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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
What He Bought.

A Syracuse business man living in
one of the suburbs decided to give
up his spacious back yards to the rails
ing of currants as profitable side
issue. So, wishing to absorb all the
information he could acquire on the
subject of the currant industry, he
went down town one Saturday after
noon recently and returned with his
arms full of books.
well, Teddy" inquired his enthusi-
astic spouse. as he dumped the vol
umes on the table, did you succeed
in getting what you wanted?"
Sure, did" he replied. proudly
pointing to the books. 'T bought a
whole years edition of standard
work on current literature.
change.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Investors Coming to Colorado.

Denver.-Eastern farmers. attracted
by the reports of Colorado's s200.0OO.-
900 crops, are looking this way. Forty
four Nebraska and Iowa farmers ar
rived in Denver few days ago en-
route to the San Luis valley with the
intention of buying land and bringing
their families to Colorado. Later they
visited Colorado Springs, where they
were Joined by ten other prospective
investors. This is said to be the larg-
est number of homeseekers who have
come to Colorado in one party for two
years.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
FOREIGN.

Santo Domingo is now menaced by
a widespread revolution.
An explosion of black damp and coal
dust in the Lorraine shaft of the coal
field in the village of Gerthe, Ger
many. four miles from Bochum, killed
103 miners.
The police of Paris are wrestling
with new species OF criminal-the
burglar broker" The broker adver-
tises, quietly, "burglaries done neatly
and with dispatch"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Negotiations May Settle Water Fight

Palisade. Colo.-Depondent entirely
upon the result of the negotiations he
tween the Palisade and Mesa county
irrigation districts and the reclamation
service is the future of the s5.000.000
government canal. Officials of the
service and the ditch boards have
made several propositions and coun-
ter proposals, and there is a good
chance of an amicable agreement be-
ing reached by which sufficient water
may be obtained to make possible the
construction of the High Line canal.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
FIEND CRUSHES.
W0MAN'S SKULL
SlGNE CARLZEN ASSAULTED AND
SLAIN AFTER DESPERATE
BATTLE FOR LIFE.
BODY FOUND IN WEEDS
AUTOPSY REVEALS SIX TERRI
BILE WOUNDS IN HEAD AND
LONG CUT IN ABDOMEN.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-With a hat-pin as her sole
weapon of self-defense, Miss Signe
Amelia Carlzen fought for her life and
for her honor as long as she retained
an ounce of strength and conscious
ness and succumbed to the brutal at
tack of her slayer only after she had
broken her weapon into two pieces,
with one part probably still in the body
of her assailalt.
In one lifeless hand. when the body
Of the girl was found on the prairie i'll
south Montclair, where she was bru-
tally murdered and outraged Friday
night, was tightly clasped the head
and about two inches OF the pin. This
indicated clearly to the police that the
girl had struggled desperately against
her slayer, and the vigor of her Ii
tack might have saved her and routed
her assailant, had not the pin broke in
two.
Miss Carlzen was young woman OF
unusual strength. She had always
lived an outdoor life, and, although
possessing much feminine charm, was
Us active and as strong as most men
who live out of doors.
Autopsy performed upon body of
murdered young woman reveals six
wounds on various parts of the head.
almost any one of which would navs
caused death, and disCloses that rs
saiiant mutilated her abdomen
Ogla Kaiser. twelve.ycar-old daugh-
ter of Joseph F. Kaiser, a dairyman.
living about mile from the place
where the murder was committed, de-
scribes a strange man. who was loiter-
ing about the scene of the crime and
who may be the murderer.
Belated discovery by the coroner's
deputies of portion of hatpin
clasped in the right hand of the mur.
dered music teacher, indicating tnat
the remaining portion of the pin may
be imbedded in some part of the body
of the criminal.
Police infer from the fact that Miss
Carlzen's watch stopped at S:13 O'Clock
that the murder was committed about
that hour.
Bloody finger prints on the inside
of the watch case will be photo
graphed for the purpose of Identified
tion in the event arrests are made.
Fred b. Cowden, dairy hand arrest
ed as a suspect, was released after eS-
tablishing complete alibi.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Three Drown in Reservoir.

