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Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
ATTEMPT TO DISBAR
ATTORNEY GENERAL

Denver, Oct. 6.-The Supreme Court
has been asked to disbar Attorney
General Charles G. Post. In the same
petition the court is asked to cite for
contempt Of court the attorney gener-
al, the thirteen county assessors who
constitute the State Board of Assess
ors and their secretary. The petition
ers are the attorneys for the corpora
tions interested in the two actions
brought to test the constitutiOnality of
the revenue law, Henry T.. Rogers,
Willard Teller, Il. e. Whitfield, Charles
w. Waterman, Charles Il. CAST Henry
A. Dubbs and ID. G. Bellam.
The disbarment and contempt pro-
ceedings are asked on the ground that
the attorney general, the State Board
Of Assessors and its clerk showed con-
tempt of court by extending the abb
stracts Of assessments of the corporate
property and certifying them out to
the county clerks.
The application was made to the
judges of the Supreme Court In cham
bers yesterday morning and will be
passed upon by the court Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.
The persons the corporations want
punished for contempt, besides Attor-
ney General Post, are County Assess
ors S. II. Alexander, G. N. Lysight, j.
A. Webber, A. j. Hogan, Il. ii. Stew
ems, Hugh Taylor, Z. Q. Price, A. NJ.
Thomas, Il. w. Brush, G. =. Linck, w.
+. Whinnery and l.. Il. Neff, who COM
pose the State Board of Assessors, and
their clerk, A. B. Gray.
Accompanying the petition is an afIi.
davit sworn TO by James Corey, tax
agent for the Denver Il Rio Grande
road. In which he AYERS that Secretary
Gray of the State Board Of Assessors
told him that the assessors had ex-
tended their abstract OF assessment of
corporate property and instructed Sec
retary Gray to certify them out, which
he did, and that the action was taken
under the advice of the attorney gen.
eral
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
BOARD OF ASSESSORS
CITED FOR CONTEMPT

Denver, Oct. S.-Judges Gabbert and
Steele of the Supreme Court yesterday
morning in re the revenue law tangle,
ordered the thirteen members of the
State Board of Assessors, A. B. Gray,
secretary of the board, and Attorney
General Post to appear in court next
Monday morning to show cause why
they should not be punished for con-
tempt. The charge against Gray and
the board is that they proceeded with
the work of assessing corporate prop
erty in violation of an injunction issued
by Judge Dixon of the District Court
Of Pueblo, and also prepared and sent
out abstracts of assessment during the
life of a writ of prohibition issued by
the Supreme Court and held to be bind
ing on them to take no action under the
new revenue law. The attorney gener-
al is said to have advised them in their
course.
The attorney general, the assessors
and the secretary are also called upon
to prepare within the same period of
time an answer to a motion filed by
the corporation attorneys yesterday
morning that all the work done by the
board of assessors (meaning particular
ly the sending out of the abstracts Of
assessmenO since the issuance OF the
writ of injunction and the granting of
the temporary writ of prohibition be
declared null, inamuch as 1t was done
In violation of court orders.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
MONEY RAISED FOR
MISS STONES RANSOM

Boston, Oct. S.-Nearly half the mon
ey needed to ransom Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone, the missionary, from the Bull
garian brigands, has been placed in
the hands of Kidder. Peabody & Co.
The exact figures at midnight were
$45, ,543.4O cash and $500 in pledges.
OF this amount the firm this afternoon
sent $4,000 to the State Department
to be forwarded to its consular agent
at the place where 1t can be used most
expeditiously.
Members Of the firm. when informed
that Vienna advices indicated there
would be n months extension of time
in which to pay the ransom, said the
forwarding of the money would not be
delayed in the least. During the after
noon the officials of the American
board in charge of Congregational mis-
| sions met informally. The officials per-
sonally contributed to the ransom, but
as officials they took the position they
have maintained all along, that It
would be inadvisable for them, as n
missionary board, to pay ransom
this for the reason that 1t would be put
ting premium on brigandage that
must In the end make missionary work
in wild and rough countries more diff
cult and possibly impracticable.
After this meeting 1t was officially
given out that the State Department at
Washington has agreed to take full
charge OF the delivery of the ransom to
the brigands.
London, Oct. SIT is reported from
Sofia" says dispatch from Vienna,
that United States Consul Dickinson
and an envoy Of the missionary society
arrived there Saturday, intending to
follow up Miss Stone and to deposit a
portion OF the ransom. The brigands
have extended the time for payment
one MONTH"
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

