Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-04-25

Hot Springs, Ark, suffered $50,OGt
damage recently from the worst foot
in years.
Uncle Joe Cannon, wearing a new
grey felt hat, is in Washington on his
first visit as private citizen in near
ly forty years.
The Citizens State bank at Priest
Idaho, was robbed of $4,000.
Just before inspection drill, Lieuten
ant Bahagdin, N. Y. N. G., had his
quartermaster sergeant sworn in as
a deputy sheriff.
There is as yet no conclusive evil
dence that the friedman treatment
is worth a penny to any pulmonary
consumptive who is seeking an abso
lutte and positive cure.
Angered because the police have ar
rested her twice on charges Of va
grancy, Clyda Bosley, formerly q
school teacher of Des Moines, a., has
gone on a hunger strike at the city
workhouse at st. Joseph, Mo.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail-
road company was fined $4,000 by
Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violating the law prohibiting the
working OF employees more than Six
teen consecutive hours.
The Scotland Yard authorities,
London, are convinced that Joseph
Wilberforce Martin, the millionaire
cotton king of Memphis, Tenn, was
murdered and his body thrown in the
Thames.
Four soldiers of the Fourteenth
cavalry who have been held under ar
rest at Fort Clark, Tex, since Novem-
Der 9 last on murder charge, will be
turned over to the Texas courts for
trial.
AS a result of the heavy rains in the
upper part of the Missouri river val
ley, principally in South Dakota, the
river is rising at Kansas City, and
will continue to rise for the next four
or five days. A flood there is improb-
able, according to the observer.
Brooks Henderson, former United
States senator from Missouri and au-
thor of the thirteenth amendment to
the United States constitution, died
at hospital in Washington from a
of disorders. He was sc
years old.
Militant suffragists who destroy
property should be placed in insane
asylums instead of jails, as their ac-
lions indicate nervous arrangement.
This statement is made in the current
issue of the Journal of the American
Medical association, Chicago
The Minnesota house passed the
compensation bill already
passed by the senate, providing $40 a
week benefit for workmen disabled
while performing their duty. The bill
now goes to the governor for his sig
nature.
Great Britain has no intention of
following the lead of Washington in
recognizing the Republic of China,
the house of commons was informed
by Francis Dyke Acland, parlia-
mentary under secretary of foreign
affairs, speaking on behalf of the for
eign Office.
Definite plans for the construction
Of one of the biggest and most expen-
sive hotels in the world are said to
have been completed for Chicago's
down town district. The new hos
telry is to cost 100000, and will be
Quilt at the southeast corner of Clark |
and Madison streets.
Fire that destroyed four large |
buildings and caused a loss estimated |
1t 100000 in the Kansas state peni- |
entiary at Lansing, Kan, was spread |
~ convicts who scattered burning |
papers in buildings not in the path |
# the flames, according to a state |
nent by Fire Chief Michael Bahler OF |
For the third time in his reign, |
King Alfonso of Spain narrowly es-
,aped being the victim of an an
lrchistic attempt against his life.
Three shots were fired at the king in
he streets of the capital by native
" Barcelona, Rafael Sanchez Allegro,
Who was Immediately overpowered.
rhe king was not injured.
A new policy in filing vacancies in
he position of irrigation manager and
assistant has been adopted by Secre-
airy Lane of the interior department
~ which these positions hereafter
will be filled through civil service
examinations, instead of
~ advancement Of men connected
With the construction of irrigation
works.
Albert c. Frost, former president
nd promoter of the Alaska Central
abroad, and his four co-defendants,
,eorge M. Seward. Pierre G. Beach,
rank Watson and George C. Ball, all
Interested in the development of the
cad, were found not guilty in the fed
raj court in Chicago of conspiracy
o obtain illegally millions of dollars
worth of coal lands in the Matanuska
Talley, Alaska.
Miss Belle Sans of Pasadena, Cal,
vas the victim of a peculiar series
If accidents, all occurring within the
space of a couple Of seconds. While
Washing dishes Miss Sans dropped a
cup tureen on her foot, breaking one
Il the bones. She put out an arm to