Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-04-05

There were more than q hundred
men killed In . mine explosion In Oh
lahoma.
Vice President Wood Of the Penn
sylvania railroad says the steel cor.
poration should quit carrier bust
ness.
Increased spring trading is helping
to wipe out the governments deficit.
Ben Lewis. aged IS. 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 OF
the interior under President Harrison
died in st. Louis.
A compromise on per cent in
crease to miners has been suggested
at Cleveland.
Major H. Glacke, United States in
ternal revenue collector, died at his
home at Cheyenne.
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 benefic-
larry Of the first presidential primary
to be held in any state.
Colorado has joined with Nebraska
in protesting the Union. Pacific four
hundred feet of right-of-way.
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.
There is to be no resumption, OF
mining in Great Britain until the min
mum bill has passed the commons.
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion ruled that wood pulp should take
ordinarily q lower freight rate than
lumber.
A resolution Of regret at the res
lgnation of DR.. Wiley offered by SEN
ator MARITIME, was objected to by Sen
ator Gallinger.
The remains of the heroes recov-
cred from the wrecked battleship
Maine, in Havana harbor, were laid
to rest at Arlington.
The house committee on expendi-
lures in the interior department de-
cided to conduct q full investigation
into the Indian bureau.
Woman suffrage and the election
II United States senators by direct
vote were defeated in the Massachus-
etts senate by close vote.
James J. Hill. railroad builder, paid
800 for a city directory Of ST. Paul.
Mimi, Of 1857 in which his name APP
pears as clerk in brokerage oflce.
Attorney General Wickersham in =
letter refused to supply information
called for by a resolution on reorgan-
lzation of the International Harvester
company.
Resort to the courts will probably
be made at once for a review Of the
decision of the interstate commerce
commission announced in the Louis
lana rate case.
Business men of Nelson, B. c., are
IN the verge of panic because OF the
supposed operations of incendiaries.
Three buildings are believed to have
bene set afire recently.
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 Jones Of Virginia.
chairman of the house committee on
lnsular affairs, proposed probation
ary independence" for the Philippine
islands from July 4, 1913, to July 4,
1921.
The republican state committee OF
Montana, after stormy session de-
teated a proposition for presidential
primary by vote Of 26 to II and en-
iorsed President Taft for renomina-
ton by vote of 81 to 10.
The petition for the establishment
IF a star mail route between Cook
and Tecumseh, signed Dy lou cltl-
Gems of Cook, has been received by
Senator Hitchcock and Congressman
Mcguire.
President Taft promised four SEN
ators. Martin of Virginia, Bacon Of
Georgia, Fletcher of Florida and Du-
Point of Delaware to look into the
cases of five cadets recently dismiss
ed from West Point for drunkenness.
At Fort Smith, Ark, mob broke
into the city Jail and seized an uniden-
.ified negro who had previously shot
and wounded Deputy Constable An
irew Carr. The negro was dragged
through the principal business street
in town to the front of hotel and
banged to a telephone pole.