terway, because England already en-
joyed certain treaty rights upon the
Isthmus. But they were decidedly un-
willing to invite other European ma
tions to give their assent. Those ma
tions had no standing in the case and
it was deemed unwise to invite them
to participate in purely American
affair with which they had no direct
concern.
by the terms of the new treaty the
United States may, in time of war,
deal with the canal as it deems best
for its own interests. 1t may close the
canal to the ships of it's enemies, and
could, if it We're thought advisable
(Which no one believes it ever will be)
fortify the channel or it's termini. In
the broad sense the Isthmian water
way is to be 'all-American.' The Unit
ed States is to build it and have con-
troll of it, unhampered by onerous re-
strictions.
Ambassador Choate will bring to
the United States a draft of the new
treaty, and President Roosevelt will
soon have it in his hands. The Presi-
dent will be able to discuss it in his
forthcoming message to Congress.
He warmly approves of it. 1t meets
almost exactly the principles for
which he contended year ago. He
never opposed neutrality, providing it
did not bind the hands of the United
States in time of war. He never in
sisted upon Notifications. He never
advocated preferential tariffs.
There can be little or no doubt that
the new treaty will be approved by
the American press and people, and
that it will be confirmed by the Sem
ate. During the first sixty days of
the coming session all treaty obstacles
to the passage Of an Isthmian canal
bill should be removed"
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
CHINESE AFFAIRS IN "A BAD WAY
AND FOREIGN GUARDS LOOTING/

Pekin, Oct. S.-The officials here
have not been informed as to whether
the court has started for lai Feng Fu
as announced in "A dispatch from
Shanghai yesterday. Previous ad-
vices lead to the belief that the court
did start. The temporary palaces at
Kai Feng Flu and Pao Ting Flu are be-
ing prepared like permanent dwellings,
although they will be occupied only
for few days.
The acquisitions for the travelling ex-
penses already amount to $9,5OOOOO,
in spite of the edict enjoining economy
in this respect. The scale of prepara-
tions may be judged from single
item-$22, 500 will be expended on ta-
bleware. Several local officials along
the route have resigned because they
are unable to meet the expenses of
entertaining the court. The latter's
journey now is particularly unfor-
tunate, because the regions traversed
have been impoverished by the sum
mer famine. The Chinese officials are
considering the desirability of protest
the conduct of the legation guards.
The soldiers continue to treat the
Chinese like a conquered people.
Groups of soldiers roam about the city,
wearing their side arms, often intoxi-
Gated, maltreating the natives and
committing petty robberies. A party
of Americans recently looted Il silver
smiths store, securing several hun
dred taels' worth of properly. The
whole garrison was confined to bar
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE AMEER
MAY CAUSE COMPLICATIONS

his father as his successor, and had
long had a share in the government,
will assume the succession peaceably.
He Is at Cabul. For some years, un-
der his fathers controlling hand he
has had charge of the army and the
state treasury and the Supreme Court
of Appeal. He is regarded as n wise
and temperate ruler, favorable to
Great Britain, but less masterful than
his father, and for this reason less
likely to be strong enough to govern
the fierce. unruly tribes or to resist
the attempts of his brothers to seize
power.
1t is expected that Lord Curzon VIII
postpone his intended tour of Burmah
until after the Afghan question is set
tied down.
express confidence that, with strong
viceroy and strong government at
home, any possible complications fol-
lowing the death of the Ameer will be
firmly and prudently met. There is,
however, an underlying current of un-
easinesS discernible as to whether
Russia will seize the opportunity to
push her frontier forward. The Brit
ish troops in India, owing to the
South African war, are now below
their normal strength. 1t will be i'm
possible to take any more for South
Africa and the news will still further
encourage the Beers to prolong their
resistance
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

