Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11

The land office at DEVILS Lake, n.
D., has been consolidated with the
J office at Minot, N. D.
OF $4,000 locomotives inspected last
year by the Interstate Commerce
commission more than $4,000 were
found defective.
A machine for drying whey and con-
verting it ipto powder for food has
been invented by New Yorker.
San Francisco is to have a new
twenty-story building on the north
side of Market, opposite Second street.
The supreme court of Mississippi
has held that the razor is not weap-
on, but an implement of the toilet
Cigarets cannot be sold on trains IN
Minnesota, according to an opinion
given by the states attorney gen
erals office.
Five New York banks have been
added to the Texas oil penalty suit
and by this action the total penalties
demanded have been increased to
$102,161, 900.
A Pennsylvania statistician calcu-
lates that in the last year 120,OOO,oOo
tons of water were pumped out OF the
mines of one company in the anthra-
cite region.
John Nicholson has confessed to
numbering his wife and their 9-year-
old son by setting fire to them after
bo ho1 coo1xod +bo;r bod clothing with
oil at Vandalia, Mo.
Nearly 5000 persons were maroon
ed on Rockaway beach all night by
fire which destroyed part OF the
trestle connecting that particular re-
sort with Long Island.
The whole of the J. P. Morgan es-
tate has value Of $100,000.O0O, &C
cording to an unofficial estimate
credited to Thomas E. Rush, counsel
10 State Comptroller Sohmer.
The woman's suffrage bill has been
signed by Governor Dunno. The act
gives Illinois women the right to
vote for all statutory officers in the
state, and also for presidential cleo
tors.
Arthur !. Moss, twenty two-year
old probationary clerk in the main
postofflce at St. Louis confessed to
have rifed the mails which passed
through his hands during the last six
weeks.
Statisticians have just completed
counting the nickels that have been
spent the last year to see the
movies" shows. The grand total,
said to be the first official count ever
made, is $319,0OO,OO0.
The special parcel post stamp will
not be issued after the present stock
in the hands of the various offices is
used up and the ordinary postage
stamps will be good for the use on
parcel post packages after July 1.
twenty-five boys were dropped into
the Merimac river at Lawrence, Mass.
when runway leading to one of the
bath houses collapsed. Two were
drowned and five others were uncon-
scious when taken from the water.
To ascertain the effects of modified
state socialism on industrial condi.
lions, committee representing the
national association of manufacturers
will sail from San Francisco for an
extensive tour of Australia and New
Zealand.
Postmaster Arthur G. Fisk of San
Francisco, refused to tender his resig-
nation to postmaster General Burle-
son in response to the later's request
that the resignation be forwarded i'm
mediately. ito take effect as soon as
a successor is appointed"
AS result of conference between
Governor Hatfield and the United
Mine Workers of America and coal
operators of the New River coal field
in West Virginia, a strike order issued
applying to the New River coal fields
is being held up temporarily.
The special arbitration treaties Of
the United States with Japan, Swe-
den and Portugal, which would have
expired by limitation within the next
month, were extended by protocols
signed by Secretary Bryan, the JAP
anese ambassador and the Swedish
and Portugal ministers.
Returns to the war department
thus far shows that 165 students, rep
resenting forty-eight schools and col.
leges, have qualified to attend the
military camp of instruction which
opens on Gettysburg battlefield July
Z, at the close of the veterans reun-
ion and continues until August Is.
Foreign.
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