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ROCKY FORD ENTERPRISE WIU fL Monkmjfl, Pubfiafcer. ROCKY rORD. - - COLORADO CHINESE KILL FOREIGNERS REPORTS SAY THERE HAS EEEN BLOODY MASSACRE AT HSIAN FU. COURT MUST ABDICATE PREMIER HAS ORDERED RENEW AL OF ATTACK UPON HAN YANG. R*’ -rr.St * iiiMr Colon ?»>» » Smk«. T!er» Tain. There baa been a bloody massacre of foreigners at 1 Hsian Fu, capital of ShenshL A j large force of Honan rebels is re ported 20 miles from Sbid-Cblacbyxn. Peking.—Demands for {he throne's abdication are crowding upon Pre mier Yuan Shi Kai who doubtless will be forced to make a decision within a week. It seems to be a case of fight or ask the court to depart from the capital. Every suggestion for ab dication is accompanied by promises of protection and ample pension. It is reported that the premier has ordered a renewed attack upon Han Yang and Wu Chang. If this be true, it signifies his choice. The govern- ! inent has .succeeded in ridding the \ Maucbu troops of both revolutionary g*-n« rajs, Chang Shoa Tseng and I.an i Tien Wei. The former is now at Tien | Tam The latter, who commanded the Third Division, has been dismissed, ' and Is proceeding southward, not as Yuan Shi Kal's envoy, to submit #ur ther proposals to General 1.1, the tebei commander, as previously re ported, but to Join the rebel forces. There has been ean unexpected dis play of patriotism in the last day or two. Instead of rivalry among the provinces there have been evidences of remarkable unanimity in an effort ! to establish a union government quick- j ly In order to prevent the danger* i from foreign complications. Rear Admiral Murdock telegraphs : th< American legation from Nanking i that the American consul with the j archives is aboard th‘* New Orleans, j and that all Americans have left the city with the exception of a few mem- J hers of the Red Cross It would be impossible, hays the admiral, to pro- i teci the American property in Nan j king without landing 200 marines pre- , pared to sustain a siege. For this rea- ! son he had sent none cf his men ashore. Various efforts made in influential quarters to start peace negotiations failed. Yuan Shi Kai's lieutenant, Tsan Ting Kan, ha., returned here from a fruitless attempt to negotiate with Chi. IJ at Wu-Cnang. Th«- command- 1 cr of the insurgents se< mu determined not to yield in the slightest degree. . hangbnl.—The situation in south i rn China is l-ecoming rn» re involved caci day. Tie* Republic ins apparent ly are determined to secure their In di pendence from the Manchu dynasty, but there acre grave doubts of their ability to establish a stable govern ini'it in time to avoid to consequences of continued disorganization and the absence cf revenue and a competent administration. Washington Towns Are Flooded. Seattle.— A fieavy downpour of rain in the lowlnuds, and rnelilng of »he six feet of snow flooded the rivers of urtern Washington, broke the dam of Hi- municipal ei«c rlc plant, cut off Heat ■ i ’s water supply, demoralized railroad service, washed out bridges and flooded many farms and valley towns. Troops Ordered to Border. San Antonio, Texas. —Because of the activity of alleged revolutionists along the Texas-Mexlcan border, especially in the vicinity of Yroop I, Third United States cavalry, lias been ord« red to that point for patrol duty. Bandit Robs Express Company. Grand Rapids. Adams Express Company's office here was robbed ol everything In the safe, the handl: then escaping. Drowns in Water of Tunnel. St Ixvuls. —Miss Lucille Cooke, u Washington university student, wus drowned when a boat containing five young women members of the school's geology class overturned into a natural tunnel leading to an underground riv er. near l-eesburg, Mo. Two Killed; Five Injured. Rugby, N. D. —Great Northern fast mail train collided head on with a freight train, killing the engineer and fireman and Injuring five others. Luck. Braggs —Bah! Luck is but the prod uct of cure and diligence. Wnggs—Yes. An old friend of mine bad a swamp which he couldn't get rid of, and, by a great deal «»r care am diligence, a railroad was run right through the middle of It. and now my friend Is a rich man. