Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-05

Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the
United States, favors a direct proper
tional tax on incomes. He also fayors
an inheritance tax.
ARIZONA has just passed a new elec-
ton law, requiring an educational quail
ification. To be allowed to vote in that
territory, hereafter, a man must know
how to read and write.
The Servian government has given
orders that until further notice no
passports are to be issued to men un-
DER forty-five years of age. The OBJ
ject of this measure is to keep all men
OF military age at home.
The county commissioners of Mesa
county have awarded the contract for
the building Of a bridge across the
Grand river at Vineland to the NJ. ].
Patterson Contracting Company Of
Denver. 1t will cost nearly $4,000.
Near Guayaquil, Ecuador, February
24th, a passenger train was thrown
over cliff 100 feet high at a point
near Rio Bamba and crashed to the
bottom of the ravine. twenty-five
persons were killed and forty injured.
Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, rector
of the Church of the Holy Apostles
at Philadelphia, has decided to accept
the bishopric of Wyoming which was
proffered him by the house of bish-
ops. 1t will be fully a month before
he will be consecrated.
Wall street has further evidence of
the big investment demand for bonds
which has kept up for year in the
announcement that an additional $5,-
100000 Denver & Rio Grande first and
refunding per cent. bonds had been
largely oversubscribed.
At Pau. France, on the 25th ult.,
Orville Wright made his first ascen-
sion since the accident at Fort Meyer.
in which he was severely injured. Ac-
companied by his sister, he was a pas
senger in the balloon Icarus, which
was piloted by Marquis de Kergariou.
A ruling Of Judge Anderson In the
Standard OIL rebate case in Chicago
is interpreted as cutting down the pos
sible fine from 32s. .240. 900 to $720.O00.
1t makes each Of the thirty-six settle
hehtS sepdiute OlleHSe 1uSttdu OI
each Of the 1,462 car lots.
While in Africa President Roosevelt
will not only visit a number OF mis-
sions. but will make addresses giving
his observations when he returns to
this county. according to a statement
made at Chicago by Bishop Joseph G.
Hartzell. who recently visited the
President.
Judge Gary OF the United States
Steel Corporation has again issued a
denial of the persistent rumors that
a cut In the wages of the corporations
100000 employees on or about April LIST
had been decided upon. The proposi-
ton has not even been considered. he
daclared.
The estimated population OF New
York Is 4.422.Gs5. according to Health
Commissioner Thomas Darlington's an
nual report, just issued. The Increase
during 1908 was 137.25O. The number
OF deaths during 1908 was 73.072.
There were 4.l40 more births than the
year before and decrease Of 1886 In
the number Of marriages.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, Sr.. has
given more than 100000 for the
erection Of four model tenements in
New York for persons suffering with
tuberculosis. The buildings are to be
operated in connection with DR.. Henry
l.. Shivley's tuberculosis clinic Of the
Presbyterian Hospital. A moderate
rental will be charged tenants.
Frenchmen are considerably excited
over the action Of the son sof Ger
man banker in buying n large tract OF
land in France. Three senators have
brought before the state the outlines
of bill forbidding henceforth the sale
OF any part OF French territory to for
eigners without the express authorize
ton OF the government
The English suffragettas. who ere
atad a disturbance while trying to
reach Premier Asquith with a peti-
ton, have been sentenced to impris-
onment, most OF the terms being for
one month. Sentences were imposed
on twenty-eight women, many Of
them prominent society leaders. They
went proudly and cheerfully to jail.