Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-04-23
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WESTERN NEWS.

Judge George w. Bailey, former JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of Colorado,
died at his home in Fort Collins April
18th from diabetis.
w. A. Harris, former United States
senator for Kansas. has declined the
position of president of the Colorado
N,te Agricultural College.
Several thousand slot machines in
San Francisco. into which it was de-
clared mere than $1.OOO.OOO month is
placed will be abolished after July 1st.
The highest price paid for cash
wheat in st. Louis in thirty-one years
was reported on the 14th inst, when
sales Of No. red were made at $1.47
to $1.5O.
Governor johnson of Minnesota has
signed the anti-cigarette bill which
makes 1t a misdemeanor to manufac-
ture. sell or give away cigarettes or
cigarette papers within the state.
Hogs reached the highest local mar
ket quotations since 1898 at the Ma
tional stockyards In East St. Louis on
the 18th inst. The best grades sold
for 500 hundred weight.
More than $50 Des Moines. Ia,
school children have signed a petition
to Theodore Roosevelt asking him to
change his mind and not kill defense
les wild animals In Africa. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Baird, secretary OF t.e Humane
society. will send It to Mr.. Roosevelt.
A prohibition bill has passed the
Missouri House for passenger trains.
L. tnU f,,l tn ri
intoxicating liquors on passenger
trains in Missouri or to ride on n
passenger train In an intoxicated con-
dition. The penalty Is a fine Of from
IS to s25.
The District Court OF Appeals at
San Francisco has granted a new trial
to Louis Glass. vice president Of the
Pacific States Telegraph & Telephone
Company. Glass was the first man
convicted in the bribery graft cases
eand was sentenced to five years In the
sbenitentiary. He has been OUT on bail.
It is stated that an army balloon
corps will be used during the maneu-
vers ut Fort Des Moines Sept. goth to
2Gth. The aeronaut drills will be un.
der the direction OF Captain Ouray and
the equipment will include diriSible
balloon Of latest model. Attacks upon
an imaginary battleship will be made.
Donald Boyd was convicted at Mount
Vernon, WASH. on the 10th inst. Of
Seattle lumberman, In the woods near
Bow last autumn. with the intention
Of holding him for a ransom. Un-
der the statute Boyd will receive an
indeterminate sentence OF from to
20 years in the penitentiary.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company has applied to the
Kansas railroad commission for ger
mission to isuc s73.OO0.O0O common
stock. The Chicago. Rock Island Il
Pacific railway also has asked permis-
to take up the Choctaw, Oklahoma &
Gulf equipment trust bonds.
The lower house Of the Missouri leg
islature, by n vote OF Sc to 81. passed
resolution to submit a prohibition
constitutional amendment to the vote
Of the people November, 1910. The
measure must be acted on by the Sem
ate. II tho amendment Is adopted 1t
will close all saloons. breweries and
iistilleries in the state. 1t is to take
fleet January /, 1913.
cit is stated that an Investigation con-
icted by the Des Moines Tubercular
Esociation, at Des Moines. Ia. has re-
ibte1 in the discovery that six out Of
cry ten children examined are In.
ted with tuberculosis. The major
of the cases are inclpient, but In
any the disease has progressed far.
ne association is considering estab-
shing a children's tubercular camp
ais summer. 1t Is proposed to isolate
infected children to prevent further
eread of the disease.
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