Gilpin observer., 1899-10-26
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.
General Miles is inspecting the west
ern forts.

ern forts. -
From Key West were reported nine
new cases OF yellow fever Monday,
making total of 1,239 to date. The
Total deaths number fifty-seyen.
Bishop Henry c. Potter of New York
mas sailed for Honolulu and the Philip
; pines on the steamer Gaelic. He goes
In MS official capacity in behalf of the
frotestant Episcopal church of Amer
lea.
EK-President Harrison, accompanied
by Ambassador Choate, called on the
Prlnce of Wales Monday and had a
private audience Balfour, first lord
Oh Inc treasury, gave Il dinner In hon
or OF the ex-President.
The engineers reports confirm the
previously reported discovery of ex-
tensive and commercially available
coal beds in the state of Puebla. which
may lead to the resuscitation of the
gas business in Mexico City.
Telegrams from chihuahua, Mexico.
say that Grant Gillette the cattle
plunger. who fed from Kansas a year
ago, after double mOrtgaging his stock
for more than $1.0OO.OOO, is very i'll
with what is believed to be smallpox.
The thirteen negro soldiers of the
| Iwenty-fifth infantry accused of beat
] ing with clubs four Tonic Indians OH
the night of October 13 at San Carlos
Indian agency. have been arrested and
are held for trial in the United States
| court
Four men from the gunboat Marive-
| los We're lured ashore, eighteen miles
| from Iloilo, by n flag of truce and the
Insurgents killed one of them, wounded
one and captured Il third. The gun
boat was unable to fire for fear of
wounding the Americans.
The box car famine is becoming Sc
rious in southern California. In Il
short time the movement eastward of
the orange, dried fruit and walnut crop
will begin. and there are not enough
cars to make Il showing. The Santa
F'e line Is 300 cars short and the South
ern Pacific is also very short.
Count TOrranaZ, governor of the
Bank of Spain, has been appointed
minister of justice, in succession to
Senor Duran, who resigned in conse-
Quence of the decision of the govern
ment to suspend the constitutional
guarantees at Barcelona Martial law
has been gaZetted at Barcelona,
Captain G. O. Howard, formerly of
the Nebraska National Guard, at pres
ent living in Philadelphia, has written
to Secretary of War Root, volunteer
ing his services to take the place of
his brother, the late Captain Guy
Howard who was recently killed dur
ing an engagement with the Filipino
insurgents.
Princess Chimay. nee Clara Ward.
is coming to New York. and will go on
~, -tou 4
agents, who deal in European special
ties for the American market. have an
nounced that they have secured Chimay
and her gypsy husband for tour of
the United States. She and Rigo, 1t is
said. will receive Il salary of $4,000
week.
The Santa Fe railway is bringing
the Kansas regiment home without
any pay. at least for the present. as no
money is available in the treasury of
the state for the transportation. The
railway company will look to the next
, Legislature for compensation. The
railway supplies tourist and Pullman
sleepers and furnishes meals en- route
| to the regiment.
| Susan B. Anthony corroborated the
statement in Il Philadelphia paper that
| she would retire from the presidency
| of the National Suffrage Association
| at the convention in Washington in
| February She had endeavored 10
| keep the matter secret Miss anthony
| has been mt the head of the movement
| for forty-three years. and will be ~
years old in February. and now sets
herself the voluntary task of raising
| S5OO.OOO as Il permanent suffrage agi-
tation fund.
an operation was performed on the
| cZar AT Darmstatft on October IA. to re-
| lieve the pressure on the brain from
1 which he had been suffering for some
| time The operation was ehtirely sue
cessful. The ears ailment was caus-
ed by an attempt on his life in Japan
several years ago. which caused epilep-
4 tie fits and severe headaches. He was
struck on the head by n Japanese IA
matte ana his life was saved by Prince
| George of Greece. who was travelling
with him.
TIE Chicago Chronicle says: AS n
corOllary of the PullmanW Wagner con-
solidatio deal. the readjustment of
railroad properties on an enormous
scale Is said on high authority TO be
the next move on the boards. a finan-
cier with close relations to the Morgan
financial syndicate of New York is au-
thority for the statement that the next
few months will witness the welding
together OF the railroad interests con-
trolled by the Harriman-Gould and
Vanderbilt interests.
The national convention of the w.
G. IT. u. passed n series of resolutions
Tuesday. some Of which caused hours
OF discussion. The main fight was
over two resolutions-one censuring
the general government and the Pres
ident. Attorney General Griggs and ex-
Secretary OF War Alger 10y name for
their action on the anti-canteen law.
and the other denouncing the war in
the Philippines. The opposition to the