Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-03-21


A Vienna dispatch to the London
Express reports the drowning OF
siNty-eight women by the swapping
of a boat on Lake Scutari.
Canteens will not be restored to
army posts,
Reports from Rome are to the eff
feet that the condition of Pope Plus
is improved.
Because his negro chauffeur was
fined for speeding, Governor Blease of
South Carolina threatened to put the
city Of Columbia under martial law.
Nearly 100 constitutionalist SYM
pathizers crossed to Aqua Prieta from
Douglas, Arizona and took peaceful
possession of the town.
S~pringtime weather, with fair
skies and normal temperatures, is
promised for the coming week to all
sections of the country by the wealth.
er bureau.
The threatened strike of all the Lon
don bakers has been averted, The
men asked for higher wages, better
conditions and shorter hours. The
board Of trade has interviewed.
Governor Ralston of Indiana signed
the joint resolution which ratifies the
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton providing for direct election of
United States senators.
Acceptance by President Woodrow
Wilson of the honorary presidency OF
the American Peace and Arbitration
league has been announced by the
league. Z
More than $4,000 I'M in Chicago
are receiving a salary of S. or less per
week, according to reports made by
the investigators of the senate white
slave commission.
Clarence S. Darrow's second trial
on a jury bribery charge ended by a
disagreement of the jury at Los An
| geles. Eight jurors were for conyic-
ton: four held out for acquittal.
Acting Governor Oldham signed the
legislative act at Little Rock, repeal
ing the Arkansas antitrust law. The
repeal of the law permits any foreign
corporation to engage in business in
the state so long as the foreign con-
cern does not seek to regulate prices
within the state.
Franklin X. Lane, secretary Of the
interior, has been made an Indian
chief. He had bestowed upon him
recently the title OF Lone Chief" by
a delegation of Blackfeet Indians
from Montana, who called to present
him with a pipe Of peace and a buck
skin tobacco bag.
A working woman needs $3.50 a
week to support herself in Milwaukee.
This is the opinion expressed by the
social service of the Milwaukee Fed
Grafton Of Charities in a report made
public. The committee urges young
ONE who expect to support them
selves to keep away from the city.
The Independent Harvester COM
pany, capitalized at $40, 200, 900, with
a plant at Plano, ILL.,, with stock most
~ held by farmers, is being investi-
gated by the p~ostoffice department.
Stockholders have complained that
Sc, 200, 900 or $1,000, 900 in stock has
been sold, whereas, they assert, the
assets of the company do not exceed
over 81, ZOO, 900.
After April 1 the Isthmaian Canal
commission will place obstacles in
the way of employees intending to
bring their families to the isthmus by
Withdrawing the present reduced
rates OF transportation. This action
is rendered necessary by reason Of
the serious congestion in the en-
ployes' quarters in towns in the ca
nal 0
Edward Hillman, general manager
of the Chicago department store that
bears his name, declared before the
Illinois senate commission on white
slavery that low wages is one of the
chief contributory causes to the fall
of ome and he named So weekly
as the minimum upon which a girl
might support herself without undue
strain.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels has
announced that he would seek to have
the incoming congress extend the
provision of the law of 1908, author.
izing the appointment of two mid
shipmen to the naval academy every
four years by each senator, represen
tative and delegate in congress. This
law expires this year and unless il
is extended the number of appoint
ments to the academy will be cut in
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