Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-14


Newton, Mass, 10 to have dental
clinic for pupils of public schools.
In McComb City, Miss, high schoo'
boys work in railroad shops on alter
nate days.
Up to the present time 404 students
have registered at the State UNIVERSE
ty at Lincoln.
August Aebin was refused citizen
ship at naturalization hearing in
| Omaha becaused he confessed having
drunk beer in Milwaukee, Wis, on
| Sunday.
Twenty-tow persons have been
killed, ten wounded and ten or fifteen
women were carried away by Mexican
rebels, who shot up train on the San
Rafael & Atlixico railroad, fifty miles
from Mexico City.
Frances E. Warren Of Wyoming
was elected to the U. S. senate at
Cheyenne for the fifth time, he hav-
ing already served twenty-four years,
by seven majority over his demo
cratic opponent.
A bandit, disguised by a handker-
chief tied over the lower part OF MS
face, robbed the safe of an express
car in Chicago and escaped with
bag of currency, thought to contain
several thousand dollars.
While playing that they were 1ndi-
ans at their home at Mulvane, Kans,
Neal Eek, twelve years old, was shot
and instantly killed by his brother
Clyde, nine years old. The boys were
playing with 22-calibre rifle.
The Eighth International Dry-Farm-
ing Congress, and the international
Products Exposition. will open in Tul-
sa, Oklahoma, on the morning OF
Wednesday, October 22nd, and close
at midnight Saturday, November LIST,
1918.
A boys cry of fire." and the smoke
from an exploded reel of a motion
picture machine in New York thea
ter resulted in panic among the
audience of 400 persons and rush
for the exits in which two women
were killed and eleven other persons
so badly injured that they had to be
sent to hospitals.
The appropriation committee Of
Pierre, S. D., submitted to the legisla-
ture it's estimate of approximate rev.
enues of the state for the next two
years at $1,0SO, 900, from general
levy of mills on an approximate val
uation of little over $300,O00,000,
which is to be basis on which to
limit appropriations.
The tinkle of tin cans which had
been hung on strips to barbed wire
entanglements around the night camp
of detachment of regular troops in
the Philippines recently prevented a
| massacre of the Americans by the
| fierce Moro tribesmen and resulted
in the complete rout of the natives,
according to the War department re.
ports.
The jury which is to hear the evil
dence in the second trial of Clarence
S. Darrow, the Chicago lawyer, for
alleged jury bribery in the McNa-
mara case has been completed at Los
Angeles. AS in the first trial it con-
sists of thirteen men, the odd member
sitting as an alternative in readiness
to take the seat of any regular juror
who may become incapacitated.
The American Sugar Refining COM
pany paid the government $500, 900
more than necessary that it might
avoid a conflict with the government
and repetition of the publicity attend
ant on the weighing fraud scandals
This was the testimony of James P.
Gerry, former employe of the Gus
toms division of the treasury depart
ment before the ways and means COM
mittee in Washington.
Destruction by fire of the wharves
of the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Co. and rice mill at Sa-
vannah, Ga, entailed loss estimated
at 81 100000.
Prominent Masons in New York,
represented by Raymond A. Kline of
Brooklyn, recently paid $1,5O0 for the
old knights Templar invitation to
President Mckinley, which was found
recently in possession of pawn
broker, who shortly after refused to
sell it to DR.. Hermanus F. Baer Of
Mount Vernon for $500. DR.. Baer is
the husband of Mabel Mckinley, who
was a niece of President Mckinley
Federal aid for vocational schools
received a substantial boost in the
United States senate by the passage
of a bill carrying $12,0OO,0OO for dis
tribution among agricultural and vo-
cational schools in the states which
are now receiving federal aid. The
bill is a substitute for measure
passed by the house of representatives
and goes back to that body for con-
currence. Three million dollars is ap-
propriated annually for the mainten-
ance of instruction in agriculture, the
trades and industries and home eco
nomics, the allotment to be made to
The states in proportion to their popu-
lation. For the maintenance of in
Btruction in trades, industries and
home economies in separate Industrial
Ind home economics schools an appro-
priation of 100000 is made to be
hpportioned to population engaged in
trades and transportation and in
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