Gilpin observer., 1900-12-13
TELEuRAPHic sRevlTlEs.

The Volunteers of America in Chica-
go will give Il free Christmas dinner
to several thousand people.
A Montreal priest, who has recently
returned from Rome says that the
Pope is steadily growing weaker.
One thousand more bolomen have
surrendered to Captain Green of the
Twenty-third infantry Mt Vigan, island
of LuZon.
In Chicago there is one policeman for
every 554 population, and the average
in 100 cities is one policeman for every
$50 population.
A wide-awake American has erected
steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup.
plying churches all over Europe with
genuine Jordan water.
A treaty has been signed with Nicar.
aqua which gives the United States all
necessary rights for the construction
of the Nicaraguan canal.
A London dispatch says that Rud-
yard kipling will sail for Cape Town
and will remain some months in South
Africa recruiting his health.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has had
his name placed on the Republican
caucus list. He has been a silver party
man for the last eight years.
The Oregon Short Line will grant a
S31.50 round-trip rate from Salt Lake
City to Portland, Oregon, for the Ma
tional Live Stock Association.
The Manchester Guardian says
Queen Victoria will confer n dukedom
on Lord Roberts and Parliament will
be asked to vote him 100000.
The Illinois State Board of Health
will urge the establishment of state
sanitarium for consumptives and state
provision for the cure of epileptics.
William Rockefeller and j. Pierpont
Morgan were compelled, with other
wealthy men, to serve on sherln S
jury in n petty damage case liz New
York City.
Thomas A. Edison has perfected a
device for heating compressed air
which, he asserts, utilizes all the store
energy of coal and obtains fully ninety
five per cent. of it.
1t is estimated that more than a mil
lion dollars have been sent from the
United States to India for the help
of the suff erers. The New York COM
mittee raised S252,SSS.
A Providence, Rhode Island pot
hunter has just paid S25.45 for the pen
atty of killing one robin. Robins are
now protected the year around by the
Rhode Island game law.
The Annapolis cadets beat the West
Point cadets in the football game at
Philadelphia on Thanksgiving Day by
score of IL to Z. This is something
worth telling to the marines.
The Federal Salt Company has ac-
Quired control of the salt industry
west Of the Rocky Mountains. On De-
cember 1st the price to the trade in San
Francisco jumped from 80 cents to 81
n barrel.
The Paris Figaro calls attention to
the proposal to organize a French
branch of the Sons of the American
worthy of the sympathy of the
| French people"
The estate of Charles Stewart Par
nell at Avondale has been sold at auc-
ton by the land court. 1t was bid in
for $4,000 and there is belief that
the purchaser represented the Ameri-
can Parnell fund.
| The wine crop Of Germany is as i'm
mense as that of France. 1t is the
same way in all the vineyards of Eu-
rope, and their output is selling for
| lower prices than for genera tionS on
account of the glut-
Insurance Commissioner Stevens of
Michigan has decided that the great
| hive of the Ladies of the Macabees
| cannot extend its Jurisdiction to other
states without amending its present ar
| ticles of Incorporation.
There are 400 cases of smallpox in
| Winona, Minnesota, and to prevent its
spread the Board of Health has closed
two public schools and ordered the
| street car company to stop its cars mt
the boundaries of the infected district
| Miss Eugenie Washington, great
| grandniece of George Washington, one
of the founders of the Society of
Daughters of the American Revolution
and president of the society of Found
ers and Patriots, died in Washington, ID.
c., November Both.
The well known chess expert, Barry
OF Boston, expects to enter the interna-
| tlonal chess tourney to begin at Monte
Carlo, on February LIST. and as Lipsi-
chuetz, Marshall, Pillsbury and Sho-
walter also contemplate playing, five
Americans may start.
The British census will be taken on
the last day of March, 1901. The
years ago, when the last census took
place, the population of the United
Kingdom was 3T,I32,022. The regis
trar general estimates the present pop
ulation at i0.921 Al.
At n recent meeting OF the Royal So
ciety in London, 1t was announced that
the projected National Antarctic eXDe-
dition would start next autumn and
that the construction of vessel TO be
named Discovery had already been
commenced at Dundee.
The Bolivian government has appro-
priatcd $4,000 for the preliminary
survey Of three railway lines, from
Oruro to La Paz and Lake Titicaca,