The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-03-09

no chance of escape, the victims were
enveloped in the mighty mass tina
came tumbling and roaring down thu
mountainside. They were caught il
the irresistible mass of earth an(
snow; they were hurled over the side
of a 2O0-foot precipice and were
buried beneath hundreds of thousand!
of tons of debris.
Oriental Limited, train No. g, cas-
bound, on the Great Northern rail
road, was the third train to fall {
victim to an avalanche of snow anc
rocks in two days, being wrecked
One person was killed and IL others
were injured, some of them seriously
The entire train escaped plungine
down a 5O-foot embankment Is miles
east of Spokane, Wash, by narrow
margin.
John D. Rockefeller has decided tc
give his vast accumulation of wealth
for the benefit Of his fellow man
Under the provisions of a bill intro
duced in the senate by Senator Jacob
H. Gallinger of New Hampshire the
oil king seeks federal incorporation
act for his wealth, with a view to dis
tributing it under proper supervision
for the good of mankind. The object
of the foundation is to provide for a
general organization to conduct phi
lanthropic work among all lines.
None the worse for two serious
operations at the Johns Hopkins hos
pital, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood is
again able to get around, and hopes
to leave the hospital on Saturday. He
will return to Governors island.
At least 1000 person are homeless
in Ohio as result of the flood, which
continues to devastate the state
Numerous plants have been forced tC
close down. Material damage is esti
mated at over $1,000,000.
A serious split is said to have oc-
Cured in the ranks of New York suf-
fragists because Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont
has retained lobbyist to work for
suffrage at Albany. Mrs. Clarence
Mackay has Joined the faction oppos-
ing Mrs. Belmont.
Walter Brown, former banker of
Elkhart, Ind, was released from the
federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan,
at the expiration of six-year sentence
for his connection with the wrecking
of the First National bank of Elkhart.
Mrs. Grace Gayou, 10 years old,
was shot and killed at a Kansas City
store by Louis Hillson, who killed
himself after he had beaten Jack
Doyle, a rival for Mrs. Gayou's affec-
tions.
Marooned for seven days by snow
slides in the Cascade mountains, the
Seattle & Spokane limited train on
the Great Northern railroad was
struck by an avalanche near Wei
lington, Wash, and was swept down
the mountainside into a gorge, and
was buried under tons of timber,
earth and snow. At least % passen-
gers, possibly 40, that were on the
train when it left Spokane, were
killed. The major portion of the
town of Wellington was reported car
ried away with loss of about 60
lives.
President Taft summoned Senator
Aldrich, Speaker Cannon and Senator
Crane to the White House and after
an extended conference the following
agreemnts were arrived at: That the
postal savings bank, the railroad, the
statehood. the injunction and the con-
servation bills are to be considered in
the order named, so far as is pos.
sible, and rushed to speedy passage.
Gradually the casualty list of the
battles between the Nicaraguan gov
eminent and insurgent forces of lis
ma and Tipitapa has increased, until
now it is estimated that not less than
225 men were killed and $50 wounded
Attorneys for Clifford Pinchot may
demand the presence of President
House conferences bearing on the
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, accord.
ing to a Washington dispatch.
Though Ohio's inland rivers are re-
ceding the flooding of score of cities
and towns has cost at least one life,
CduSSu serious Train wreck, udUldS6u
property to the extent of hundreds of
thousands and has made homeless
hundreds Of Ohioans.
Warrants were issued in Jersey
City for the arrest on a charge Of
criminal conspiracy in restraint Of
trade of the 81 directors of the beef
trust who were indicted. The war
rants call for the immediate appre-
hension of the men whom the Hudson
county grand jury believe are re-
sponsible for the high price on beef.
Among them are millionaire members
of the Swift, Armour and Morris fami
lies of Chicago.
Representatives from Wall street
flooded the internal revenue collectors
office at New York with applications
bearing on the new corporation tax
law, tho time limit for which expires
March 1.
BY vote of ten to eight the house
committee on interstate commerce