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRE 3 ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THEPASTWEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE i S * - 'bas- ■ f'al* r. X»x ■ -rlc*. WESTERN. One dea-b is credited to the recen* Etorm in Omaha. Club women cf San Francisco are" planning a system of pensioning wid ows with children. During the recent cold weather the thermometer at Dea/* wood, S. D., was twenty-five degrees below zero. The body of Richard Cormack of Miles City, Mom., was found in the mountains of Custer county, near the Wyoming line. He was on a bunting trip and evidently froze to death. The State Utilities Commission o' \ Kansas was granted a temporary in junction to prevent the Consumers’ Light Company from raising the price of natural gas In Topeka from 27 to 30 cents per thousand feet. The Supreme Court of Missouri sus tained the decision of Special Commis sioner Theodore Brace In bis finding for the ouster of the International Harvester Company of America. Be nide-s being ousted the company must pay $50,000 fine. Because many horses have been in jured, several fatally, during the pres sllppery spell, carpet slippers for the animals have been made in large : quantities by the humane- society in St. I'aui, and are proving a great suc cess. Dr. S. Dalla, said to be a prominent physician ol l.c» Angeles, Cal., after announcing bis purpose to fellow pas sengers on a Santa Fe train near Paul. Valley, Okla., swallowed carbolic acid and leaped through a window of the [ sleper. A story of horsewhipping every week from the tim*- she was 14 years old till she was 17 wa»r told by Mrs. Ktta a' North wood. lowa, in her own defense on charges that she bad Indue. (| a sister to put poison in the food to-rved at her father’s home. Mrs. old wife of I<nuis Lamara, a Greek, committed suicid** In the county Ja‘l at Everett, Wash., by choking herself with a piece of rope. and his wife were arrest'd Nov. 2 and were! being b'-ld pending an Investigation o? their conduct. A sweeping reduction of freight rates from the Atlantic seaboard to - Colorado common points byway of the Galveston gateway Is demanded by the Denver Consumers and Shippers' Asso ciation, in a petition of intervention t in the suit brought before the Inter- ! state Commerce Commission. In a dued on the pitneipa! street ol Sapulpa, Okla.. Lily Marshall, a fre-d woman, and Laura Smith, an Indian, fought until tin it lrl< mis utagge 1 ib in apart. Lily Marshall is now in ji,j and Mrs. Smith Is dead. Both were rich oil land hold'-rs, and the fight was the result of a lover's quarrel. All records for shipments to the United States a»say office at Dead wood, 8. D., from the mints of the Black Hills district for .July, August, September and October have broken six and a quarter tons of gold bullion having been sent to the mint at D n ver. The total valuation was a little • more than $2,750,000. Anti-saloon territory created by vote under the local option, is not thrown ! open to the retail sulo of liquors by the issuance of state licenses to pbar macists, declares Judge George W.'■ Allen, who at Denver ruled that Charles J. Clayton, must pay a state license. He fin d the druggist SIOO for selling two ounces of whisky on a prescription, although the druggist had a state license. Jerry Mlcke, aged eleven, is in a dy lng condition at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, of lockjaw. A week ago. j it is said, he was chewing gum in school. To punish him his teacher com pelled him to stand Lefore the class and chew wads of paper. He was I forced to continue tills operation for ; half an hour. Physicians ar<* puzzled by the case and express the opinion that he cannot recover. SPORT. Chicago promoters have matched Carl Morris of Oklahoma and Con Comiskey of Chicago, and the fight probably will take place In Kansas City on November 28th. Pitchers Cavet and Loudell of the Minneapolis team have been sold to Omaha. J. Bonin, the Uolombes, France, run ner, covered nine kilometers, 21 me ters (about G miles, 50 yards) in a half an hour. This beats the world’s record established in 18G3 by J. W. White of England. The bout between Carl Morris, the Okluhoma heuvy weight, and Jack Geyer of Denver was stopped by Re feree White lu the ninth round in New York. FOREIGN. 