Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-03-21

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army posts.
The first territorial legislature is
in session in Juneau, Alaska.
Reports from Rome are to the ef
feet that the condition of Pope Plus
is improved.
President Wilson has accepted the
resignation Of William Marshall Bull
lit as solicitor general.
A seat on the New York Stock ex
change was sold recently for $4,000
the lowest price recorded since 1900
Springtime weather, with fair
skies and normal temperatures, il
promised for the coming week to all
| sections of the country by the wealth.
er bureau.
Governor Ralston of Indiana signed
the joint resolution which ratifies the
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton providing for direct election Of
United States senators.
United States circuit court has de-
clared the Eastern States Lumber
Dealers association to be an illegal
combination.
Acceptance by President Woodrow
Wilson of the honorary presidency of
the American Peace and Arbitration
league has been announced by the
league.
Burglars secured about $4,000
worth of rugs, oil paintings and other
furnishings from the home of Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the au-
thor, at Plandome, l.. l.
More than $4,000 women in Chicago
are receiving a salary of IS or less per
week, according to reports made by
the investigators of the senate white
slave commission.
New York health authorities have
given DR.. F. F. friedman of Berlin
permission to test the treatment
which he claims is a cure for tubercu-
losis.
It is learned that one of the first
philanthropic acts of Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson since she became first lady of
the land is gift of $500 to Goucher
college at Baltimore.
The governments 100000 claim
against Chicago packers and others
for taxes alleged due on colored oleo-
margarine sold as uncolored has been
compromised by Secretary MacVeagh
for $101,10O
The Rock Island has created a new
Office, that of horticulturist and agri.
culturist, and appointed E. r. Ben
nett, professor of agriculture of the
Agricultural College of Colorado, as
the head.
For nearly half an hour a force of
sixty Mexican soldiers engaged six
teen United States troopers Of the
Ninth cavalery under Lieutenant Mic
haelson on the international boundary
line at Douglas, Ariz., until probably
six of the Mexicans had been killed.
During the period of competition,
or before the International Harvester
came into existence, the
price Of binders dropped approx
mately 5000, but since 1902 the price
has advanced about SIS, and the i'm.
in the binder have not
been SO great as prior to that time.
After April / the Isthmaian Canal
will place obstacles in
the way of employees intending to
bring their families to the isthmus by
the present reduced
rates of transportation. This action
is rendered necessary by reason OF
the serious congestion in the EN-.
ployes' quarters in towns in the ca
nal zone
Edward Hillman, general manager
of the Chicago department store that
bears his name, declared before the
Illinois senate commission on white
slavery that low wages is one of the
chief contributory causes to the fall
of women and he named So weekly
as the minimum upon which girl
might support herself without undue
strain.