Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-01-28
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

Several hundred persons were made
homeless and property valued at about
$75O.OOO was destroyed when a large
ice gorge in White river broke at
Decker, Ind, on the night of the 18th
inst.
A remarkable rumor speading like
wildfire over Chicago that leprosy had
been discoYered in stores dealing in
hair goods in Chicago. was formally
exploded by Health Commissioner
Evans, who declared it to be absolute
ly without foundation.
Wholesale arrests of Iowa bankers
may follow discovery made today by
Auditor of State Bleakley that state
and savings banks are evading assess
ments by sending large sums Of money
to Chicago just before the assessor
makes his annual visit.
On the night Of January 21st Mis-
souri, Pacific train. en- route from Kan
sas City to St Louis, was held up
and robbed by four masked men one
mile east of Eureka and thirty miles
from ST. Louis. They rifled twenty
five bags of registered mail.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
company has paid its semi-annual divi-
dend Of 2,i per cent on its $5O.0O0.O00
preferred stock. amounting to $780,
900. The dividends are distributed to
stockholders in all parts OF the United
States and in several European coun-
tries.
John r. Walsh. the aged banker. has
begun serving his five years sentence
at the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan. for misapplying the funds
OF the Chicago National bank. He will
be set at work as special clerk for the
librarian Of the prison and will help
to recatalogue the books.
Reports received at Cheyenne from
Basin. Cody. Meeteetse. Kirby, Garland
and other points In Northern Wyoming
indicate that the losses OF sheep from
recent storm will reach 10 per cent.
Stock Of all kinds Is greatly weakened.
and further storms might cause the
greatest loss in the history Of the
state.
At large gathering Of Nebraska
'insurgent" Republicans at Lincoln.
the speakers denounced the tariff law
and severely criticised Senator Al
drich and Speaker Cannon. At the
same time. they declared their faith
in President Taft. whom they regard
ed as the victim Of conditions. Roose-
velt's name was loudly cheered.
In order to prevent social caste in
the public schools and the bitterness
and heartaches among children be-
cause some dress more elaborately
than others, Mayor Doty OF Waterloo.
Iowa, proposes to push a bill in the
Iowa Legislature to put public school
children in uniform. This, he holds.
would do away with all the trouble.
Running at high speed in an effort
to make up lost time, q Northern Pa
cific westbound passenger train which
left St Paul on the 18th. left the track
one mile east OF Blue Grass. N. ID. All
eight cars OF the train. containing 100
passengers, were thrown into the
ditch, with the two engines. None Of
the passengers were killed, but many
were injured.
The Appellate Court at Chicago has
rendered q decision upholding the
lower court in the case OF David Beggs
against the supreme lodge Of the Cath.
oiic knights and Ladies' Of America.
The order had refused payment Of a
death benefit on the claim that the
member was above the age limit pro-
vided in the bylaws. The lower court
held that the acceptance by the finan-
cial secretary Of the local lodge OF the
dues waived the rights OF the order
% refuse payment on that ground.