Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
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.

Two women jurors in Seattle swung
ten men into line for a verdict by
which a woman was convicted of as
saulting a man.
Dynamite exploding in business
house at Grand Forks, n. ID. result
er in the destruction of the Masonic
temple and several stores.
Assemblyman John L. Mutually.
member of the last California Legisla-
ture, was shot and killed by three rob-
bers in his saloon in San Francisco.
According to a cattleman from For
est City, S. d. several thousand cattle
are gathered at Swift Bird creek and
hundreds are dying from starvation
| and cold.
Three are known to be dead and
ten more or less seriously injured in
Missouri Pacific wreck, which oc-
CURED at bridge mile west of
Norton Lyndon, Kans.
Much excitement has resulted from
gold discoveries at Dunlap, in the
Sierra Nevada mountains, Calf. Min
ers are rushing to the new fields and
tent city has sprung up. Rich
pockets" found by prospectors start
ed the rush.
Miss Leona Mary Jewell. daughter
of Jue Sue. one of the wealthiest of
Portland's Chinese merchants. will
soon receive a commission in the
Chinese revolutionary army and will
lead a company of soldiers in the
field
Des Moines will be back on the base
ball map this year and in the Western
League. After two years. in which
little interest has been taken in the
national game, Des Moines fans prom
Use to wake up and make this a ban
ner year.
During the annual meeting of the
South Platte Millers' Association at
Lincoln, Neb., three newspaper report
ers who had been taken for mill own
ers sat through the proceedings and
heard all arrangements made for con-
trolling the price of flour milled this
year.
Pavlof volcano. on the Alaska penin-
sula, west of the Shumagin islands. is
in violent eruption. Andrew Grosswald,
storekeeper at Sand Point. sixty
miles from Pavlof. sends word that a
discharge of stones from the crater
can be seen and that lava and smoke
are issuing.
After travelling through five states
to find place where they might wed
legally. Miss Anna Sietama of Woon-
socket, S. D., and Sistee Seitsma of
Forestburg, S. D., were married in La
Crosse, Wis. The pair are first cou-
sins and because of that fact were un-
able to marry in South Dakota or the
neighboring states of North Dakota,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.
Denver will, before the end of
this year, be the distributing point
on ]. j. Hills Seattle-to-the-Gulf route.
One million dollars was recently ap-
1propriated by the Burlington road to
build the twenty-nine-mile link be-
tween Greeley and Hudson. Colo. The
work will be done within six months.
Freight and passengers from the
Northwest over the new line will
reach the old main Burlington line at
hudson. twenty-six miles from Den
yer, and thence be brought to Denver.
The other link missing in the new
road is between Thermopolis and Pow
der River, Wyo., a distance of sixty
six miles. Part of this is now built.
ALI the grading has been done and it
only. remains to lay the rails. This
will complete Hills Seattle-to-Galves-
ton line.