Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-11-25
GEN ERAI.

96.S15, according to the thirteenth
census statistics.
Fire destroyed the business sestion
Louis; loss 100000.
The population of the state of Flori.
da is ISL ,139, an increase of 42.1 per
cent. or 222,597 over 52s,542 In 1900.
Arizona, according to the new cen
sus has a population of 204,354, a
gain in ten years of sixty-six per cent.
The Iowa State University football
team won from the Washington uni
versity in ST. Louis, by score of IS
to 0. 80"
The known death roll at the
Delagua, Colo, mine disaster now
reaches the appalling total of seventy.
nine.
]. Ogden Armour of Chicago, says
the whole tendency in the prices Of
stock yard products Is toward lower
schedule.
When the next New York state Leg
islature convene sat Albany a bill will
be introduced legalizing public boxing
exhibitions.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook has finally
decided to emerge from his retreat"
and press his claims as the real dis
coverer of the North Pole.
The presence of fifteen Mexican
secret service men in Laredo, Tex,
shows the Diaz government is alive to
the danger of a border uprising.
The population of San Francisco is
416,912, according to the thirteenth
census This is an increase OF 74.13O.
or 21.6 per cent over 342.7S2 in 1900.
A premature explosion Of dynamite
killed two men and injured three
others, one probably fatally. at camo
Estimates OF the number filled In
the fight between soldiers and police
on one side and revolutionists on the
other at Puebla, Mexico. are placed at
100.
Four men, the crew Of the sea-going
tug Sea Prince. were drowned in San
Francisco bay. when the British steam
er Greystoke Castle rammed and sank
the tug.
The population OF the state Of Ala.
bama Is 2.l3S.093. as enumerated In
the Thirteenth census. This Is an In
crease OF 309.396. or 16.9 per cent over
1.s2S.G97 In 1900.
River authorities in Paris announce
that the flood has reached its turning
point and may be expected to drop
steadily for two or three days unless
bad weather sets in.
The mining town OF Clifton has won
over Duncan in the fight for county
seat honors of the new county Of
Greenlee, Arizona. which borders on
Grant county. New Mexico.
A disastrous wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania. resulting in the death Of n loco
motive engineer and two firemen and
the injury of three other trainmen. oc-
CURED at Altoona
A negro named Walker. who killed
Marshal Charles X. Bush Of Montezu.
ma. Ca, two weeks ago. was taken
from the Macon Jail by a mob and
lynched.
The recall proposition as recon-.
mended by the majority report OF the
committee. was adopted by the Ari-
zona constitutional convention. 81 to
IL.
English. German and French banks
will participate in a loan of fifty mil.
lion dollars which an American syndi
cate will make to China. An agree.
ment to this effect has been signed.
Entering El Paso as silently as an
Arab troop, the construction crew Of
the Paulson Wireless Telegraph Com
pany. with a force OF twenty men. is
preparing to install n wireless tele-
graph station in that city.
Twelve hundred school teachers
from all parts Of Luzerne county.
Pennsylvania, have voted to unionize
and Join the American Federation of
Labor In an effort to obtain higher
wages and better conditions.
Robin J. Cooper was given n verdict
Of not guilty in the criminal court OF
Nashville. for the alleged murder of
former Senator Edward W. Carmack
Thus was brought to a close the final
chapter in one OF the most celebrated
cases In the annals of the courts OF
Tennessee.
Oklahoma City lost in the state capi-
tol fight when the Supreme Court de-
cided that the seat of the state gov
ernment must remain in Guthrie. The
court held that the election on the
amendment to remove the capitol to
Oklahoma City was void, because OF
defects in the title Of the ballot.
A balloon flight from the Pacific to
the Atlantic coast, as proposed by the
Association OF International Aero
nautical Pilots. at its annual meeting
in Boston a few weeks ago. will be at.
tempted next year as the result of an