Newspaper Page Text
ROCKY FORD ENTERPRISE Will R. Monkman, Publllhar. ROCKY FORD. - - COLORADO DIAZ FLEES FOR EUROPE IN THE DARKNESS OF EARLY MORNING FORMER RULER STEALS AWAY. COUNTRY IS QUIET I PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT DE LA BARRA TAKES OATH OF OFFICE. Mexico City.—Enveloped in heavy : wraps, trembling with weakness, fear 1 and old age, Porfirio Diaz, long dicta tor of Mexico, in the darkness of early morning, stole out of his home and in : a borrowed auto was whirled away to a remote suburban station to board a special train for Vera Cruz. There he boarded a steamer which , is making a trip to Coalzacoalicos and j will return to Vera Cruz next Wed- i nesday and sail for Europe. lusurrectos stopped his special train 1 before It reached Vera Cruz, but on learning that Diaz was on board, al lowed It to proceed, evidently glad he was leaving the country. Diaz left here at 2 a. m. Only a few friends whom he trusted followed him to the local station. In the distance he could hear the voices of enthusiastic celebrants who were acclaiming the new president, Francisco Leon de la Barra, and shout ing “Viva Madera.” Secrecy here was due less to ap prehension of a popular outburst than to a desire that he reach Vera Cruz ( without the fact being known to ma- | rauding bands along the route. , Travel between here and the sea- ( port usually is over the Mexican rail way, a standard guage line with mod- f ern equipment. Rails along this route : frequently have been removed of late by bandits, who were determined that , Diaz, for reasons best known to them selves. should not leave the capital. They are reported to have harbored the idea that Diaz would follow the precedent of other presidents and carry the national funds with him. There is another railroad to the coast, a narrow gauge affair owned by the government. Taking it for granted that Diaz would take the more luxur ious route, the bandits have not mo lested it. For this reason the nar row gauge was chosen by the former president for bis trip. A more dreary leave-'aking could scarcely be imagined. Rain had fallen earlier in the night and by the time the former President emerged from his house the air was chilly. He | was closely muffled and to aid the disguise a borrowed automobile was ' used. The route to the San I.azaro station had been mapped out over un frequented streets. By a prearrangement, at the las*, moment police were scattered along the line. At certain points the close frierds of the former chief executive, including those who are to accom pany him across the Atlantic, fell In t ehied his limousine. Three trains were used, the first acting as a pilot. The Diaz special Inllowed and some time later a third train occupied by a detachment of , the Twenty-fifth infantry set out ! General Diaz was accompanied by j Mrs. Diaz. Mrs. Romero Rubion de Teresa. Colonel Porfirio Diaz, a son: j Lieutenant Lorenzo Elizaga. and their ’ families; General Fernando Gonzales, Manuel Gonzales, Colcnel Santa Cruz, Major Espionosa > Rondero. Francisco S. Garcia and Ignacio de la Garita. General Diaz undoubtedly will make his home in Spain, probably at Mad? Id. During the recent centen nial King Alfonso conferred a title upon him and made him an honor ary general of the Spanish army. Senora Diaz was made a lady in ! waiting to the Spanish queen. Gen eral Diaz speaks only Spanish and outside of Mexico he would find the most congenial surroundings in Spain The city and the country are quiet today. The inauguration of De l.a Barra as provisional President was a brief af fair. occupying but ten minutes. To spectators it seemed he had scarcely j moved down Avenido Cinco de Mayo with his escort before he on his way back to the national palace, his I carnage smothered with flowers. Dreamland a Heap of Ashes. New York. —Dreamland, one of the show places of Coney Island, was practically wiped out by fire. The less is 12,000,000. Woman Graduate Mining Engineer Holla, Mo. —Miss Eva Endurance Hirdler. of St. Louis, was graduated with a class of thirty-five men in min ing from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. She is believed to be the only woman who has ever re ceived a dipffuna as a mining engi neer In the United States. AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF T H **■ PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS, D O I N G 8, ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARB OF MANKIND. WESTERN. Chief of Police Seymour of San Francisco, has been suspended from duty by the Board of Police. In bread daylight the State Bank of Albany, Okla., was robbed by two masked men who entered the bank and secured $2,000. Prospectors In the Upper Kuslcok wim valley, Alaska, near Innoko ri"er, have discovered old gold diggings which were worked by the Russians before the United States bought Alaska. President F. A. Delano of Chicago of the Wabash railroad system, speak ing before the Chicago Traffic Club, advocated the regulation of newspa per by the Interstate Commerce Com mission as semi-public utilities. Clarence Henderson, bookkeeper In n bank at Beggs, Okla., Is dead, and Edward Bright, son of u real estate man of the same place, w*ill die as the result of mistaking a quart can of nitro-glycerine for muddy water. Clarence Patrick, a telegraph opera tor of Oklahoma City, broke a fast of forty days and ate an orange, Pat rick claims to have cured himself of rheumatism and other ills. He de clares he took nothing but pure water during his fast. He lost thirty pounds. In the hurry attendant upon the last night of the session of the Missouri legislature, the revenue bill providing the tax levy under which appropria tions amounting to $19,500,000 are to be raised got lost In the Senate and failed to pass. The discovery was made the next day. After being separated from her hus band, Peter C. Sharp of Pittsburg, Kan., since the Chicago fire in 1871, Mrs Anna Catherine Sharp of Oak land, Cal., arrived and was welcomed Into her old home. Her husband and bis present wife. Mrs. l»uisa Sharp, whom he married nine years ago aft er giving up search for h'i first wife, met her at the train. Bert H. Conners aud J. Mansel Parks, both said to be members, and the latter a former officer in the Los Angeles local union of the Structural Iron and Bridge Workers, have been arretted in \jo* Angeles by detectives working under the direction of Dis trict. Attorney Freder‘cks, on a charge of being implicated in an attempt to destroy with dynamite the new I .os Angeles county Hall of Records lost September, some weeks before the blov ing up of the Times building. WASHINGTON. Senator Frye, after fortv-one years of continuous service In Congress, is ! lea\ing Washington late for his home ! in Maine. With snow falling in Montana and i freezing temperatures in Nevada and Oregon, a hot wave is now centered 1 over the middle West and the South. Major Archibald W. Butt, military j aide to President Taft, is shortly to marry the sister of Mrs. Taft, is the . rumor prevalent In Washington so- ' clety. It is announced that the Democrats of the House will not stop with a re- j vision of the wool schedule, but will follow with a revision of the cotton, metals and chemical schedules. Washington motorists are working j hatn to bring about the enactment i of a bill Introduced in Congress by j Representative Jones, of Virginia, to ! establish a national highway from Washington to Fredericksburg. Va.. by way of Mount Vernon. Ccngressmen who get Into see Pres ident Taft these days are not surprised to learn that he Isn't worryingabout the date of adjournment. While all Wash ington is sizzling with the thermome ter around 100, the President's r.ffice showr a temperature of about eighty. Mr Taft sits over a ton of Ice each day. President Taft has Issued a drastic order designed to prevent the return of deported convicts to the Pauama canal zone. Any convict who has served an imprisonment sentenc* In : the canal zone and been deported and then returns to the zone is to bJ • deemed” guilty of a felony and pun i ished by Imprisonment for one y-jnr | and thereafter removed from the canal zone. j President Taft has denied the appli cation for the pardon of Charles W. Morze of New York and of John R. Walsh of Chicago, the two most prem iner' bankers ever convicted and sen tenced to federal prisons under the national hanking law. ' Representative Taylor, acting for the attorney general of Colorado, filed In 1 the Supreme Court a petition for a re i hearing In the case of the United ! States vs. Fred Light, involving the legality of the grazing regulations es tabli. hed by the forestry service