Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
DOMESTIC.

Atlantic coast are likely to be rec
commended within a short time by
Secretary Daniels.
Philadelphia has thirteen play
grounds. Last year they were en-
joyed by 1,371,315 persons.
Mrs. Loretta Ayers Ward obtained
a divorce in the circuit court at St.
Louis from William A. Ward, socialist
candidate for governor of Missouri
last fall.
The steel steamship Dolphin of the
Alaska Steamship company, went
ashore near Alert bay, B. c., on her
first trip for this season to south
eastern Alaska.
The magnificent auditorium pres
ented to the University of Michigan
as a memorial to the late Arthur
Hill was formally dedicated in con-
nection with the alumni day celebra-
ton at the university.
An adequate American navy means
q fleet second only to that of Great
Britain, and 'inadequacy is an invita-
tin to war" in the opinion of Admiral
Dewey, ranking naval officer of the
United States.
President Wilson has approved the
recommendation of Secretary Daniels
that no applications for retirement Of
naval officers be favorably acted upon
unless such officers had had twenty
years service.
George Townsend, wealthy Chicago
railway promoter and brother of Con-
gresham Edward Townsend of New
Jersey, committed suicide by throw
ing himself into the river at Kansas
City, Kas.
1 President Wilson has approved the
plan negotiated by Attorney General
McReynolds and the railroad attor-
neys for the dissolution of the Union
Pacific merger under the Sherman
antitrust law.
Official figures, recently compiled,
place the cement production of the
United States last year at S3,351, 191
barrels, which is new high record
and an increase of more than g.
100000 barrels in year.
Following the discovery of the ma
ked body of a 12-year-old girl in
trunk at the union station at Ogden,
Mrs. Augusta Ekman of Salt Lake
City, the mother, confessed to killing
her daughter. She is under arrest.
Officials of the Toledo Museum of
Art have refused to deliver to En-
sign Lowry, sent from Annapolis by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, the
Commodore Perry flag bearing the
inscription, Don't give up the ship"
State officials and representatives
from the railroads operating in Mime
sofa will meet with the railway and
warehouse commission of Minnesota
to discuss plans for putting into
operation the state rate held valid by
the United States supreme court.
Uncle Ben Wallace, reputed to be
the wealthiest circus man in the
world, forever quit the show business,
when his controlling interest in the
Hagenbeck-Wallace shows was trans.
ferred to newly formed corporation
known as the United States Amuse.
ment company.
Charles Ecranbrack, the Santa Bar.
bara carpenter, who wrote a letter
offering United States Senator D.
Works $1,000 if the senator would
procure for him the appointment as
postmaster at Santa Barbara, pleaded
guilty in the federal district court to
the indictment charging him with an
attempt to bride a public officer.
John Ennis, 70 years old, who
started out some days ago to defeat
Edward P. Weston, the veteran walk
er, on a hike from New York to Min
neapolis, is seriously i'll at his home
at Stamford, Conn.,, and physicians
tear he may not recover.
George Hudson Of Winefield, Kan,
who is 81 years old. is living in q
house which he himself recently built
unassisted.
Seven railroads operating in Mime.
sofa have agreed to abide by the
terms Of the recent decision OF the
United States supreme court in the
Minnesota rate cases.