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ROCKY FORD ENTERPRISE Will R. Monkman, Publisher. BOOKT FORD COLORADO FIVE FREEZE IN DAKOTA BLIZZARD SEARCHING PARTY BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED ON RES CUE TRIP. FIVE OF FAMILY SAFE BODIES OF FOUR MEN WHO PER ISHED IN NEBRASKA COL LISION FOUND. Wratern Newipaper Union Nows Service. Last Week's Storm Summary. Five of family found frosen to death In South Dakota. Death toll In Alabama. Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi will reach 100. Property damage at least $6,000,000. Scores injured by collapse of build ings ami by freshets. Storm passes Into St. Lawrence val ley. doing heavy property damage. Many Injured In Minnesota. Alabama visited by second heavy rain and wind that does great Injury to crops. Rapid City. S. D—March 17.—A. N. Perry, his wife and three daughters, were found frozen to death on Box Elder divide, sixteen miles east of here, and Leslie Perry, nineteen years old. son. was picked up delirious on the prairie by' W. E. Gearen of St. Paul. Brought to this city, he talked Incoherently of searching for his par ents since early Friday morning. When told they were dead he fainted and is in the hospital. His face, hands and feet are frozen. Perry, who was the postmaster at Great Bend, left here Thursday after noon with his family and household goods, attempting in, the face of a blizzard to reach a ranch he had 1 leased. ■ I 5 > 1 1 ' j l i I i - , i c t i < < I i i The first intimation of their fate came when a pair of horses with gun ny sacks over their heads and traces dragging, wandered into the corral of Milton Freaze’s ranch. The trail of the horses led searchers to a wagon half-buried in snow. In the wagon Perry’s four children and Mrs. Perry were found. The father lay half on the ground, his feet in the wagon spokes, as though he had fallen after releasing the horses. Five others of Perry’s children with the other wagons were found at the Cordez ranch. Leslie Perry had turned back from this party to bring his parents to safety. Two men who left here Friday morning in search of the Perrys are missing. They are believed to have perished. Bodies Dug From Beneath Wreckage. Cheyenne, Wyo., March 17. — A wrecking crew from Cheyenne dug from beneath the wreckage of two Union Pacific trains at Herdon, Neb., ninety miles east of here, the bodies of the five men who perished when the trains collided in a storm early Friday morning. Turks Reject Peace; 300 Die. London, March 17. —War until the last Turk is dead, rather than meet what Europe considers the extrava gant demands of the allies; the death of 300 Ottoman soldiers in a fierce battle of Chatalja on terrific bombard ment of Scutari by Montenegrin siege guns, causing a large portion of the city to be in flames and the capture of two Turkish battalions, 570 men and thirty oflcers —such was the situ ation in the Balkans Sunday night. Stays Prisoner to Save Dog. St. Ix>uis. —Rather than let the city marshal shoot her pet bulldog, Mrs. Ada Kettering was a police prisoner for twenty-fou/ hours. THIRTY-FIVE REBELS EXECUTED. Colonel Guiterez and Men Accept Death Rather Than Desertion. Xaco, Ariz., March 17.—Following up his successful sally from here Sat urday, when 400 of his men surprised and routed 1,500 state troops. General Ojeda dealt out military justice with a stern hand Sunday morning. Of fifty prisoners taken during the engage ment, thirty-five were placed before the firing squad and shot to death. Among them were Colonel Jose Gui terez, coramisario of Pilares, and two of his assistants. All of the prisoners were taken by a band of a hundred Yaqui Indians, who have been fighting with Ojeda. * The fifteen who were not shot were spared because they agreed to accept the Huerta government and fight for It. Author of "Dixie" Is Dead. Denver. —Ina Mario Porter Ocken den. who wrote the words of "Dixie,” under the name of Ina Marie Porter, Is derd at Galves*oa, Texas. Pope Abandoned Usual Palm Address. Rome. —It is customary for the pope to deliver a short address when receiv ing the palms. Under the advice of his physicians, however. Pope Pius omitted that ceremony. The latest an nouncement by his physicians is that the pope has practically recovered. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PABSINQ EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR EIGN COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGB AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGREBB OF THE AGE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Rube Marquard, former New York National pitcher, and Blossom Seeley, a vaudeville actress, were married at San Francisco, i A small pouch containing registered mail from Omaha to Denver, was stolen from the depot platform at North Platte, Neb. Ben J. Ness, accused of attempting to bribe two members of the North Dakota Legislature, has been released from the Burleigh county jail under $2,000 bail. Robbers dynamited the vault of the State Bank at Tam aha, Olcla., secured $4,300 and escaped In a skiff on the Arkansas river, alter setting adrift all other available boats. Benjamin Fink, alleged firebug, has made a detailed confession implicating thirty-five members of the alleged ar son trust, according to First Assist ant State’s Attorney Johnson of Chciago. A conference of governors to dis cuss the suppression of vice and the ' amelioration of the condition of work ing girls, promises to be one of the early results of the "white slave" In vestigation in Illinois. A tornado that swept southwest from Georgia Is known to have killed thirty-three persons. Five were killed near Atlanta and twenty throughout Louisiana. Greater loss of life, possi bly totalling a hundred is feared. The net earnings of the 6,000 cor porations do'ng business in Colorado and Wyoming which have made their annual reports to Collector Frank W. Howbert of Denver, for the year 1912, was $5,430,693.60, and the amount due the government, being 5 per cent, is $271,534.68. Chicago women, led by Miss Vir ginia Brooks, began a campaign to form 2,000 parish clubs, whose object will be the protection of working girls from temptations which tend to under mine their moral character. There will be a club formed in virtually every church In the city. Two wrecks on the Union Pacific railway in Nebraska caused the ileaths of nine persons and the injuiy of more than thirty others, eleven be ing seriously hurt. One, a passenger collision, cost the lives of four. The other, a collision between freight trains, is believed to have resulted in the killing of five, as they are miss ing. WASHINGTON. The Senate elected Jnmcs M. Baker. South Carolina, secretary; Charles P. Higgins, Missouri, sergeant-at-arms; Forest J. Prettyman, Washington, D. C., chaplain, and Those W. Keller, West Virginia, assistant doorkeeper. Representative Keating transacted his first official business with the commissioner of the General Land Of fice, and secured the promise that some twenty townships in northwest ern Colorado in the vicinity of Hay den. will be restored to entry on April 14. The secret service men at the Capi tol have had little trouble with In truders, but detained a woman who gave her name as Ellen Kelly, who said she was from Philadelphia. She asserted some one owed her $50,000 and she wanted President Wilson to help her collect it. She went to the Washington asylum for observation. Agreement as to committee places for Colorado senators has been reached by the Democratic caucus, and unless unlooked for changes oc cur, Senator ThomaH will be given membership on finance and mines and mining, with the possibility of being made chairman of the latter commit tee. Senator Shafroth Is to be chair man of the committee on Pacific is lands and Porto Rico, and will have membership on appropriations and ag riculture. Senator Warren will be given the chairmanship of the com mittee on engrossed bills; Senator Clark the committee on geological survey; Senator Smoot public health, and Senator Sutherland women suf frage. The Republican senators will retain their present committee mem berships. New officials 6f the navy depart ment discovered to their surprise that the department had a Bertillon sys tem of its own that included, among other things, the finger print records of *30,000 men who have enlisted in the service. As a result of these rec ords It Is virtually impossible for a man to re-enlist who has deserted or who has been dishonorably dis charged. Former Representative Edwin F. Sweet of Grand Rapids, Mich., has been chosen for assistant secretary of commerce. SPORT. In the closing hours of the Indiuna Legislature, a racing commission bill was passed by the Senate and sent to the governor. By defeating the Hayden basketball team by a score of 33 to 14, the Steam boat Springs team has practically clinched the championship of north western Colorado. President Jose Miguel Gomez has vetoed a bill permitting the revival of the famous Spanish ball game of “Jai alai,’ ’according to an official an nouncement at Havana. Walter Fairbanks, the Denver golf er, is the new Florida golf champion, succeeding R. H. McElwee, whom he defeated In the final round at Palm Beach. 