in na tional forests. FOREIGN. Reports from Torreon, Mexico, say the rebels, who recently captured the town, have murdered over 200 Chinese. President Diaz and Vice President Corral will resign before June Ist. Minister of Foreign Relations De La Barra will become president ad inter im. Provisional figures returned by the census officers give the population of England and Wales this year as 36,- 075,269, compared with 32,527,843 in 1901. A monoplane carrying Lieut. Paul Dupuys and Pierre Marie Bournique fell from a height of about 250 feet at Hheims, France. Dupuys was killed and his companion fatally injured. Enraged by the announcement that President Diaz and Vice President Corral would not resign immediately, spectators in the galleries of the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City precipitated a riot that resulted in seven or more deaths and many wounded by police and troops. President Diaz, in a letter read by the president of the chamber of depu ties, in Mexico City, resigned the presidency of the republic or Mexico and the acceptance of the resignation by the deputies was announced. Vice President Romon Carrol, who is in France, also resigned. Francisco Leon De La Barra, late ambassador to Washington, was elected tempor ary president, pending the general election. SPORT. Wnlrrn l.rnßiie *f nmlinir. Sioux City !Ti j\ 10 ?*77 Wichita 27 IS •• .667 P« nv * r 1* 11 .621 Lincoln 20 18 11 .621 St. Joseph 31 16 IS .516 omalia 31 M 17 .453 Topeka 30 11 1» .3«; Dew Moines 32 4 28 .125 Tony Caponi has been signed to i fight fifteen rounds June 16th with 1 Eddie McGorty of Oshkosh. Wls. ' Milwaukee.—John Meville, manager of A1 Kaufman, has agreed with a lo cal fight club to match Kaufman against Jim Flynn for ten rounds. The University of Washington eight oar crew defeated the varsity crew of the University of California on Lake Washington at Seattle, by ten lengths. Charles Pierson, the fighting news boy of New York City, outclassed Johnny Ryan of San Francisco In the ! sixth round in a scheduled 20-round bout at (.eadvllle. GENERAL Mis? Sarah M. Scheidley. whose holdings in Kansas City realty were valued at $2,000,000, is dead. Fire destroyed the Northwestern Car Company’s building, a five-story brick structure, causing a loss of $100,900. Backed by prominent Boston men. a hosp'tal is to be established in Boston which will be exclusively for the rich Three persons were drowned by tht* overturning of a canoe in the city reservoir on the outskirts of Hamil ton, Ohio. The cut in price of steel bars an nounced by the Republican Iron & Steel Company will be met by the Carnegie Steel Company. A boy threw a fire cracker into 100 pounds of dynamite at Jefferson City, Mo., and one man will die and five persons were Injured. Paul Revere's old homestead at i Sharon, Mass., and a powder mill, j built in Revolutionary days, were de- : i strayed by fire recently. More than 20,000 lives and $2,000.- I ooo.uon worth of property have been j , sacrificed to fire In the United States | during the last fifteen years. . A bill providing that no woman shall be permitted to work more than nine | I hours in any day or more than fifty ! ; hours in any week In Missouri will \ | take effect June 20th. i Developments in the steel and iron 1 trade |>olnt to a rupture between at | leas» one of the so-called "independ- ' ent" companies—the Republic Iron & Stee. Company—in which John W. Gate* Is a factor—and the United [States Steel Corporation. ! The National Steamship line steam ! or Tabcga struck a rock off Punta Mala and sank a short time afterward. Of the 100 passengers on board only j forty are known to have been saved, i The scene of the accident Is about 100 miles from Panama, the nearest tele ; graph station. j It has been decided by the general board of appraisers in New York that j Chinese sausage is not bologna. Bo | logna gets in free, and the importers had claimed that the Chinese sausage jhad tome subtle affinity with the Ital | ian product and should be similarly ; classified. The sausage will hereafter pay a tax. Five years of agitation and effort to restore navigation to the Missouri riv er will come to fruition soon, when the first boat of the Kansas City Missouri ! River Navigation Company will start from St. Louis to Kansas City loaded with a miscellaneous