Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-17
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Col. Oscar e. Learned, pioneer, and
one of the founders of the Republican
party in Kansas, died at Lawrence.
aged seventy-nine.
correspondence course in prosely-
ting, for missionaries has been ar
ranged by officials Of the Mormon
church at Salt Lake City.
i1father Murphy, who for years en-
gagged in a contest with Bishop Bona
cum for the possession of the Catholic
parish at Seward, Neb., was killed in
an automobile accident.
All records for youthful marriages in
South Dakota were broken when Coun-
ty Judge Russell at Deadwood united
Albert Holley, miner, and Ada Cong
don, aged thirteen, of Lead.
Several persons were injured and
residents of Niles Calf, thrown into
a panic when herd of 800 steers.
Enlightened by a switch engine. STAN
peded through the business district.
John Smith. for thirty years presid-
ing patriarch of the Mormon church,
and nephew of its founder and first
president, Joseph Smith, died in Salt
Lake, OIdn, dStu SeNehty-hihc
Col. james Lambert, owner of the
Pecos ranch, in Texas, plans to use
an aeroplane to rid his ranch, which
covers an area of several thousand
square miles, of wolves, panthers and
other wild animals that last year
caused losses of $4,000.
Seventeen of the twenty-one bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal churches
of the world met in Denver for the
annual meeting of the general com
mittee of home missions and church
extension, which is the supreme con-
trolling body of the church.
Arthur Nets and his brother-in-law.
Albert Caswell, both of Ocosta, Wash i,
fought a good oldfashioned duel with
revolvers. The duel was prearranged
and took place early in the morning.
Belts was wounded. but not seriously.
In the arm. When Caswell drew blood.
7 Ale duel was ended.
Aviator Galbraith p. Rodgers. aD-
preaching a successful completion of
his ocean to ocean jaunt across the
American continent, scared into Pasa-
dena, Calf, at a mile a minute clip
on the last squirt Ol lHlTty hileo iiohi
Pomona, and dropped from an altitude
of several thousand feet to graceful
landing. He will fly to the coast. land
ing. at the edge of the Pacific ocean.
His official record for the trip is 1921
miles in 1924 inmates.
Petitions are being circulated in
Shady Bend, Kan, asking that the
sending out of reports of the tar and
feather case, which has gone to trial,
be prohibited for the sake of the hon
or of the community. The trial of four
teen men charged with the tarring o.
Miss Mary Chamberlain, school
teacher of Shady Bend, last summer, is
being held in the District Court be-
fore Judge Dallas Grover.
The controversy between Mrs. Car
rie E. Cope of Topeka and Bishop
David II. Moore of the Methodist Epis-
coral church reached a crisis when
suit was filed in the Shawnee county,
Kan, District Court by Mrs. Cope
against the bishop for s50.0O0 dam
ages. Mrs. Cope alleges that letter
by Bishop Moore was calculated to
injure her las citizen, as a wife. as
mother and as a Christian She
declares she has been humiliated,
NAMED and hurt and that she is en-
MtJed to damages.