3 up and 2 to play. % A. I. Dougherty of Denver defeated H. V. Hutchinson of Minneapolis In the finals In the first flight of the annuul spring tournament on the links of the Hot Springs, Ark., Country Club. The first game of the series of three which will decide the Rocky Mountain basketball championship, was played in the Desert gymnasium at Salt Lake. Utah won over Colo rado by the score of 39 to 10. Governor Stewart of Montana ap proved the Kiley boxing bill and named a state boxing commission. Under the lav,’ 'twelve-round contests are to be permitted under the super vision of the commission. Gunboat Smith, the California heavyweight, knocked out Bombardier Wells, heavyweight champion of Eng land, in tile second round of a sched uled ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. FOREIGN. J. P. Morgan reached Rome looking weak and thin. Sixteen persons were killed by an avalanche which overwhelmed three farms in tne Gudbrunds valley In southern Norway. Twenty persons were killed or se riously injured by a destructive cy clone in Buenos Ayres. The property damage is very heavy. The widow of the late President Madero of Mexico and Mrs. Francisco Madero, Sr., sailed from Havana for New York on the steamer Mexico. Dr. Friedrich F. Friedmann of Berlin demonstrated his treatment for tuberculosis upon fifty-six patients at the Royal Edward institute at Mon treal. The equal suffrage bill enfranchis ing Alaska women was passed by the House. The Senate will approve the bill, as there is no opposition to votes for women in that body. News readied Cettinje, Montenegro, that four Servian transports, loaded with troops, were riddled with shells fired by ah unidentified war vessel. Hundreds were killed and wounded. Constitutionalists have overthrown the federal garrison at Nogales, 3o nora, and now are in possession of the border town alter a fight which con tinued with little abatement for twelve hours. General Porfirio Diaz, former presi dent of Mexico, who arrived at Naples from Egypt, lias sent instructions to his friends and followers in Mexico to support Provisional President Huerta ami work for the re-establlßhment of peace throughout the republic. A fierce but unsuccessful assault was made on the south fortress of Adrianople Thursday. According to dispatches from Constantinople, the besieging Bulgarians and Servians sustained heavy losses and were even tually repulsed all along the line. GENERAL. Henry F. Ilollis, Democrat, was elected United States senator by the New Hampshire Legislature. The privileges of maternity cannot be claimed by a New York public school teacher, the board of education decided in denying the application of Mrs. Katherine C. Edgell for a year’s leave of absence to bear a child. By the close vote of 45 in favor to 50 against, the Nebraska House de feated the proposed constitutional amendment permitting women to vote. Sixty votes or two-thirds of the House membership, were required to pass the bill. A young man who received an in jection of the turtle bacillus, admin istered by Dr. Friedmann in New York, claims to have already im proved materially and tells an inter esting tale of the sensations he felt soon after taking the treatment. The Hawthorne mining trial, which has dragged along nearly four months before a jury in the Federal Court In New York, came to a conclusion with the conviction of three of the defend ants, Julian Hawthorne. Dr. William J. Morton and Albert Freeman, and the acquittal of Josiah Quincy, twice mayor of Boston and assistant secre tary of state during the Cleveland ad ministration. .Tames Wilson, former secretary of agriculture, was the guest of honor at a "welcome home” reception at Ames, la. President Pearson of Ames, Gov ernor Clarke and state officials were participants in the program, which in cluded an address by Mr. Wilson. Mrs. Mabel Clarkson, who is said to have deserted her husband, a minis ter, to fly with Owen Conn, a burglar under arrest at San Francisco, was , detained at Milwaukee as she was i about to take a train to Chicago, ac cording to a special lrotn the former city. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Servica Dates for Coming Events. June.—German Turnfest at Denver. June.—Northern Colo. Sunday School Convention at Greeley. Aug. 25.—Conference of Governors at Colorado Springs. Oct. 21. —Colorado State Baptist Asso ciation at Pueblo. Nearly every section of Colorado was in the grip of one of the worst storms of the season on the 14th. Joyrides after dances by young girls have been tabooed at Grand Junction by County Probation Officer Emma Budelier. Oliver Foster, one of the leading apiarists of northern Colorado, died at Boulder, after a week’s illness, of, pneumonia. The Senate, by a vote of 18 to 15, killed the Hecker libel bill introduced at the solicitation of the Citizens’ Protective League. Seventy-five elk from Wyoming were brought to Denver for distribu tion among the parks ond forest re serves of Colorado. The Senate laid over until March 22 consideration of Senator Hayden’s resolution for the Legislature to ad journ on March 31. • The Senate killed on third reading a bill for a third judge in the Eighth Judicial District, composed of Boulder, Weld Larimer and Jackson counties. E. H. Clark, charged