Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-01-07

Sweden Is experiencing the sever
est cold of the last $50 years. The
temperature at some points has fallen
to 81 degrees below zero.
Resolutions favoring a non-partisan
tariff commission were adopted by the
National Association of Master Bakers
at special meeting at Chicago.
City Attorney Ewing filed suits
against five former Nashville, Tenn,
city officials and their bondsmen for
the recovery of $290,555, alleged to be
due the city.
Quarantine against livestock ship
ments from Illinois and New York
has been re-established. according to
announcement of the state livestock
board in Denver.
County officials at Klamath county,
Oregon, raised the bounty on dead
coyotes to 1915 in campaign by
Oregon, California, Idaho and Nevada
authorities to stamp out rabies in the
adjoining counties of the several
states.
White and negro friends of the late
Booker T. Washington, negro educa-
tor, have started a popular subscrip-
ton for the purchase of building and
site in Chicago which will be named
the Booker T.. Washington memorial
and used as a social center and in
dustrial training school for negro
children of that city.
Formulation of the requests of rail.
way engineers, firemen and trainmen
for an eight-hour day and time and
half for overtime was completed by
the committee having the matter in
charge at Chicago. The requests will
be mailed to the brotherhood members
for their approval. Result of the vote
will not be known before January 10.
NNu6Ic SS Has UGOu dShOu " upQlO-
pirate $500 to purchase the suit CT
clothes Abraham Lincoln wore the
night of his assassination at Ford's
theater in 1865. Representative Rob-
erts of Massachusetts,, has introduced
bill to acquire the relic, owned by
WASHINGTON man. for the Lincoln me-
mortal.
SPORTING.
Richie Mitchell, Milwaukee light
weight boxer, outpointed Bonnie Pal
mer of Memphis in ten-round bout
in Milwaukee.
After several weeks Of conferences,
baseball officials we're forced to admit
that peace between the Federal league
and organized baseball is far from
being consummated.
The Denver Revolver club team
finished second, with 1872 points, in
the military revolver match Of the
United States revolver association in
New York City. The event was won
by the Pennsylvania state police
team, with 75s points.
Mike Gibbons of st. Paul, MINI,
and Young Ahearn of Brooklyn have
been offered the date of January Is
by the management of the Capital
City Athletic club of st. Paul, for
| the ten-round fight scheduled original
ly for December 10, but which was
postponed because of Gibbons illness.
The base pail "war," which for
| more that two years has been in pro-
gross between the Federal leagues--a-
Organized Base Ball, the National 'ahd'
American, and all minor leagues con-
Quoted under supervision of the Ma
tional commission, ended when men,
bers of both organizations signed
peace protocol which brought to an
end the career of the Federal league
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
In a detailed report the statewide
vice commission of Baltimore named
by Governor Goldborough in January,
1913, shows there are institutions in
Baltimore to which the mother OF an
Legitimate child may consign her Off
spring upon the payment Of an agreed
sum and forever rid herself of
it. OF the hundreds of children SO
taken in charge by the institutions the
commission AYERS that 80 to 80 per
cent die and are buried in small plots
of grounds, one such plot, fifty-five
feet square, having been the tomb of
| 5000 babies since 1886.