Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-12-08

| Aviator Fowler, in sight OF Fort
Worth, Texas, was forced to descend
in the midst of a drove of steers,
when his engine broke down in mid
air. He lost no time in descending, but
it took dextrous management to
avoid damage from the stampeded cat
tie.
At Chillicothe. Texas. Constable
Charles Holloway was killed and Con
stable j. A. Doyle seriously wounded
in a battle with two men wanted in
connaLtio with the recent robbery of
the State Bank of Odell, Texas. Posses
are pursuing the men, who are said to
be afoot.
The entire Pacific fleet has been or
dered to proceed with all haste to
Shanghai. China American marines
have been sent to Pekin from both
Tientsin and Shanghai and orders
were issued for 1000 more troops to
sail from Manila for Shanghai imme-
diately.
One man was killed and several
others were injured when a steel
bridge east of Maple Valley, Wash,
on the Columbia and Puget Sound
railway collapsed and fell into Cedar
river. Gill Thompson, a hook tender.
was caught in the wreck. His body
has not been recovered.
Amid din of whistling from river
craft. the replica of the steamboat
New orleans. the first steam vessel to
ply the Mississippi river, came into
the harbor at New Orleans. complet-
ing a cruise from Pittsburg in celebra-
ton of the centennial anniversary of
the inauguration of steamboating on
the Father of Waters
II. A. johnson of Denver, traffic
manager of the Colorado & Southern
railway, who is travelling through
southern California in his private car.
had a desperate encounter in Coronado
bay with a man-eating shark, twelve
feet long. After Il fierce and sangui-
nary battle, lasting over two hours,
Mr.. johnson succeeded in killing the
vicious monster. During the fight for
life the shark stove in the bow of
Johnsons boat and etc the blade off
one OF the oars.
In Judge Bordwell's court in Los
Angeles, James b. Mcnamara pleaded
guilty to murder in the first degree.
His brother. John J. Mcnamara, sec
rotary of the International Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers, entered plea of guilty to having
dynamited the Llewellyn Iron Works
in Los Angeles Christmas Day, 1910.
James b. McNamara's confession
clears up absolutely the tragedy of
the explosion and fire which at 1.O7
o'clock on the morning of October /,
1910. wrecked the plant OF the Los
Angeles Times and caused the deaths
of twenty-one persons.
A delegation of Utah and Idaho
wool men. accompanied by Senator
Smoot, called upon President Taft
and discussed briefly prospective leg
islation affecting the wool tariff. They
told the President they favored the
bill Senator Smoot has framed, which
proposes making washed instead of
raw wool the basis of tariff charges,
and that they would like TO see the
tariff ON wool importations cover the
difference between the cost OF produc-
ton in this and foreign countries.
Possibly some of its members will re-
turn to Washington after Congress
convenes, to aid western members in
their efforts 10 protect the interests
of wool growers.
The federal grand jury is probing
the so-called food trust in Denver
Evidence has been presented to the
grand jury seeking to show that the
fruit and wholesale produce men OF
the city have a combination in re
straint of trade which arbitrarily fixes
the prices of fruit and other commod
tiles and freezes out dealers not in the
trust. The fruit operations of this or
ganization have been gone into par
ticularly a special agent of the De
partment of Justice attached to United
States Attorney Thomas Wards office
has been conducting the investigation
for the government. Sensations are
promised the public as result of the
grand jury's probe. 1t is said that
the prices OF fruit and sugar are the
particular subjects of the probe.
A husband, sued for divorce. is en-
titled to alimony and support under
certain conditions, according to de
cision of the Supreme Court. handed
down at Bismark, n. d.