cargo of tnor chandise. Within a month two other boats will be in regular service. The General Assembly of the South ern Presbyterian church has with drawn from the federal council of the Church of Christ. While no offi cial reason was given, it was stated the reason was because the council was regarded as semi-political in character. Nine girls and women of Westmore land City, Pa., said to be wives and daughters of striking miners, are pris oner-! in the county jail at Greens burg, serving twenty-day sentences on charges of having disturbed the peace. COLORADO NEWS Gathered From All Parts of the State COJIIXG EVENTS. June 13, 14, 15—Ktate Sunday School Convention. Pueblo. June 15-18. —Convention Christian En deavor Society, Grand Junction. June 20-30.—Western General Confer ence Women's Christian Association. Cascade, Colo. June 28.—Colorado Association of Let ter Carriers' convention, Boulder. June—Meeting National ltetatl Gro cers' Association. Denver. June—-American Surgical Association Conventl..n. Denver. June 20-21. —National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Denver. June—American Trap Shooters’ Asso ciation, Denver. June—National Association Real Es tate Exchanges, Denver, three days; then Colorado Springs two days. July. Planting Trees in Montezuma. Cortez.—According to the report of County Horticultural Inspector Taylor 130,000 fruit trees were received in this county this year, and, as most of our orchard men figure fifty trees to the acre, there are sufficient to plant, in the neighborhood of 2,500 acres. Convict Labor too High. Boulder.—lt was decided by the County Commissioners that convict la bor was too expensive to use in im proving roads around Boulder. The extra cost, they believe, is due to the expense of supervising convicts. Those emo.oyed on the county road will stop and the work will be continued by paid labor. Women Drugged, Beat and Robbed. Greeley.—Drugged and lying on the floor of her room with a wound in the back of her neck, apparently caused by a baseball bat lying near, and with an overturned chair on her chest. Mrs. Hattie Buzzell Cannon was found un conscious, her valuable diumond rings torn from her hand, her jewel box ri fled and a tin box containing $l3O gone. Work on State Highway. Durango.—La Plata and San Juan counties have entered into an agree ment with the state highway commis sion, whereby a joint fund of $16,000 has been arranged, each county put ting up $4,000 and the state SB,OOO. for starting work in the state hlghway circle. To this end convicts will be started on the work Immediately be tween Durango and Bilverton. Methodist Home Mission Parliament. Colorado Springs—The Methodist ; Home Missionary parliament, which has been In session here for two days at ir* final session heard an address by Bishop Moore on “Hawaii and Her Needs." Before the meeting there was a big banquet for men, at which sev eral of the most prominent of the visit ins divines gave short talks. Three Men Are Shot. Denver — 8. I- Von Phul of Bt. Louis aeronaut and agent of the Ruinhart Wine Company of France, and G. E. Copeland, a prominent mining operator of Victor. Colo., are in Bt. Luke’s hos pital. while J. W. Atkinson, a promi nent contractor of Colorado Springs, is lying in a room at the Brown Palace hotel, nil three being victims of a shooting that took place In the bar room of the hotel. Daring Robbers Frustrated. Pueblo. —What is considered one of the most daring plans for train rob bery even conceived in the West was discovered and by a Santa Fe special agent here. A plot to rob the Denver-Chicago flyer, which car ried nearly sloo.nno cash from Denver banks to the East, was revealed by one of three men. who intended to ransack the mail and express cars as the train neared Ia Junta. Will Ask U- P- to Build New Line. Gill.