Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-07-05

executive committee q the Trans
Mississippi congress resolutions were
adopted fsyoring Kansas City as the
place Tor the next republican nation
al convention.
A temporary restraining order has
bssen granted in 81, Louis prohibiting
the state board OF railroad and ware
house commissioners from enforcing
the Law regarding the inspection and
weighing Of sTain outside of public
elevators.
While ON the nay TO attend the
commencement exercises al Yale an
automobile containing four passengers
plunged off bridge, D. l. Oliver. q
student. vas killed and the oiasf oer
eupanis seriously injured.
For the eighth time the Cornell
crew succeeded in winning the ..shi'
cared race AT Poughkespsis. y, Y.
Columbia Was second and the United
States Naval academy third.
The premature explosion Of box
Of dynamite near Toia. Chariot"
county. Va. killed eight persons aha
injnred six others
Al New London. Conn. Harvard
~on the eishIoar-d freshman rare by
a .iose margin. While Yale won the
varsity four cared race by ten
len .ths.
a, Findisy. Ohio. th- Jury in the
trial Of the STANDARD oil company on
a charge Of violating the state anti
trust las disagreed and were dis
charged.
The p~nsion department will urre
congress al its next s-ssion To equal
Ia. tho p~nrions of soldiers widows
an basis al si:.
The board of polio. commissioners
of San Francisco has denied p~rmis'
sion To japanese tn k~~p Intelligence
Officers In that city.
Judge lands. In the federal court
at Chicago. has refused the rsqu~s,
of the attorneys for John u. Rorkr
f-ii~r for the withdrawal Of the sub
po-na recently issued for their client.
A Russo-ltaiian commercial treaty
has been signed at 81. Petersburg.
Judge chytraus. of Chicago. has de
ciaT-d the Law passed by the las'
legislature prohibiting the hai~ Of
cigarettes In Illinois invaded.
According To the verdict of Jury
In the federal court at Fort Dodge.
Iowa. grain transactions On boards o'
trade arc gambling and debts thus
contracted can not be collected.
Mrs. Russell Sage has sent 10 tho
Lincoln Farm Association u contribu.
tion Of 3:s.OO0 to the fund for tho
preservation Of the Abraham Lincoln
farm and log cabin.
Val" defeated Harvard In the an.
nual varsity cisht.oarcd race Mt New
London. Conn. by scani boats
boats length before the largest crowd
that ever Witnessed n race on III,
Thames river. The time was 2I:i0.
y. II. Hartman. the railroad mag.
nntc. was arrcstcd DUNG the Yale
Harvard boat race at New London.
Conn. aud confined on revenue cut
ter for violating the rules OF the
course.
All Of the mail carriers Of Butte.
Mont. have gone On n strike. declaring
that they could not live on the salaries
paid Mt present by the government.
On the Kickapoo Indian reservation
near Horton. Kan. Jack Masquat and
his wife were struck by lightning and
killed.
A destructive flood In reported In
the saltwater Valley. Montana. Five
OF the seven bridges over the Still
,.,s.~ ,r.r< .,urrtnd nttt
In the United States district court
Mt Chicago Judge Lands overruled
the motion OF the Standard OIL com.
pany for a new trial Of the case in
which they were recently convicted
OF rebating.
The sentencing of Mayor Schmitz
OF San Francisco. convicted of extor.
ton, has been postponed by Judge
Dunno. until July s. Schmitz must
remain in jail.
Harry Vaughan. Edward Raymond
and George Ryan. the three convlcts
in the Missouri penitentiary who
killed their guards In desperate at.
tempt to escape. were hanged in the
county Jail at jefferson City.
After hearing the message from
Premier Clcmencean the French wine
growers have voted unanimously to
continue the agitation in the south
of France for laws against wine adul.
teration.
The navy department has sent the
new cruiser Milwaukee to Central
American ports in anticipation Of
trouble. between Salvador and Nicar
angua.
A subcommittee appointed by the
president to consider departmental
reforms has disapproved the service
pension plans for governmental en-
ployes.