Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-11-20
WESTERN NEWS.


Fire at Prescott, Ariz. Wednesday
night destroyed theYavapai club house
and contents, valued at 100000.
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews OF
the University of Nebraska has ten
dered his resignation to take effect
January 1st.
Forest fires which have been rag
ing between Evansville. Indiana, and
Cairo, Illinois, for the last week. have
already caused loss of 100000.
David Decamp Thompson. editor OF
the Northwestern Christian Advocate,
died at St. Louis on the 10th inst. from
the effects of an automobile accident.
At their meeting in New York on the
11th inst, directors of the Colorado Il
Southern Railway Company declared
an initial dividend of . per cent. on It's
common stock.
Orville Wright, the famous aviator,
has enlisted the support of Russell a.
Alger, the Detroit capitalist and son OF
the late Senator Alger, and an aero
plane factory will be built in Detroit.
Selling pools on horse races and
maintenance of betting rings at race
tracks are under the ban of the law in
the state of Washington. according to
a decision of the State Superior Court
just handed down.
Contrary to every expectation. the
voters OF Minnehaha county, South
Dakota, returned n majority OF 14i
for the new law. which will cripple
the South Dakota divorce industry
centered in that county.
The Union Pacific is said to have
perfected n wireless telegraph device
to be placed in the engine cab by which
danger signals may be transmitted to
the engineer at any point when the
train is in motion, bell and red light
being used.
The names Of twenty Nebraska
newspaper men holding Western
Union telegraph franks have been
certified up to the attorney general
by the State Railway Commission for
prosecution under the anti-discrimina'
ton clause OF the commission act.
Among the defendants are leaders In
both political parties.
The January Mining Company has
sued the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Min
ing Company In Idaho for the recovery
of $1,000, 900. alleged to be value OF ore
taken from n disputed vein in the last
three years. and for the control OF the
famous Wardner vein, from which tens
OF millions of dollars worth OF ore has
been extracted.
A permit for the construction OF
what the architects say will be the
largest Office building In the world was
secured Wednesday in Chicago. The
building will be erected for the Peo-
pies Gas. Light & Coke Company and
will stand at Adams street and Michi-
gan avenue. 1t will be twenty stories
high and will contain 100000 cubic
feet of air space.
V. z. Reed of Colorado Springs. ]. Il.
McKinnie, X. p. Davie and o. II. Shoup.
backing the Southwestern Sugar &
Land Company. have started planting
thousands OF acres Of sugar beetS for
winter growth near Phoenix. Ariz
Their plant near Phoenix cost SS5O,O0O
and $150,OO0 additional will be ex-
pended thereon before the first run Is
made. The capacity is 500 tons day.
One of the most unique drives in the
history OF the Northwest occurred at
Wenalthee, Wash. on the 10th inst. in
which more than coo participated. and
fifty coyotes and hundreds OF jack
rabbits were killed. Five hundred of
the hunters were mounted. the other
100 being afoot. The great roundup
was made on Hell's Half Acre and
Beaver creek in Douglas county and
nj the final scene of slaughter on the
banks of the Columbia river. hundreds
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