Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-12-01
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WESTERN.

olguard Hart1g, real estate deal
er of San Francisco, accidentally lit
cigarette with $1,000 bill.
Eight jurors have been finally accept
ed in the Mcnamara dynamiting case
in Los Angeles. The case was called
over six weeks ago.
The Colorado Springs, Colo, Cham
Der of Commerce will distribute thou
sands of postcards showing scenic at
fractions in Pixies Peak region.
The first Sunday in December is
Elk Memorial Day. and on that date
every lodge of the order in the coun-
try will hold memorial services.
Several armed men dynamited the
safe of the bank of Clarita. fourteen
miles west of Colgate, Okla, and got
about $1,000 in currency, and es-
capped.
Col. Clifford Ham OF Dubuque has
been appointed collector general of
customs for the republic of Nicaragua
Col. Ham. for the last eight years has
been connected with the customs ser.
vice of the Philippines. For two years
he has been surveyor of customs at
Manila.
Vice President and General Manager
Whittenton of the Chicago. Rock Is
land & Texas railroad, says that a
strike of l,500 shopmen under his jur-
isdiction in Texas, Oklahoma. Iouisi-
ana and Arkansas is expected at anv
minute. The dispute is over wages
and hours.
The flood waters in western Wash
ington are subsiGing nearly as rapid
ly as they rose Seatile's municipal
lighting plant has been restored and
the broken water pipe mended. The
inhabitants have suffered great incon-
venience, their dwelling places being
without drinking water.
Given the choice bewteen hanging
and shooting by District Judge Chris
Jensen at Price, Utah, two convicted
murderers chose the bullet and were
sentenced to be shot at the state pen
itentiary Jan. 10. Frank Romeo and
Robert Zaffy, the men who are to die,
murdered Albert V. jenkins at Sunny
side Utah, for the purpose of robbery.
Wholesale gTocers of Duluth, Mimi.
are circulating blank petitions seek
ing to obtain support for a movement
TO influence Congress TO reduce the
duty on raw and refined sugars. The
petitions are being spread boardcast
through the country. The tax amounts
to 3 cents per pound on refined SUI
gar. equivalent to an eighty per cent
advalorem duty.
1
ready response to the call fer fund
OF $4,000, to continue farming at tho
State Agricultural college, w. II. Nc.
Clellan, X. L. Haythorn and Il. II.
Bliss, the committee of the WCJI Coun-
~ Farmers Club, have returned from
their trip. Following the pledge OF
900 by the Great Western Sugar
Company. come pledges from Rio
Grande and Eagle counties. OF $3.50
each. Other Western slope counties
say they are ready to give. The Colo
RADIO Telephone Company and milling
and creamery companies say they are
ready to help.
Two of the defendants in the tar
party" case. at Lincoln Center, Kan,
John Schmidt and Sherriill Clark.
we're found guilty of assault and bat
tery by a jury in Judge Growers
court. Sentence on the two men was
deferred. Sentences of one year each
n the county Jail, the extreme penalty
IN Kansas for the offense charged,
we're passed on Everett G. Clark, Jay
F'itzwater. Watson Scranton and Ed
ward Ricord, confessed assailants O.
Mary Chamberlain. These defendants
were accused of the same crime as the
other men. In addition to the SEN
fences, the court ruled that the men
must pay the costs of the prosecution.