1 The German steamer Carrara of tbs t Sloman line from Bareclooa has been . given up for lost in the North S-a; f 2* lives are thought to hare been lost. It is announced that the German government will spend $1,500,000 for * military aeroplanes in 19i2. Germany wii be divided Into districts, each of which will have a flying squadron. Thirteen vessels of the Chinese .m --perial flee* went over to the revolu r tionJsts at Shanghai, hoisting the \! white flag. One of the largest cruis -1 era steamed up the river past the set • tlement and dipped the white ensign l i in salute to the foreign w arships, to . which non-, of them responded. GENERAL. f . .ago believes that it has cinched •h*- Republican national convention for 1512. William J. Bryan announced in Chi cago be going into politics with vigor. J The nation's s;2nk clearings continue to expand. 1-ast week's disclosed a gain of $255,000,000 over the corre sponding period of 1510. The Rev. Clarence V. T. Ricbeson will be placed on trial on the chatg ' of murdering Miss Avis Linnell, at ; Boston, cn January 15, 1512. Wellesley College girls of Boston ' have started a shoe shining parlor In the basement of the college building They earned S3O the first week. Express Messenger Irving G. Barger was killed and the safe in | the Delaware, Lackawanna U Western 1 - road looted of $1,500 to $2,000. near Scranton, Pa. The small pox epidemic in Duluth is assuming considerable proportions and new cases are being reported daily. Duritig the month of October the dis ease doubled in the number of its vie * Tims. Red Cross Christmas stamps may be sold in any building under the con j trol of the Treasury Department. As sistant Secretary Bailey of the Treas ury Department has issued the nec-s --) sary permission. Moving picture show promoters re ceived a blow when the United States Supreme Court decided that moving pictures based on scenes of copyright books may constitute an infringement of copyright rights. The cost of protective measures taken by the United States along the the Mexican border last spring was $1,730,520.52. This is almost the grand total, for by June 3 th a large part of the expense had been cut down. Secretary of the Interior Fisher is of opinion that much of the $400,000 000 which it is estimated is lost an nually in American mining and metal lurgical industries can be saved; wherefore, in his estimates for the next fiscal year, he asks for SIOO,OOO for mineral waste Investigations. • "Felon's str.pes" as a punishment ‘ for ''tru.vt criminals’’ in the United States to end "commercial piracy un dor benevolent 'rules of reason ,” are proper J, in a bill amending the Sher man anti-trust law drafted by Repre sentative Henry of Texas, to be intro duced in the House upon the opening ' of Congress next month. A contract has been let at New York to m* American Bridge Company, for a bridge acru?- Hell Gate. The bridge wil be tbr*-«- miles in length and the larg* at of its kind in the world. Work utHiu iin* steel fabric will commence in Pittsburg at once and the contract must be completed in two years and a half. .Mrs. Alexander B. White of Paris, Tenn., was fleeted president of the United Daughtc r~ of the Confederacy on second ballot at Richmond, Va Mrs. Uvingston H. Schuyler ot New York, who had the support ol the Geor gia delegation of 212. was deteated by 335 vot( s, the vote standing 1,077 for .Mrs. White and TI2 for Mrs. Schuyler. 'The o.her general offices were unani mously re-elected. In the majority opinion of the Com merce Court In Washington, formally handed down in the transcontinental rate cases, it is held that the long and . short haul provision of the Interstate Commerce act is constitutional. Judge Archbald concurs in thq issuance of a Temporary injunction of the orders o' the Interstate Commerce Commission btu in his opinion holds th<* long and short haul provision to be Invalid. Beet sugar manufactures who have* been meeting in Chicago for the last iew days, closed their session after formulating plans to ccinbat th«* propa ganda in the Interest of free sugar, al leged to tie carried on by the cane -uignr refiners and the New York ira ; porting interests. The beet sugar men declare that they produce annually i COO.noo tons ol sugar, draw material from sixteen states, extending fTom Ohio to California, and pay the Amer ican farmer $30,000,000 annually there for. Th y contend that by putting raw sugar on the fre list the domestic in ; dustry would be destroyed, all compe _ tltloii eliminated, and that thereafter i the importers and refiners would have a complete monopoly. , Following the arrival of 400 dele , gates to the seventh convention of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs lu Galesburg, by special train. 