Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-03-14

The government mas aWdrueu LILO
contract for building the battleshlp
Pennsylvania.
United States civil service examine
! lions for different positions Will pc
held throughout the country during
the spring.
Mrs. Mabel Mills of San Antonio
Texas, was recently robbed OF $45'
500 in Chicago.
| Exposure, hunger and, worst OF all,
thirst, killed Ernest Sutton OF Denver
in the Devils Canyon Of Arizona.
Moving picture men, testifying for
the government in New YORK, de-
scribed operations of the moving
picture trust" in opposing the bust
ness of an independent company.
The department of state at Wash
ington has authorized Ambassador
Herrick to lease new Offices for the
American embassy at Rue Challlot,
France.
A memorial to congress suggesting
the annexation of Sonora and Lower
California to the United States was
introduced in the Arizona state SEN
ate recently.
An engagement of fifty-two years
will be eliminated at La Crosse, WIS.,,
with the marriage of John knight, ~,
and Lydia Reed. sc, of alberta, Mich.
The couple became engaged in 1861.
The governments 100000 claim
against Chicago packers and others
for taxes alleged due on colored oleo-
margarine sold as uncolored has been
compromised by Secretary MacVeagh
for $101,1O0.
| Arrested for a series of small for
geries, A. j. Helm, founder and for
mer president of loose leaf DOCK
manufacturing company of Milwaukee,
gouged out both of his eyes in self
punishment.
Unless congress interferes, the Or
ganization of the customs service Will
be revolutionized beginning July 1.
sent message to congress announc-
ing the redistricting of the service.
| Representative of the bathtub trust
| convicted Of criminal conspiracy in re-
straint of trade have given notice that
they will pay the fines imposed on
them if the government will cancel
second criminal indictment.
The first week of Huerta's admins
tration in Mexico has seen notable
improvements in the general situa-
ton, but it is apparent that many
weeks must pass before complete Or
! der is restored.
Leading 22-year-old donkey and
wearing a khaki uniform, B. H. An
derson of Butler, Pa, left for Portland
| to settle an election bet made on
Theodore Roosevelt by walking from
| that city to Portland, Ore.
The Rock Island has created a new
office, that of horticulturist and agri-
culturist, and appointed E. R. Ben
nett, professor of agriculture Of the
Agricultural College of Colorado, as
the head.
| Dannie Claire, last year with Des
Moines in the Western league and
signed by Sioux City in the same
league for 1918, is in Jail at Grand
Rapids, Mich, On indictment under
the Mann white slave act.
BY a vote of PA to IS the house
repassed over President Taft's veto,
the Webb bill, prohibiting shipments |
of Intoxicating liquors into dry |
states" The senate passed it over
the veto and the bill now becomes
law.
Thomas and Robert Holmes who |
are believed to be the oldest twins in
the west, celebrated their eighty-first
birthday at Long Beach, Calf. Both
are in good health and spirits. The
twins Jointly held the Office of post
master at Albion, Wis, for thirty-cne
years.
The Indiana senate has passed the
house corrupt practices act bill,
which makes it crime in Indiana for
newspaper to publish 'any article
or cartoon" tending ito expose to ridi-
Guile, hatred or contempt any person
at any election, and providing fine
of from $500 to $1,000 and imprison-
ment for not more than year for
each offense.
For half an hour after he had killed
George E. Marsh, an aged manufac-
turer of Lynn, Mass, William A. Dorr
drove up and down the Lynn boule-
ward with the body propped up beside
him in the single seat of his runabout.
SPORT.
So widespread has become the in
terest in golf and so many it's devo-
tees that courses have been built in
nearly every part of the civilized
world within the last few years.