Gilpin observer., 1902-01-30
SNORT TELEeRAMs.

soon dispatch its trains by telephone.
The recent find Of diamonds in Mon
tana turns out to be sapphires Of an
excellent quality.
Governor Taft says thta with the
help of 5000 native constabulary, IT,
600 soldiers will be sufficient to rule
the Philippines by the end of this year.
A disastrous and fatal fire is report
ed from Canton, where several hun
dred houses have been destroyed and
a large number of lives lost. Some re-
ports say 200.
A wall of the Smithfield fax mills
collapsed on the Goth, burying the op-
eratives, who included many women.
As this dispatch is sent ten bodies
have been sxtricated from the ruins.
Capt. ]. M. Hartshorne, Jr.. Seventh
infantry, was shot from ambush and
killed January 2, in the eastern part
of the island Of Samar. Capt. Harts-
horne was recently transferred from
the Ninth to the Seventh infantry.
All of the eleven criminals who es-
tiary on McNeil's Island, Washington,
Sunday, have been captured. The cap
ture was effected without shot being
fired.
The total of 119 fatalities in the
Swiss Alps constitutes the record for
the year 1901, and is double the num-
! Der Of fatalities of 1900. Chamounix
is the principal center from which the
deaths of mountain climbers have
been announced.
Advices by the steamship Tacoma
state that the insurrection movement
in Fomosa is much more serious than
at first supposed. Twenty-Five hun
dred natives in southern FormoSa
have taken up arms against the Japan
ese authorities.
Blanks are now being sent the rail-
road companies by the Montana State
Board of Equalization, asking for
report of improvements and extensions
made during the year. 1t is under
stood that the board of equalization
contemplates making an increase in
the valuation of railroads paying taxes
in that state.
The transcontinental bureau has is
sued a call to the seventeen lines 1t in
cludes for a session in Portland, Feb.
1S, at which more than 1000 ques-
tions will be taken up. There is n
strong probability that transcontinen-
tai rates as whole will be discussed,
and a possibility that the bureau may
decide upon important reductions.
The executive committee Of the Kan
sas G. A. r. has ordered Martin Nor
ton, the department commander, to va
cate hin Office at once. The committee
has been in session all day inveStga-
ting charges Of incompetency, drunk
enness and looseness in money matters
that had been placed against Norton,
and sustained them in every particu-
lar.
William f. Hoffmeister Of st. Louis,
ex-supreme recorder Of the Legion of
Honor, committed suicide at the Plant
ers' hotel by shooting himself with
revolver. Hoffmeister had just been
defeated for reelection as supreme
recorder OF the Legion of Hon.
or by @. r. T. White and an entirely
new supreme council was elected after
q sensational contest.
At the annual meeting of the Miami
Cycle company stastistics were pre-
sented showing that while January !,
1900, there were 2SS factories in the
United States employed in the manu-
facture of bicycles, by January !, 1901,
this number was reduced to SO, and on
the 1st of January this year there were
Ohly OityClt ldSlollto Ill OPtlaIiohs
a decrease of over 80 per cent. in two
years.
The international sugar conference at
Brussels is practically certain to end
in disagreement between the powers
concerned therein, with the result that
France and Great Britain will take
active steps against the Austrian and
German bounty systems. The "kartels"
organizations of sugar refiners) In the
latter countries formed the rock upon
which delegates to the convention will
split.
Upon the recommendation of Immi-
grafton Commissioner Fitchey Of New
York, Supervising Inspector Frank
Saxton, on duty at New York City,
has been dismissed from the service.
He has been on duty as supervising
inspector at New York for the past
seven or eight months. The ground
for dismissal is given as neglect of
duty. Saxton is nephew of Mrs.
Mckinley.
The frequency of explosions in coal
mines has led to favorable action by
the bouse committee on mines and min
ing on the bill of Representative
Lacey of Iowa, requiring 5000 cubic
rect or pure air ventilation per minute
for every fifty miners at depths Of over
100 feet in coal mines. The present
requirement is $500 cubic feet. The
change is made ut the request Of the
mining organizations.
The gift OF Emperor William to Har-
ward university will be much larger
than was ut first supposed. The Emper-
or's gift consists of casts and some
bronzes, illustrating every phase of the
German plastic arts from the Roman
esque period to the Renaissance. The
casts number several thousand. The
entire cost of the collection will be de-
frayed from the Emperors private