300 more arrived, making this the largest convention ever held In the state. 1 In order to maintain the parity of * the postal savings bonds, the trustees * of the postal savings hanks have an nounced that they would purchase the 0 securities at par from persons com < polled to relinquish them. This action ~ resulted from the recent report that v fhe market value of these bonds is only 92. STATE NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL COLORADO PEOPLE CONISC E»ESn. Neverr.Ur 27-2*—Cc Jan. l<-2>—}=*•.* th Anns.*! X»:.Mr ai Western Stock ioow. Denver. Town of Beulah DestrcyesL Beulah.—An early morning fire cf unknown origin swept over three city blocks here and before it was checke-i by a bucket brigade caused less of 12'J.OQQ. Many were made homeless. A high wind fanned the fire at uines to renewed activity whenever it ap peared to be under controL Practical ly the entire town, was destroyed. Colorado Mining Men Meet. Denver.—A meeiing cf Colorado mining men will be held at the as sembly room of the Chamber of Com merce on the evening ol November 28 to outline plans for a campaign to be started in Washington in December, with a view of having Congress make an appropriation for a metallurgical testing plant in the state. Commission Form Reduces Tax. Pueblo.—Thar _the tax levy In Pu eblo will be reduced considerably un der commission form of government was evidenced when the five commis sioners completed a city tax levy for the coming year. With material cuts in almost every department of the gov ernment, and with a reduction in the general city tax levy of 2.7 mills and a net reduction of 1.7, the latter fig ure taking into consideration the levy of an entire extra mill for the payment of cash warrants during the remain der of the year, the annual city tax for the coming year has been tenta tively agreed upen. The levy will be 17.3 mills as compared with 20 mills last year, and the reduction was made possible by cutting down the running expenses of the city in many ways. Sugar Beet Growers Meet. Chicago.—A meeting of beet sugar growers and refiners which is expect ed to result in the formation of a permanent organization to represent the industry was held here. Represen tatives from Michigan, Wisconsin, Wy oming, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho, Montana, Calitornia, lowa and Minne sota were in the city. An annual pro duction of 500,000 tons of beet sugar is represented. According to a statement issued at a preliminary meeting the growers were in cocvention to "consider mat ters of lntei\st to the industry ami to meet the attacks being made upon it by certain importers and refiners of cane sugar, who are demanding the removal of the duty on sugar.” A permanent organization for pub licity concerning beet sugar waa one cf the objects of the meeting. Mrs. Cassell Meets Horrible Death. Denver.—Mrs. Flora Hamilton Cas sell, fifty-nine years old. hymn writer of great prominence, former president of the Nebraska W. C. T. U., a dis tant relative of Howard Chandler Christy, the famous artist, and the wife of the Rev. Dr. E. T. Cassell, pas tor of the Bethel Baptist church of Denver, a singing evangelist of nation al reputation, was dragged five miles over a rough country road to her death by a team of crazed bronchos that she herself had broken to har ness. Mutilated beyond identifica tion, her back and limbs were broken, her clothing torn from her body and scattered along the terrible five miles of the Clark Colony road by the mad dened team of bronchos, the body of Mrs. Cassell was found underneath the spring buggy by A. C. iJles, a rancher cf Clark Colony, who, seeing a team running away along the road, had stopped their flight. Court Stops Sale of Mines. Colorado Springs.