Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-12
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.
WESTERN.

Five inches is the average depth of
snowfall over northern Idaho. In the
southern part of the state the fall wd::
less.
The intense cold and deep snow
have brought severe suffering among
homesteaders in the Black Hills in
south Dakota.
The Night and Day bank of Kansas
City, Kan, has been closed by order
of the Kansas bank commissioner. 1t
was small institution. having cap
ital of $4,000 and a surplus of $4,000.
Marooned for more than week in
way car attached to an Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fe freight train,
stuck fast in the snow near Laird in
western Kansas, two brakemen lived
on jackrabbits.
Arthur Lewis, accused of murd ring
his stepniece, Helen Rumball, by
breaking her neck, at Oroville, Cal,
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment in San Quentin penitentiary. A
jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
The new county grand jury at Los
Angeles has determined to renew the
dynamite investigation, and subpoe-
naed five persons formerly connected
with the Mcnamara defense. The
principal charge is that of jury brib-
cry.
Carcasses of twenty bison OF a herd
of 12O in the Yellowstone national
park, were burned. Twenty-Five ami
mails died, the victims of black leg.
Government experts who have been
working with the epidemic believe
they have it stamped out.
Announcement has been made by
railroads traversing that part of South
Dakota lying west of the Missouri
river and four counties east of the
river. of free freight rates on seed and
grain in that region. The concession
is due to the crop failure of last sum-
mer.
The action of San Francisco the
ater in refusing seats to sailor in
uniform. except in the gallery. brought
letter of protest to Mayor Mccarthy
of that city from Rear Admiral C. d.
T. Moore, the commandant at the Ma
val Training Station on Yerba Buena
island.
The boiler OF big road engine in
the Southern Pacific roundhouse of
Los Angeles exploded. Two men wer
killed and three injured, all probably
fatally. One huge piece of the loco
motive was hurled through the far end
of the roundhouse and landed 100 feet
away.
Montana is covered with snow, the
fall having been the heaviest for sew
eral years. Zero weather. with some
reporting even lower temperatures. is
general throughout the state. High
winds have drifted the snow in many
sections and country roads are i'm
passable.
A suit against the Independence Gas
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Kansas Natural Gas
Company, charging conspiracy to
raise prices and to prevent competi
ton, has been filed by Attorney Gen
eral Dawson in District Court at In
dependence, Kan.
Sheriffs' possess and railroad detec
tives are searching the rough coun
try surrounding Redding, Cal, in an
| effort to capture the lone bandit whc
robbed the mail car on the Souther:
Paciiic's Oregon express. A reward oi
$4,000 has been offered for the cap
ture of the man, who according tC
the description given by the mai
clerks, probably is consumptive. OF
,icers believe him to lie college mar
who came West for his health, anC
who. unable to obtain work, resortet
to robbery.