Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-02-24
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CURRENT TOPICS.
WESTERN

a general rain has fallen in Nebras-
ka and western Kansas. This was the
first rain of consequence in five
months.
Fire destroyed the garage of the
stchison Motor Company. Atchison,
Kan. with a loss of $4,000. Twenty
sutos burned.
The gasoline schooner Oshkosh was
wrecked on the south spit of the Co
lumbia river. Portland, Ore. and seven
lives were lost
Overcome by an irresistible desire
to shoot something. John Cash. a
street yender from Denver. shot and
killed Frank Harris, at Los Angeles.
Declaring persons guilty of small
thefts are unknown to the authorities,
citizens of Fort Lupton, Colo. are
planning a vigilance committee to
drive thieves out Of town.
The summer hotel at Moclips,
Wash, containing 325 rooms. one-half
OF which was washed into the sea,
probably will have to be abandoned,
as a large part of the remaining wing
Is hanging over the water and may
fau with high tide.
The most brutal and revolving
crime ever committed in Nevada has
been perpetrated in northern Washoe
county. four men being butchered.
their bodies being stripped and piled
In a heap in the snow and left for
beasts TO prey upon.
David Leahy, private secretary to
Gov Stubbs. was summoned before
The bar of the state Senate of Kansas
to give his authority for statements
made in 4 newspaper article written
10y him that political crookedncss is
rampant in the legislature
Using one OF his hydro-areoplanes.
Glen Curtis alighted on the water
alongside the armored cruiser Penn
sylyania. At San Diego. Cal. and was
/ hoisted on board. Soon afterward the
aeroplane was dropped back into the
water and the aviator flew away to
/ his hangar oa North Island.
The power salmon sloop W. 1888.
uhich is the number of the fishing
license Issued TO the boat by the state
/ OF Washington. was found bottom up
/ liz Admiralty Inlet on the west coast
c. WILDLY Island. All who were in
the sloop when IL was struck by last
| Sundays furious storm must have per-
!Ehed.
That twenty-five million OF the hun
dred million dollars rehabilitation
fund raised for the Gould lines would
| be used TO double track the Rio Grande
from Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made at Salt Lake by a
high official of the Gould system.
| The work. he added, would be fin
/ ished by 1915.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed. Gov. Cruce has honored
| the requisition for James Bremen. u
wealthy farmer OF kiowa county,
/ Oklahoma. to be returned to Woods
county. Kansas. to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods. the founder Of
woodsdale. Kan, and a pioneer OF
| Stephens county.
Western members of the Senate.
representing sheep and wool growing
states. are considerably concerned
over that part Of the proposed recip-
rocity treaty with Canada which pro-
vide for free admission into the United
States of Canadian sheep. The Presi-
cent. in transmitting the proposed
/ treaty to Congress, called attention to
the fact that Canada raises compare
lively few wool sheep and that her tex
! tile manufacturers are unimportant.
/ The Western senators familiar with
/ the sheep and wool growing business
are apprehensIye that with the stimu-
las which will be given to the growth
I OF the industry in Canada by remov-
/ ing the duty on the admission of sheep
INTO the United States. the raising of
sheep there will increase at the ex-
/ pense OF the industry in this country.