Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-30

Boston has an army of 1875 ca the
city pay roll
Ogden, Utah, is installing street rup-
bish cans this season.
Miss Frances A. Shaw, for thirty
years a resident of Minneapolis and
widely known as en- author, is dead.
Wuchang, China may soon establish
a municipal electric light plant.
New Orleans refuses to permit cloth
streamers across streets in future.
One hundred and sixty undesirable
saloons were refused license IN Bal
,imore.
Maryland expects to complete 500
miles of new state roads system this
year.
Chicago reports the formation of a
new mail order house, capitalized at
$S,000,o00.
The City of New York owns $500
parcels of land. valued at 81
300.000,OO0.
New York is passing the hat for
$50 900 to finance Fourth OF July
celebration.
The telephone wires Of the United
States are long enough to make Afty
lines to the moon.
Work on foundations for Missourrs
new $3,5O0,0O0 state capitol building
has begun in Jefferson City.
Nearly 10000 miles of moving PIC
ture films are annually produced by
ten firms in the United States
More than 80 per cent OF Callror-
MAS orange crop escaped the dlsast-
rous frosts of few weeks ago.
"Coil-Oil Johnny" is reported visit
ing his boyhood friends in Pennsylva-
MIA. Johnny is now in his seventeen
year.
The Italian losses in the recent en-
gagement with Arabs at Sidi Garba
numbered seventy-nine killed and 2o3
wounded.
Trinity Church corporation, New
York, has a tenant in one OF lts
houses who is the mother of twenty
four children.
Rum is now imported into prohi
bition Maine in powder form, the con-
signee preparing the drink by the ad-
dition of fluid.
The Wisconsin legislature has ap-
proved the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for the inita'
tive and referendum.
Paul Acken, a mine foreman and Dr.
c. B. Jones are dead at Johnston, Pa.'
the result of an electric feed wire
crossing telephone line.
The back stamping OF all mail ex-
cept registered and special delivery
letters was ordered discontinued py
the Postofice department.
Japan bought more than S5,OOo,ooO
worth of electrical machinery and
supplies last year, most OF whlch
came from the United States.
Because his touring car would not
run Walter Guertin of Kankakee, ILL.,,
chopped it to pieces with an ak and
sold it as junk. He got $25 for it.
Special elections for the submission
of initiated or referred laws are not
permitted under the Arizona constitu-
ton, according to Attorney General
Billiard.
A branch of the women's welfare
department of the National Civic
Federation is soon to be formed at
Pittsburgh, the initiative step having
already been taken.
Near Boston an engineer obtains
electric power for his extensive SUBJ
urban estate by means of a windmill
which is close copy of the most mod
ern steam turbine.
Mrs. Jennie Shelly Boyd OF Colo
RADIO Springs, who will be one of the
commissioners of that city, will be
the first woman in the country to have
part in the government of city OF
that size.
Mount Vernon, home of George
Washington, viii remain closed to WIS.,
itors on Sundays as heretofore as the
result of resolutions adopted by the
council of regents of the Mount Yer
non association.
Conferences between representa-
tives of the Cincinnati Traction COM
pany and leaders of the striking
street Garments union ended in an
agreement by which the strike was