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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Youth Admits Poisoning stepfather.

Sterling.-Fearing he would go in
sane II he kept the secret longer.
Henry Merrill. twenty years old, con
fessed to Methodist minister. the
district judge and the sheriff here that
he caused his stepfather's death by
poisoning him four years ago, the po-
lice assert. He has been locked up.
The youth claimed he took his step
fathers life, the police say. because
of i'll treatment of his mother. The
latter is now Mrs. Jones. having mar
ried third time. She is one of the
only two women game wardens in the
United States.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
FOREIGN

Generals Morency and Potion, lead
ing forces of revolutionists, have en-
tered Cape Haitien without firing a
shot.
A renewal of the recent massacres
of Christians by Kurds in Armenia Is
reported in the whole district of Lake
Van.
A. T. Omholt, Norwegian minister
OF finance, has resigned because OF
Illness and has been succeeded by
former Premier Blehr.
considerable number of refugees
from the Ypres region, who were
evicted from their homes by the au-
thorities for military reasons, have ar
rived in Paris.
The Danish ship Louisiana, de-
tanned at Kirkwall. was transferred
on April 26 to Hull, where the food
stuffs in her cargo will be passed on
by prize court.
Japan's new proposals to China
show concessions, according to the
Japan Mail They are said to omit
the demand for the non-alienation OF
China's coastal territory.
The London Exchange Telegraph
Company's Athens correspondent says
the newspapers in that city state that
the Greek government has negotiated
with American capitalists for a loan
of $7.O00,000.
A dispatch to the Central News
from Stockholm says that King Gus
tave is i'll, apparently with a recur-
renee of the stomach trouble for
which he underwent an operation a
year ago.
Viscount Bryce, formerly British
ambassador at Washington, has been
appointed to represent Great Britain
on the commission to which, under
the Anglo-American treaty of 1914,
any issues between the two countries
which might not yield to diplomatic
adjustment would be submitted.
Miss Hede Nozawa of Toxic has won
$4,000 by the award of the highest
court of Japan from Hozahira Vanaka.
forbreach ofpromise, which isnot only
the first breach of promise case to be
adjudicated in Japan, but a long step
forward in the recognition of the
rights of women. who, under the old
regime, were considered more or less
as chattels, as they still are in most
of the Orient
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
BOARD MEMBERS NAMED
c. p. DODGE AND DR.. WORK RE-
cEIVE APPOINTMENTS.
Mrs. John Bond Becomes Woman
Member Of State Boys Indus
trial School Board.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver. = Governor Carlson an
nounced number of appointments. in
Guiding memberships of state boards
and bureaus and new water commits
sioners. The full list of appointments
follows:
DR.. Hubert Work of Pueblo, mem
ber of the board of trustees of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs, for a term
of six years.
Clarence P. Dodge of Colorado
Springs, member of the State Board
of Pardons, for term of four years.
Mrs. John Bond of Denver, mem
ber of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Boys.
Three commissioners for the pro-
motion of uniform state laws: Charles
w. Waterman of Denver to serve for
six years; Willis l. Strachan of Colo
RADIO Springs to serve for four years.
md S. S. Packard of Pueblo to serve
for two years. These commissioners
take the places of Henry G. Hall of
Colorado Springs, John Davidson Of
Pueblo and Harry E. Kelly Of Denver.
The work of the commissioners is to
confer with similar commissioners in
other states in movement to make
the laws of all states upon kindred
subjects uniform SO far as possible.
The following water commissioners
were named: District No. 2, J. G.
Wylie of Platteville; district 8, S. F..
Couch, Littleton: District 9. ]. w. Nc
Lean, Mt. Morrison; District 13. ID.
Geroux, Westcliffe; District 10. Rob-
ert NJ. Totten, Rye; District %, A. G..
Morris, Moffatt; District &c, George
Burch. Saguache; District 81, Juan
Trujillo, La Garita; District 2s, J. Roy
Hicks, Sargents; District 4s, r. Il.
Moan, Gleneyrie; District 5s, J. B.
Lansing, Yampa.
The appointment of Mrs. Bond as a
member of the board Of control of the
State Industrial School for Boys
meets the provision of the law that
one women shall be a member. Mrs.
Bond fills the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mrs. Evangeline Hearth.
Democratic member of the House of
Representatives.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
CHINA REJECTS JAP DEMANDS
War Danger Increased by Refusal Of
Pekinu to Accept Domination.

