Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-03-23
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ganizing a union and will demand q
uniform rate Of 20 cents an hour.
Andrew Carnegie has given Drury
College lCongregationaD. at Spring
field. Missouri. $4,000 without any
condition.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
to Coe College. ut Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The college will erect Il 100000 sci.
ence hall
King Edward has sold to dealer
the $4,000 collection OF $50 etchinss
presented to Queen Victoria In 1887.
by Whistler. the artist.
Three hundred independent tele-
phone companies In Iowa are perfect
ing an organization to fight the Bell
Telephone Company in that state.
The total loss In nineteen provinces
OF Russia investigated by special COM
missions inIuiring into the agrarian
| troubles OF last year was $lo, 100000.
There was great rejoicing at Okla
homa City, Oklahoma, over the passage
OF the statehood bill by the Senate and
universal concurrence In the amend
! ments.
a severe earthquake Is said 10 have
occurred ut kagi. Formosa. March
nth. Hundreds OF buildings were de-
stroyed and many hundreds OF people
| We're killed.
The new child labor law. passed by
| the lown Legislature and signed by the
| governor, prohibits the employment OF
children under eighteen in any occupa'
ton injurious to health.
Gross earnings OF $t2.5ls.ooo, n de-
crease OF $i.l15,00O as compared with
the preccdin. year. are shown by tho
annual report Of the Missouri Pacinc
Railway Company for 1905.
Andrew carnegie's spelling reform
movement finds little favor with Brit.
Ish authors. Charles Alsernon Swine.
burnc describes the movement as u
.'monstrous. barbarous absurdiiy."
Both houses OF Congress have
passed the bill TO give the Soldiers
home at Hot Springs. South Dakota.
200 acres Of government land for
park In connection with the home.
A military train armed with machine
guns and quick fircrs and Intended Tor
usc In punitive expeditions. which has
arrived at Kicff. Russia. IL said to hay.
developed n speed OF 100 miles nm hour.
Il Is stated at Berlin that the Rus.
sian loan that will be issued after the
Moroccan question II settled VIII
amount To $2so.ooo.o0o and possibly
more New Sork's percentage VIII be
small.
ProHident Roosevelt, II now honorary
member Of the United Veterans. haN'
Ins been elected by the camp ut Poplar
/ Bluffs. Missouri. Tn" organization In
composed OF Union and ConfcdcTai"
| Boldicra.
The leader OF tn. Chimes. rebels OF
/ Kuang 81 province and three o,h-TA
who wcr, implicated In the attack ON
! the house OF the Rev. DIR. Andrew beat
| tie. the American missionary nt faii.
| In February. were bchcadcd March l..
An alTHhip company. having for its
definite object to conduct an expert
mcnt with war craft. has been formed
| Mt Berlin. The directors aru hard
headed persons who take up the mat
ter from patriotic impulses and with
the patronage Uf I'll" emperor.
Robert L. Gregory. n Wholesale ETo'
Ger. IL tn" Democratic candidate Tor
mayor at Kansas City. The platform
advocates municipal ownership OF all
public utilities. and urges that no fran.
chiscs shalt be granted or extended
without adequate compensation TO IN"
city.
The Tisht of n labor union TO con
duct a strike was sustained by ludE"
Howard Ferris of the Superior Court
in Cincinnati. Th" case was thht OF
the Perkins. Campbell Company against
the United Leather Workers. the cont
pauy seeking to cnjoin the union from
/ striking.
$. II. Kaufman. president oi the
| Evening Star Newspaper Company oi
| Washington City, president of the Cor.
enran Gallery OF Art. former prcHI.
| dent of the American Newspaper Pub
lish,rs' Association. and one Of the
hes, known mcr in Washington. died
March 18th.
TIL, sugar war between Claus
spr,ckcla' Western refinery in Calf.
fornia and the Sugar Factory Company
of Honolul has caused the former COM
many to bring raw sugar to the coast
| from Cuba. Mr.. Sprcckcls has put In
a line nf sailing vessels for this pur-
poac, He also will get carEocs from
Java and the Philippines.
/ Frank Culver. an attorney. has hled
| n bill in Chicago in which he complains
Of alleged excessive rates on insurance
| institutcd last MAY by the supreme
counci, OF the Royal Arcanum and asks
that the order be prevented by an IN
junction from placing the rates IN ell.
feet. The suit is similar In character
to actions that have been iiled In other
states.
Options were recently closed on p.
i6O acres OF ground adjoining Indian
apolis at n cost of s650.OOO. Six nun
dred aud forty acres will be used by
the New York Central system FOR cen
trail repair shops to employ e.ooo men.
The other land will be used Tor q
model railroad city. The New York
Central system has appropriated s3.'
100000 for the work.
when the news of the defeat OF joint
statehood reached Tucson. Arizona,