Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-13
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Personal, Political, Foreign and Other
Intelligence Interesting to the
General Readers.
CONGRESS.

Lobby investigating committee mas
begun the holding of open hearings.
Finance subcommittee are contln-
ming their work on tariff schedules.
Pacific islands committee held hear
lngs on Gronna bill to make Hawaii
''dry," but took no action.
The senate has passed the Tillman
bill to commission naval academy
graduates to staff corps or marine
corps.
Senator Martin introduced concur
rent resolution to suspend until &C
ton by congress, customs district con-
sOlidation order.
The judiciary committee has acted
favorably on O'Gorman bill allowing
chief Justice to assign federal judges
to circuits other than their own.
Representative Murdoch has intro
duced a bill for naturalization COM
mission to investigate. recommend
and redraft bills in interest of ad-
mitted aliens.
Senator O'Gorman has introduced
a bill to create a national commission
on prison labor to study prison labor
question and recommend uniform
Legislation.
Representative Hinebaugh has in
troduced resolution to direct Inter-
state Commerce commission to inves-
tigate St. Louis & San Francisco
railroads managing for the last year.
A resolution to amend the constitu-
ton SO as to empower congress to
prevent polygamy in all states and
and territories was introduced by
Representative Gillette of Massachu'
sets.
Domestic.
Pennsylvania in 1912 produced A.
4O2,251 tons of Bessemer steel.
Repair of streets damaged by the
flood in Hamilton, O., cost $4,000.
Negotiations by the Mexican govern
ment of a foreign loan of approx
mately 500, 10000 have been complet.
ed. 4sssa wa.
Four hundred are reported killed in
q battle Saturday between Chiluahau
City and Santa Rosalia, chihuahua
state.
Edward M. Campbell of Birming-
ham, Ala, has been sworn in as chief
Justice of the United States court of
claims.
Thaddeus Austin Thomson of Aus.
tin, Tex. has been nominated by
President Wilson to be minister to
Colombia.
Secretary Lane has appointed John
+. Murray of California agent in the
Indian service to study the methods
OF instruction at Indian schools.
Fire caused by lighting destroyed
the barns of the Tri-City Railway
Company at Rock Island, ILL.,, to-
gether with forty cars, causing loss
Of 100000.
A dozen American owners OF ranch
and mine property in northern Mexico
will present complaints of conditions
in Mexico to Secretary Bryan on June
10 at Washington.
Workmen engaged in cleaning up
the foundation walls of the old state
OVuS0 dL JOlCl oOn Slty, 1NO., uuOdl LII
ed deck Of playing cards that were
IN a perfect state of preservation.
Meats and flour will not 60 on the
free list in the democratic tariff law
II the recommendation of the senate
finance subcommittee in charge Of
the agricultural schedule, is accepted
Five hundred girls in their early
teens, pupils in the eighth grade of
the Cleveland public schools have be-
gun practical study of infant hy-.
giene with real live babies to expert
ment upon.
Fred Novels, chief clerk of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company for five
years at Oklahoma City, Okl, was ar.
rested in Los Angeles, Cal, on a
charge Of having embezzled $500
from that corporation.
Laws requiring production Of health
certificates by applicants for marriage
licenses, and the teaching of sex by.
giene, were urged at conference at
Washington recently Of prominent So
ciety women and sociological workers.
Attorney General McReynolds has
received from the Union Pacific cop.
les of it's plans for the dissolution of
the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
merger. He will begin an analysis
to determine the governments atti.
tude.
Violence followed the Inauguration
Of strike at Boston by several hun.
dred BARRIERS and bootblacks. During
q parade in the north end the strikers
stoned shops that still were doing
business and many windows were
broken.
New Orleans keeps warm under a
municipal debt of $43,00O,OO0. Los An.
geles owes $S2,283, 900 and San Fran
cisco $19,O00,000.
Thomas P. Kane, acting controller
of the currency, has abandoned the
compulsory annual meetings of nation
al bank examiners at their own ey
pense