Mesita.-K. E. Benton, caretaker of
the Sanchez reservoir in Costilla coun-
ty, John j. Argo, his assistant, and
Robt. Barry, caretaker of Culebra-San-
chez intake headgates, were drowned
Tuesday afternoon in Sanchez reser-
voir when the sailboat from which
they were fishing was capsized. No
one witnessed the accident, and the
facts were not discovered until We'd
nesday, when telephone calls from
headquarters of the Costilla Estates
Development Company failed to elicit
any response. Barry leaves a wife
and two children and Benton a wife,
to whom he was married last Decem-
ber.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
x. p. Grand Lodge Elects Officers.

Denver.-At the annual meeting of
the knights of Pythias grand lodge,
the following officers were elected
and installed for the ensuing year: C.
NJ. Kellogg, Denver, grand chancellor;
A. F. Hollenbeck. Trinidad, vice
chancellor; w. S. O'Brien of Denver.
grand keeper of records and seals;
G..H. Winchell, Denver, grand master
of the exchequer; George Clark, Den
yer, grand master-at-arms; e. B. Coul-
ter, Greeley; grand inner guard; w.
T. Baldrick. Trinidad, grand outer
guard.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
WATER RIGHTS IN RIO eRANDE,
President Wants Commission to Study
Conditions at Enge Dan.

ConultionS dt Englc Jan.
Washington President Taft has
written Governor Shafroth, suggesting
the appointment of commission to
study the facts concerning the contro-
versy over water rights in the Rio
Grande watershed, to determine the
effect granting rights of way would
have upon the government interests in
the Engle dam reclamation project.
He suggests as members of the COM
mission the state engineers of New
Mexico and Colorado. the chief engl-
neer of the reclamation service, the
photographic engineer of the geologi-
cal survey and an engineer to repre-
sent the FL Paso Water Users Asso-
citation. and a representative of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce.
If Governor Shafroth approves, the
commission will be organized immedi-
ately. In closing his letter to the gov
ernor. the President writes:
~ desire to Go all possible to fur
ther the development of the state of
Colorado, and trust that you will de-
eide to cooperate to that end in the
manner suggested"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
LosN vii, Exceed $4,000.

Pueblo.-iShat $4,000 will not cover
the loss incurrSd when Rock Island
train jumped inho the Fountain river
here Aug. /, waS statement given
out by a Rock ISland officer. This
figure covers the tsettlement of sew
eral claims and Eemoyal of the
wrecked cars from the.t river bed,
which required moret than weeks
work by two expert WI lEeeking crews.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Heirs Claim Seven Lakes.

Colorado Springs. o. Chase, an
attorney of Denver, has addressed a
letter to the City Council claiming
THAT he represents minor heirs who
Have clear title to the Seven Lakes,
tine source of the city's water supply.
HE adds that he expects Colorado
Springs to pay rental for the use OF
the land by the water department.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Sure Of Himself.

Aren't you afraid you may become
a slave to the smoking habit?"
mo. 1 can quit whenever want
to-"
How do you know that? Have you
ever tried it?"
No; but I've cured myself Of the
habit of voting for every candidate
who is nominated by the political
party to which / belong, and a man
must have a strong will to do that"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Working to Solve Traffic Problem.

Pueblo.-The traffic bureau of the
Denver Chamber Of Commerce has
been working with the railroads of
Colorado for the purpose of preventing
the shortage in cars which has been
yearly occurrence in this state for
years and which, it is feared, will
cause great losses throughout the
state this year unless Immediately
taken care of on account of the fine
crops this season.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.

August 19-24.-Intcrnational Photo-En-
gravers' Association, Denver.
Sept 3.-Convention National Associa-
i tion State Game Wardens. Denver.
September 3-7-Jefferson County
Fair, Golden.
september s-e Arkansas Valley
Fair-Rocky Ford.
September 6-"Sugar Beet Day" in
districts in Colorado will be in attend
anee and participate in special pro-
gram.
September 11-13-Fremont County
FAIR and Driving Club-Cahon City.
September 1921 - Colorado State
Fatir-Pueblo.
Iflosa.
September 24-27-Crowley County
Fair, Sugar City.
September 24-27-Las Animas County
Fafr-Trinidad.
Sept. 24-26.-Colorado State Medical
Association Pueblo.
Sept. 26.-opening Weld County Fair.
Greeley.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Work on Taylor River Dam.

