Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-21
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL 8
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN q 9, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERiNGs, HOPES
~ ANpFEARs OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Union carpenters. estimated to num-
ber about 1000 struck at Portland.
Ore. for an increase of so cents per
day in pay.
A fall OF rock in a slope on the 600-
foot level Of the Homestake mine at
Lead, s. D.. killed Gust T. Beckrath
and seriously injured Ben Battson.N
Joseph Hammil. aged 30. recently
escaped from Colorado penitentiary.
where he was serving time for muir
der. was arrested at Assumption. Ill.
Former Gov. G. w. Click of Kansas
died at his home in Topeka. aged 81.
Mr.. Click was governor Of Kansas in
1885 and served several terms as
a member Of the Legislature.
Judge W. s. Kenyon, progressive
and government "trust-buster" was
elected to the Dolliver seat in the
United States Senate from Iowa, on
the sixty-seventh joint ballot.
The exodus Of negroes from Oklaho-
ma to Alberta. Canada, which started
several months ago, Is continuing, de-
spite the fact that 1t is not being en-
couraged by the Canadian government.
The steamship Northwestern ar
rived In Seattle from Cordova. Alaska.
bringing the first cargo Of copper ore
from the mainland Of Alaska, and was
greeted with the noise and color be-
fitting the magnitude Of the event.
A long hatpin cost William Peppers,
gateman at the Union station. at Oma-
ha. an eye and came near piercing
his brain and killing him. when a
fashionably dressed woman pushed
her way past him. the pin penetrating
his eye.
Sabine Rarebit. a fox terrier. owned
by Thomas Plant OF the Sabine ken
nels OF Orange. Tex, was awarded
the H. S. Blake cup as the best dog
exhibited in the twenty-seventh an
nual show OF the New England Ken
mel Club in Boston.
Gov. Cruce iof Oklahoma issued a
statement endorsing the state bank
guaranty law. deploring the opposi-
ton Of national banks to the law. and
threatening II this opposition does not
cease to remove all state deposits
from national banks.
Twenty.three persons are reported
dead. at least a hundred injured. two
towns practically swept away, scores
of buildings demolished and thousands
of dollars worth of property dam.
aged as the result OF tornado that
ragged in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Implicated by the confession Of Joe
Virgins, a former life convict. VIII
Rogers. uncle Of little Waldo Rogers.
has been arrested for completely In th.
lads abduction from Las Vegas, n. NJ.
For his return $4,000 ransom was
paid, VIII Rogers acting as agent for
Mrs. Rogers.
II William J. Bryan would be worth
| 100000 to Memphis. Tenn. as an ad-
vertisement, the Omaha Commercial
Club thinks that "Jim" Dahlman. the
cowboy mayor of Omaha. ought to be
worth 81. 500, 900. and has suggested to
the Southern city that she might get
him for that sum. .. ...
The vacation camp of the Kearney.
Neb, military school Will be estab-
lished at Mast, a station on the Colo
rado Midland. $50 miles west Of Den
yer. June 2Sth. and will continue until
| July 2sth. This will be the first time
that an Eastern school has maintained
summer camp in Colorado.
That the Mexican government has
the revolution well in hand is the be.
lief Of Major X. L. Hirst, formerly
chief of staff OF the Department of
Colorado. who returned to Denver
from the frontier. where he has been
stationed for several months with the
United States troops.