Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1906-01-05
CONDENSED TELeGRAMs

Forty persons were injured IN u tfci'
ley car collision ~ Los Angeles De-
cember cath.
Edward Wilder. treasurer OF the At.
Gibson. Topeka 4 Santa Fee railroad
since 1876. died at Topeka. Kansas. De-
cember goth.
The directors OF the Cleveland Elec-
tric railway have raised the wages OF
more than 1000 motormen and conduc-
tors cent an hour.
The Mexican Central railway has ar
ranged for 5000 japanese laborers.
who will be set to work on the eIten-
sion to Colima and Manzanillo.
The main building Of the Boys Re-
form School OF the District of Column
bia was burned December 18Th. the
loss being estimated at 100000.
The Van Mugs Broadway hotel NJ
Los Angeles was practically ruined by
FIRE on the morning Of December cath.
and several fremen were injured.
Lieutenant General Chafsee promptly
declined the appointment TO be police
commissioner OF New York. which was
rendered him by Mayor Mcclellan.
Tho government report places the
total freight tonnage OF the 500 canal
for the year at tt.2.0. $50 tons. an In
crease over last year Of over forty per
cent.
Two masked men held up and
robbed an electric car near Pasadena.
California. on the night of December
cath. robbing the conductor and fifteen
passengers.
The application OF Lieutenant Gen.
erai Miles TO be relieved from duty ~
military adviser OF the governor OF
Massachusetts has been granted BY tho
secretary OF war.
Richard Robert Cherry and Redmon
Barry. members OF the Irish bar. have
been appointed attorney general Tor
ireland and solicitor general for Ire
land respectively.
Tho musicians OF Philadelphia have
decided TO treat dinner Invitations
where their services are expected. as
professional enHagements. and 10
charge accordingly.
A royal decree has been published Mt
Berlin changing the nnmes OF ninety.
scyen places In Prussian Poland to
German names as afurthcr step toward
the Germanizat!on OF the province.
A seat on tho New York Stock Ex.
chang. was recently sold for tho record
pric. OF Ssi. 900. ". II. CRANBERRY. III.
seller, has been n member since 1899.
Later n sale Is reported NJ $4,000.
A priva,. bill has been introduced
In Parliament for sanction TO build
the f,rst road In England to be devoted
exclusively to motor vehicles. IL u
proposed to run the road from London
to Brighton.
Tn. Swiss government has notified
the Italian government that IL will be
rcprcs.nt.d In tho international cham
Dor of agriculture created by King Vic.
tor Emmanuel nj III. suggestion OF Ia.
vld Lubin OF California.
Joseph II. Scayc. a nultsmiiiion.
airc, has been decided on for suprrin'
,.ntcnt Of the Cincinnati street clean.
ing dcpaTtmcrt. Mr.. Scayc said he
desired the Office Ia order TO give Gin
cinnati the clcancst streets possible.
The correspondent OF the London
Daily Mail Mt Shanghai says disauic;-
ing news has been received from the
interior and that the Anglican mission.
aries at Soochow. Huchow and Hang
chow have been recalled to Shanghai.
Application will bc made at the next
scHslon of the Canadian Parliament by
tn. Grand Trunk Pacific Telegraph
Company to conduct a telegraph bust
ness in Canada. Power TO do n cable
and wireless telegraph business VIII
be sought.
yic.roy Yuan shi Kai has obtained
Imperial sanction to appoint German
military officer either from the German
force In north China or Germany as
head Instructor OF tho Chinese military
rolicg. instead OF n Japanese instruc'
tor. as previously intended.
The managing director Of the Mar.
conf Telegraph Company has been APP
preached by several newspapers In the
north of England with the suggestion
OF the forming OF an agency Tor the
transmission OF news to them by wire
icss telcgraphy from London.
Thousands OF gallons OF beer were
us-,l in lighting flames nj the fir ut
the plant of the Oklahoma Ice & Brew
ing Company at Oklahoma City. the
water works plant being unable to fur.
nish pressure. owing to breakdown.
The damage was about $4,000.
Herbert II. d. Peirce. third assistant
secretary of state, has been selected by
the President as the first American
minister to Norway. Charles DENLY.
chief clerk of the department, has been
determined upon rs successor to Mt.
Peirce In the State Department.
Reports of tho existence OF bubonic
plague have led federal quarantine OIL
GERS to announce n new regulation I'M
der which all packages OF freight or
express leaving Honolulu for the coast
will have to be fumigatod. The order
IL to satisfy San Francisco health au.
tlorities.
Admiral Togo, now president OF the
general stan of the navy, in his fare.
we'll address TO the officers and men OF
the combined Japanese fleet, warned
them to be in constant readiness for
emergencies. He concluded with the
-yords: "victors, tie your helmet
strings tighter"
Mrs. Druisalla Hall Johnson. the