Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-10-27
GENERAL.


Philip Andrews will become head of
the all-powerful bureau of navigation
in the Navy Department on January
list.
Benjamin f. Bush is to become
president of the Denver G. Rio Grande
and Western Pacific as well as of the
Missouri Pacific.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
angrily denied a rumor that he had
resigned. on his return to Washing
ton from the West.
That a spirited, il not unfriendly,
contest for the removal of the national
headquarters from New York to Chi
cago, will be entered into, by the dele
gates to the forty-third annual conven-
ton of the National Anne rican Won
an Suffrage Association, now in ses-
sion in Louisville, KY, has been indl.
Gated.
In the arrest of Richard Abernathy,
manufacturer at Spartanburg, S. c.,
on a charge of having murdered Will
liam A. Abbott in 1879, George a. Alb
bot, painter. believes his quest of
thirty-two years for the slayer of his
brother is ended. 1t has been George
Abbott's one life purpose to avenge
his brothers death.
Counsel for the United States Sem
ate Committee investigating the Lor-
inner case in Chicago charged State
Representative Robert +. Wilson with
having made a tour of Illinois in
April. 1910. for the alleged purpose
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talk TO anyone of the Lorimer elec-
ton. Although Wilson denied this
charge he will be recalled to the
stand TO be examined further along
this line.
The plan of the Harvard gold
coasters" known as the wealthiest
students in college, to carry away the
honor of electing one of their mem
bers president of the junior class was
foiled. when Horace Jeremiah Smith
of 1850 Lafayette street, Denver, rep
resenting the yard" or studious ele-
ment, defeated S. II. FELTON,, ILL.,, ana
a. NJ. Goodale, both prominent ath-
letes and residents of the lded thor
oughfare. for class president.
The Wright brothers, Orville and
Wilbur, inventors of the aeroplane,
have perfected a discovery expected
to add vastly to the safety of avia-
tion. Orville Wright has decided to
give the announcement of his inven-
tion to the world and to put the de-
vice into practical use for the first
time. In brief Mr.. Wright's statement
was that he had perfected device
for 40 atrtnnatfp rnntrOllinp nf py1id-
ere and power-driver aeroplanes, to
keep such machines at proper balance
in the air. 1t is expected to relieve
him of the work of balancing it in the
air, enormously increasing the safety
of the aviator and of the machine.
Former Senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island. submitted to the National
Monetary Commission at Washington,
of which he is chairman. revision
of his plan for monetary legislation
The commission may use it as the
basis of its recommendations to Con
gress. The basic principles of the re-
vised plan are substantially the same
as those embodied in Mr.. -Aldrich's
first proposal, sent to- the commits
sion last January, which he said he
eNptCIeu WOulu serve as DdSlS lOI
national discussion. Briefly, the plan
still provides for the organization of
the national reserve association with
capital of approximately s300,000,000
in which the United States govern
ment and the banks owning shares
in the association shall be the only
| depositors.
Caught by a safety strap that had
been used to hold him in his high
chair. one-year-old Alec Tobias, in
New York, was strangled to death
while his brother and sister, both ba-
bies, looked on, neither able to give
him any aid.
The judiciary of the United States
must be brought within the control
and made answerable to the well
thought out judgment of the people. IS
the opinion of Theodore Roosevelt
who spoke on "The Conservation of
womanhood and Childhood" before
| the Civic Forum in New York.