The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-09-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Commander Peary arrived at Battle
Harbor, Labrador, and sent brief
summary of his discovery Of the north
pole. In earlier messages he declared
DR.. Frederick Cook never found the
pole and quoted the Eskimos as proof
of his assertion. DR.. Cook in COpen-
hagen, replied that he had been there,
believed Peary also succeeded and de-
clared he would produce his proof at
the proper time.
A report received in New York said
a surgical operation had been per-
formed on Edward H. Hartman. At
his home in Arden. no such informa
ton was given out and on the con-
trary it was asserted that his con-
dition had greatly improved.
DR.. G. A. Fritch, prominent physi-
picion of knowing something about
the murder of Maybelle Millman,
whose dismembered body was found
in two sacks in a creek.
Judge Babst at Bucyrus, O., appoint
ed George w. Whysall receiver and
Eli West co-receiver of the Columbus,
Marion and Bucyrus Electric railway,
operating between Bucyrus and Ma
riOn.
Nearly 1000 soldiers of the war
with Spain, representing nearly every
state in the union were in Tacoma,
WASH, for the sixth annual encamp-
ment of the United Spanish War Vet
Grams,
At it's annual convention in Birming-
ham, Ala, the Farmers union decid-
ed to ask congress to remove the tar
if on jute bagging, the union also de-
pying that minimum price of Is
cents on cotton had been agreed upon.
In the Oklahoma state suit to pre-
vent the piping of natural gas to Kan
sas, the attorney general for Okla
homa has filed an amended answer
and motion to dissolve the injunc-
ton recently granted the Natural Gas
Company of Kansas, and other cor
porations.
Mount Robson, the highest peak in
the Canadian Rockies, was climbed
successfully August 10 by Rev. George
Kinney of Victoria, B. c., according
to an announcement made at Winni-
peg.
Excitement has been caused in Hon
duras by rumor that the United
States is preparing to establish a pro.
tectorate over the republic.
Henry Hill, negro who attacked
Miss Nettie Jones near Langham,
La, was captured by a mob and
drowned in the creek near the scene
of his attempted crime. y
Rat clubs are suggested to the Colo
RADIO Federation of Women's clubs by
Wilbur F.. Cannon, state pure food
commissioner, as a means of remov-
ing the rodent pest.
United Spanish War Veterans
opened their sixth national encamp-
ment at Tacoma, Wash. Chicago seeks
the next encampment.
Bandits who attacked the post office
at Mass, in Samara province Russia,
escaped with $4,000 after killing four
officers.
Col. Reuben l.. Fox, a prominent
Republican politician of New York,
was thrown from an automobile and
killed near Newburg.
Thomas Patterson was arrested at
Charlotte, Mich, charged with at.
tempting to wreck a Pere Marquette
train at Mulliken.
President Taft reviewed the mem.
bers of the Essex county (Mass.) post
G. A. r., at their annual muster in
Beverly.
Congressman Cooper in an address
at Rochester, Wis, branded Speaker
Cannon as an enemy to popular gov.
eminent.
Detectives from various cities will
be at New Orleans during the Lakes.
to-the-Gulf Waterway convention, DC.
tober 80 to November 2, to guard Presi.
dent Taft and other prominent men.
Plans for the new French embassy
at Washington have been completed
by M. Bernier, Paris architect.