I Gunnison.-Uncle Sam has started
preliminary work on the Taylor River
daSm with dozen or more men. They
EXPECT to put larger force of men
and teams, and cement machinery to
work <as soon as the preliminary work
is finished. This dam, when complet-
ed, willy furnish power for all the
state, there being practically no limit
to the p3wer that can be produced.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
snedeker Inheritance Tax Paid.

penver.-The state treasurer has
be EN- paid s2.961.2S inheritance tax on
the estate of the late James A. Sned-
eAer, pioneer mining man. The estate
isl valued at $1S5.000, but $4,000 of
the amount was declared exempt.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Government Sues to Recover Land.

Denver.-Sut has been filed in the
Federal Court by the governmen
against the Oak Hills Coal Company
and the Moffat Coal Company. both
owned by the Moffat interests, for the
recovery of 1000 acres of coal land
valued. at the lowest government esti-
mate, at sSS0,000
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
Prominen. Newspaper Humorist Dead.

Los Angeles.-Frank t. Searight,
former president of the American Press
Humorists' Association, died here of
paralysis.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
HOLD AMERICAN
FOR IA Thief
Man Said by SO to be Kid Mccoy
Is undsy Ssst In London for
,on Jewel
Robbery.
STOLEN FROM PRINCESS
Fortune In cewgaws Were Taken at
ostend From the Princess
Of Thurn and
Taxls.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON, July PA man said by
the police to be Kid Mccoy was ar
rested here on an extradition warrant
charging completely in a jewel theft
from princess in Belgium. He is
held at Bow street awaiting the ar
rival Of Belgian police official.
I The prisoner Is described on the
Bow street police records as Arthur
Mccoy, alias Kid Mccoy, aged AZ, an
American subject. charged with lar
ceny at Ostend. When arrested he
said he knew nothing about the theft
In which he was accused of being i'm
plicated. He was remanded without
bail but has not yet been extradited.
1t is presumed that the theft Is the
one announced Wednesday at Ostend
by the Princess Of Thurn and Taxis,
who, before her marriage to Prince
Victor at Uniontown Pa, was the
divorced wife Of General Gerald Fitz-
gerald. She notified the Belgian DO.
lice she had been robbed Of gems
worth $4,000.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
PUT TAFT IN HOLE
BY WOOL BILL
Senate Passes Same Kind of Mcasure
as President Put His Veto on
During Last
Year.
BY LAFoLLETTE
Democrats and Bull Mooses Get To
sether and Shove tho Bill
Through by Vote Of
AZ to 20.

l United Press Leased Wire Service I
WASHINGTON, July 26.--President
laft Is likely to be confronted with q
dilemma exactly similar to that he
laced last summer In regard to the
tariff revision, as result of the ait
uation created today by passage In
the senate the LaFollette wool tariff
bill.
An unexpected resumption of the
progressive republican-democrati Goa
lition forced through the measure.
identical to the one Taft vetoed last
year. The LaFollette bill takes the
middle ground between the present
Payne-Aldrich law and the drastic
cuts in duties specified In the house
bill.
AS passed by the senate, the meas
ure fixes duty of thirty per cent on
raw wool and an average OF 55 per
cent on manufactures: the house
hill made the raw wool duty twenty
per cent and the manufactures about
thirty per cent.
It was the belief Of representatives
today that the house would either
agree to the senate wool bill, or make
slight notifications in conference but
at any rate finally reaching a COM
| promise, which would put President
| Taft in the hole by forcing him to
take action on tariff revision bill.
Since LaFollette frankly admits that
\ his measure is not based on the board
tariffs woof'report, 1t was conceded To-
1 day that IL the bill does reach the
white house It win Immediately receive
a presidential veto In line with Taft's
determination that the recommended
tons of the tariff board must be fol-
1 lowed In revision Of the Payne-aidrich
! law.
The vote on the LaFollette bill came
/ after a protracted debate Previous
4 ly the senate had tentatively agreed
to compromise measure introduced
| by Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
and drafted by Senator Lippitt of
Rhode Island after the democrats had
hirlariously joked over the unusual
spectacle OF Penrose posing as a tariff
reformer Then LaFollette suddenly
introduced his bill and the measure
| went through in a rush, ~ to 20.
Although no definite working ar
rangement has been made by the pro
gressives and democrats. It was the
general belief at the capitol today
today that the coalition might be re-
vived this evening to pass sugar
tariff revision bill, and tomorrow to
pass the excise, or income tax bill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
GALL OF THE WILD TOO LOUD
FOR LITTLE CHILD OF RANCH

