Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-03
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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The seventh annual convention OF
the National Commercial Gas Associa-
tion was held in Denver and was at
tended by delegates from all over the
nation.
The Woodrow Wilson Democratic
Club of Colorado sprang into being at
a meeting held in the convention hall
of the Albany. in Denver. Some hun
dred men and women were present.
While hunting big game in party
of five on the Hoodoo range ten
miles from Newport, Wash, George
Davidson was accidentally shot
| through the abdomen by gun held in
the hands of his son. He died in a
short time.
Actual mobilization of the Pacific
fleet began at San Diego, Calf, when
the cruiser California, flagship of the
commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral
Chauncey Thomas, entered the harbor
and cast anchor within a stones
throw of the docks.
A petition. filed in the probate de-
partment of the Superior Court of
California for the reopening of the es-
tate of Charles ]. Janson disclosed that
collection of old papers, which had
been at the bottom of an old trunk for
thirty-two years, constituted fortune
of 100000.
Superior Court Judge John F. Main
was waylaid and horse-whipped at the
court house in Seattle by Mrs. Chris
tion NJ. Olson, who had lost a case
involving title to some property in
Judge Mains court. Mrs. Olson sue
ceeded in striking the amazed judge
on the head twice.
The Union Pacific will increase its
shop force in Denver 500 men. The
shops are to be enlarged to more than
twice their present capacity. Practi-
cally all of the repair work in the
Western district will be done in Den
yer and there will also be rebuild
ing of cars in the Denver shops.
Mrs. Mary ]. Kendall of Rapid
City winner of No. in the Rosebud,
S. D., land drawing, has husband
who is paralyzed and for six years
she has been employed at day labor
to support them. She has woven car
pets by day, herded and milked cows
and cared for her husband at night.
Reports from Indianapolis that a
federal grand jury would investigate
the so-called Mcnamara dynamiting
cases, in Los Angeles, supplied a
theme for consideration by counsel tor
the defense of John J. and James b.
Mcnamara and attracted attention i'll
the offices of District Attorney FREQ
ericks as we'll.
The forty-third annual meeting of
the Womans Board of Missions of the
Interior was held in the Plymouth
Congregational Church in Denver.
Fully 200 delegates from Colorado,
North and South Dakota. Illinois. In
diana. Iowa, Kansas. Michigan, Mime
sofa, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana,
Ohio, Oklahoma. Wisconsin and Wyo-
ming were present.
Contending that the federal govern
ment is guilty of negligence in pro
ceeding to forfeit the Oregon and Cal
ifornia grant lands and that the out
standing bond-holders must be pro
tected to the extent of at least 500,
100000 as their lien upon these lands.
the Union Trust Company of New
York has filed a long answer in the
Federal Court in Portland to the gov
ernment's suit.
The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, mis-
sionary bishop of Alaska, has been
elected bishop of the Episcopal mis-
sionary district of South Dakota.
Other missionary bishops chosen by
the Episcopal house of bishops We're
The Rev. d. Trumbull Huntington,
bishop at WI Hu. China, and the Rev.
Henry st. George Tucker, president OF
St. Paul's college Japan, bishop at
Kioto. Japan.
Rowing out alone into the deep wa
tersh of Utah lake to spot where her
craft was obscured from the shore
line. and with no one near to witness
her tragic death, Marjorie r. Paine,
prominent in literary circles in Utah.
and for many years a dramatic critic
and special writer for the papers of
Salt Lake, leaped from her boat and
was drowned. Before making the fatal
plunge the woman had bound about
her waist strong cords, to which was
attached a heavy piece OF railroad
iron.
The domestic science classes at 'he
Utah Agricultural college no longer
are sacred to women. Harley Greayes
and John Short, two students promi'
nent in college affairs, have enrolled
themselves in the cooking classes.