Peking.-The Chinese government
has definitely refused some of the
most important demands made by
Japan. On learning of China's deci
sion. the Japanese minister. Eki Hioki.
said to the Chinese foreign minister,
Lu Cheng Hsiang: 81 am sorry. ]
believe my government will be dis,
appointed" The Chinese foreign min.
lister, at a meeting Of representatives
of two of the governments, presented
China's reply in the shape of a formal
note This note announced China's
rejection Of Group v Of the Japanese
demands in its entirety.
This group as originally submitted
to China, contains what are perhaps
the most important demands made by
Japan.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
LET WILSON CALL FOR PEACE.
College Man Declares U. s. Should
Take Lead in Ending European
War

Philadelphia.-G. Loves Dickinson
of Kings College, Cambridge. Eng
land, speaking to the American Acad-
emy of Political and Social Science.
outlined the following as the best
manner in which America could con-
tribute to the maintenance of world
peace: Peace to be established
through the intervention of President
Wilson. The convention of Con-
gress at which all European states.
belligerents and neutrals alike should
be represented: such congress to be
presided over by President Wilson.
Substitution of the former system OF
alliances among European powers
with an international guarantee OF
peace, backed by force, if necessary.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Two Killed by Mine Blast.

Walsenburg.-An explosion of un-
known origin in the first and second
entries of the Mutual mine, two miles
west of walsenburg, instantly killed
two men and injured two. The dead
are: Michael Sparks, single, 2s years
old, and Michael Gretch. married, IS
years old. The injured are: William
Coleman. slightly: Stanley Smolski,
seriously. The men had gone into the
mine but few minutes before the
explosion. The explosion shook the
mine buildings.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
TEUTONS lose
Two WARSH|PS
sERMANs TORPEDO ONE AMERi-
CAN AND THREE. ALLIED
VESSELS.
TWO OTHER SHIPS SUNK
BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK DUR.
ING RAIDS BY UNDERSEA
CRAFT OF KAISER.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, May 3.-German subma-
ines which for a couple of weeks had
)een combining themselves to the
North Sea where they sank number
,f trawlers, again have made their ap-
Dearance on the trade routes off the
vest coasts of Ireland and England
md caught two victims. They were
he British steamer Edale, which was
sunk off the Scilly Islands, and the
Russian steamer Svorono, which was
,ttacked off the Basket Islands.
In both cases the crews were saved.
A German submarine on Saturday
ank the old British destroyer Recruit
IF the Galloper lightship in the North
Sea, but the scorc was more than
qualized by other British destroyers
'hich after a stern chase overlook and
.ank the two German torpedo boats
hat had accompanied the submarine
n her cruise.
Some of the crew of the Recruit
ere rescued by the Trawler Daisy,
ut as the submarine fired on the fish
rmen they were compelled to leave
he others to their fate.
The British destroyers rescued most
the crows of the German torpedo
oats, and two officers were picked
p by a passing steamer and taken
, Holland.
Besides these incidents in the North
Sea the German submarines continued
heir operations off the Scilly Islands
nd, in addition to torpedoing the
american tank steamer Gullflight. the
.aptain of which died of shock, and
.wo men were drowned. sank the
French steamer Europe and the Brit
lsh steamer Fulgent, the captain of the
latter vessel being shot and killed.
The American oil tank steamer
Gulfiight sailed from Port Arthur,
Texas. April 10, for Rouen. France.
The captain of the Gulflight died of
heart failure when the torpedo struck.
Two seamen jumped overheard, and
were drowned.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07

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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Creamery Plants Merged.

