Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-07-26

Secretary Of the Interior Fishel
6atly denied Friday that Robert q
Valentine, commissioner of Indian af
fairs, had resigned.
Mormon colonists in Mexico will
give battle rather than gay tribute tt
Mexican rebels.
Treasury officials estimate tina
there are now 1857. 131,8 1861 pennies il
circulation.
The national education association
voted to bury the Boston ballot boz
stufhng scandal.
Senator Norris Brown says Presi
dent Taft was honestly nominated and
should be reelected.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia ID
fighting to force from the Washing
ton force all colored policemen.
Victor Morris Smith, jr., holder Of
the worlds amateur record of aero
plane speed, was instantly killed at
Ravenswood, Cal, when his machine
Tell at the end of a fight from Noun
lain View.
The presidential elections which
we're held throughout the republic of
Panama were conducted in an order.
ly manner. All the electors belong to
the Porras party, which ensures the
unanimous election of DR.. Belisario
0orras on August 80, next, when the
electoral assemblies convene.
Colonel Roosevelt has decided to
make the campaign trip to Michigan,
Kansas and Iowa, which he has had
under consideration for several days.
He said he had begun work on mum.
Der of speeches which he would deli
yer before the opening of the national
progressive convention in Chicago.
Governor Wilson's day Wednesday
in Atlantic City was planned to be a
brief one. At noon he was to lay the
corner stone of the Y. M. C. A. and at
2 o'clock he was scheduled to address
the annual convention of the National
Building and Loan associations on the
steel pier.
Three masked bandits armed with
revolvers and shotguns terrorized the
village of Torono, Ill. Two farmers
driving home were first held up and
robbed and then the trio forced the
Illinois Central agent at the point OF
guns to surrender all the cash on
hand in the station.
At Roanoke, Va, leaders in the
Roosevelt third party movement met
and decided to hold mass meeting,
July 80 for the purpose of selecting a
delegation to cast Virginia's twelve
votes in the proposed Chicago con-
vention, and to name progressive
electors.
The plentiful harvest of important
crops of the country, indicated by the
crop report of the department of agri-
culture, will extend also to minor
crops to great extent. Conditions of
all crops were materially better on
July 1 than on the same date last
year.
Charles R. Crane Of Chicago, who
gave $4,000 to the La Toilette cam
paign fund, came out with declara-
ton that he would support Governor
Wilson for the presidency and would
contribute to the democratic cam
paign fund if the governor would per-
nit him to do SO.
Missouri progressive republicans
will hold their state convention at
Kansas City, Tuesday, July 80, to
elect delegates to the national con-
vention. The call was issued by w.
r. Nelson, editor of the Kansas City
Star and Times and member for Mis-
souri, of the national committee.
The "Robitschekoscope," is the
imposing name of continuance in
vented by Alexander Robitschek OF
New York for inducing sleep. The
inventor, who came to this country |
rom Austria, declares that his appa- |
atus has the old sleep producing plan
counting black sheep beaten a
allie.
Directors of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad have ordered
an appraisement of the physical val
ue of the entire system, preliminary
to big increase in capital stock and
the absorption of the Colorado &
Southern system, according to re-
port here today following visit OF
The progressive party of Pennsyl.
vania was organized at Pittsburg by
the men who several months ago pre-.
empted the title progressive" They
met in the headquarters of the Key.
stone party and announcement was
made that they intended fusing with
the Keystoners ON most of the state
and legislative tickets.
Robert c. Grier, one of Peoria's old.
st and most successful business men
and uncle of John Grier Hibbern of
Princeton, died at his home in that
city. Mr.. Grier founded the Peoria
Board of Trade, was president of the
association several terms and until
eleven years ago, when he retired,
vas one of the most prominent and
,ctive grain men in the west.
At Newport, r. l., Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish gave the most elaborate enter.
tainment of the season at Crossways.
Her eighty dinner guests opened
their eyes when they entered the illu.
eainated grounds and reached the
residence, which was mass of Grim.
son roses. Conrad and his musicians
in the hall played classical music