Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-01-21
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The principal mine owners in the
Black Hills have declared their inten-
ton to inaugurate the card system and
permanently shut out union labor.
An exhibition of flying machines
be held at Denver soon, accord
ing to the statement of DR.. F. L. Bart
lett. president of the Denver Chamber
of Commerce at Los Angeles.
Jesse H. Tourville. who recently
wrote to the common council OF Lon
don on a method to dispel the fogs by
psychic waves, shot himself at St
Louis a few days since while on
downtown business street. He prob
ably will die.
II. n. Savage. chief engineer of the
United States reclamation service, has
made filings of water rights for more
than $4,000 acres of land on the Flat
head reservation in western Montana,
which will be opened to settlement
next spring.
1t is reported that Denver will short
ly be connected with Wichita. Kas..
and other points east by a line of rail-
road to be built from Sharon Springs.
just across the Kansas line. on the
Kansas Pacific division of the Union
Pacific, to Wichita.
Professor William Robertson. aged
fifty. head Of the Minnesota Asricul-
tural branch school at Crookston, and
recognized as an authority In agricul
tural affairs. was found dead in his
berth on a Great Northern train at
st. Paul. Heart disease was given rs
the cause OF death.
The graders who are building the
Burlington roadbed across the state
hot springs reserve. near Thermopolis.
wyo.. have opened many new flows Of
hot water. the greater number OF them
heavily mineralized. So copious are
some OF the springs that they have in
terfered with grading. although not
seriously.
Aentral Wyoming sheepmen, who
faced determination Of their nocks be-
cause Of the difficulty in getting feed
to the starving animals. have succeed.
ed in securing enough grain and hay
and great caches OF feed have been
made on the range. While losses have
been staggering, It is not thought that
they will be nearly SO severe us had
Deen anticipated.
More than 5000 soldiers will partic-
ipate in encampment maneuvers at
Fort Russell. Cheyenne. next August.
Notice has been received that twenty
seven troops of cavalry. thirty compa-
nies of infantry. six batteries of artll-
lery. hospital and signal corps details
from the regular army will participate
in addition to the militia from several
Eeighboring states.
State Game Warden ID. c. Nowlin of
Wyoming has been informed by ranch.
men of the Jackson Hole country.
south of the Yellowstone park. that
beginning to suffer from short feed.
and that 1t is probable many will
starve before the spring thaw sets in.
The elk and deer have been driven by
the weather and snow from the upper
ranges. and are now finding it hard
picking on the lower ranges. which
were fed over by cattle last fall.
Doubling that Thomas II. Swope.
the millionaire philanthropist who
died at Kansas City October 3rd. came
20 his death by natural causes. rela.
tiSes have started an investigation to
JStermins the exact cause Of his de-
m0f. Attorneys representing the
Swope estate say they are convinced
a deep laid plot existed to kill. first
Colonel Swope and then other mem.
bers of his family. A person who
hoped to become sole beneficiary of
the Swope millions plotted the deaths.
they Assert.