Grand Junctior.-Word has been
received here that the large Jensen
Creamery Company plant here is
merged into the new s3.OOO.OOO Mu-
tual Creamery Company organized in
Salt Lake City to operate over the
entire West. The local plant is turn
ing out 10000 pounds of butter a
month.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
SPORTING NEWS
StnndInE Of Mestern Lcngue Gu

Frank Arellanes has been added to
the Denver clubs pitching staff.
The Chicago American defeated
Cleveland, to at Chicago, winning
their seventh straight game.
Jess Willard, the man who restored
fistic supremacy to the white race,
will be in Denver May 6.
Pal Moore, bantamweight, out
pointed and outfought Jimmy Pappas
of Atlanta in an eight-round contest at
Nashville, Tenn.
A bill legalizing horse racing, with
bookmaking included, was favorably
reported in the State Senate at
Springfield, Ill.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland,
worlds champion featherweight, out
pointed Benny Leonard OF New York
in six rounds Of a ten-round bout in
lew York.
Bob Burman, driving a French car,
won the $4,000 sweepstakes automo-
lie race, run over the Oklahoma City
course after a spectacular race for
thirty laps with Dave Lewis. who fin
he'd second.
GENERAL
Flood conditions in Texas are en-
couraging, rains having ceased in
practically all the water sheds.
John Bunny, whose antics as a
moving picture comedian have made
millions laugh, died at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Theodore Roosevelt will go to New
Orleans on June / and, with Leon
Parker, spend an entire week fishing
tarpon off the gulf coast.
At Marshalltown, Iowa, DR.. Pearl E.
Somer flew eleven miles in an aero
plane at the rate of 40 miles an hour
to reach a patient six minutes after
the call
Max Kleist's s25O.OOO suit for aliena
tion of his wife's affections against his
parents-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
F. Breitung, was thrown out of court
by Judge Hough OF New York.
Emil Pickard, a Juror in the mur-
der trials following the Wheatland.
Cal. hopfield riots OF 1918, was found
shot dead in his barn. His wife was
found in the house dead, with a bullet
in her head.
Mrs. Emolia Carranza, fifty six
years old, wife of Col. Sebastian Car,
rama. brother of Gen. Venustiano
Carranza. first chief of the Mexican
Constitutionalists, died at her home in
San Antonio. Tex.
Two fatalities. fifty-four small
| craft damaged, many miles of tele,
graph and telephone wires prostrated
and 100000 damage to other prop,
erty was the toll recorded of gale
that swept San Francisco and vicinity
The appellate division of the Su,
preme Court in New York granted an
application of the state attorney gen.
eral for an alternative writ restrain
ing Supreme Court Justice Hendrick
from empanelling a jury to test the
sanity of Harry X. Thaw on May II
Evidence concerning alleged extern
sive election frauds in Alameda coun
ty, Oakland. has been laid before the
attorney general at Washington. Unit
ed Safes District Attorney John w
Preston announced at San Francisco
A United States senator and represen'
tative were voted for at the primary.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Rancher Killed by Angry Bull.

Pueblo.-D. w. Schoolman, 81. died
in Pueblo as the result of an attack
by an angry bull April 16. Schoolman
was at work in his pasture near Good
pasture, thirty miles west of Pueblo.
when he was gored several times and
finally tossed over a fence.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
President Wilson is Godfather.

Williamstown, Mass.-President VIII
son became godfather of his only
grandson here and added to his du-
ties by promising to safeguard the re-
ligious welfare of the child. the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
maIoney Declared LittIeton Mayor.

Littleton.-Judge w. C. Fullerton of
Central City, presiding in the spring
election contest suit for the office of
mayor, decided against the confession,
w. Fl. Everett. j. Z. Maloney, state
highway engineer, was declared in
office.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Harper orahood Freed of Conspiracy

Harper orahood Freed OF Conspiracy.
Denver.-Harper II. Orahood was ac-
quilted of the charge of taking part in
the conspiracy to defraud insurance
concerns last fall of $4,000 through
the fake" death of Vivalley Turley.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
Row over Woman Ends in stabbine

Denver.-AIbert Walker. p, OF 1854
Downing street. was stabbed six times
by Charles Port, "a, in quarrel over
the latter's wife. Mrs. Ida May
Port, 20.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
His Action.