—For the purpose of benefiting all northern Colorado, citizens will pe tition A. L. Mohler, vice president of i the Union Pacific, to construct a line , from a point between Gill and Cor nish. on the Crow Creek branch, to Fort Morgan or some other point on the Julesburg branch, in order that a part of the Union Pacific traffic between Chicago and Omaha on the east and Denver on the west may pass through Greeley. Montezuma Oil Fields. Cortez. —Judging from work, being douc. locations made, inquiries from the outside and newspaper publicity in outside papers the Montezuma oil fields are now attracting more atten tioc than any other new field In the country. letters are being received nea.ly every day by the county clerk and other persons, asking for informa tion regarding the field. Several large ope-j.tors have personally investigat ed the field, experts who have visited this section have reported favorably on tame tc their employers, and th? outlook certainly is brighter. Municipal Ownership of Saloons. Grand Junction. —Widespread inter est has been created in western Colo rado. and particularly here by the an nourcement of Mayor Todd that h-! bebeves the municipally owned and managed saloon is the solution of the liquor problem in Grand Junction and other ’’dry" towns. Grand Junction has been “dry" for over two years. It is now perpetually "dry’’ by a provi sion in the charter. Any attempt to make the city “wet" would necessi tate amendment of the charter. 1/ Old Hickory Smoked 11 n Highest Quality jti » fk THE BEST STOCK SADDLES * We P rice *« write for free m 1 Illustrated catalogue. w VV, Oy A. H. HESS * CO. US Travis SL. Be«atea.Tas. Unkind. Mrs. Benham —They can’t say that all your money goes on my back. Benham—Not If they look at your face. A Tame Substitute. "It begins to look as if those adven turous young men who went to Mexi co In hopes of seeing some real fight ing will be denied that pleasure.” “Yes. There is nothing left for them to do now but to come back home and jump on the umpire.” Like the Other Chicks. Charles T. Rose, equally well known In Masonic work and banking circles of Cleveland. Is a great chicken fan cier, Rhode Island Reds being his favorite breed. Walking through his Incubator house he discovered that Helen, the three-year-old daughter, had followed him. “Come here, little chickabiddy,’* he called to her. And when she ran up to him to be tossed up and down, ahe asked: "Papa, which was my In cubator?" i. DRAWING HIM ON. Edith —What would you do If I at tempted to run away and leave you here In the parlor alone? Ernest —Why. I—er—would try to catch and hold you. Edith—Well, get ready then. I’m going to attempt it; MENTAL ACCURACY Greatly Improved by Leaving Off Coffee The manager of an extensive cream ery In Wls. states that while a regu lar coffee drinker, he found It Injuri ous to his health and a hindrance to the performance of hia business du ties. "It Impaired my digestion, gave me a distressing sense of fullness in the region of the stomach, causing a most painful and disquieting palpitation of the heart, and what is worse. It mud dled my mental faculties so as to seri ously Injure my business efficiency. "I finally concluded that something would have to be done. I quit the use of coffee, short off, and began to drink Postum. The cook didn't make It right at first. She didn’t boll It long enough, and I did not find it palatable and quit using It and went back to cof fee and to the stomach trouble again. "Then my wife took the matter In hand, and by following the directions on the box. faithfully, she had me drinking Postum for several days be for I knew 1L "When I happened to remark that I was feeling much better than I had for a long time, she told me that I had been drinking Postum, and that accounted for It. Now we have no coffee on our table. "My digestion has been restored, and with this Improvement has come relief from the oppressive sense of fullness and palpitation of the heart that used to bother me so. I note such a gain In mental strength and acute ness that I can attend to my office work with ease and pleasure and with out making the mistakes that were so annoying to me while I was using coffee. "Postum Is the greatest table drink of the times. In my humble estima tion." