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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
2
The scene at Mrs Clarkson's ranch introduces Stingaree, a dapper gunman, who toasts Hilda Bouverie with a revolver and serenades Mrs Clarkson. Sir Julian Crum attends, while Stingaree’s capture unfolds amid bush setting, staged bishops, and a tense standoff with the overseer Cairns.
President Taft plans to keep his cabinet intact through March 4 while officials map possible post term moves. Most will leave Washington homes. Wilson may return to Iowa. Knox couple likely Pittsburgh winter. MacVeagh at Sixteenth Street with Chicago time. Stimson to New York. Wickersham to New York. Hitchcock may enter business. Meyer to Hamilton, Massachusetts. Fisher to Chicago. Nagel to St. Louis.
In Bismarck North Carolina Henry Clay Hansbrough, a former U S senator noted for anti lottery and antitrust actions, outlines priorities for the next president including trusts tariffs monetary reform and sociology and conservation. In New York Carroll Livingston Riker proposes altering the Gulf Stream to warm the Atlantic coast, melt polar ice and open eastern Canada harbors at an estimated cost of 190 million dollars.
Stingaree leads a bound prisoner and a posse through desert heat between Mazeppa and Clear Corner. A tense exchange with Sergeant Cameron and Superintendent Cairns unfolds as Stingaree uses wit and a feigned weakness to preserve his leverage and plot a path to safety.
The sheik Islam, feared by allied troops in Turkey, heads Mohammedan religious authority. His role likens him to a pope and Canterbury archbishop, with power to declare holy war, rallying Muslims in British India Egypt North Africa and beyond.
Yale New Haven announces a bowl shaped stadium for 60 000 seats, expandable to 100 000, costing 800 000 with total play grounds 700 000. Funding relies on bonds allowing public purchase of tickets. 100 bond buys two tickets per game for 15 years, up to 1000 bond for eleven tickets.
Estimates show major allocations for Treasury 137 million dollars, War Department 200 million, Navy 130 million, Agriculture 81 million, Legislative 14.6 million, Post Office 275 million. Post Office seeks 17 million emergency to implement parcels post.
In Lincoln Nebraska December 17 William J Bryan's political weight grows with Woodrow Wilson's election. Bryan aided the nomination and campaigned, with friends saying he would likely decline any cabinet post. He is certain to wield influence on tariff policy when the Wilson administration begins.
In Washington on December 17 a treasury memo dictates strict dress and desk standards. Clerks must keep desks tidy on leaving, creased trousers required for all secretaries office staff, and pressing costs capped at one dollar weekly. Travel allowances vary by city with tips extra. The department urges uniform neatness under the slogan let everything be in apple pie order.
In Panama on December 17 secrecy marks canal fortifications where plans are forbidden by law. Colonel Goethals assigns inspection of the forts to his son Lieutenant George St. Goethals while young engineers manage the construction. Lieutenant Goethals will discuss anything in Panama except the fortifications.
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