The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-03-27

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powers in six months.
A Vienna dispatch to the Lonuon
Express reports the drowning OF
sixty-eight women by the swapping
of a boat on Lake Scutari.
Reports from Rome are to the e1-
feet that the condition of Pope Plus
is improved.
Richard A. Ballinger has been APP
pointed commissioner of the General
Land Office.
Twenty persons were killed or serl'
ously injured by a destructive cyclone
at Buenos Aires. The property dam
age is very heavy.
Because his negro chauffeur was
fined for speeding, Governor Blease VI
South Carolina threatened to put the
city of Columbia under martial law.
The death list in the storm that
swept several southern states recent
ly has been raised to thirty-three. Lat
est reports of life loss came from near
Atlanta, where five were killed.
The first conviction in the district
attorneys crusade against grafters IN
the New York police department has
been obtained. John J. Hartgan, a
patrolman, was found guilty OF per-
jury.
Charles l.. Bowdery, SO years OK
age. French Canadian, who carried
the mail between Cold bay and Nusha-
gak, Alaska and who was the only
white man in the district, was MUIR
dered by Indians recently.
The supreme court Of Kansas is
sued an order ousting from office the
three city councilmen of Hunney'
we'll, Kans against whom charges
had been filed by Mrs. Ella Wilson,
the woman mayor of the town.
Parts of Georgia and Alabama are
menaced by floods as a result OF the
terrific storm that struck several
southern states recently, claiming a
death toll Of ninety. After the wind
had done it's destructive work the
rain continued.
Pellagra is more prevalent than is
sicians practicing in pellagrous COM
munities. Assistant Surgeon R. M.
Grimm of the United States public
health service says in report on the
results OF an Investigation in several
southern states.
The latest exploit of the militant
suffragettes in London is the oblitera-
ton of the names on the gate posts,
by which houses in the residential
streets are distinguished. Armed with
pots of tar and brushes they raided
the Richmond district, disfguring
many houses.
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the
interior, has been made an Indian
chief He had bestowed upon him
recently the title of Lone CHIEF by
a delegation of Blackfeet Indians
from Montana, who called to present
him with a pipe Of peace and buck,
skin tobacco bag.
Numerous protests against the ini'
tial Of" of Artist FRASER appearing
on the new nickel caused officials of
the Treasury department to declare
that this was customary on practical.
1y all the coins of the United States
and of other nations. On some foreign
coins the artists full name appears.
The Independent Harvester COM
pany, capitalized at $10,000,O00, with
a plant at Piano. Ill.,, with stock most
ly held by farmers, is being investi-
gated by the postoffice department.
Stockholders have complained that
$6,0O0,O00 Or $7O0o,000 in stock has
been sold, whereas, they assert, the
assets of the company do not exceed
over $1,000,000.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels has
announced that he would seek to have
the incoming congress extend the
provision Of the law of 1908, author
izing the appointment of two mid
shipmen to the naval academy every
four years by each senator, represen-
tative and delegate in congress- This
law expires this year and unless it
is extended the number of appoint
ments to the academy will be cut in
half