Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-10
GEN ERAL.

For the first time since 1888 the
| Postoffice Department during the fis-
cal year ended June 80, 1911, was con-
Quoted at profit.
Brig. Gen. p. H. Ray, U. S. A., re-
tired, died suddenly at Fort Niagara. N.
Y, aged seventy. Gen. Ray was in
active service from 1861 to 1906.
The naval aeroplane, Triad, manned
by Lieuts. Ellyson and Towers, COM
pleted a seventy-mile flight from Point
No Point to Annapolis, Md, in eighty
minutes.
The United States Steel corpora
tion's first step in the legal battle with
the government for it's existence will
be taken on Monday, December 4, in
Washington, D. C.
Robert Patton Lisle. aged sixty
seven, pay director of the Uniteo
States navy, who was retired with
the rank of rear admiral, died sud
denly at his home in Philadelphia from
heart disease.
The first American Road Congress
of the American Association for High
way improvement and affiliated or
ganizations meets in Richmond Novem.
ber 1890. Many Western states will
be represented.
| Baby carriages upon the streets of
Minnesota towns and villages will be
required to have white lights in front
and a red one behind to warn traffic"
Women who go out with their peram-
bulators after dark will have to pro-
vide some form of lighting system.
Colorado's display. particularly the
potatoes, sugar beets and grains, at
tracted great attention at the opening
session of New York's great land show.
declared by many to be the best ever
held .he country. Thousands throng
the Madison Square Garden.
| The cyclone season being now safe.
ly over, careful and conservative esti-
mates of the Cuba sugar crop indicate
that it will reach between 100000
and 100000 tons. The latter figure,
1t is said, is likely to be reached
should warm weather, which is favor
able to the growth of the cane, con-
tinues throughout November.
For the second time, Capt. Klaus
Larsen of Detroit, successfully navi-
gated in a motor boat the turbulent
waters of the lower Niagara river at
Niagara Falls, and the great mael-
strom at the point where the stream
turns on its journey to Lewiston.
This, he declares, will be his last
Niagara trip.
No Christmas or New Year holiday
fares will be granted by railroads in
Western Passenger Association terri
tory this year. A decision to this ef-
feet was reached at meeting of the
association in Chicago. The states in
which rates will not be changed in
clude North and South Dakota, Wyo-
ming, Montana, Colorado and Utah.
To accommodate banks in the small
cities, Postmaster General Hitchcock
has decided that the minimum amount
of bonds to be accepted from banks
qualifying to receive deposits of pos
tai savings funds at third class post
offices shall be reduced from $1,000 to
$1,000. Additional bonds will be re-
quired as the deposits at any office in
crease.
A new campaign against tipping in
hotels, restaurants and other places by
the travelling public was launched
when P. E. Dove, president of the
Commercial Travellers Nat ionaI
League. issued an ultimatum to own.
ers and managers of hotels that the
members of the league would with
draw their support unless the tipping
system is abolished.
Nearly a third of billion dollars
was added to the wealth of the United
States from the mineral production of
the Western states during 1910, ac-
cording to the figures of the United
States Geological Survey. This in
cludes about s66,00O,000 worth of coal,
the remaining production, principally
metals having a value of practically a
quarter of a billion dollars.
That, according to information in
the possession of the United States
district attorney, conspiracy unlaw-
fully to transport dynamite from state
to state has existed, with headquar-
ters in the offices of John ]. McNa-
mara in Indianapolis, is the statement
of a petition filed in the County Grim
inal Court in that city praying for pos
session of evidence in the case to be
used in a federal grand jury investi.
CATION.
Any man or set of men who buy SO
much grain that the price is held out
of line or out of reach of buyers, may
be considered as acting in restraint OF
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