with passing a worthless check for $75 on a Den ver jewelry company, was arrested in Georgetown and taken to Denver for trial. A handsome new church building to cost $75,000 and to be erected at che southwest corner of Fourteenth ave nue and Williams street, is the latest structure proposed for Denver. New York and Cleveland creditors of the Eureka Shirt Waist Company of Denver filed a petition in the fed eral court asking that the shirtwaist company be adjudged bankrupt. Former Governor Hadley of Mis souri was in Delta, where he owns property. He also visited Colorado Springs, where he made an address, and later visited the capital city. Dean Leßaron H. Briggs of Harvard University has accepted the invita tion of the Coloradq College trustees to deliver the commencement address at the Colorado Springs college, June 11. After confessing to officials of the Mercantile National Bank at Pueblo that he had stolen SSOO from the bank. Sol Owens, a negro, aged twen ty-seven. ran from the bank and has not been located. Articles of incorporation for a $5,- 000,000 power company, to operate In the rich mining, cattle and fruit coun ties of the southwestern part of the state, were filed in the office of the secretary of state. Secretary Likens of the Denver park board received word from Paris that the copy of the famous Dussel dorf children's fountain ordered a year ago, has been shipped and. should ar rive in Denver by April 1. * Three years, Irvin Pearson, an in surance agent of Denver, ‘battled for health, fought the obstacles of nerv ous prostration, overcame them, saw the happiness of recovery ahead, and then was kilied by the virus of an ab scessed tooth. Right now the farmers near Ixing mont are very much interested In the question of an independent sugar fac tory and have appointed a committee of three, prominent farmers, to inves tigate the proposition which has been laid before them which would enable them to secure the factory. Findings of election frauds are made in the majority report, favoring Wy coff, of the Senate elections commit tee, handed in to the Senate on the contest of Normal L. Wycoff againet Senator Caslmlro Barela. The minor ity report, favoring Senator Barela, was that no charges against him nad been' proved. Appointive officers and heads of de partments of the state were in confer ence with Governor Ammons on two points. The first was the keeping of offices open Saturday afternoons and the other was for a plan of inter changing office help among depart ments and bureaus when one depart ment is rushed and another is not. Frederick Snora, sentenced from Delta county, November 30, 1912, to be executed March 23 for the murder of Bruce Doyle, his employer, will aot be hanged. Governor Ammons, act ing with the State Board of Pardons, commuted his sentence to life impris onment, with the understand that Snora be confined in a cell in the in sane ward at the penitentiary, and that ills relatives and friends never make another appeal for executive clemency. • % Hubbell Pepper, aged 72, veteran of the battle of Bull Run, who had car ried a bullet in his face since that date, dropped dead of heart failure following a friendly scuffle with Will iam Morris, also a veteran, in his of fice at Colorado Springs. James W. Ryan, 623 Twenty-second street, is under arrest on the charge of setting fire to the Arapahoe livery stable at 1818 Arapahoe street in Denver, from which two deaths was the result The arrest on the arson charge followed an Investigation by tba fire and police board. THE DENVER PRESS CLUB ADOPTS RINGING CREED ?OB GREATER COLORADO. Newspaper Men Express Faith in Centennial State, Her Products, Her Men and Natural Beauty. Western Newspaper Union New* Service. Denver.—After electing Harry Lee Wilber president, and transacting oth er business, the following creed was adopted by the Denver Press Club. It was ordered printed and copies will be sent to the newspapers, commercial organizations, members of the Legisla ture and the Citizen’s Protective League. We believe In the commonwealth of Colorado and the municipality of every city and town within its borders. Wo believe In the land of Colorado, whence spring the world-famed prod ucts of the farm and whence cornea the metal wealth that moves the marts of the universe. We believe in the water of Colorado that, flowing from the virgin snows of the majestic crest of the continent, cools the parched lips of man and beast and gives new life to the thirst ing plain. We believe in the air of Colorado that rejuvenates the old, keeps the young youthful and drives away scourge and plague. We believe in the commercial Inter ests of Colorado and the men who guide and control them, each in his own sphere, and we believe it is our duty to aid and foster them, to con sider each man an expert in his own field, to encourage Industry, to criti cise honestly, to crush that which is dishonest and unfair. We believe in the laws of Colorado and will endeavor to uphold them and increase respect for them and try to drive into outer darkness any who seek to evade or defy those laws. We believe In the manhood of Colo rado and we will try to stamp out cowardice and unmanllness and any thing that tends to bring disgrace on the commonwealth, in order that all good impulses may be quickened, that the sacred ideals of the state may be held In reverence and that we may stand forth among all these United States now and forevermore as Colo rado the Clean. Want Information About Colorado. Denver.