The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-12-08
WORLD In BRIEF

, oPeeulHS duIOlSCS 90 Tor every mlll
they violate The speed limit law.
Calumet-Air blasts, or local earth
quakes, killed two mel in the lamar
> ack ME, a mile below the surface.
Terre Haute.-Thomas Marshal
sneezed SO violently here recent,
that he cracked a RIB and had tc
have a doctor.
st. Paul.-Estate of Chester A
Congdon, republican national com
mitteeman from Minnesota, who died
recently, is estimated at $4,000, 900.
ChicagO.-When Joseph Mitchler,
an aged man, was told by his land
lady to take a bath, he went to his
room and shot himself through the
head.
Denver.-1n the flour bin of an
aged widow who died recently in ap-
parent want was found hidden a roll
of bills in which there was about
$4,000.
London.-A hospital ship, bearing
the Red Cross flag, laden with
wounded, was torpedoed and sunk
In the Aegean sea. All on board
were saved.
London.-The n~o-,reating order in
England is proving a failure, ard
control of the liquor question is to
be taken from the board which put
It into effect.
I'll Paso.-Villa, dead ad buried a
few weeks ago, is sufficiently alive
to drive the Carranza forces from
C%hlhuahua, ad his forces are sweep
ing to the north.
Quincy, lll.-The second big dye
manufacturing plant in the United
States has been opened here. Orders
nave been booked for more than
100000 worth of dyes.
San FranciscO.-A miner who had
not seen a newspaper for II years
came into Marysville, Cal, for sup
plies, and was d~umbiounded to learn
there is a war in Europe.
London.-The Earl of Derby, pre-
sumably speaking with authority,
says the allies will give the consider
alton they deserve to any peace pro-
posals coming from Germany.
Washington. - Railroads Of the
northwest have agreed to aid the
compaign for relief of the country
wide car shortage by putting about
$500 of their ore cars in the coal
carrying service.
London.-Father Bernard Vaughn,
the most famous Roman Catholic
prelate in Great Britain, says that
unless the allies are resolved to fight
until victory is theirs, it were better
they had never fought at all.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Stella, a meat
vendor, lost a 5O-cenL piece the other
day and it cost him $500 to recover
1T. The coin in question was swal-
lowed, and in the recovery cost is in
cluded the bill of the per-
forming the operation that was made
necessary.
Seattle.-Daniel Getchell, one of
the earliest millers in Minneapolis,
dropped dead here while on a visit
to his daughter. He was ~ years
old. Mr.. Getchell arrived in Mime
apolis in 1854 from Machias, Maine,
and packed the first barrel of flour
that was shipped out of the city.
Minneapolis.-The gallery of the
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
has been closed to visitors by order
OF the board of directors. 1t is said
that this action was taken because
a number of Minneapolis women
speculate in grain and have been u.s.
ing the public gallery TO obseroe
prices.
Chicago.-The good policeman of
today is a gentleman-polite and
alert to his duty, Inspector Cornell S
r. Cahalane of the New York police
department told 200 police %sergeants
of the Chicago department. He
urged them to remember 1.-The tough
guy policeman is no longer a success /
in larger cities,
Reno-Henry Anderson, who owns
a ranch in Washoe county, New, has
his cattle herded by a flying machine.
Once each day his COW aviator flies
over the range to find the cattle and
observe their cond ton. Mr.. Ander-
son paid $4,000 for the aeroplane
and already believes it will be worth
a dozen cowboys to him in time.
Williamson, N. D.-Physicians of
northwestern North Dakota and
northeastern Montana have associat-
ed themselves as the Kotana Medi-
cal association. Sheridan and Rich
land counties of Montana are repre-
sented. The name of the association
is a composite of significant syllables
in the names of the two states.
Cleveland.-Leopold Moll is very
proud of his long, Nikink mustache.
other day he was on the street
car. A drunken passenger mistook
his dropping mustache end for the
bell rope. He pulled it. A fight fol-
lowed, and Moll was considerably
mussed up. He sued the company,
and the court decided against him.
Seattle-When Henry Sharpnack's
will was read it stipulated that every
person who attended his funeral was
to receive 81. A canvass of those
attending the funeral was made, and
it was found that only rs quasi
mourners followed his body to it's