The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-04-02
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What Is Going On at Wash.
ington and In Other Sections Of
the Country.
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Kansas last yeor produced 100000
bushels of potatoes.
Indictments were returned at Chi
cago against Henry Siegel and Frank
S. Vogel, department store bankrupts
In two opinions rendered the ne
gon supreme court upheld the Oregon
minimum wage law and the ten-hour
law, both passed by the last legisla-
ture.
Cab gifts of $4,42S,000 were made
to the libraries in the United States
during 1913, according to statement
by George B. Utley, secretary of the
American Library association, at Wash.
tngton.
After several weeks of negotiating
the department of justice and the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad announced that they had
reached an agreement for a dissolu-
ton of the New Haven.
Louisville was chosen as the next
convention city and officers were elect.
ed at the last days session of the AS
sociation of Reserve City Bankers at
Cincinnati. Edward Setter of Cincin-
natl was elected president.
Charged with obtaining money I'M
der false pretences from the Fidelity
Trust company of Tacoma, Wash.
O. B. Tonder. formerly of that city,
was arrested on the steamer Alastian,
which arrived at Halifax.
Chicagos registration list was re-
duced to below $4,000 by striking off
the names of approximately 10000
persons who failed to respond to "sus-
pect" notices. More than $4,000 of
these notices were mailed, 1855 in
the First ward where there are large
number of cheap lodging houses.
Under a silken black banner, bear
ing in blood-red letters the inscrip
ton, "demolitions,' 1000 men and wo.
men-anarchists. the unemployed and
members of the industrial workers of
the world-marched up Fifth avenue
in New York for miles without wait
ing to ask the city authorities the
permit required by ordinance.
The opening of ,le legislative bat
tie for appeal of the tolls exemption
provision of the Panama canal act
was delayed by prolonged considera.
ton in the house of the rivers and
and harbors appropriation bill. Re
ed to reveal however, the intensity Of
feeling in the controversy.
James A. Gilmore and Lloyd Rick
art president and secretary of the Fed
eral league, will leave Chicago for Bal
t1AAioA . W dlCCAu ISClllISo VI llle
schedule committee. They will be
joined at Indianapolis by J. Edward
Krause and in Baltimore by r. B
Ward of Brooklyn, Ned Hanlon Of Bal
timore and Charles Williams, secre
tary of the Chicago club.
The battle of Torreon will be the
turning point in the Mexican revolu
ton, in the opinion of high admins
tration officials in Washington. Little
information is at hand as to the pre-
liminary skirmishes, but it is believed
that within few days a battle will
have been fought which will cearl,
! indicate the relative strength of tn.
| constitutionalist cause and the Huert;
! government.
Arguments favoring a bill to Civ,
the government supervision over irrl
gated lands under the Carey act wer,
presented to the house irrigation com
mittee by e. ]. Murfn of Lincoln
The hearing was held on a bill whicl
would empower the secretary of tn
interior to virtually force states hav
ing irrigation projects under tn
Carey act to insure the success of al
irrigation projects.
Six indictments were returned a
Peoria against Newton C. Doughterty
former superintendent of schools O
Peoria, charging him with forgery q
school script.
An anonymous cash gift of $4,000
has been received at New York b
the board Of foreign missions of tn
Methodist Episcopal church, to b
added to the permanent fund for tn
care of retired missionaries.
Rev. DR.. James S. Dennis D. d
long a Presbyterian Missionary
Syria, died at his home at Montclai
N. j., aged II years. He was graz