Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-09-22
CONDENSED 1ELEeaAms

Inc western racine railway mas M
creased its capital stock from t50. 900.
boo to $4,000. 900.
Canton. Ohio. has been chosen TO be
the next years meeting place Of the
National Letter Carriers Association.
Henry White. the American ambas.
sador At Rome. contributed 500 to the
fund for the relief Of the earthquake
sufferers.
II. kulikoysky. who on July 1Ith last
ansassinated Mai. Gen. Count 6huya-
lou st Moscow. has been sentenced 10
Imprisonment for life.
Charles =. Pdster. charging District
Attorney MeGovern aud other ofiicials
with conspiracy. has begun suit at NIL
Naukee for 100000 damages.
Ex.Queen i.iiiuoksiani has eele-
brated her sixty-seventh birthday. \
reception attended by natives was held
at her home In Honolulu on tho 18th
inst.
Timely rams In tho Ra1putana and
other droushtstrieken districts OF In.
dia arc relieving To some extent tho
failure OF tho crops and . possible fam
Inc.
Miss Martha Weeks Of Washington.
ID. C.. aged forty. who was seriously
scaided by falling into q hot water pool
In the Yellowstone park. died Of her In
1uries-
II is expected that Commander Eva
Booth will make a tour OF the f-ud dis.
tTict. Of Kentucky In company with the
other salvation army ofnciais next
spring. ffMfb
Tho National Postofics Clerks con-
vention. at Its meeting at Cedar Rap
Ids, Iowa. defeated the organization OF
tho proposed mutual benefit associar
lion aua
A thanksgiving service commcmora-
tive Of The conclusion OF peace was eel
ebratcd Mt Petcrhof In tho presence OF
Empero. Nicholas and tho state disni.
tnricn.
Tho aggregate assessed value OF all
property In tho state Of New York Is
S7.13s. .iGS. $40. of which s7.05i. .t55. .0:5
is real estate and t15s. s.s3j.Go5 personal
property.
DIR. David 4. Salmon. chief OF tho Bu-
rcau OF Animal Industry OF tho Agricul-
turni Department. has tcndcrcd his rcs.
isnation and II has been accepted TO
take effect October LIST.
Tho Union Pacific shops at Omaha
will be enlarged nt cost Of 100000.
Anon. the additions will be locomo.
tive construction building costing
abou, half n million.
At Cedar Rapids. Iowa. tho national
convention Of the poSiofiicc clerks split
H. two factions when delegates from
flfty-fvc branches. including Tacoma.
Washington. withdrew from tho hall.
some snntching OF their badges and
trumpling them under foot rs they left
The standard OIL Company at Pitts.
burg on the 18th inst. advanced tho
price OF all grades Of crude oil. Penn.
sylvnnia oil was raised cents and tho
other grades were advanced : cents.
Tho price OF wcstcrn oil at Indcpcnd.
cncc. Kansas. was at the same umc
raised In amounts varying from / to
8 cents n barrel.
The total receipts for the BrItt.Nci.
son fight Mt San Francisco were &3S..
al. That amount was divided us fol.
lows: Nelson, fls.sii.s9: Britt. S1:.-
560.SG: management, $i6.9os.s:. Added
to the winners share is $4,000 he got
for his interest In the moving pictures.
which brings Nelson's PROFITS up to
323.s41.29.
Exhaustive experiments with the use
Of oil rs fuel on battlcships have
proved SO satisfactory that the British
admiralty has ordered the erection
OF great oil storing depot ut Ply
mouth. with jetties at which tank
steamers can moor. II Is understood
that stores OF oil will be established
at most OF the home ports.
The Esch.Townsend railroad bill will
be introduced ut the next session OF
Congress practically In the same form
that 1t passed the House last session.
This was determined on at a confer
ence between Congressman Townsend
OF Michigan and Congressman Esch OF
Lacrosse, Wisconsin, who fathered
the bill.
Moritz Tnomsen, president OF the
Centennial Mil Company at Seattle.
estimates that California will use g.
OO0,0OO bushels Of Washington wheat
for approximately 100000 bushels
this year. He also states that orders
have been received from the United
Kingdom. The present harvest in
Washington is estimated at 35.000.0O
bushels.
A convention of 1000 butchers from
all parts Of Germany met at Berlin and
adopted resolutions declaring that a
great and Increasing scarcity OF live
animals Casts in the German empire,
and petitioning the imperial govern
ment to speedily abolish the meat fam.
Inc by opening the frontiers for the ad-
mission of animals from other coun.
tries.
Following is the summary of the cot.
ton crop Of 1905. as reported by the sta.
tistical committee of the Southern Cot.
ton Growers Association: Production,
9.5SS,133 bales; percentage of condi-
tion as compared with last year. 1873,
as compared with the governments es-
innate Of 72.1. The yield is regarded
as exceedingly small. as from ten to
ten and one.half million tales was ex.