Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-06-16
CONDENSED 1ELEGRAMs

ldaho as the saw ToOth forest reserve.
The st. Petersburg Engineers As
.sociation has voted pensions to the
wife and mother OF Ivan Kaleien, the
assassin of Grand Duke Sergius.
The British ship Afghanistan. from
Hamburg for San Diego. had a collision
with the British man-of-war Caesar. the
former sinking with twenty-three OF
her crew.
A Kansas banker. who declines to
permit his name to be disclosed. has
given $4,000 to Emporia College. o
Presbyterian institution at Emporia.
Kansas.
A cotton crop bulletin issued by the
Department OF Agriculture shows that
the acreage OF the entire belt has de-
creased ia per cent. The average
condition is given rs 77.2.
A Toxic dispatch says that the Rus.
sian cruiser Admiral NahkimOH. Mo-
nomach and Dmitri Donskoi having
sunk In comparatively shallow water.
II Is possible to raise them.
Hoke Smith. secretary Of the interior
under President Cleveland and Mt one
time editor Of the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, has announced himself ns . can.
didate for governor OF Georgia.
The Transmississippi Commercial
Congress will meet at Portland. Ore
son. August 10th. and the National
Irrigation Congress will convene ut the
same place August 2ist.
Governor Bell OF Vermont has
granted u second repricve to Mrs.
Mary NJ. Rogers. who IL under sen.
tence of death for the murder OF her
husband. II extends To June ed.
Tho cruiser Colorado. which had
been In Boston harbor for several days.
and has Just sailed for Povincctown for
her final acceptance trial. has lost 200
men by desertion. unpopularity OF OF.
ficcrs Ia the cause.
Brig. Gen. George II. Davis has been
rcappointcd Judge advocate general OF
t..e army for term Of four years from
May 33d last. General Davis was first
appointed to that once by President
Mckinley In May. 1901.
Tho President has established for.
est reserve In southern Colorado TO bc
known m tho San Juan reserve and
to contain about 500. 600 acres The
Puycttc reserve Of about the same sixc
has been established In Idaho.
Tho Mexican Light and Power Com
pany. a Canadian concern. has pur.
In tho City Of Mexico. The total cx.
pcnditurca Of the company when work
il completed vili bc sso.c0o.oo
Tho Pennsylvania railroad will
shortly establish the fastest long
distance train In tho world. II will b.
= new limited between New York and
Chicago. and will make the run In
each direction In eighteen hours.
TSe last will Of the late J. Moutsom.
cry Sears. Bosion's largest taxpayer.
which disposcs of an estate of about
81. .ooo. 600. has disappeared. Mr..
Sears attorney turned the document
over to him. II Ia said. several months
ago.
Tho National Ciab Of Budapest.
Hungary. has decided TO erect here a
statue In honor Of Washington. an ctt'
d-nro Of its appreciation cf the action
Of tn. citizens Of Cleveland. Ohio. In
erecting a statue In honor Of kossuth
In tha, city.
Secretary Taft has denied the aprli'
cation us the state Of Missouri TO take
possession Of the Merchants bridge
acsuss the Mississippi river at 1t.
Louis on the ground that there has
been no violation Of conditions Of tho
charter.
The Kansas Beard Of Railroad Com.
missloncfs issued an order today 70.
auisins the Union Pacific railroad TO
reduce its rates on grain from Chap.
man to Kansas City. The order de-
ciarcs that the Union Pacific has been
guilty Of discrimination In grain rates.
The commissioner .of the general
Land ofiec has issued instructions TO
registers and receivers Of land ofsiccs
'thrpushout the country directing that
In the future that no one person shall
be permitted to acquire more than y"
acres Of non.mincrai public land under
existing laws.
Negotiations arc being completed
for the erection Of ss.ooo!"oo hotel
In Herald Square. New York City. be.
tween Thirty. and Thirty.,biEd
streets and broadway. Sixteen stories
hish. IL will have a capacity OF GO"
rooms aud in general appointments
will rival the most elaborate hotels in
the city.
A great storm which has swept over
Pine,owu. the center Of the tea and
sugar plantations Of Natal. South AZ.
rica. caused the reservoir to over.
fow. resulting in the drowning of
many ltirdco laborefs. The entire
loss Of life estimated at 500 Hindco
lat,orers and so Europeans.
New ineorora,ions in the eastern
states In May. together with Increases
in capital. show the largest totals
since 1909. Those involving 81. zoo. 900
or more aggregate ssie.sso.oco. This
IA the heaviest monthly total since
May. 1909. when II stood at ssos.ss..-
cec. The April figures were siso.l11.-
600.
The Reclamation Bureau recently
gave out the statement that the
formal contract with Samuel Il. II. !
Robinson for the construction OF the |
first part Of the work on the Belle ,
Fourche irrigation project had been |
executed. II provides thu, by July ist |
a sufficient, force and plant shall be |