Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-12-17
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Isadore Newman, millionaire phil
Anthropist, who died week ago, re-.
membered the Jewish hospital for con-
sumptives at Denver. Colo, in his will
for $1,000.
The highest price ever paid for hogs
at the South Omaha market is $S.4O
per hundred, which was paid for a
carload received December 9th from
Western Iowa. They averaged 275
pounds each.
Two carloads of steers from Maple
Hill. Kan, sold at $10.50 a hundred
pounds at the Kansas City stockyards
December 9th, the highest price ever
paid on the open market at that point.
The cattle were Herefords, two years
old, and weighed an average of 1,443
pounds.
A report received in Denver OF the
work accomplished by BILLY" Sunday.
the evangelist, at Cedar Rapids. Ia.
states that during the meetings there
he effected over 5000 conversions.
At the conclusion he was presented
with purse Of $1.05O. while his sing
ers and helpers were given gold
watches.
With the reply filed In the case OF
Dunsmuir vs.. Dunsmuir. arrangements
are now being made at Victoria. B. c..
for the trial which will involve fight
between the heirs OF the late Mrs.
Joan Dunsmuir and the retiring lieu
tenant governor. James Dunsmuir. for
recovery OF an estate valued at be-
tween $l5.O0O.000 and $lS.0OO.0oO.
The union job printers OF Seattle
on the 9Th inst. presented to their EN-
ployers q new scale calling for a re-
duction OF hours from eight to seven
and a half and an increase Of wages
from $24 to SIS q week. The employ
ers rejected the scale and announced
that they would suspend business
rather than pay II.
Upon Pixies Peak there has Just
been established by the United States
an experiment station of forestry, the
first OF It's kind in Colorado and .he
second In the country. The station
will serve the same interests in the
forestry division Of the government
as the agricultural experiment sta
tions in the agricultural department.
The washakie hotel at Thermopo,is
is the first building In Wyoming to be
equipped with a heating system which
requires no attention and will MAIN
tain an equitable heat from years nud
to years end II desired. II uses hot
water type from the state hot springs
near town. instead Of the customary
furnace and boiler. A similar system
is being installed In the state building
on the hot springs reserve.
At a public auction sale at Austin.
Tex. resulting from the late antitrust
suit and custer proceedings, the prop
erty of the waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany was sold to s. W. Fordyce and
associates Of st. Louis. The price bid
was $1.431.7il. The property of the Sc
curity OIL Company was bought by
John Sealey of Galveston for sS5.000
and that Of the Navarro Refining Com
pany OF Corsicana was also sold to
Sealey for $750.000. Sixty cars OF the
Union Tank Line Company were
bought by Mr.. Sealey for $4,000.
The trial at Los Angeles of Albert
Ryan. formerly an organizer for the
Western Federation Of Miners. who
killed two men and wounded a third
in a Los Angeles hotel on the night OF
July Is last. came to an abrupt end
ing in the Superior Court on the 9th
inst. when Ryan pleaded guilty to
murder in the first degree. This plea
means hanging or life imprisonment.
Ryan was adjudged sane by a jury.
His victims were Otto Miller and Har-
~ +. Snyder OF Colorado Springs.