London, Oct. IA news agency pub
fishes the following dispatch from
Simla, dated this evening:
Habib Oullah Khan, eldest son of
the Ameer of Afghanistan, has report
ed to the British agent at Cabul that
the Ameer died last Thursday, after
a brief illness.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Simla says the Ameer was taken
seriously i'll September 2Sth. Habib
Oullah Khan, October 2nd, asked in
n durbar that public prayers be offered
for the Ameer. In the morning of Oc
tober 3rd Habib Khan announced that
his father had expired at o'clock
that morning. Nothing is known of
the state of affairs at Cabul.
No confirmation has been received at
the foreign office of the report of the
death of the Ameer, but its truth is
not doubted. In view of the existing
critical situation in South Africa, the
news sent something like n shock
through the United Kingdom. Great
confidence, however, is expressed on
all sides of the ability of the Indian
viceroy to deal with the situation.
Before Lord Curzon attained his
present dignities he had travelled
through Afghanistan as the guest of
the Ameer, and had thoroughly mas
tered the problem of British policy
in central Asia.
At Simla it is believed that Habib
Ouhah Khan, who was regarded by
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
SUGAR TRUST WILL WAGE WAR
ON BEET SUGAR ASSOCIATION

full sphere in making refined sugar in
stead of raw sugar to be refined by the
trust. Independent beet sugar pro-
ducers have always made and sold re-
fined beet sugar. 1t would be putting
ones head in the lions jaw with a
vengeance for the beet factories to
equip themselves only for the making
of raw sugars at prices to be fixed by
the trust. Besides it is an economical
blunder to perform in two operations
what can be done as well in one.
"The movements on the part Of the
sugar trust in selling its refined sugar
far below the cost to it Of the raw
material, and in the special market
which is now reached to some extent
by the beet sugar producers cannot
but call down on the head of the trust
the condemnation not only of the beet
sugar producers, but also of all fair
minded people in the country, and hav-
ing done this they have placed them
selves in an exceedingly poor position
to go before Congress and ask for the
perpetuation of their power as rein
ers; although they have recently ar
ranged to increase their capital stock
to the extent of $15,O0O,OOO to rivet
their control of the raw cane product.
In view of this act on the part of
the sugar trust, the United States
Congress can ill afford to inaugurate
the policy of reducing the present rate
of duty by reciprocity or in any other
way which would have the certain eff
feet of enriching the trust on one
hand and on the other the killing of
the most promising industry in the ag-
riculturaI business of America"
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
EpIacOpalInn LihernlIty.

San Francisco, Oct. S-Yesterday
was day of oratory In the house OF
deputies of the triennlal Episcopal con-
ventiOn. The debate, which began
last Saturday, on the proposed addi-
ton to article ten of the constitution.
prescribing the form of worship, was
continued all day, and finally resulted
in Its adoption. As adopted II reads
as follows:
But the provision may be made by
canon for the temporary use of old
forms and directories Of worship by
congregations not In union with this
church who are willing to accept the
spiritual oversight of the bishop Of the
diocese or missionary district"
The Rev. DIR. Huntington of New
York made the closing argument. He
declared 1t to be his purpose to bring
in n canon embodying all the pro-
visions of his original resolution. re-
ferred to by DIR. Fulton, If the amend
ment should be adopted. If this Is
adopted such n canon would be possi-
BILE. The four great questions he said,
which confront the American people
are, the sanctity of the home. the purl-
fication of the municipal life of our
great cities, the relation between cap
ital and labor, and, towering up over
all the others, because entering Into all
others, was the question whether we
can thoroughly and uniformly consol-
idatc all the religious forces Of the
Republic, and he elOquently argued
that the step which Is now proposed to
be taken by the Episcopal Church
would be In the direction Of such n
consolidation.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

racks until the guilty men were de-
tected.
The governor of Pelsin has protest.
ed because the foreign storekeepers
continue to occupy buildings which
they seized in 1900 regardless of their
owners wish. The ministers will evict
the storekeepers from these places.
Correspondence has been exchanged
between the Chinese officials and the
ministers regarding the complaints
made by Cinnamon that they have
been compelled against their will to
take part in the work of building the
new legations.
1t is becoming evident that some
Modus vivendi must be established, or
the conditions will become intolerable.
Notwithstanding the ministers policy
of moderation in erecting defences,
the legation quarters present the ap-
pearance of a fortified city. The Brit
ish defenses, opposite the imperial
city, are particularly formidable, the
Italian defenses, adjoining the British,
have embrasures for cannon, n deep
moat protects the German section, and
across the city wall the Germans have
erected a stone fort for artillery.
Prince Su, the collector of taxes, has
adopted the policy of taxing goods
brought into Pekir. for foreign mer-
chants. Heretofore such goods have
not been taxed and the merchants
have protested to the ministers, who
held that the goods should remain un-
taxed. on the ground that they are in
tended for the use of the legations.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

