Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-08
GEN ERAL.


Following a plan for retrenchment,
railroads of the country in the last
year have laid off S1,S70 men.
The last of the Forty-niners will say
farewell next month. Because of the
old age of its members. the organiza'
ton will disband.
Latest reports from the Charleston.
dead at fifteen and the property dam
age at two millions.
Elmhurt, Wis, was almost wiped out
by fire which destroyed sawmill,
100000 worth of timber, six stores
and fourteen residences.
Capt. II. E. Honeywell made flight
in Kansas City with four women pas
sengers in balloon, travelling a dis
lance of sixteen miles.
Three men were killed and twenty
five received minor injuries in pool
rom fight at Montana, Ark, n coal
camp near GAINESVILLE.
Efforts to sell few hundred bales
OF August cotton in the market in
New York sent the price down to
l?.2U, or IS points lower
Creations modelled after thoughts
suggested by Chicago's aviation meet
will be the basis for designs foT wo-
mems headwear this winter.
A half hour each day for two weeks
in the beer cooler of st. Louis brew
cry has cured Warren d. Feurst, re-
tired financier, of hay fever.
President Taft in his address before
the American Bar Association, in Bos-
ton. declared emphatically that there
is room for improvement in procedure
in the federal courts.
For the first time in thirty-five
years the people of Mississippi wit
messed a public hanging and it was
one of the biggest days in the history
of Louisville, where the execution
took place.
Following a quarrel over a business
transaction, Pleas Southern, young
farmer living at Stony Fork, KY, near
Middlesboro. fired six shots into the
body of his father. Dave Southern.
killing him instantly.
Shortly before John w. Gates died
in Paris he made a codicil to his will,
in which he left sl.00O.0OO in cash to
his son, Charles G. Gates, together
with trust fund of 100000. Mrs.
Gates gets s37,OO0.OOO.
The money which Col John Jacob
Aston settled upon his fiance, Miss
Madeline Force, in a marriage agree
ment signed at Newport recently, was
$4,000 instead of S2,O00,O00, the
sum at which Newport society had
placed it.
Twenty-four states will be visited by
President Taft on the swing around
the circuit, according to his partly
completed schedule. He will start Sep
TENDER Is and will pass through these
states: Massachusetts,. New York
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Michigan. Illinois.
Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado. Wyoming. Utah, Ne
vada, California, Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Maryland.
Behind the arrest of John Prin. an
opener ana packer III tne government
appraisers stores, in New York, on
The specific charge of stealing $50
worth of merchandise consigned to an
nporter. is the story of the robbery
of Mrs. ]. Pierpont Morgan of a valu
able ring and series of gigantic
swindles operated by government en-
ployes and outsiders. which have al
eady cost importers several hundred
thousand dollars.
So far have plans for President
Tafts Western trip advanced that i'm
mediately l.. c. Wheeler. the advance
guard of the Secret Service. will start
out to make preparations for the Pres
ident's reception on the proposed
trip.
There is concern shown in grocery
circles over the high prices now pre-
vailing in the sugar market. There has
been another advance in granuiated to
s6.25, representing a full cent rise in
the last few weeks. and the highest
level in many years.