"Ah, SQUIRE" saluted the village
bore, what are you doing for your
rheumatism these days?"
Examining the doctors one after
another" snarled the old codger, Ito
see how much they don't know
Judge.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07

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clothes. use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
FARMERS WIFE !
: TOO ILLT0 WORK
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07

PLEASED to meet you" is one thing
a man never says to a sight draft.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07

Broadly speaking, the people are
divided into two classes: The people
who do things and their critics.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-07
COLORADO
STATE NEW S

Western Newspaper Union News service.
COMING EVENTS.
June 9-11-G. A. X. encampment at La
Junta.
Sept. 27-Oct. s,-Meeting international
Dry Farming ConEress at Denver
Evening star., 1915-06-13

nished at ALL unless cot and stepladder
may be called furnishing. 1t was dis
tinctly poverty-stricken room.
Admit that you have guessed it ILL.,
attic room, wind blowing through chinkS,
neglected genius. penniless and hungry,
staying in bed for warmth, and shifting
the odors from the meal that is going on
below. You are wrong four times out of
five. Lettia was genius; but she was
far from neglected. No one who blossoms
forth monthly in the pages of Parkinson's
Magazine can be called neglected. Her
only trouble at the moment was that she
couldn't write articles fast enough to suit
the ravenous appetite of the editor of that
popular periodical. Neither was she pen
niless With her salary as head of the
psychology department in the university,
and the generous checks from Parkinson
she had a most respectable balance at the
bank. balance that was dedicated to
two years of study in Oxford.
The odor of hot lunch from below raised
no feeling within her other than annoy
ance; for she was still warm from dinner
cooked in the chatting dish. which was hid
den behind discreet green curtain that
draped the other end of the room. And
finally she was staying in bed because at
the moment she felt lazy, and for no other
reason whatever.
Five days "a week she dissected the hui
man mind before the classes at the uni
versity. and since it meant standing upon
Evening star., 1915-06-13

TN the very heart of Boston, at the
intersection of two of its crooked
est streets. stands Mrs. Jackson's
Il boarding house. 1t is so situated
that from the attic windows you can see
down both streets at once, which is some
thip.th hat can happen only in Boston.
Otherwise there is nothing to distinguish
it from the countless other boarding
houses that flank it upon each hand. The
inhabitants of Mrs. jackson rooms on the
second" and "third" are expected to take
their meals at her table; but the inhahi-
tants of the "attics" must fend for them
selves. There are two "attics, and in the
coldest and draftiest lived Letitia Smith,
Phi. ID.
1t was high noon, chilly, bleak sort of
noon: but, by reason of the odors that
floated up the attic stairs, unmistakably
the lunch hour. Letitia Smith was still
in bed. The rain beat upon the skylight
with dreary persistence, and the draft that
crept through the walls, where the build
ing paper did not reach, blew the curtains
to and fro: but Letitia wrapped in a sort
of chrysalis of red wrapper and white
blanket, was writing busily upon a pad
of paper. Every now and then she
paused and curled the ends Of her thick
braids round her middle finger, and wrin-
kled her forehead in frown. Compost
ton was not simple matter with Letitia.
The room, besides being an attic, was
poorly furnished. In fact it was not fur
Evening star., 1915-06-13