—ln the District Court here Judge Sheafor issued a temporary injunction restraining the treasurer and commissioners of Tel ler county from s« lling for taxes the properties of fifteen mining companies in the Cripple Creek district. ( Judge Sheafor’s ruling is the first step in the battle which mining men have begun to obtain better laws re garding taxing of mines. The court's action is important in mining tax suits in Colorado in that it Is the first in terpretation by any court of the mean ing of the statute under which min ing properties are valued for taxation. The court held that the assessor of Teller county has misinterpreted sec tion 5G20 of the Revised Statutes of 1908 as to the meaning placed on the words’ "gross proceeds.” He has de cided that "gross proceeds" means gross output. Judge Shpafor ruled that, the term means the amount received In dollnrs and cents for ore after treat ment and transportation charges have been paid. Waste Water Valuable for Lands. Windsor. —Waste water from sugar factories, after use for washing beets, etc., and containing much lime, has been found valuable for land and !s much in demand by farmers. George Kern and the Great Western Sugar Company allowed the waste water to run over portions of their farm, with tho result that crops from this land iverage thirty per cent better in yield than the other land. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS if.TT.i, t f.«nsst' rqp* Ciccarr'-g Over the vpvritfa w - f. v rwirT>wi#«n»OTr . tit/n mtttc has ’b.'ftr x novlali at !j '■OUiCii'* iaih xUntoLfty. .V< T&ngr/o . > -vTT-s:-e. was hmd: iUs hot v: N.'irtk !>:-cznont .: » :'f<rc*rr#tt :J.at Gcx. Sixfroth -v-;:; xu.: xr. **ar* of Legis ¥ SatTcre.. Bids Lav* Ifcfecn for the ce aa-rgGECg LAraatie-rocdre irri caiiioss rmsne&. A. W. Xee axL. a :ra• ti ng maa frees reiivf r. kSStaa in a hotel ; 3n Oak Otvek. Chaa P-. Kx-urrsr*. csxae :o Den- In £«*& He was president of the Octtxvato Xanwaxsl Tb-e lax.v£>ry 7.1 _ farmers of the Port Colors distr-r: 5-;:fcfor The Oftoler ex'.r= ry of ieea. The Cslorac; a Soatko-n railroad .'.a; ■i.?::zt.z - i : - if. : * - 0.-.-r the Como 10 Brexierr.cct branch. The :apanren«Bii nnder way at the Modern Woodmen Sanitari-in at Colo rado Springs will cost aboet $? . . • 0 Stealing ioar pairs cf trousers a: Lyons cost Acfzlas Donats a fine of SSO. He will serve on: his time at the Boulder jail. The - frozen body of Bert Rodgers, a Silvertcn boy. was found by a search ing party about four and a half miles south of SilvertOß. Beginning December 1, lessons ia dancing will be provided for Denver school teachers by the Denver Play ground Commission. Francisco Navaro and Guadalupe Gonzales, charged with the murder cf ! Lucciano Magana, were acquitted and discharged, at Castle Rock. The Delta county exhibitors at the Denver Apple Show distributed thirty boxes of fine apples amog the various orphanages of that city. Water is again running in Morgan county ditches following a temporary shutdown at the headgates on account of the recent cold weather W. E. Renshaw of Idaho Springs has put men at work stringing wires from Idaho Springs to Georgetown, the poles having been set before. The Royal Order of Moose propose tq build the big Moose institute in Colorado during next year. The loca tion has not been decided upon. After spirited bidding, the bulk of th** stock and tixtures of the bankrupt J. S. Appel Suit & Cloak Company in Denver was purchased for JG9,575. To settle a dispute cf long standing. Tom Qui-k. an Austrian, entered a | saloon in Puetio and shot down Tony Abamovic, who died on the way to the | hospital. Isaac R. Miller, for the pas; seven teen years general foreman at tho I Union depot, in Denver, and one of ; the best-known railroad employes in Colorado, is dead. United States District Attorney Ward will soon begin proceedings in Federal Court to obtain the property of !