Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-10-27
GENERAL.

Iowa troops on the Mexican border
will be allowed to vote under decis-
ion Just handed down by Attorney
General George Cosson at Des Moines.
A gift Of 100000 for an observatory
and thirty-six inch telescope was an
nounced at a meeting Of the board of
regents Of the University Of Arizona.
Women were denied equal rights
with men in two actions taken by the
house of bishops in the Protestant
Episcopal general convention at ST.
Louis.
Nine persons were burned to death
In q fire which destroyed two factor
ies in the manufacturing section of
New York City.
The wheat crop of Canada for the
present year will be only 159.123,000
bushels. as compared with 276.303.600
bushels in 1915. according to an Of
fetal estimate.
Means of meeting the requirements
of the Adamson eight-hour law are to
be considered at a meeting Of the
American railway association at Den
yer November II.
Estimate Of the ministry Of agricul-
ture of the areas sown to crops in
Argentina for the next harvest are:
Wheat, 6.511,0oO hectares; oats. L.
022,000; linseed, 1,29S,000.
Officials of the First National bank
Of Centralia, Okla, which was robbed
recently. announced that practically
all the notes held by the bank, to the
amount Of about $4,000, had been
taken by the robbers, who also obtain.
cd $6,11s in currency.
A hurricane that reached a velocity
Of one hundred and fourteen miles
an hour swept over Pensacola,
Fla, lifted roofs from houses, and
sunk q number of vessels in the har-
Dor. One life was lost. The property
loss was estimated at 100000. Sew
eral men caught on the street were
hurled through plate glass windows
by the gale.
BY writing an average of 1877 accu-
rate words minute for an hour Miss
Margaret r. Owen of New York City
has again won the worlds typewriting
championship and $1,000 cup and
beaten her own previous record.
The first carload Of beets to leave
South Dakota was shipped from Mis-.
land to the Great Western Sugar
company at Scottsbluff, Neb. 1t is es-
timated that over 100 cars will be
shipped from the Belle Fourche terri
tory this season.
Chicago's voting population for the
November election breaks all records
with the unprecedented total, men and
women, Of S0S,72s. This places New
York in second place with a total of
10000 registered voters less.
A wage increase of cents an hour
md demand for the eight-hour day
throughout the six allied crafts of rail-
road shpmen of seventeen western
railroads was agreed upon at a confer
ence Of the shopmen at Kansas City
Demands on the roads will be made
soon.
Carl Resented of Story county, Ia.
ls one Of Americas leading Aberdeen.
Angus cattle breeders, having taken
hundreds of prize ribbons. His wife
Just has completed a bed quilt, in
which 5000 prize ribbons were used.
Dario Resta, driving his blue Peu-
geot. won the 250-mile grand Ameri.
can automobile race at the speedway
park. Chicago. Resta's time was 1899
miles per hour. BY winning the race
Resta also annexes the title Of Arleri.
can champion for 1916.
Ten men were killed and sixteen
others were seriously hurt when
burlington train crashed into the
freight caboose in which they were
riding. twelve miles east Of Elwood,
Neb