Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-08-26
TELE0RAPH!c sREvlTiEs.

The noted Luetgert murder trial be-
gan at Chicago on the o3rd.
Eddie McDuffec has lowered Hnmil.
tons mile record TO las 10.
The price of the sugar trust stock
has gone up from 1O3 to 100 within II
year,. ..
Qunkers from Illinois are inspecting
New Mexican lands with II view of col
OniZation. H..sr
Government timber inspectors are
vigorously prosecuting timber thieves
in Idaho.
Canadian lumbcrmen propose to re-
tnliatc on the United States on account
of the Dingley bill.
1t Is reported that Russia will soon
forbid the expectation of wheat owing
to the small crop there.
President Mckinley attended II re-
union OF the Army Of the Potomac at
Troy, New York. on the Goth.
The loss to the government on silver
bought under the Blund-Allison and
acts now aggregate S22l ,5SS, ,17S.O7
The International congress called to
discuss measures for the protection of
workmen opened ut Zurich on the
ent. and all countries We're repre-
sented.
The mill of the Trcadwell company In
Alaska is to be doubled In size, giving
it 300 stamps. reducing ore at II cost OF
81 per ton ana producing S125.OO0 per
month. There Is 7.O00,0OO tons OF ore
In sight in the mine.
The Elgin Watch Company has ad-
| N-an I,n Of
ten per cent. The advance is on all the
better grades of movements. Cheap
movements have been advanced also
from fifty to seventy-tive cents on each.
The London Chronicle announces the
settlement of the lons-pending strike
in the famous slate luarries of Lord
Penrhyn in Wales. The men have
won complete victory. Lord Pcnrhyn
conceding them the full right to COM
bine.
George T. Eldridge Of the gcosraph-
ical survey has returned from Il "trip to
the Utah gilsonite deposits. where lie
has been establishing the reservation
line, and has settled beyond Il doubt
that all the valuable gilsOnite beds are
on the reservation. ne
Good rains have fallen everywhere
throughout India except In the districts
of Bombay and Dcccan, and the crops
promise to be exceptionally large. The
number of the relief list are steadily di-
minishing and evidences of famine are
rapidly disappearing.
Princess Kaiuklni. who has just at
tained her majority. will return to Ha-
waii in October. after m absence of
ten years in England and on the con-
tincnt. She has hopes Of being made
queen of the present island republic If
annexation fails.
The Havana police have discovered
printing outfit which has been used
to print the proclama tions issued by
the insurgent leaders. The proprie
tors of the establishment. Peralta
Bros. have been arrested and are con-
fined incOmmunicado.
The government of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order, for 1.O0O,OO0
fivc-ccnt stamps has been given to the
American Bank Note Company and an
other for 100000 stamps of other de-
nominations will follow. ..
Several men who have Illegally cut
timber in Idaho have been bound over
to answer at the next term of the Fed
eral Court In Blackfoot, and the gov
HIS ilSo CIV u Blo-
ceeding against them to recover the
value of the timber taken.
The first official trip of the com
pressed air motor invented by Robert
Hardy has been made on the Sixth
avenue division of the Manhattan ele-
yatcd railroad. The train made the
run from Rector TO Fifty-eichth street,
over five miles. in eighteen minutes.
United States Marshal McDermott
has been advised by the attorney gcn-
cral to double the amount of the re-
ward offered by the Department of
Justice for the capture of stage rob-
bers in the National Park. Five hun
drcd dollars will now be paid for the
arrest and conviction of the hold-ups.
Active work on the tunnel of the
Great Northern railrOad in the Cas-
cade mountains has been commenced.
The tunnel will be two and one-half
miles long. sixteen feet wide and twen-
ty-three feet high. 1t will cost $1,000
600 and require two years i'll building.
1t will reduce the ascent by 1000 feet.
1t Is the intention of the Santa Fc
company to equip all locomotives in
the passenger service with electric
headlights. Some time ago similar
light was placed on I27, running be-
tween Topeka and st. Joseph. and so
satisfactory has been the test that all
night engines will hr equipped in
like manner us speedily as possible.
The Argonaut, Il submarine craft,
was launched ut Baltimore on the 18th.
Miss Myriam Lake, daughter of the in
ventor, Simon Lake, of baltimore,
christened the strange craft. This YES
sci Is one of thelmos unique ever con-
structcd. 1t is intended for CONNER
cial work. including the exploration of
the bottom of rivers. lakes. bays and
even seas, for wrecking work. ~
Range ponies are. selling in Arizona
ut 50 head This is the price paid
by Hicks Il Brigham, cattlcmen of
Tempe. Arizona. and Denver for 300
head now being gathered on the range
noIth of Phoenix. The ponies are not
to be made into beef. after the mode
in Oregon. but are to be put on pasture
in the Salt River valley and 'fattened
and broken to the saddle as a Specula-
ton. This is the second bunch of
range animals to be brought into the
valley. "..
The Stockmcn of Cassl county. Ida
ho are organizing to stop the whole
sale operation of cattle thieves In the