Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-05-13
rELsoRApHIc eaEv,rlss.

ed superintendent Of the New Mexico peni'
| tcntiary.
| Colorado, Nebra ska and Kansas cattle buy
| ers swarm throughout New Mexico. and nre
making large purchases at the highest prices
| known for u decade.
DIR. J. II. Hoilander has been appointed
| secretary OF the International Timetable
Conference Commission. He is professor OF
| economies at the Johns Hopkins University.
and n French and German scholar.
The Queen Regent of Spain Ess Issued n
| decree authorizing the raising OF fSOOo.OOJ
| TO he secured by the customs duties of
| spain to meet the cost Of military operations
In Cuba and the Philippine Islands. The
Bank OF Spain will undertake the Issue.
As tribute to the memory of General
Grant. Yang Yu. former minister from
China to the United States, has planted u
tree In the ground under which the casket
of General Grant lay for twelve years. The
tree Ii called GInkgobilo-I la by Chinese bot
nnists. and is said to grow to u height VI
about 100 feet
The receipts of the Internal revenue bu,
renu show that the people of the United
States are drinking more beer and les.
whisky every year. During the last SIX
months there has been an Increase of q per
cent. In the consumption of malt liquors aud
only 1 per cent. In the consumption OF
spurious liquors. %.
Forest fires have broken out nfresh In the
mountains of eastern Kentucky and West
virginia, and are devastating wide
stretch of country. Al least four farm
houses are reported to have been burned on
the Nirgirin side before the farmers could
check the advance. A mountainecr died
while lighting the nre.
An anonymous donor has sent the sum OF
f35.5 800 to the committee of mann cement OF
eltu rtf I.u.a a.,
scene of last weeks terrible tragedy from
nre. This amount. with the proceeds of the
hrst days sale. 1850. equals the full re.
ccipts OF the bazaar OF 1890. and the com.
mitfee Is thus enabled to make distributions
US before.
A legislative Investigating committee has
reported n shortage OF $4,000 In the ne.
counts OF State Treasurer Collins, and re.
quested Ills Impeachment and Immediate
retirement from office. The funds were lost
through the failure Of the Merchants M.
tional Bank OF Ocala. Collins Is accused OF
having made deposits there long after the
stability Of the bank had been questioned.
The board of directors of the Kansas pen.
itentiary have announced to the convlcts
that the regulation striped uniforms will be
discarded. beginning on the Fourth of July.
The new snrb of the convicts Is to be OF
gray material, with black stripes nlons the
outer seam of the trousers and around the
coat sleeves. The old striped uniforms will
be worn only In the coal mines. aud by OF
Tenders against prison discipline.
Secretary Long thinks 1t Is good policy tc
lay up the new battlcships and big cruisers
In fresh water until they are needed. II
costs $GOO.OOO or SIOOOOO n year to main.
tain a bnttlcship In commission. and moi
more than $4,000 or $20.OOO to keep them
In order II they are tied to n post In some
navy yard. He proposes to save this money,
and for cruising purposes to use only the
small Sunboats. which are very much les.
expensive u maintain.
The heirs OF Jay Gould. who moved from
New York to Tarrytown. some critic,
said. to escape high taxation. have had
their assets nearly quadrupled In size by
the board of assessors of Tarrytown. Last
year the Gould estate was down for SiSj,.
200 This year the estate Is taxed ut $3.50.
600. as real and personal tax, and to this Il
added Howard Gould S3OO,OOO personal,
Frank Gould S3OO.OC0 personal. Helen Gould
100000 personal" This makes the total
for the Gouids S1.GJO.Oo0.
The United States revenue cutter Bear has
sailed on her annual cruise to the Arctic.
She Will stop Mt UnIa island and unalaska,
and then proceed to Point Barrow, returning
to the sound next November. Aboard the
Bear Is the coast and seodetic survey
party, which is to make survey Of the
Prlbylof islands, Mt the head of which Is W.
W. Duilield. son of the chief OF the United
States coast and gcodetic survey service.
With him are Fremont Morse, G. Il. Put.
nam and George l.. Putnam and six college
boys mostly from Chicago.
Instructions have been issued by Commuis.
sioner of the General Land Office Herman
to the registers and receivers OF the va.
rious United States land Offices under the
provisions OF section o. act OF June 10, 1896,
which provides that homestead settlers on
all ceded Indian reservations be and are
hereby granted an extension Of one year In
which to make the payment now provided
by law. These officers have been especially
directed to Inform nll parties applying tc
make proof and payment for such lands OF
the provisions of the homestead act before
acting on their applications.
The Interstate oratorical contest was held
at Columbus, Missouri the 9th. The
Judges were: On thought and composition,
Walter Miller, of Leland Stanford Univeri
sity; Barret wedall, Of Harvard University.
and President J. B. Angel, OF Ann Arbor
University. On delivery, Myron w. Reed,
of Denver, Colorado: Ihcsident II. II. Jesse.
of the Missouri State University. and ex.
Senator Ingalls,, OF Kansas. These award
J ed the first prize to Pearle d. Decker, OF
Park College, Missouri, whose oration wns
| prize to c. +. Bell, OF the Colorado State
| University. whose subject was 'Stntesmen
| and Nnton;" l.. n. Booth. of Minnesota
came third. The subject of his Grafton was
"The Needed Element In Present Reform. u