>. C. Stephenson at Fort Morgan I as a site for a pcstoffice. * James Robson is constructing an aeroplane in the shops of the C. F. & I. at Scpris, near Trinidad. It is about sixty feet long and twenty feet from front to rear of the planes. The alumni of the Agricultural col lege at Fort Collins will hold its an nual banquet in the Metro pole hotel. Denver, Nov. 29. Invitations are be ing sent to all the alumni to attend. The good roads conference at Pu eblo, In January, will be asked to rec ommend the construction of at least four highways across Colorado, as part of the great continental highway now partially constructed, and which will be*in first-class condition before the opening of the Panama-Pacific ex position in San Francisco in 1915. Through either the State Game De partment’s wanton neglect or a dis interestedness in the welfare of the big game in that section. Rio Blanco county is without gam.* wardens, and has been since the early part of last summer. As a result, a slaughter of dear and elk is going on which, if con tinued, will completely deplete the hills of these animals. The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com merce has indorsed the plan of the Weld County Farmers’ Club for rais ing $li»,000 to continue the work of Profs. Hinman, Fitch and Vaplon at the State Agricultural college at Fort Collins, and will request the countv commissioners to make an appropria tion of $125 as Morgan county’s share of the fund. Efforts will be made to obtain similar aetions by other com mercial bodies. The general committee on foreign missionaries of the Methodist Episco pal church held its meeting at Trinity church in Denver. The general com mittee, which meets annually, make appropriations for carrying on the work of foreign missionaries and has charge of authorizations for church ex tension. Missionary appropriations aro made to annual conferences and are distributed under the direction of the presiding bishop and a board. Frank Woods, sought by the Pueb lo police and sheriff for months in connection with a hold-up there, was captured in Shoshone, Idaho, and will be returned. Wood jumped his bond there. A cartful perusal of the index of the statutes of Colorado reveals the fact that the words trust (as applied to a business institution), combination, monopoly, restraint, of trade, or any other of the terms that have become so common in late years in connection with the prosecution of large corpor ations, do not appear. CATARRH OF THE STOMACH Could Hardly Eat Gradually Grow Worse. Relieved by Peruna. Mr. A. M. Ikerd, Box 31, W e 1 t B u r lington, lowa, writes: “I had ca tarrh of the stomach and small intes tines for a n u m b e r of years. I went to a number of doctors and got no relief, and final 1 y one of my doctors sent me to Chi cago, and I met the fate. They said they could do noth -1 ing for me; sai d I had cancer of the Mr. A. M. Ikerd. stomach and there was no cure. I al most thought the same, for my breath was offensive and I could not eat any thing without great misery, and I grad ually grew worse. “Finally I concluded to try Peruna, and I found relief and a cure for dreadful disease, catarrh. I took five bottles of Peruna and two of M&nalin, and I now feel like a new man. There is nothing better than Peruna, and I keep a bottle of it in my house all the time.” SOUNDED LIKE IT. The Talker—l tell you, no man haa got a right to be sick nowadays! The Joker—You've evidently been reading some patent medicine adver tisements. Wine Drinking. France alone pays taxes in a good year on more than a thousand mil lions of gallons of wine—and there are six bottles to a gallon—while Al geria. planted witlj vines in the days of the phylloxera, supples no less ihan two hundred millions. A ton neau of 200 gallons is a pretty large vessel: a thousand such would All a good-sized shltf; and we have a mul tiply that by a thousand belore we reach the production of this one French colony—one-fifth of all the ine consumed in France. Explained. An old lady, the customer of an Irish farmer, was rather dissatisfied with the watery appearance of her morning’s cream and finally she com plained very bitterly to him. “Be aisy. mum.” said Pat. “You see. the weather of late has been so terrific hot that it lias scorched all the grass off the pasture land, and Ol have been compelled to feed the pore bastes on water lilies!” —Ideas. A “Teaser” For Jaded Appetites— Post Toasties with cream or preserved fruit. Ready to serve instantly —just open the box and enjoy an extra good dish— Convenient, crisp, delicious, wholesome. "The Memory Lingers” Sold by Grocers Made at the POSTUM CEREAL CO.. Ltd., Pure rood Factories Battle Creek s : Mich.