The Arvada enterprise., 1912-06-13
GEN ERnI.

GENERAL.
Colonel Jerome B. Rice of Troy, N
Y, known in every state of the Union
as a grower and distributor of seeds,
is dead
Volcanic ash is falling thickly over
! Cordova, Alaska, showing that the
heavy cannonading heard in the noun
tains recently was the noise of vol
cano in eruption.
Thomas E. Watson of Augusta, Ga.
| former Populst leader and presiden-
| tial candidate, was bound over under
$500 bond for sending obscene matter
through the mails.
To prevent the production Of NOV
| ing pictures of the Johnson-Flynn
prize fight which takes place July 4th,
! the House commerce committee re-
| ported favorably the bill of Represen-
tative Rodenberry of Georgia, prohib-
iting the shipment of films between
states.
Because of its lack of power to OBJ
tain necessary data, the so-caled
| lluSl lHNtSNlSdllOl III llS main
scope will not be taken up until fall
| This announcement was made by
| Chairman Pujo of the investigating
committee at the opening of the hear
ing in Washington.
Mrs. Sidney c. Bernheimer, the wife
of wealthy New York clothing man
ufacturer, was assaulted and robbed of
$4,000 worth of jewelry. The weapons
used were potato masher and an ice
pick. Mrs. Bernheimer's new cook,
brawny young Swedish woman, who
for ten days had proved a model SER
want, was said to be the chief robber.
The eight-year struggle of Frederick
A. Hyde and j. II. Schneider to es-
cape imprisonment for conspiracy to
defraud the government out of lands
in California and Oregon, ended in
failure when the Supreme Court found
no error in their convection in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Hyde had been
fined $4,000 and sentenced to prison
for two years; Schneider had been
fined and sentenced to prison for one
year and two months.
Thousands of citizens In west Texas
are reviving the question of dividing
the state and making it two, or even
three, states. West Texans point out
that conditions there are so different
from some other parts of Texas that a
division is reasonable. Climate is diff
ferent. products are different, indus,
-ries are different, needs are different,
they assert, and advocates of the prof
ect point out that Texas is of such inn
mense size that the division would not
hurt the state.
President Taft signed the three-year
homestead bill, permitting entrymen
on public lands to prove their claims
In three instead Of five years, allow
ing five months absence from claim
each year and reducing the acreage to
be cultivated on large claims from so
to 40 acres. The pen used was given
to Representative Taylor CT Colorado.
The bill is designed so TO liberalize
the homestead laws as to check the
immigration of American farmers to
Canada. Senator Borah was one OF its
supporters.
For the purpose of destroying the
substantial monopoly of the so-called
aluminium trust, an agreed decree was
entered in the United States District
Court at Pittsburg. Pa. against the
/. Aluminium Company Of America. The
federal government in its antitrust
suit filed few weeks ago, charged
the corporation with monopolizng the
Industry, The decree entered abro-
gates alleged unlawful contracts and
restrains the company from negotiat.
ing similar pacts or pursueing unfair
methods towards competitors
Judges OF the Chicago Municipal
Court must forego basball and other
summer amusements and pay more al.
teution TO business. Chief Justice Har.
ry Olson. in Confidential" letter
told the Judges that he was aware OF
their hockey playing" and that It
must cease The jurists were told that
they must hold court daily until 80
| O'Clock in the afternoon with the ex.
ception Of Saturday.
! A movement has been started In
/ New York to place in the Hall OF
/ Fame the bust of Molly Pitcher, only
] woman sergeant In the L. S. army,