The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-02-20

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ms the free transportation market.
A report of Illinois some time ago
stated that in the last twenty years
10000 country churches in Illinois had
closed their doors.
Thomas A. Edison celebrated his
Goth birthday on February IL.
The German and Dutch steamship
lines announced that the steerage rate
from Europe to Canada would be cut
to $50 instead of $40.
Sixteen are dead, including twelve
miners and four mine guards, as the
result of a desperate battle in the
Kanawha county, w. Va, coal fields.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued call for statement of the con-
dition of all national banks OF the
United States at the close Of business
of Tuesday, February 4.
great national PARK in Colorado,
to be known as the Rocky Mountain
park, is proposed in bill introduced
by Representative Rucker OF Colo
RADIO.
BY mortgaging his piano Isaac Eyer,
aged So years, of Pueblo, Colo, Sc
cured money to purchase a revolver,
with which the police say he killed
himself.
Fire which started in the garnet OF
the Star hotel at Dolan, s. D., burned
eleven buildings in the business part
of the town before being brought
under control. The estimated loss is
$4,000.
The national chamber of commerce
adopted resolution calling upon the
president and senate Of the United
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1908.
In more ways than one, the war in
the Balkans has brought France adj
vantages, millions of French capital
will be invested in the victorious
diately to develop the resources OF
their newly acquired territories.
The soil of great portion Of Ger
many is little but sand and it has
been titled for centuries, but on this
poor land German farmers are today
as many bushels per acre as the
American farmer, and in all crops
from so to 80 per cent more.
Details of the wreck of the schooner
Granada on the bar at the entrance to
Colorado river, received at Bluefields,
Mic, say that twenty persons were
drowned OF the fifteen passengers
who persisted, several We're among the
most important citizens of the repub-
lie.
Whether the six-year single presi-
dental term constitutional amend
ment shall be presented to the public
as it recently passed the senate, Or
be substituted by the Clayton resolu-
ton, the house judiciary committee
was unable to decide. The question is
to come up in the house later.
A definite line OF action to do
away with the middleman and build
up cooperative system whereby
farm products may be sold and de-
livered by the producer to the con-
sumner was adopted at recent ses-
sion of the fortieth annual convention
Of the New York state grange.
About S3,000,000 was spent last year
by fraternal organizations, labor I'M
ions and insurance companies in spe-
cial funds for the treatment of their
tuberculosis members and policyhold-
ers, according to a statement issued
by the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis.
The rebels and the federal troops in
the Mexican capital have taken up po-
sitions and fighting is expected to be-
gin at any moment. The government
troops are slowly closing in on the
rebels. Madero has a total Of not less
than 5000 soldiers in the city and ex-
poets further reinforcements shortly.
Criminal contempt of court proceed
ings against the Southern Wholesale
Grocers' association and seyenty-nine
individuals for alleged violations of
the antitrust decree entered against
the ''grocers trust more than year
ago were begun in Birmingham, re-
Gently by the federal government.
Eighteen miles of copper wire
leading from the power station at
Needles to the gold mines at Tom
Reed. has been stolen and eight tons
OF it shipped to Los Angeles, &C.
cording to report to the sheriff.
Even the poles were taken by the
thieves. The wire was of heavy
copper, valued at $1,000 per mile
According to an agreement reached
between the attorney general of the
United States and counsel for the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific the
latter road will turn over to the Union
Pacific the railroad known as the Cen
trail Pacific, which connects Ogden,
Utah, with San Francisco, thus giving
the Overland a through line to the
coast from Omaha.
Herman Rosenthal's one-time part
ner in gambling picked up the brok-
en- threads Of Rosenthals story and
told the aldermanic committee investi-