Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-01-06
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND soR-
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN.

hc neat SAhdh SulpIueHt Will MANY
1000 cars of cattle sent from Gunni-
son. Colo. to market this season.
Women in Kansas City must muzzle
their hat pins or become law breakers,
liable to a fine of from 81 to $500.
The Los Angeles Times has per-
fected arrangements for the first de-
livery of newspapers by aeroplanes.
H. M. Wells. postmaster at Crete.
Neb., former state senator and for
thirty years active in Republican party
councils. committed suicide.
The city and county OF Denver
spent $167,797.7S to care for its poor
in the year ending November 3Oth. ac-
cording to report Of county clerk.
Luther Burbank has announced the
creation OF strawberry Of new type
the Patagonia" which commences to
ripen first and continues to bear the
longest.
Edward Tracy was arrested in
I:utte. Mont. after chase Of a year
and is charged with an unusual Of
fense against. the statutes. namely.
stealing the same horse twice.
The body Of man forty years old
was found In Paola, Kans.. In a car
loaded with bricks. In his pocket was
found a receipt from fraternal lodge
at Anadarko. Okla, bearing the name
Il W. o. Bruce. ...
Eighteen feet Of gold ore worth SIS
FER ton is the verified report Of the
big strike made recently at the Ital-
ian mine. belonging to the Leesburg
Mining Company. about twenty miles
from Salamon City. Idaho. The min.
ers predict a stampede.
,Aeroplane racing. probably the most
thrilling Of all aerial sports. was ini.
tiated in Los Angeles. Eugene Ely,
In sixty-horsepower Curtiss racer.
started from scratch with Philip o.
Parmalee. In the baby Wright" and
defeated him by half a mile in an
SA.mile contest.
England and France. in a speed
coalition, defeated America at Los An
geles. in the first aerial derby ever run.
,as. Radley. the British speed cham.
pion. in a French Bleriot monoplane.
beat Eugene Ely. driving n Curtis
racer. and Phil Parmalee. in baby"
Wright, In an eight and three-quarter
miles race.
Two men are known to be dead.
four others are believed to have per-
Ished. at least fifty men. women and
children were injured, and a number
OF small houses were wrecked by an
explosion OF nearly 1000 pounds OF
powder in a huge Stag pile at the Ell
faso plant Of the American Smelling
a. Refining Company.
The Dorit tunnel. Idaho Springs.
has succeeded in recovering in the
deep tunnel levels the ore body mined
IN the surface workings OF the Dorit
mine. The streak was found by cross
cutting to the porphyry contact where
the ore was found. The streak meas
ures from eighteen inches to three
feet. all marketable material and por-
tions of the streak will run $40 per
ten.
holder OF the present worlds altitude
record Of 11.47i feet. flew over Mount
Wilson. the highest peak Of the noun.
tain range which rims the valley In
which Los Angeles, Pasadena and the
towns of the Orange belt lie. Under
ideal weather conditions he scared
10.005 feet into the sky and cleared the
crest of Mount Wilson with 1900 feet
to spare. and returning here. landed
safely. but nearly frozen.
In support of a motion for new
trial for James McLachlan. convicted
Of murder in the first degree for kill
ing his wife in Cheyenne, his counsel
has produced affidavits Of a physician.
a police sergeant and newspaper re-
porter. stating that few minutes aft
er the shooting McLachlan. who had
shot himself with suicidal intent,
made to them what, he considered
dying statement. asserting that he had
shot his wife In self-defense, after she
had attacked him with butcher
knife.