The Brinkley argus., 1913-12-12


 Murray of Oklahoma was a measure to close the mails to the transmission of quotations on stocks dealt in on margins. It adds one more to the list of bills hitting at the stock exchanges
 Private advices from Mexico City stated that the Mexican branch of the Wells Fargo Express company, in re- turn for concessions, had loaaed Huerta 75o,ooo pesos ($375.oo0).
 President Huerta's agents in Lon don received notification, from the Mexican capital that the provisional president intends to immediately transfer the seat of government from Mexico City to Iguala, state of Guer- re-o.
 By an overwhelming vote the house adopted the Hensley resolution re- Questing President Wilson, so far as he can do so with due regard for the interests of the United States, to CO operate with the suggestion of Win ston Churchill, lord of the British ad- miralty for an international naval hol- iday of one year.
 Dispatched received from Ciudad Porfirio Daaz, opposite Eagle Pass, Tex Indicate that the Carranzita movement has completely paralyzed coal mining in the northern part of Coahuila. All this immense coal min ing district is deserted and not 2 pound of coal has been extracted since last February.
 Arthur and Harry James, brothers. and Thomas Daily, strikeibreakers, were killed and Mary Nicholson seri- ously injured by rifle bullets fired into the apartment house in which they lived at Calumet. Mich.
 Figures made public by the general manager of the Armour Packing com pany at Omaha show that the pack CTS are selling beef ribs and Joins to retailers at reduction of 25 per cent from last years prices.
 
 Poor pay in the government service is sending many scientific experts out side for employment. according to George Otis, director of the United States geological survey, in his an nual report.
 Admiral Enrique Howard, president of the supreme council of war and marine of Argentine, died at Buenos Ayres.
 Reorganization of the department of agriculture IS foreshadcwed in Ses- retary Houston's first annual report presented to President Wilson. Fifty persons, mostly negroes, are reported drowned at Sunnyside, Tex, a small town on the Lower Brazos river.
 A death roll of more than 50 per sons, which likely will reach 60, was indicated by reports from the flooded Brazos river bottoms of south central Texas.
 Forty-six lives were lost by the laundering of the Swedish steamer Malmberget off Bodo, Norway. The steamer left Narvik, Norway. Nov. 2 for Rotterdam.
 The right of women to sit as judges and clerks of election in Chicago next spring will be challenged, it was an nounced from both Republican and Democratic sources. Right Rev. Rafael Amador. Bishop 1 of Huajapam de Leon, Mexico, was re ceiyed in private audience by the pope. The pope took great interest { in the bishops report on conditions ir Mexico.
 John Stewart, S8 years old, multi millionaire of Elburn, H., who desires 1 to have every one of his grandchil dren millionaire before he dies and himself to die poor, has donated s50,000 to the Lincoln Highway asso | citation
 By a unanimous vote the striking ! coal miners in the southern Colorado coal fields formally rejected the strikt | settlement proposition made to then ! by Gov. Ammons.
 The radicals ruled the Republican state conference in New York ant forced the approval of direct state l wide primary law. State Chairman 1 William Barnes motion to reaffirn ] the more conservative primary planl l in the Republican platform was de feated by a vote of 191 to lS1 With their steamship burning un der them, 1s7 passengers of the Rtt Grande, bound from New York t 1 Brunswick, Ga. sat for hours In tn life boats as they swung rom n davits before they were rescued T what is considered one of the mos remarkable feats of the HatterA ! coast:
 The Indians of South Dakota ar predicting there will be no winter ! this season. Freak December weathe prevails all over the Dakotas, wit warm rains and uie thermometer vel above freezing.