Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-05-02
GENERAL.

Plans for establishing an endoW-
ment fund of 100000 occupied a re-
cent session of the mid-biennial coun-
Gil of the General Federation of
Women's clubs in Washington.
Elmer Rice followed his wife who
had left their home near Melia, Neb,
recently and shot her, then killed
himself. Mrs. Rice will probably re-
cover, being merely wounded IN the
shoulder.
c. Frank Reavis, a we'll known
Falls City, Neb., attorney, has re-
ceived notice from the clerk OF the
supreme court of Kansas at Topeka
that he has won a $4,000 law suit in
that court.
William T. Scott, tie only negro
ever nominated for president of the
United States by a regularly constl'
tuted delegation, representing thirty
seven states, has been placed upon
the White house pay roll as a %janitor.
Joseph w. Martin, the Memphis cot
ton broker who disappeared from Lon
don April 3 and has been reported at
Vevey, cannot be located. kilograms
Cor Martin are piling up in the post
office. There is a rumor that Martin
has gone to Geneva.
Medical skill and strong vitality
have combined ito bring about a
change for the better in the condition
of Pope Plus of Rome. The official
bulletins recently issued relieved
present anxiety, but there are some
who are skeptical and fear a third
lapse.
Nebraska p~ostmasters appointed
by the president: Linscott, Blaine
county, Hattie L. Boggs, vice G.. l.
Dean, resigned; Pepper Creek
Dawes county, David H. Berg, new
office; Schili, Sheridan county, c. E
Bensckoter, vice G. E. Bensckoter
resigned.
Mrs. William Cunning Story of New
York, head Of the conservative party
failed by six votes of the necessary
majority to elect her president genera
of the Daughters of the American Re
voIution on the second ballot, which
began Friday. The vote stood: Mrs
William Cumming Story, STA; Mrs
John Miller Horton administrator
candidate), SAP; Mrs. Charles B
Bryan, AZ.
Thirty-four of the thirty-six state
which have ratified the constitutions
amendment for direct election O
United States senator's had given fol
NAL notice of their action. When SCI
Rotary Bryan receives similar notice
from his home state, Nebraska, an
Oklahoma, he will be ready to pre-
claim thaf tho caUontoa0th mandy, or
to the constitution is operative.
Three United States senators,
former vice president of the Unite
States, the governor of Illinois, thre
former governors, nearly the entil
membership of the Illinois legisl
ture and many prominent citizens
the state Joined in Springfield in pa
ing tribute to the memory of Stepht
A Douglas on the one hundredth a
niversary of his birthday.
Jack Johnson, the negro pugili.
was fined $1,000 by Judge Carpent
in the United States district court
Chicago after charges of smuggli
q $4,000 necklace had been dropp
and the heavyweight champion h
pleaded nolle contender to chrages
concealing from federal officials t
fact that he had the jewelry in |
possession. The necklace was
clared forfeited to the governme
and probably will be sold at aucti,
Immigration officials at Philad
phia we're startled when Rudol
Gertzen, a German farmer, in reply
the question as to whether or not
had $25, which is necessary before
migrants can land, carelessly pulled
OF his pocket $4,000.
BY a strict party vote the sen
sinance committee decided finally t
no hearings would be given upon
tariff bill when it reaches the sen
Hugo Krause, superintendent
the anti-cruelty society of Chic;
has begun a crusade against the
miscuous sale of incubator chicks
downtown department stores