Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-11-06
SHORT TElE0RAMS.

/ Estee dleu al foaolulu oetouef -.th-
The Santa Fe has made its California
limited train daily instead OF tri-
weekly as heretofore.
! The President has appointed Horace
". Bailey United States marshal tof
Vermont. 10 succeed Fred Field dis.
missed.
The widow of the Rev. Charles Spur
geon. the noted preacher. who died
January 81. 1889. died al London oe-
tober e2ni.
Mrs. l. q. C. Lamar. wife OF the for
mer justice OF the Supreme Court Of tho
United States. died al Macon. Georgia.
October s'ih,
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment OF Sir Henry Mortimer Du7
rand rs British ambassador 10 tho
United States.
Now We are up against IL. A New
York pie trust has put up the price
Of pies and there is no telling wheS
taey will enter the western iieid.
orin Hiekok. for many years one OF
the best known trainers and drivers OF
famous horses. has been sent to tho
Ohio State Hospital for the Insane.
The hrm OF Horace l. Shatiue &
Sons. hardware. bicycle and automo-
bile dealers OF Lowell. Boston and
Providence. has assigned. with liabili-
ties Of ts0O.coo.
William J. Bryan has postponed his
departure for Europe until after de-
cision has been rendered In the Bennett
will case. in which he Is interested.
This may delay him for week or two,
II is reported from Quito that y
dense column OF nre is visible from
there. emerging from the crater Of tho
Cotopaai volcano. The ncishboFin1
villages have not sustained any dam
age.
The outbreak OF cholera at Be,hle.
hem. In the Holy Land. which Was re-
ported October 18th. has been stamped
out and the Gordon OF troops which had
been drawn around the city has been
removed.
Kcokuk. aged eishty-five. the Oldest
Indian In The Sac and Fox tribes. died
n, Guthrie. Oklahoma. October eith.
keokuk was an unusually Intclllgcn:
Indian and the son OF the great Sac
and Fox chief after whom keokuk.
Iowa. was named.
United States engineers arc inycsti-
eating project for irrisatins :.cJo.ooI
acres In central Washington. forming n
gigantic looop through tho Big Bend
country" Over threc-fourth OF tho
vast territory will &c, Its water supply
from tho Spokane river.
A French military commission has
Inspected Santos -Dumont's No. 10 dir.
ig.bic balloon. This and other balloons
are to be placed Mt the disposal OF
France In case OF war. Tho eommis-
sioncrs expressed satisfaction with tho
results Of their inspection.
Mrs. William Tate. n coiorcd woman.
twcnty-thrcc years old. OF GAINESVILLE.
Ohio. recently gave birth to four girl
babies. all OF normal sl-c and weigh
Ing slightly more than six and onc-half
pounds each. The woman Is the mother
OF three other children. born slnsly.
Two Bulgarian missionaries are com;
ing from Vienna TO New York for tho
purpose OF making tour OF the United
States to raise funds for destitute
MnccdoniGns. They are graduates OF
American colleges. Furnajteff. having
studied Mt Princeton and Popon at
Hamilton. New York.
A permanent an,i-tubcrculosis COM
mission. comprising hygienists. physi-
clans. members OF ministries and vari-
Gus chambers. has been organized In
Paris under the presidency OF Leon
Bourgeois. president of the Chamber
OF Deputies. Its scope Is prevention
rather than remedial.
The Illinois Steel Company has laid
on 1000 laborers in Its mills In South
Chicago. No notice OF the contcm-
plated action was given. the men being
merely told that there would be no
more work for them for the present.
The men were employed in the slab
and plate mills and the open hearth
Mill.
The Italian minister to Abyssinia.
Major Cicco di Cola, has been In
structed to assist United States Consul
Skinner of Marseilles. France. in car
rying out the latter's mission to King
Menelik. one CT the objects OF which is
to invite the king to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and to provide for an Abys-
sinian exhibit.
Mrs. Angeline Jewett. a convert to
the doctrines of John Alexander Dowie,
has sold her farm at Clifford. New
Hampshire, for 81 500 and OF the pro-
ceeds has sen. $1.i00 to Dowie. Mrs.
Jewett says she believes in Dowie and
declares that God showed me that 1t
was best to dispose of the farm and
send him the money.
The new Omaha extension of the Chi
cagp Great Western road for regular
passenger service between St Paul and
Omaha is now ready for service. Two
trains will be run each way daily be-
tween the Twin Cities and Omaha, to
connect with trains for Colorado points.
The time between st. Paul and Dem
yer will be twenty-four and one-half
hours.
The War Department has issued a
statement showing the customs reve-
nues in the Philippines for the six
months of 1903 to be s4.449.424. For
the same period in 1902 the receipts
were $4.33S,467. The statement says
that each successive year of American
ocucpation has brought forth core
spending wealthy growth of these rev.
enues.
Emperor William sank to his knees
in bog during his recent deer stalk
ing at Rominten. The foresters in at