Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-01-29

OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS,

WESTERN NEWS.
The Oklahoma City Automobile AS
sociation has pledged 10000 for the
construction of twenty-five-mile
speedway around the city.
The National Wool Growers Asso-
ciation at Pocatello selected Ogden as
ITS next place of meeting and reelected
President Fred w. Gooding.
John c. Morgan Of Denver, who for
years has been travelling engineer of
the Mexican International railroad
died at the City of Mexico on the 18th
inst from injuries recently received in
q wreck.
Consideration of bills denying jap
anese the right to own land or to be
directors of corporations was delayed
for one week by the California Assem-
bly, on the Goth inst. at the request
Of President Roosevelt and Governor
Gillett.
A permanent bureau at Washington
for the purpose Of opposing measures
that may be offered In Congress to
have the tariff reduced on any Ameri-
can products, particularly wool. will be
maintained by the National Wool
Growers Association.
United States District Judge Ander-
son at Chicago has set February 23rd
for beginning the retrial OF the rebate
case against the Standard OIL Com
pany Of Indiana. This Is the case in
which Judge Landis' fine OF $29, FAC. 900
was reversed by the appellate court.
The charter Of the Mountain. Valley
& Plains Railroad Company. with
capital stock of 100000. has been
filed In Austin. Its purpose is to build
a railroad across the Panhandle Of
Texas. a distance OF 40 miles. Its
principal office is at Higgins. Tex.
A bill has been introduced In the Ok
lahoma Legislature taxing corporations
on their income to create a fund for
the payment Of accident and old age
pensions. Railroads are taxed one
fourth Of one per cent. Of their earn
ings. and ordinary corporations 1 per
cent.
Announcement has been made at Sc
attic by Great Northern officials that
beginning about March LIST the Hill
line will inaugurate a new passenger
service from Seattle to Kansas City
via Billings. Mont, and the Burling-
ton. This will duplicate the present
Seattle-Kansas City Burlington service
Of daily trains over the Northern Pa
cific.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef. con-
victed Of bribery In San Francisco.
who was sentenced to fourteen years
In San Quentin upon a conviction for
Hx~th hov ~ H.
tional thirty days to complete the bill
Of exceptions upon appeal from the
verdict and judgment. The court
had previously permitted twenty days
for this purpose.
The lrmbermen's conventian at Min
neapolis went on record In favor of a
reduction Of first-class postage to 1
cent per ounce, also as opposing the
passage Of the parcels post law In any
shape as 1t would be only the first step
toward the transportation OF merchan-
disc by the government, and would be
disadyantageous to the interests Of re-
tail merchants.
The third annual meeting of the
Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress.
to be held at Cheyenne. Wyoming, Feb
ruary 23rd, gath and 25th, promises to
be a great success. Already LOU
delegates from the United States. Mex
leo, Canada, and even faraway Aus
tralia, Chilli and the Argentine Repub-
lie have signified their several inten- |
tions to attend, and the people OF wy
oming Rave planned to spend $1,000 in |
the special entertainment OF the Visi-
tors.
The announcement comes from Fort |
Worth. Texas. that the Hill interests
will put on the longest through SER
vice In the world June 1st. The trains, |
which will have magnificent equip |
ment, will run direct from Galveston.
Texas to Seattle, Wash. During the
journey, which will likely take five
days, passengers will not be required |
to change cars at any time. The tram
will run over the Texas Brazos Val
ley, the Fort Worth & Denver City, the
Colorado & Southern roads to Denver
and thence on to the Pacific coast |
over the Burlington and the Great
Northern.