—An effort is being made by the men In charge of the great Ger man turnfest, which is to take place in Denver next summer, to get hun dreds of new settlers to Colorado. There are In the East many thrifty Germans who have not been in this country long and who are not yet per manently located. These peopte have heard a great deal about Colorado's climate and resources through the ad vertising campaign carried on by the turners. They will take advantage of the low railroad rates next summer to come West and make a personal In vestigation of farm lands, mining com munities. irrigation projects and gen eral business openings. If they like the state they will become permanent citizens. These prospective settlers are constantly writing to tho turnfest headquarters In Denver for informa tion about various sections of tne state. In order to intelligently reply to these queries, the turners Invito chambers of commerce and other com mercial bodies anywhere in Colorado to send In quantities of their booklets and advertising matter regarding their sections. This matter should be addressed to the turnfest publicity committee, in Room 320, German- Amerlcan building, Denver. It will promptly be sent where it will do much god. Hotels are also invited to send In their booklets and circulars. The turners are already writing for reservations of hotel accommodations, and the committee In Denver would be glad to send out advertising mat ter about the mountain resorts. Sev eral thousand turners are coming, and the majority of them will remain the greater part of the summer, travling from one to another of the resorts. They will undoubtedly leave millions of dollars In the state. Elk Shipped to Reserve. Estes Park.—Twenty-five elk, each as calm as a jersey cow In clover, have arrived. The elk were shipped from Yellowstone by railroad to Ly ons, at which point they were loaded In automobiles for the park. They are three hundred pounders, one year old. *AII stood the journey well and are in fine condition. They will be ranged her on the same territory that Lord Dunraven planned for an elk reserve forty years ago. Convicted of Assault. Trinidad. —The testimony of Marie Martine, an eleven-year-old girl of Se gundo, who claims to have been the victim of an assault, resulted in the conviction of Thomas Abruzinno, fif ty-five. Man Dragged Down Pike’s Peak. Colorado Springs.—Dragged down Pike’s peak for a distance of several hundred yards with his companions powerless to aid him until the bottom of a small hill was reached, O. H. Ry an, a lineman, narrowly escaped death and is In a hospital suffering from painful cuts and bruises. Convict Candidate. 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"When you proposed to her did she say ‘This Is so sudden?’ ’’ "No; she was honest and said ‘This suspense has been terrible.'" » Got His Answer. Standing by the entrance of a large estate in the suburbs of Dublin are tw’o huge dogs carved out of granite. An Englishman going by in a hack thought he would have some fun with the Irish driver. “How often. Jack, do they feed those two big dogs?" "Whenever they bark, sir,” was the straight-faced reply. The Exposition. "You are mine!" cried the impecuni ous nobleman as he embraced the heiress. "Yes,” said tho latter, “a gold mine." IN A SHADOW. Inveterate Tea Drinker Feared Pan alysis. Steady use of either tea or coffee often produces alarmiug symptoms as the poison (caffeine) contained in these beverages acts with more po tency in some persons than in others. "I was never a coffee drinker,” writes an 111. woman, "but a tea drink er. 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Name given upon re quest. Postum now comes In concentrated, powder form, called Instant Postum. It is prepared by stirring a level tea spoonful In a cup of hot water, adding sugar to taste, and enough cream to bring the color to golden brown. Instant Postum Is convenient; there’s no waste; and the flavor Is al ways uniform. Bold by grocers every where. A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer’* name and 2-cent stamp for postage. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek. Mich.