Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-10-13
GEN ERAL.

William Eleroy Curtis, of Washing
ton, the traveller. journalist and writer
of political topics. is dead.
Betting on the worlds baseball
delphia is at even money in both
cities.
Earl Ovington, the aviator, started
from Governors Island in an attempt
to fly across the continent to Los
Angeles.
New high records were established
in the coffee market in New York
were firm at 14k.
The fact was developed that we'll
organized baby farm" where infants
can be purchased for IS each like mer-
chandise, exists in Philadelphia.
1t is charged that in the campaign
for nomination for the United States
Isaac Stevenson of Milwaukee. spent
$4,000 for beer and cigars alone.
Miss Katherine Irving. a niece of
Washington Irving, who for years re-
sided with her uncle at Sunnyside,
died at Litchfield. Conn. She was GO
years old
The Third regiment Mississippi Ma
tional Guard has been ordered to Nc
Comb City, Miss, to suppress riots
raging there as the result of the
Illinois Central strike.
DIR. Harry Elgin Webster of Oregon.
ILL.,, who confessed to the killing of
his wife, after a conference with his
lawyers, has decided to repudiate the
10.000-word confession which he made
in Chicago.
Eight indictments against four WALL
paper manufacturers and four wall
paper jobbers. charging conspiracy
in restraint of trade, were returned
by the federal grand jury in Cleve-
land.
No more men will be hired at pres
ent to fill the places of strikers on the
| Illinois Central road, according to a
statement issued from the office of
Vice President Park, in Chicago.
Enough men are now at work to keep
up light repairs indefinitely. it was
said. and the manufacture of numer-
Gus locomotive and car specialties will
be discontinued.
1t will cost s129.OO0.0OO to maintain
the United States navy and provide
Tor suitable increase in the next fiscal
year, according to the estimates COM
pleted by Secretary Meyer. This in
cludes provision for two super-dread-
thoughts, probably of about the size of
the projected Nevada and Oklahoma.
which will displace about $4,000 tons.
and for a suitable number of-auxiliar-
les.
The task of attempting to put an
end to all initiative and referendum
| legislation in this country began in
the Supreme Court of the United
States in Washington when counsel
for the Pacific States Telephone and
| Telegraph Company filed a brief at
lacking a taxing law of Oregon be-
cause it was enacted under the initia-
tive clause of the state constitution.
which is alleged to be in violation of
the federal constitution.
At Black River Falls, Wis, the
prosperous little city of 1000 persons
which was swept by flood when the
Black river, swollen by recent rains,
washed through the embankment of
the La Crosse Water Power Com
pany's dams at Hatsfield, the situe-
ton is worse than was feared when
the deluge burst upon the city. Half
of the business section has been de-
lstroyed, together with part of the
residence district, and it is said by
the townspeople who have taken ref
uge on high land that the city will be
wiped off the map.
Official documents of the Southwest
fern Lumber Dealers Association,
which contain a virtual blacklist of
retailers mot in sympathy with our
association" were introduced as evil
dence in the hearing of the suit in st.
Louis to GUST the alleged lumber trust
from Missouri.
Transportation of mail across the
continent by aeroplane, over a desig
mated route. by special mail messen-
ger appointed by Postmaster General
Hitchcock. is a test that will be under
taken. The route is from New York
to Los Angeles