San Francisco Oct 6.-Commenting
upon the reduction of the price of su-
gar in the Missouri market by the su-
gar trust, Henry L. Oxnard, president
Of the American Beet Sugar Associa-
ton, defined it as another move to
crush out beet sugar production in or
der that the trust might have no op-
position.
IF they can succeed in the Missouri
river valley" said he, they will then
turn their attention to the beet factor
les in Michigan and other sections,
and by the power of concentrated cap
ital crush out successfully and indi-
vidually the beet sugar producers. The
trust tries to deceive the public by
claiming that the beet producers can
still make money at the low price it
is trying to establish. This is false,
and if it had been true, then the trust
would have tried to establish still
lower price. They are not sacrificing
115 cents per pound in the Missouri
river markets to make a price that
will still be profitable to the beet sugar
men.
But this particular move on the
part of the sugar trust will fall fiat
The beet sugar factories will not sell
their sugar in the Missouri river valley
at ~ cents under the market when a
fraction of that ~ cents will move
their sugar to every other market in
the United States. What the next
move of the trust will be remains to
be seen.
'The trust also attempts to Justify
its action by insinuating that the beet
factories have gone out of their right
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
Arapahoe Republican Nominations.

Denver, Oct. Sat the Republican
county convention held in this city
yesterday the following ticket was
placed In nominations: County judge,
George T.. Steele; sheriff, james NJ.
Walker; clerk and recorder, Elias Il.
Dunleavy; treasurer, l.. j. Hadley; as
sessor Charles @. Ferguson; coroner.
George Simpson; superintendent of
public instruction, Mrs. Mary ID.
Hughes; surveyor, J. A. Mcintyre;
commissioner, District No. 1, Roland
%. Smith; commissioner, District No.
4, John II. Button; Justice OF the peace
second Justice precinct. Thomas u.
McCleiland; constable, second Justice
precinct, Patrick Ii. Geary.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
SERIES OF VIOLENT
ASSAULTS IN PUEBLO

Pueblo, Colo, Oct. 6.-(Denver News
Special. .)-Conclusive evidence is at
hand that at least two of the assaults
out of three assaults and a holdup
committed on Pueblo women last
night were the work Of the same man
and the officers are of the opinion that
the whole series of crimes on girls and
women is the work of single man.
A .44-caliber Colts revolver taken
from the home of Mrs. James p. Hen
derson, who was assaulted at her resi-
dence, 1102 Arroyo avenue, last even
ing, was found this morning at the
home of Mr.. Hamilton, No. s Block j.
At 2:30 this morning the police were
| notified by the neighbors of the Hamil-
ton family that white man with a
handkerchief tied round his face for
mask had forced his way into the
house, deliberately raising window.
After ransacking Il bureau and secur-
ing diamond ring and some other
property the ruffian jumped upon the
bed of one of the daughters of the
family and was choking her when her
feeble outcries aroused the household
frightening the man away. In max
ing his escape, however, the villain left
heavy club and the revolver taken
from the Henderson house.
Within very few minutes of this
report came another to police head
quarters stating that a man answer
ing the description of the assailant Of
Mrs. Henderson, the burglar at the
Hamilton house and the man who
held up Mrs. Margaret Blair on North
ern avenue early in the evening, had
committed criminal assault upon
Mrs. J. M. Lackey. the wife of n steel
worker living at 1926 Pine street.
In addition to the finding of the
Henderson revolver at the Hamilton
house is the further evidence leading
the police to believe that one man has
been committing all the crimes which
began four weeks ago, is that the de-
vice Of n telegram to get clutches on n
woman was used anly Thursday night
at the home of w. ]. Mills, 800 Grand
avenue, where an attempt was made
to assault Mr.. Mills fourteen-year-old
daughter. This man carried under his
arm sugar sack such ns was used by
the assailant of the little daughter of
Clay Holmes. In this case the child
was carried from her bed in the house
where her parents were sleeping, to
the back porch, where the most brutal
assault of the series was committed.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