to like the social and domestic things
Of life, but lured always by the call
of the wild, the pictures of the sun
set hills Of her fathers California
ranch that her mutinous mind would
conjure up Mrs. Marcus, rs years old.
and the mother of 4wo children, gave
up the struggle as hopeless and went
away.
1t is supposed that she has gone to
her father, George B. Cooksey, of
Pasadena, Cal, and her friends say
that her departure was not surprising
to her young husband or his family.
Born in the west and reared in the
big open spaces of the foothills, the
California girl, returning from an
European trip, met Marcus Oh liner.
7 1t was case of love at first sight.
with him and they were married
shortly afterwards.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Officials In sllaht Wreck.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryicel
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July 30
A special train on the Guyan Valley
branch of the Chesapeake G. Ohio,
bearing President George w. Stevens,
Fourth Vice President Caples, Super
intendent Carey and other officials of
the system was derailed and wreck
ed at an early hour this morning
near Barboursyille The train was
proceeding slowly owing to the Inn
paired condition of the track on ac-
count of heavy recent rains and It
was due to this fact that the accident
did not result in fatalities.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Exiied From. France.

PARIS, July 26.-Having ordered
the expulsion from France of Walter
Thornton Lewis, Of shelbyville and
Frederick NJ. Sibley of Peoria. Ills,
as they call themselves, 1t is said tor
day that the foreign office will keep
the two men under surveillance by
French agents abroad to see that
they do not come back again. For a
foreigner to return to France after
being expelled is punishable by inn
prisonment Lewis and Sibley, II
those are their real names, ere ac-
cused by the ministry of getting pos
session of roulette wheels to be used
at French gambling resorts and fix
ing them so that they could always
win.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
WASHERS SCALE OF PRICES
MADE HIGH BY JUDGE
For ditto glance acc. mpanied by q

