Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-10
cAueHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
z WIRES ROUND ABOUT
81 THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.
WESTERN.

WESTERN.
"A Sixten automobile racing cars have
started on the long grind in the an
nual Los Angeles to Phoenix desert
sand race.
Unusually cold weather for this sea
so1N'f the year is reported from the
Bid l,iole basin in the southwestern
part of Montana.
The strike vote taken recently
among employees of the Chicago. Rock
Island & Pacific railway. in Chicago.
& was in favor of strike.
Incomplete returns from the city
primary in Los Angeles give for may
or, Hartman, Socialist, 9.703, and
Alexander, Republican, 9.206.
The first complete woman jury to
be empaneled in California has been
sworn for duty in Justice of the
ace Cassidy's court in Watts.
New York's great land show was
formally launched at a banquet in the
Waldorf-Astoria, and the West is fast
becoming the talk of the great city.
Kyrle Bellew, one of the foremost
actors of the English speaking stage,
author and explorer, died in Salt Lake
City of penumonia, after a brief ILL
ness.
The town of Thelma. eighteen miles
south of San Antonio. Texas, was prac-
tically destroyed, two persons were
hurt apd damage the amount of which
has not been estimated, was done to
crops by tornado.
The third venire of prospective ju-
rors has been exhausted at the close
of court in the Mcnamara murder
case in Los Angeles. Altogether 2O7
venircmen have been drawn, and out
of these ten have been accepted.
That the Wabash railroad may be
involved in strike of shopmen for
more wages was made known in Chi
cago when officers of the Federation
of Craftsmen for the Wabash system
said that the negotiations with the
ra Dad had reached critical stage.
The express car on the Rock Island
passenger train which left Memphis
Tenn, was blown to pieces by dyna
mite used by robbers, near Hurlburt.
Ark. The express car was entirely
wrecked and scattered over the tracks,
blocking traffic. The robbers got
nothing.
Editor A. A. King of the Watts
News, Los Angeles, who, through his
paper fought women's suffrage during
the campaign preceding the recent
election which enfranchised women,
was acquitted by the first jury COM
posed exclusively of women in Cali
fornia of a charge of printing an in
decent story in his paper.
A proposal that Uncle Sam go into
the building and loan business as a
means toward assuring the peace and
prosperity of the country was one OF
the suggestions placed before the sub
committee of the monetary copmiss-
ion at its final session in San Fran
cisco. j. A. Kingdon-Jones. a COM
mission agent, volunteered this idea.
Luther Burbank, plant wizard of
Santa Rosa, Cal, after ten years ex-
perimenting, has at last evolved a
thornless blackberry bush. The frlit
has suffered no deterioration, but he
branches of the bush are as smooth as
willow Burbank says he was sure of
the discovery two years ago, but
waited until there could be no mistake
hSsore making it public.
Nmost 100000 women will be eli.
gIN to vote for President of the Unit
ed States in 1912. Those women are
TO be found in the six Western states
which have already granted equal suf-
frage. The number of women in each
state who are eligible to vote is about
as follows: California, SOC, 900; Colo
/ RADIO, 100000; Idaho, $4,000; Utah. 65.-
900; Washington, 10000, and Wy
oming, $4,000, or a total of 92S,000.
There are in the United States today
just nineteen states that have no
form of woman suffrage, although
some cities in them have.
Farmers of the South must withhold
from the market every remaining bale
of the seasons crop of cotton and fol-
low this with concerted and binding
agreement to reduce next seasons
acreage al, least twenty-five per cent
if they hope to restore the staple to a
normal price and relieve the losses
sustained by present low prices. This
is the plan decided upon at the con-
ference of Southern governors at their
concluding session in New Orleans.