will
give hearings before subcommittee on
one public building bill for each con-
gresham, but an appropriation bill
for buildings probably will not be
brought forward this season.
A new map of the United States,
by the general land office,
done in seven colors to show national
forests and parks, Indian, military,
naval and other reservations, has just
been finished. 1t is wall map, about
five feet by seven, and is corrected to
July 1, 1911. They are to be sold for
81 each.
Senator LaFollette wired A. H.
Tucker, chairman of the North Dako-
ia progressive republican league at
Fargo, that he would come to North
Dakota and make several speeches in
the state in the last week of the pres
idential primary campaign II needed.
A message was sent to LaFollette re-
questing his presence, and arrange
ments will be made for four or five