Commodore Perry is name high in
honor in the United States navy, hav-
ing been the title of two famous broth
ers-Oliver Habard and Matthew CAL
braith Perry. On September 10th,
eighty-eight years ago, the elder broth
er. a young lieutenant who had never
seen a naval fight, fought that fierce
Battle of Lake Erie, which saved the
Northwest to the United States and
gave the world the Dispatch I'VE have
met the enemy and they are ours"
Forty-eight years ago last July the
younger brother landed in Japan with
q message from the president which
practically opened that country to the
world. The Matthew Perry monument
recently unveiled at Kurihama, Japan,
is a shaft thirty-three feet high made
of a rare native stove and bearing an
inscription in gold written by Marquis
Ito. A dense crowd OF natives wit
messed the ceremonies. both Japanese
and American battleships fired salutes
from the harbor, and one of the speak
ers was Rear Admiral Beardslee, who,
as a midshipman under Perry, was
present at the original entry.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

Figures may not lie, but they are
often disappointing. Census figures,
especially, are apt to fall below what
is expected of them. The recent CEN
sus of Canada shows population of
i5,33S,S33, which is an increase of $685.
'694 over the total of 1891. The gain of
about ten per cent in ten years seems
to many Canadians a meager result of
a decade of prosperity, and of energetic
efforts to promote immigration. But it
is the rule nowadays mat city popu-
lations grow faster than rural, and
Canada has few cities. Only eighteen
places in the Dominion have more
than ten thousand inhabitants. But
there remains the consolation that not
all the elements of national greatness
are measured by count of heads.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10
NEW ISTHMIAN TREATY READY
ADVOCATING CLAYTON.BUL WER

Chicago, Oct. 6-The Record Herald
this morning prints the following from
Walter Wellman, its Washington cor
respondent:
1.-The United States and Great Brit
ain have reached an agreement con-
cerning the Isthmian canal question,
and the new treaty will be presented to
the Senate for its ratification early in
the coming session."
Mr.. Wellman says: II am now able
to give the substance of this treaty.
1t provides:
"First-For abrogation of the old
Clayton-Bulwer treaty in toto.
'Second-For a neutral Isthmian ca
nal, in case one be constructed by the
United States, open in time of peace
to the ships of all nations upon equal
terms.
"Third-This neutrality is guaran-
teed by the United States alone and
other maritime powers are not invited
to participate in such guarantee. Great
Britain is inferentially one of the
guarantors, because she is party to
this treaty.
"Fourth-In case of war, the United
States reserves the right to take such
steps for it's own protection as it may
deem proper.
IL Will De seen tndt tHe ueW treaty
meets the principal objections which
We're offered to the old Hay-Paunce-
fote convention and which led to its
rejection by the Senate. While the
principle of neutrality is asserted, the
United States alone guarantees that
neutrality, and no European powers
are invited to give their assent +, it.
1T was this feature, more than any
other, which led to the defeat of the
former treaty. Many senators were
willing to join with Great Britain in
a guarantee of the proposed new wa
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

The death is announced at Genoa, at
the age of 9S. of Pierre Maurier, a
Frenchman, who lived on the Island of
Elba when Napoleon took up his COM
pulsory residence there in April, 1914.
Pierre remembered hearing the news
towards the end of February, 1915, that
the Emperor, with over 1000 followers,
had sailed away in feluccas bound for
Provence. The lad used to carry eggs
and fruit to the kitchen of the En-
peror and one day that famous poten-
tate caught him stoning a dog and
sharply reproved him. Maurier was
presented to Victor Emmanuel in 1863
and the King was much interested
when he heard from Pierre's own lips
his memories of the great Napoleon.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

A lively scrap between clergyman
and layman was witnessed at bap-
tizing ceremony in Stanchfield Lake,
MINI. George Tomlinson had agreed
to be baptized there by the Rev. Mr..
Orrock, but his nerve deserted him at
the last moment. The clergyman at
tempted to use force. and there was a
struggle. the convert angrily resisting.
After prolonged contest, the minister
succeeded in dCcking the unwilling
convert in three feet of muddy water.
Gilpin observer., 1901-10-10

Several articles of jewelry embedded
in the flesh were discovered in the
making Of an autopsy on the body of
Paul Shirvell, Russian, who was
killed in a mine in Pennsylvania. In
the leg was a miniature dumbbell,
about the size Of a cuff button. In
each instance the jewelry had been
fastened in the mans flesh, which had
grown over the article, completely hid
ing 1t from view. On the body of
Frank Lorenz, who committed suicide
at White Haven recently, was found
similar ornaments embedded in the
flesh. 1t is believed Lorenz and Shir-
veil were political exiles from Siberia,
and that the fastening Of jewelry in
their bodies was a part of the punish
ment inflicted by prison authorities.