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," In pkgs. "There’s a reason." Br«r read the above letter? A aew eae appears treat tlaae ta tlaae. They are geawlae, tree, aad fall of haaaaa tatereet. Sure Relief. "How does she get rid of her un desirable callers?" "Why, she has made up a scrap book of magazine poetry and she gives It to the callers to read while she is out of the room." We Wonder. "Pop!" “Yes, my son.” “I heard mamma say that matches are made in heaven.” "That’s right, my boy.” "Well, pop, were tinder boxes made there too, before we had matches?” Easter Note. Mrs. Crimsonbeak —John, you really must give up smoking so much, un less”— . . . Mr. Crimsonbeak Unless what, dear? . . . “Unless you discover some brand or cigar the coupons for which can be exchanged for bonnets.” A Provident Gambler. Smltherson went home one evening after a bad day at the gambling table. "Wife,” he said, "have you anything to eat?” "Yes, lots of things.” "Well, cook up everything in the horse —everything.” "Gracious! Are you so hungry?” "No,” answered Smltheson, with fi nality, "I’m going to sell the stove.” A Student of Nature. The teacher had been reading to the class about the great forests of America. "And now, boys," she announced, “which one of you can tell me th® pine that has the longest and sharp est needles?” Up went a hand in the front row. "Well, Tommy?” “The porcupine." Generous. "John, that man next door cam* over here today and offered to tuna little Lucy’s piano.” "Great! Did you let him do it?” "No. dear. He wanted to tune it with an axe.”—Baltimore Sun. Breaking It Gently. Simpkins always was soft-hearted. This Is what he wrote: “Dear Mrs. Jones —Your husband cannot come home today because hla bathing suit was washed away. "P. 8. Poor Jones was Inside the suiL”—From Norman E. Mack's Na tional Monthly. Speaking on Maximo. The epender, with an ill-concealed sneer, handed this maxim to the sav er: ”Bome people are so stingy that they are dishonest.” "And by the same token,” respond ed the saver, with a raw laugh, "some people are so liberal that they are dishonest. Count them up, please, and see. In these days of liberal spend ing which side has the majority."—* Judge. Economy's Danger Lino. Representative Macon, at a dinner In Washington, condemned faking. a % "An explorer especially should not ■ fake.” he said. "Explorers' adventures are so Incredible, anyway. If one of them takes to faking, how shall we be lieve the rest? “In fact, the difference between the true and the fake explorer Is hard to distinguish. It’s like the difference be tween ecenomy and vagabondage. "The man who lives on almost noth ing, you know, is an economist, while the man who lives on nothing to a tramp.”—Detroit Free Press. Carrie Catt's Retort Sarcastic. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the well known writer and lecturer. In an ad dress in New York on woman suffrage, said: "A famous New York editor waa ar guing with me the other day. "‘But,’ he said, ‘women can't pre tend to be men’s equals. Take war, for instance. Suppose a war arose be tween us and England, or us and Ger many, or us and Japan, what would you do then, madam?’ "Td do the same as you would,’ I answered promptly. Td sit at my desk and write articles urging other people to go and fight.' ” —Washington Star. Muddy Work. Dr. Owen, the American Baconian who is excavating the banks of the River Wye near Chepston to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, is in spired to that enterprise by this lino beneath Shakespeare’s portrait In the First Folio: "It was for the gentle cut." W By transposing the letters he almoMi gets the instruction to 9 "Seek, sir, for a true angle at Chep ston.” The correspondent of the London Dally Express who was sent to report the enterprise was much Impressed by 1L **l have never,” said he. "seen so much mud.” The latest publication to be issued from the Passenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Is an attractive two tone effect entitled "Among the Rockies.” This booklet contains a vivid description of all the slgh'.-places along the System In Colo *.adc. Utah and New Mexico as the traveler sees them step by step. No tourist should be without this bandy reference publication. DENVER DIRECTORY BfiM I I nnv P'*J* r In all kinds ot MU DUH it LUUK CIIAMIIHK. Mammoth eata lo» msll#d free Cor. l«»h * Sinks. Dsnvrr AQQAYQ reliable : prompt HO OH I 0 and Copper. SI SO Gold and Sllvsr rsflnsd Sid bought. Writs for free mailing sack* gden Assay Co., 1536 Court PI.. Denver VERY WOMAN Wants, can and should hare, a clear ft in and beautiful complexion. Facial He jit vena tor and Plasma is the best face treatment known, removes wrinkles, brown ■pots, discolorations, etc. Write lor Iree literature. Try a free treatment. Hots! Belvedere. Denver. Good Agents Wanted. Address TOILET k MEDICINAL CO., DENVER, COL. «