Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-04-17
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Mayor Harrison left Chicago for
Two weeks trip in Arizona and the
Southwest.
DIR. S. ]. Neill, twenty-eight, dent
st, of Basin, Wyo., committed suicide
by shooting.
The girls dormitory at Yankton, S.
D., college burned. All the girls es-
capped. The loss is 100000.
Special services were held in many
churches in commemoration of Good
Friday, the anniversary of the cruci-
fixion of Christ.
Delaney II. Louderback, million
aire associate of Charles t. Yerkes in
developing traction lines, died at his
home in Chicago.
Sterling S. Burtin, formerly police
reporter on a newspaper. was elected
chief of police of Cedar Rapids. Ia,
by the city council.
The state of Minnesota has re-
ceiyed ss2.53S as the inheritance tax
on the estate of the late Charles G.
Gates of Minneapolis.
An estate of s5,5OO.OO0 is disposed of
in the will of Byron l.. Smith, presi-
dent of the Northern Trust Company.
who died in Chicago several weeks
ago.
T. E. p. Booth. foreman of ranch
near Phoenix. was shot and killed by
DIR. l.. E. Virgins, physician of Shell
by county. Tex. DIR. Virgins sur
rendered himself to the sheriff.
Governor Ammons of Colorado and
Governor Mcdonald of New Mexico
will start on a sociability automobile
tour May 4 through Colorado, Texas,
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas.
Winter came back to the Texas pam
handle on the sth with temperature
of 10 degrees above zero. All the
fruit in that section, il is believed,
has been killed. An inch of snow fell.
Progressive leaders of Iowa sue
ceeded in bringing out candidates for
practically every state office and for
a number of congressional and coun-
ty places at n state conference at Des
Moines.
on the day which Christendom has
set apart to commemorate the cruci-
fixion. jeremiah Allen strobe up the
gallows steps at San Quentin, Calf,
of his wife on Christmas Eve, 1912.
Although close to five million sheep
will be sheared in Wyoming during
the next three months. the State Board
of Child and Animal Protection pro-
poses that the handling of every one
of them shall be under the direct su-
perintendency of humane agent.
Mrs Luella West brought suit
against Governor Hodges for s2,310
damages for injuries alleged to have
been inflicted by the governor in his
office in Topeka, Kan. during a scuf-
file over the possession of some pa
pers relating to paroling a man from
prison.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser. the mil
lionaire lumberman, was buried at
Rock Island, ILL.,, in Chippianock ceme-
terry beside his wife. The funeral serv-
ices, according to the rites of the Pres
byterian church, were held at the
home of Weyerhaeusers daughter,
Mrs. S. S. Davis.
The situation in the Trans-Mississip-
pi Irrigation Conference at the Capt.
tol in Denver was the charge made by
former State Senator Dolph E. Car
penter that Arthur p. Davis, chief en-
gineer of the United States reclama-
tion service, had attacked and tied up
the biggest irrigation job in Colorado.
maliciously and with evidence he had
not tried to substantiate.