For ditto glance acc. mpanied by a
good afternoon $50.
with a schedule Of almost prohib-
tive prices, Judge Scully has started
a real war OH Washers In South Chi
cago. There doubtless are otho-
methods of flirting that are not in the
schedule now, the Judge explained, but
they will be added as cases come to
his notice,
The schedule was prepared by Judge
Scully after he heard the evidence In
the case of Michael Relinski. who, it
was shown, gently closed his thumb
and forehnger just so, upon the left
arm of Miss Theresa Chemma.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Sneede Have Made UP.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. l
FORT WORTH, Texas, July &c.
After figuring in one Of the
most sensational trials in the
history Of Texas as re-
suit Of the murder OF Capt. A. @.
Boyce, John Beal Sneed wealthy
Amarillo banker, ard his wife have
become reconciled. The Staying OF
Boyce followed the elopenent of Mrs.
sneed with Al Boyce, son Of the
wealthy planter.
Sneed and his wife today left for
Georgetown, Texas, where they will
make their home. The jury disagreed
in Sneed's trial for the Staying of the
elder Boyce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Harry x. Thaw Lost His Third At
tempt to get Out Of Asylum
Through the
Courts.
is STILL CRAZY MAN I
Judge Holds That He Would be a
Menace to Public Safety II
Allowed to 90
Free.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, July 26.--
Harry Il. Thaw was held to be still in
sane by Justice Keogh in his decision
handed down this afternoon In the lat
est habeas corpus case.
Thaw was ordered sent back to Mat.
teawan asylum Immediately by Justice
Keogh. He had been in the county
jail at White Plains since the habeas
corpus hearing began in the supreme
court almost two months ago.
In his decision Justice Keogh held
that he. could not order the release of
Thaw because he would be a men
ace to public safety"
1t was the third attempt on the part
of Stanford Whites slayer to obtain
freedom.
Only yesterday Clarence shearn.
counsel for Thaw, in the presence Of
William T. Jerome, special district at
torney fighting the Thaw writ, told
Justice Weogh that Thaw saw that
Lawyer Peabody, his former counsel,
once consulted Justice Keogh on the
matter of Thaw's sanity. The adverse
decision expected next week follow
ed almost Immediately.
The decision, a brief one, was an.
nonnced merely by the clerk OF the
supreme court, the court being In va,
cation. From his home in New Ro
chelle Justice Keogh sent the opinion
ITO the clerk BY messenger and tht
court official Immediately entered Il
on the records.
There was no formal announcement
and Thaw was in jail at the moment
that the official pen stroke decreed
that he SO back to Matteawan. Meth
er Clarence Shearn or Jerome was
present.
The decision of Justice Keogh was
great surprise to Thaw and a heart
breaking disappointment to his aged
mother, Mrs. Mary G. Thaw. 1t was
known that both confidently expected
Thaw's release on this third attempt
and both had gone so far as to tell, In
newspaper interviews of what they
expected to do when Thaw regained
his liberty. Harry said no was going
to Europe.
On the night of June Is, 1906, Harry
X. Thaw on the Madison Square root
garden. shot and killed STANFORD
White.
The following day began legal bat
tie that up to today's decision by JUS
| tice Keogh has cost something like a
million and a half dollars Thaw was
tried once and the jury disagreed A
second trial resulted In Thaw's az
quittal on the ground of insanity and
Justice Bowling committed him tc
Matteawan. Since then Thaw has
thrice tried to obtain freedom by
labeas corpus writs and has failed
The Thaw litigation has cost the
state not less than s350,000 in the
employment of alienists. special a'tor
peys, court costs, etc. For counsel
hush money to Broadway girls, the ex
penses of Evelyn Nesbit, etc, Mrs
Mary c. Thaw has paid out between
100000 and 100000, The decision
was as follows:
"My whole duty is fully performed
when decide the single question pre-
scented for decision, merely, Is Harry
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
Forsakes Gilt Home in the
East for the Freedom of the
Golden West.

limited Press Leased Wire service.T
MONTCLAIR, N. j., July 26.-Mrs
Dorothy Marcus, child of the ranch
who disappeared Monday from the
palatial Marcus home, is not being
sought today by her husband, William
Elder Marcus, Jr., head of the jewelry
firm of Marcus & Company, Fifth
Ave, New York, because in note
found by him the runaway wife ex-
planned that she could not endure to
come back.
Trying vainly for two years to learn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
THE WEATHER.

For Keokuk and Vicinity: Unsettled
weather with probably local showers
tonight or Saturday: warmer tonight.
For Illinois: Generally fair north
portion and scattered local showers
south portion tonight or Saturday.
Somewhat higher temperature Satur-
day and northwest portion tonight.
For Iowa: Unsettled weather with
probably local showers. tonight or sat
urday.
Weather Conditions.
Somewhat cooler weather in the
upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys,
and the western lake region has been
caused by the area of high pressure
moving from the Dakotas to Lake SUI
perior since yesterday, while general
ly fair weather with high temperature
continues in the southern stxtes.
In the northeastern states the pres
sure continues low, and there have
been scattered showers in the lower
lake region.
An area of low pressure covers the
southwest, and there have been show
ers on its front in Kansas and Me-
braska, o.94 inches of rain falling at
North Platte.
A field of high pressure appears in
the northwest this morning, which
as yet has not been attended by cool
err weather.
Conditions Indicate unsettled
weather for this section tonight and
Saturday, with probably some local
showers and warmer tonight.