Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-05-03
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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fected for the erection of labor ten
pie in Fresno, Calf.
Three persons are dead at Ponca
City, Okla, as the result of one OF
four tornadoes near the Kansas-Okla'
homa line.
Forty-seven passengers, all but one
citizens of the United States, who ar
rived in Galveston from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, on the steamer Texas, tell OF
alleged torture and assassination OF
Americans in Mexico.
cyclone which swept the country
near Broken Bow, Neb., picked up
little country school house, in which
| were twelve children and the teacher,
carried it mile and set it on the
ground without injuring child.
Estimates of flood losses in eleven
parishes of northeast Louisiana set the
damage at $15,O00.0O0. Fertile acres
are inundated and will be unfit for
crop planting this year. Suffering
among the thousands of homeless is
great.
Unless an immediate settlement Of
the strike of the Union Pacific shop
men is effected, strike of the 800,
900 shop employees of the Denver &
Rio Grande, Burlington, Colorado &
Southern and other lines is threat
ened.
Western horsemen and racing fol-
lowers are interested in the fifty-five-
day running meeting which has
opened at Alan Idaho, under the aus
pices OF the Coeur d'Alene Fair and
Racing Association. Over s125,O0O is
offered I'm stakes and purses.
Because the Western Union Tele-
graph Company refused to pay its tax
assessment in the state of Idaho, the
attorney general, o. NJ. Van Duyan.
has authorized the seizure of the com
pany's property. The telegraph com
pany claims that the rate of taxes WAS
too high.
Twenty-nine persons were injured.
one of them. James Davis, perhaps
fatally, when a cyclonic wind struck a
Union Pacific passenger train one mile
west of North Loup. Neb. The entire
train, the engine excepted. was blown
from the track and all the care were
overturned.
Henry NJ. Dearing, aged ~. and son,
Palmer NJ. Dcaring. 40. were brought
to the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, to begin sentences of five years
each for embezzlement. Henry NJ.
Dearing was cashier of the Albion
National bank of Albion, Mich. ald
his son an employe
Because the foot of his horse exactly
matched a plaster of paris cast of the
footprint of the horse driven to the
spot near Nowata, okla, where Mrs.
Irene Cohen was murdered recently,
II. o. Jeffries. editor of the Nowata
Advertiser. has been arrested charged
with killing the woman.
Word that the fugitive leaders of the
Allen gang from Carroll county, Vir-
ginia. were headed for southern Cal
ifornia, if not already there, has CIe-
ated much activity in the sheriffs' of
fices of the Los Angeles section OF
the state. Los Angeles police beliL7e
tney have arrived.
Declaring that unless the trouble of
the railway carmen, who have been on
a strike on a western railroad for sew
eral months was mediated, a strike OF
more than 100000 shopmen and ma
chinists employed on all western rail
roads would be called, the officers of
the Federation of Federations sent a
telegram to President Taft advising
him of their intentions. The message
was. signed by the presidents of twelve
unions.
A movement has been started in the
Baptist churches of Denver to est. b
| lish free tuberculosis sanatoriums in
various parts of the United States
with headquarters in Denver. Funds
for establishing the institutions are tC
be raised by the unique plan of assess
ing the 100000 Baptists of the Unit
ed States 10 cents each annually. Ar
ticles of incorporation have been ftet
in the office of the secretary OF state
of Colorado for the American Baptis
| tuberculosis Association. A campaign
for funds will be launched immediate
ly. 1t is planned to have a research
station connected with each institution
for the study of the causes and pre-
vention of the disease.
Three trainmen were instantly killed
when the boiler of locomotive or
the Western Pacific railroad blew III
near Elko, New.
FOREIGN.