Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-21


A report of Illinois some time ago
stated that in the last twenty years
| 10000 country churches in Illinois mad
closed their doors.
Both houses OF the Missouri legislat'
ure took recess Of thirty minutes
while DR.. Anna Shaw spoke on woman
suffrage.
The German and Dutch steamship
lines announced that the steerage rate
from Europe to Canada would be cut
to $50 instead of $40.
Sixteen are dead, including twelve
miners and four mine guards, as the
result of a desperate battle in the
Kanawha county, w. Va, coal fields
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement OF the con-
dition of all national banks OF the
United States at the close OF business
of Tuesday, February 4.
| A great national park in Colorado,
| to be known as the Rocky Mountain
park, is proposed in bill introduced
by Representative Ruckar of Colo
RADIO.
Fire which started in the Carret OF
| the Star hotel at Dolan, S. D., burned
eleven buildings in the business part
of the town before being brought
under control. The estimated loss is
SOS, 900.
The national chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president and senate of the United
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1908.
w. B. Hogan, accused OF swinding.
who escaped from the detention hos
pital at Sioux City, Ia, while suffer-
ing with virulent case of smallpox,
was caught at Sac City, Ia, by
Sheriff J. w. Crisis of Sac county.
A bill to discourage divorce seek
ers from going to Nevada, by extend
ing the period of residence from six
months to one year passed the as
sembly by a vote of 80 to rs. 1t is
made effective January 1. 1914,
An important milestone toward the
passed recently at meeting held by
the Fellows of the Royal Geographical
society in London, when it was decid-
ed that in future women would be
eligible as fellows of the society.
In more ways than one, the war in
the Balkans has brought France ad-
vantages, millions of French capital
will be invested in the victorious
states which will set to work imme-
diately to develop the resources OF
their newly acquired territories.
The soil of a great portion of Ger
many is little but sand and it has
been titled for centuries, but on this
poor land German farmers are today
raising in some crops more than twice
as many bushels per acre as the
American farmer, and in all crops
from 60 to 80 per cent more.
Details of the wreck of the schooner
Granada on the bar at the entrance tc
Colorado river, received at Bluefields
Mic, say that twenty persons were
drowned. OF the fifteen passengers
most important citizens of the repub-
lie.
Whether the six-year single presi-
Dental term constitutional amend
ment shall be presented to the public
as it recently passed the senate, or
be substituted by the Clayton resolu-
ton, the house judiciary committee
was unable to decide. The question is
to come up in the house later
A definite line OF action to do
away with the middleman and build
up a cooperative system whereby
farm products may be sold and de-
livered by the producer to the con-
sumner was adopted at recent ses-
sion of the fortieth annual convention
of the New York state grange.
About 100000 was spent last year
by fraternal organizations, labor un-
ions and insurance companies in spe-
cial funds for the treatment of their
tuberculosis members and policyhold.
ers, according to statement issued
by the National Association for the
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Eighteen miles OF copper wirs
leading from the power station at
Needles to the gold mines at Tom
Reed has been stolen and eight tons
of it shipped to Los Angeles, &C.
cording to a report to the sheriff.
Even the poles were taken by the
thieves. The wire was of heavy
copper, valued at $1,000 per mile.
According to an agreement reached
between the attorney general of the
United States and counsel for the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific the
latter road will turn over to the Union
Pacific the railroad known as the Gen.
trail Pacific, which connects Ogden,
Utah, with San Francisco, thus giving
the Overland through line to the
coast from Omaha.
Herman Rosenthal's one-time part
ner in gambling picked up the brok-
en- threads of Rosenthal's story and
told the aldermanic committee investi-
eating graft in New York, a tale OF
money paid for police protection
eclipsing that of Jack Rose, Charles
Beckers collector. For seventeen
years, James Purcell said, he had paid
for the privilege of running gam