Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-28

The price OF Oil has been adVance'
in the North Lima, O., field.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pass Inspector Boyd is in Omaha test
ing the free transportation market.
Over $4,000 100000 is invested IL
the electrical business in the U. S.
April IA has been selected as the
date for beginning general strike
throughout Belgium by the Nationa
Council of Workingmen's organiza
lions.
Don Arturo Bandini, one of the last
members of distinguished Spanish
family, which traced it's history back
to Castillian days in Mexico, died in
San Francisco.
The Third cavalry at Fort Sam
Houston, has been ordered from
Washington to hold itself in READINGS:
to entrain for Galveston, prepared for
foreign service.
Scarcely a district of the capital OF
Mexico has escaped injury. Almost
everywhere shells have torn their
way through buildings. Hundreds OF
buildings attest THIS.
Denver, Colo, according to stats
tics, uses more light in proportion to
it's population than any other city In
! the country; three candle-power per
head. Boston comes next.
1t is understood the marriage OF
Princess Victoria Louise, only daugh-
ter of the German emperor, to Prince
Ernst August, son of the duke of Cum
berland, will take place in October
| next.
The Dreadnoughts Vermont and Re
| braska, with Rear Admiral Fletcher
aboard the Vermont, put in at Vera
| Cruz, bringing the total number OF
United States warships there UP to
| three.
| The national chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution calling upon the
president and senate CT the United
States to renew the arbitration treaty
made between this country and Great
Britain in 1905
Conrad Schickerling, president Of
the Shickerling Manufacturing COM
an indictment charging use OF the
mails to swindle pupils Of jewelers.
art school,
A bill providing for a minimum
wage for women passed by the Kan
sas house Of representatives fixes So
week for nine-hour day as the
minimum wage of all women workers
except domestic servants.
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
waved before the eyes Of his associ-
ate draft for S1,500.0O0, the proceeds
of a lumber deal. Back home the boys
are wondering if the old man vii run
again and give prosperity boost.
Three hundred and fifty clergymen
of New York City, representing more
than forty denominations, met at a
luncheon recently in honor of James
Bryce, who has announced his i'm
pending retirement as ambassador
from Great Britain.
Insurgent Modern Woodmen of
America from the Second congression-
al district and members of the organ
iZations executive committee at a ban
quet in Omaha decided by resolution
to renew their efforts to have the leg
islature enact what is known as the
referendum rate bill
John F. Bauer of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
who has celebrated his forty-ifth
birthday anniversary, has the dis
tinction of being the first white child
born at Hays City, Kan. Hays City
was one of the most important trad
ing posts for the Indians, and it after
ward became the leading shipping
point for cattle in the entire Panhan-
die section. Mr.. Bauer came to
Wilkes-Barre thirty years ago.
George Kittle of Palsade, Neb., filed
a complaint against E. H. Farmer
with the county attorney Saturday.
The complaint alleges that Farmer Sc
cured $62 from him by falsely repre-
senting that he was about to be ar
rested by a United States deputy mar
shall and needed that amount of money
to save him from the humiliation of
being arrested. A warrant was issued
and Farmer was arrested Wednesday
at Hastings.
A man who gave the same of D. r.
Leeper, attempted to hold up and rob
sixteen men on the street near the
Union station in Kansas City. He
was unable to keep all of them under
his eye and after emptying his re-
volver at those who attempted to es-
cape, he took to his own heels with
the men he had attempted to rob in
pursuit. One OF the highwayman's
bullets fatally wounded Francis Fitz'
gerald, a 16-year-old boy. Leeper
was captured.
Francisco l. Madero, arrested in the
national palace in Mexico City, by
General Banquet, one of his own COM
manders, was forced to sign his res
ignation from the presidency. General
Victoriano Huerta, who has been
fighting Diaz, has been proclaimed
provisional governor. Gustav Madero
and all the cabinet ministers, with
the exception of Ernesto Madero, are
under arrest. The vice president of
the republic, Jose Pine Suarez, still
is at liberty but in hiding. The
American amba SSadOr and the other