caused more people to shed tears than
any other man in Boston. This was not
due to any particular ill will on his part.
He wrote sob stories for a thriving
journal, and nightly the city grew red
eyed over his tales. Under the guise of
the sentimental and sympathetic Claude
he haunted the city, gathering material
for stories with which to dampen the eve-
ming subway.
In appearance Charles Henry did not
resemble the soulful Claude. He was big
and broad, and addicted to green ties and
tan shoes. Moreover, he was rarely with
out cheerful grin.
Usually his sob stuff" was manufac-
tured out of whole cloth; but OCCASION
ally he ran across case that was all ready
cut out, so to speak. No matter what he
might be doing at the moment his subcon-
scious mind was manufacturing sobs, and
he frequently saw tears glistening where
HIS subconscious mind was at work
now as he mechanically opened
package and took out small steak and
some onions He was thinking of the girl
across the hall, at first with embarrass-
ment, and then with sort of professional
curiosity. She was really pretty: it was
strange he had not seen her before. As
a matter of fact he had seen her several
times in the street; but Letitia in good
sense shoes, with her hair drawn back
from her scholarly brow, and Letitia in
fuzzy red wrapper, with her hair in two
H., +o l>n Al.
same person. A picture of her room rose
in his mind. Bare, without even rug
upon the floor, the curtains swaying in
the draft-and suddenly he had it. Here.
at his very door, was sob story He
hastily put down the onion he was slcing
and went in search of the landlady.
He and Mrs. jackson were old friends.
She was proud of having a gentleman who
"wrote things under her roof. 1t gave
her feeling Of intimacy with the literati
Moreover, Charles Henry always paid his
rent. As always. Charles Henry found
her willing to talk, and gradually he led
the conversation around to the girl up
stairs. He gathered that she was not in
high favor
Yes, she was nice girl, though uppish.
No, Mrs. Jackson had not talked with
her: she didn't care for them as were too
proud to talk Not that she had any
thing to be proud of; for her clothes were
as plain as plain. Yes, she worked some
where. she didn't say at what, and Mrs.
Jackson for one wasn't going to pry into
other peoples affairs when she wasn't
wanted: but she knew the girl wrote. be-
cause she got some letters from a maga-
zine Mrs. Jackson had counted two
since she came, last Monday.
No. she didn't take meals with the
boarders: she had stove in her room
and cooked there. Mrs. jackson let the
attics do as they liked, as MIR. Graves
knew; but when it came to leaving the
skylight open in the worst kind OF
weather. Mrs. jackson thought some
people, naming no names. were crazy.
She began busting the sofa with dis
dainful sniff. and Charles Henry returned
to his room three steps at a time, swept
the steak off his table. and sat down to
the typewriter.
ITO his practised eye it was as plain as
day. Poor working girl. underpaid.
half starved. with a spark of divine fire,
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-06
MEXICO CITY RETAkEN
ARRANGE TRANSPORTATION OF
STAPLE AH7icES OF FOOD.
Gonzales Troops Recapture Capital
With But Little Resistance
by Villistas.
we.Lern Ncw.paper unIon News serylee.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington, Aug. 3.-The reoccupa-
ton of Mexico City Saturday night by
the Constitutionalist troops under Gen.
Pablo Gonzales was reported in a tele-
gram received from Jesus Acuna, min
lister of the interior. The message
said
Gen. Gonzales troops reoccupied
Mexico City with little resistance. The
movement was the elimination OF a
campaign determined upon when it
was found necessary to crush the Villa
column commanded by Fierro.
Instead of sending a small force
against Fierro. Gen. Gonzales decided
to inflict a crushing blow that should
eliminate him as a future menace
when the capital should be reoccupied
The plan proved eminently success
full, though misunderstood and misrep-
resented by those not taken into his
confidence.
Gen. Lechuga commanded the
forces which reoccupied the city"
The Carranza agency issued this
statement:
First Chief Venustiano Carranza
has ordered Gen. Pablo Gonzales to re-
occupy Mexico City, in view of the re-
ports in circulation with regard to the
critical conditions in the capital by
reason of the shortage of foodstuffs.
The orders include Instructions to Gen.
Gonzales to arrange for the immediate
transportation of trainloads of staple
articles of food at the same time his
troops enter the city
Carranza's prompt response to in
sistence by the United States was re-
garded here as averting necessity for
immediate action by this government,
to insure transportation OF provisions
to the Mexican capital
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-06
SEND SCOTT TO MEXICO.
Soldiers Sent to Border to Enforce U.
S. Demands.

Washington. Aug. 5.-That interven
tion by the United States in Mexico
will be ordered soon was the opinion
in Washington last night. when it be
came known that at the conference
on the situation in the southern re-
public the representatives of Bolivia,
Uruguay and Guatamala would ap-
prove a plan to send Gen. Hugh L..
Scott. chief OF staff. to Mexico with
pieRury powers.
VI Is felt that villa is nearing the
end of his power and that Carranza's
own lieutenants will force him into ac.
cepting the peaceful course outlined
by the United States. Gen. Scott. who
recently settled the Indian troubles In
Utah. is regarded as the one man su-
premeIy fitted to deal with the situa-
ton
villa troops were beaten by Car.
rama forces in battle at Nogales on
United States border. Gen. Funston
has orders to fire on Mexican com,
batants IL American lives are i'm
perhed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-08-06
u. 5. troops XII Twelve Mexieans.

Brownsville. Tex.-Twelve Mexican
bandits are reported killed in fighting
with United States cavalrymen and
possemen in the low, thick, thorny
brush north of Brownsville Private
Mcclure of the Twelfth cavalry was
reported killed. Private Curtis prob
ably fatally wounded and Deputy Sher-
iff C. A. Monahan of Brownsville shot
in the leg. Mexican raiders. believed
surrounded north of Brownsville by
United States cavalrymen and Amer
lean posses. have escaped