Gilpin observer., 1905-03-16
CONDENSED 1eLEGRAms

to appropriate $4,000 for the erection
OF a state building at the Lewis &
Clarke exposition.
A. M. Palmer, the noted theatrical
manager, died in New York City
March 7th Of apoplexy. He was sixty
seven years Of age.
The Kaiser sent a personal letter
containing an invitation for the Kiel
week to the American ambassador.
Charlemagne Tower.
4ne Union elevator at Council Bluffs
was burned on the night of March 9Th,
| together with 100000 bushels of grain,
mostly corn. Loss. 100000.
At Batoum in Caucasia on the 9Th
inst. Cossacks broke up an outdoor
meeting at which speeches were deliv-
cred, chased the audience into the
courts OF houses and killed or wound
ed seven men and one woman.
In the name of the city of Seattle,
Samuel Hill, member of the board of
overseers of Harvard University, has
subscribed $4,000 to special fund of
$1,O0O,000 to relieve the annual def
cheney existing at the institution.
! 1t is announced that DIR. John Alex
| ander Dowie has definitely decided to
establish new Zion" near the City
of Mexico, where he may take up his
residence, as the climate of Chicago is
too harsh for him in his old age.
The Canadian camp ate rhinoceros
dinner March Sd at the Hotel Astor in
New York City. The menu cards an
nounced that the 'fillet of rhino" had
been prepared from rhinoceros pre-
sented by Prince Henry of Prussia.
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than 100 per cent. increase Of new
comers during the month of February
over the corresponding period of last
year. The arrivals of the month were
53,460, as against 23,410 in February.
1904.
A Christiana dispatch says that a
special committee of the storthing has
decided by sixteen votes to three to
submit bill TO the storthing provid-
ing for the establishment of a separate
Norwegian consular service by April,
1906.
General Booth Of the Salvation Army
started from London March 1st on his
first visit to Jerusalem. where he will
hold an open-air meeting on Mount
Calvary. From there the general will
go to Australia and New Zealand on
farewell visit.
The Mexican National Sugar Rein
! ing Compan. Incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey, has filed incurpo-
ration papers in the City of Mexico.
The company is capitalized at $1,000
900 gold and purposes to erect mod
ern sugar refinery at Vera Cruz.
1t is officially announced in London
that Earl Cawdor will succeed Lord
Selbourne as first lord of the admi-
rally. The appointment is somewhat
of a surprise, he having since his ac-
cession to the earldom taken no active
part in politics and being absorbed in
railway management.
The plant of the American Cereal
Company at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
| 7th inst. The works were said to be
the largest of the kind in the world
| and the loss is estimated at 81. 100000,
on which there was $1,000,000 insur-
aEce.
Governor Hoch of Kansas received
a telegram from an independent oil re-
finery company of Humboldt, saying
that the freight charges on a car of
oil just shipped were $50.74 less under
the newly enacted maximum freight
rate law. The telegram was read in
both me Senate and House.
James Nick. Gordan, aged thirty, an
agricultural expert and specialist in
| the growing of celery, committed sui
eide at Chicago on the 7th inst. by
leaping from the fourth floor of Nc
Coy's hotel to the street. He had
shown signs Of insanity while on a
train with his wife coming from Cali
| fornia.
AS a result of inquiries which were
| commenced in December last it has
been discovered that in upper Hun
gary there has been a system of falsi-
fication Of records. such as the chang
ing of names, false entries Of deaths,
etc.. by which many thousands of
young Hungarians have avoided obli-
gatory military service.
Existence of a gigantic combination
| controlling the drug trade of the
United States and costing the consum-
ers $40,000,000 annually, is held to
have been proved by the hearing just
concluded before Special United States
| Commissioner Marshall Z. Sampsell at
Chicago. The amount of business con-
trolled by the combination is placed at
s400,000.000 yearly.
A ten per cent. increase in wages
was granted to the employees Of the
II. c. Frick company in the Pennsylva-
mia coke region on the 1st of March.
General good times is given as the rea-
son for the advance. w. j. Rainey and
the Cochran company, independent
coke operators. promptly announced
that they would pay the same scale.
the increase altogether affecting 10000
men.
Ben Daniels, superintendent of the
Arizona penitentiary, former men,
ber of the Presidents regiment OF
Rough Riders, and member Of the
picked escort of the President inaug-
uraion day, presented to the Presi-