Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-24
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biackberrles.
Outlaws robbed the store OF Charles Guild
& Sons. ut Fort Badger, Wyoming. the other
day.
Sioux Indians are preparing for a great
Fourth OF July celebration ut Valentine. Ne
braska.
L. v. Debs has written ]. ID. Rockefeller
for aid In the cooperative commonwealth
scheme
New veins OF beautiful onyx have been dis.
covered In the o'Neill mines. near phosniS,
Arizona.
Seventeen thousand rainbow trout have
been distributed In the streams near Doug
las, Wyoming.
The monument To Harry Wright. the great
b9Se .ASli player, was unveiled at Phiiadei'
piiia ON the 2ist.
Joseph Powell OF Denver has been chosen
national councillor Of the Junior Order Of
American Mechanics.
Mexican officials deny that a concession
has been granted for the establishment OF u
Monte Carlo near the California line.
Madeline Pollard. who got n verdict of
$1,000 from W. q. T.. breckenridge OF Ken
tucky for breach OF promise, Is In London.
Governor Pin.rce's fame as the originator
of the potato patch scheme for the poor has
crossed the ocean. and his plan IL being
adopted In several European countries.
John W. Foster. the United States com.
missioner. has left ST. Petersburg for Lon
don. 1t Is understood that his mission has
been successfully accomplished.
Because OF the enactment In Illinois OF the
anti-buttcrlne law. Kansas City. Kansas.
Will doubtless become the principal head.
quarters for the manufacture OF that ar
ticie.
The National Anti Mob and Lynching Law
Association has been Incorporated by the
secretary OF state Of Ohio. 1t Is proposed
TO form branch associations all over the
United States
One OF the prime objects of the California
Associated Cyclists, that OF forming n vast
ailiiIation OF Pacific coast whccimcn. cS-
tending from Mexico to British Columbia. IL
about accomplished.
Suits have been started against nearly
100 stockholders In the dctrnet Capital Nh
tional Bank OF Lincoln, Nebraska. TO recover
sJ00,OoO In dividends paid by the bank dur
ing ten years preceding Its failure.
An expedition under charge OF q. NJ. IIar-
ris OF Augusta. Maine. has sailed from San
Francisco In schooner for the South
archipelago and to study the animal, insect
and plant LIE OF these peculiar Islands.
a new political party has been born In
Chicago. II IL called the Citizens party,
and Is the outErowth OF the struggle made
last spring to elect II man as mayor who was
not allied to amy machine organization.
There is n deficit OF 81. .50o.0 goo In the Penn
syivanla state treasury. The Legislature
has for several years appropriated more
money than the net revenues received by
the state. hence the present large deficiency.
T.. T. Jeffery, president OF the Denver X
Rio Grande Railroad Company. has been sc-
lccted MS arbitrator for the Southwestern
Traffic Association. II he accepts the po-
sltion. he will decide all disputes upon
which no agreement can be reached by the
association.
A successful test was recently made In
Philadelphia OF Inventor Keclcy's new
ethcrlc engine before number OF prominent
electricians and railway men. The engine
weighs only 100 pounds and is said to have
developed ten horsepower.
A dispatch from Madrid says: Violent
hail and rain storms have swept the pro-
vince OF Sagovla. in the old CASTLE district.
Crops have been ruined. houses flooded and
cattle and goods carried away by the floods.
The people are panic stricken.
About GOO ChIcagoans will attend the SIX
teenth International Christian Endeavor con-
vention. which opens at San Francisco July
Z. The train will consume eight days on the
trip westward. stops for sightseeing being
made at several Colorado resorts.
Representative Bell has introduced bill
to amend section Dob OF the revised stat
intended to meet some Of the objections that
have been made to the recent Supreme Court
decision relating to tunnel rights.
The jury at Austin. Texas. In the case of
the Waters Pierce OIL Company. charged
with violation of the antitrust law. has
brought In a verdict for the state, cancel
ing the compnny's permit to 10 business In
Texas. The defendant will appeal.
Prince Alexander. son of the late Prince
of Hnfteubpry IN n
tion by n most unprecedented insult to
Queen Victoria. Ths Prince Is the Queens
grandson. Needing money. he sold n per-
sonal letter sent him by the sovereign for
"a los.
A dispatch from Panama announces that
representatives OF the governments OF Guatc-
mnla sd Costa Rica have signed the treaty
which makes them n part of the greater Re-
public of Central America. All the Central
American republics have now Joined the
compact.
The Bartlett Lumber Company of Boston
has purchased outright Mount Washington,
the entire Presidential range and thirty les
ser emlncnces of the White Mountain group,
and In addition some GO.OOO acres of fuel
land in the wids of northern New Hamp-
shire. The primary object Of the purchase
is numbering. .
Agitation has been begun in Kansas look
Ing to the passage by the next state Legls-
luture Of n strong anti-butterine BILL This
comes as Il result of the recent announce
ment by Kansas City packers that they will
Immediately begin the manufacture on
large scale Of butterine.
Representatives of the Baron dc Hlrsch
fund.- and Nine. de Hirsch have purchased
big plot of ground on the east side OF
New York as site for two industrial train
I Ing schools and home for girls On one
end of the property n flve-story ire-proof
building 100 feet front, will be erected at a
cost of 100000.
In regard to the revival Of the periodical
rumor of the Queens intention to abdcatc
in favor of the Prince of Wales, which the
Exchange Telegraph Company again cir
culates, the Westminster Gazette says that
when the rnmor was circulated, months ago,
1t was Informed on the highest authority
that 1t was unfounded.
The Senate in executive session at few
days ngo recommitted the nomination of
NJ. II. McCord to be governor of Arizona
territory, to the committee on territories,
and instructed the committee to send for
persons and papers to Investigate further
charges which had been made against the
appointee.
London dispatch snys the sensational
stories circulated In the United States re-
garding the eyesight of Queen Victoria,
which is said to be bad that her majesty