The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-04-24

damage recently from the worst flo~d
in years.
Just before inspection drill, Lieuten'
ant Bahagdin, N. Y. N. G., had his
quartermaster sergeant sworn in as
a deputy sheriff.
Angered because the police have ar
rested her twice on charges OF va
grancy, Clyda Bosley, formerly a
school teacher of Des Moines, Ia, has
gone on hunger strike at the city
workhouse at st. Joseph, Mo.
The Chicago e. Eastern Illinois Rail.
road company was fined $4,000 by
Federal Judge Carpenter in Chicago
for violating the law prohibiting tho
working of employees more than Six
teen consecutive hours.
Four soldiers of the Fourteenth
cavalry who have been held under ar
rest at Fort Clark, Tex, since Novem'
Der last on a murder charge, will be
turned over to the Texas courts for
trial.
AS a result of the heavy rains i'll the
upper part of the Missouri river val
ley, principally in South Dakota, the
river is rising at Kansas City, and
will continue to rise for the next four
or five days. A flood there is improb'
able, according to the observer.
Militant suffragists who destroy
property should be placed in insane
asylums instead of jails, as their ac'
tions indicate nervous arrangement
This statement is made in the current
issue of the Journal of the American
Medical association, Chicago.
The Minnesota house passed the
workmen's compensation bill already
passed by the senate, providing $40
week benefit for workmen disabled
while performing their duty The bill
now goes to the governor for his sig
nature.
An earthquake lasting several sec
pnds was experienced at Salt Lake
City recently. Telephone operators
on the fifth floor of the Telephone
building reported that their transmit
shock.
Higher prices for cold storage
products have been the rule ever
since the industry became CONNER
cialiy Important as shown by data
for more than thirty years back col
lected by the Department OF Agricul-
ture.
Great Britain has no intention OF
following the lead of Washington in
recognizing the Republic OF China.
the house of commons was informed
by Francis Dyke Acland, parl1a-
mentary under secretary of foreign
affairs, speaking on behalf of the for
eign office.
Definite plans for the construction
of one of the biggest and most eXpen-
sive hotels in the world are said to
have been completed for Chicago's
down town district. The new hos
telry is to cost 100000, and will be
built at the southeast corner of Clark
and Madison streets.
For the third time in his reign,
King Alfonso of Spain narrowly es-
capped being the victim of an an
archistc attempt against his life.
Three shots were fired at the king in
the streets of the capital by native
of Barcelona. Rafael Sanchez Allegro,
who was Immediately oyerpowered.
The king was not injured.
Albert c. Frost, former president
and promoter of the Alaska Central
railroad, and his four ccdefendants,
X NJ II
Frank Watson and George c. Ball, all
interested in the development of the
road, were found not guilty in the fed
eral court in Chicago of conspiracy
to obtain illegally millions of dollars
worth of coal lands in the Matanuska
Valley, Alaska.
Direct election of United States
senators by the people was author
lied and made compulsory when the
Connecticut legislature ratified the
constitutional amendment submitted
by congress less than a year ago.
The situation that results throughout
the country, where many legislatures
have adjourned until 1915 is such as
to leave confusion in the minds Of
members of the senate as to how the
early steps toward direct election Of
senator's will be carried out.
Twenty passengers were killed and
forty injured in a wreck on the MeXi-
can Central railway near lula, state
of Hidalgo, because the engineer
yielded to the opportunities of the pas
sengers The engineer, fearing to run
into rebels, was moving cautiously.
The passengers also were apprehen-
siye. but believing that greater safety
lay in greater speed, induced the con-
ductor and engineer to run faster. The
train was ditched on curve.
Miss Belle Sans of Pasadena. Cal,
was the victim of peculiar series
OF accidents, all occurring within the
space OF couple of seconds. While
washing dishes Miss Sans dropped a
SOUP tureen on her foot, breaking one
Of the bones. She put out an arm to
save herself from falling and struck