Gilpin observer., 1905-02-16
CONDENSED TELEeRAMs

place of Andrew Graham Murray.
The United States government did
not take possession of the Santo Do
mingo custom house as was reported.
By a vote Of As to 10 the California
Assembly passed bill re-ceding the
Yosemite valley to the federal govern
ment.
The New Mexico Legislature has
passed bill prohibiting roping con
tests. 1t was backed by most of the
cattlemen.
A strong fight Is being waged in
Kansas by the Standard Oil Company
against the proposed state refinery.
Charges of bribery are freely made.
The Sultan of Zanzibar recently ar
rived in Paris. He refused to ride in
a carriage, saying he preferred the or
dinary omnibus conveyance to his no
tel
1t is now expected that the famous
Simplon tunnel under the Alps in
Switzerland will be completed and
opened for traffic on the 30th of April
| next.
There will be indoor trotting races
at the annual horse fair to be held al
the Madison Square Garden in New
York City during the last week in
| April.
Twenty Porto Rico girls, who were
brought over and employed by St.
Louis manufacturing company, have
just departed for home. They got
homesick.
| A joint resolution indorsing Presi.
dent Roosevelt's stand on railroad leg
islation was unanimously adopted by
the Illinois Senate after having passed
the House.
| On February 5th President Diaz for
mally opened the new hospital in the
City of Mexico in the presence of
great and brilliant company, including
many physicians.
| The State Senate of Missouri. which
Is Democratic, adopted the resolution
previously passed by the House indors-
ing President Roosevelt's stand on
railroad legislation.
At Palm Beach, Florida, on the 4th
inst. the Challenger lowered the
worlds motor boat record by running
a mile in 2:05 As against the wind and
2:04h with the wind.
The insurrection in the province of
Cordoba in Argentina appears to be
suppressed. Vice President Alcorta
and other prisoners held by the insur-
gents have been released.
| Henry L. Wilson, for some time min
lister to Chill, is at his own request to
be transferred and probably will be
| given European mission. His sue
cessor has not been appointed.
John d. Rockefeller is to present the
Young Mems Christian Association
of Brooklyn with 100000 if the asso-
ciation raises an additional sum OF
5000, 900 before January l. 1906.
For the first time in the memory of
man, Vineyard Haven. the sheltered
harbor of the island of Martha's Vine
yard, on the Massachusetts coast, was
completely frozen over on the 4th inst.
The President has declined to
grant the application for pardon filed
! in behalf OF Diller B. and Samuel A.
Croft, convicted of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government in connection
with the postoffice cases.
On the steamer Shinano Maru,
which recently arrived at Victoria,
B. c., from Yokohama, were three JAP
anese naval officers en- route to Lon
don to superintend the construction of
a 16,000-ton battleship being built in
England.
The proposition to authorize the IN
terstate Commerce Commission to fix
railroad rates was opposed by the re-
port Of the committee on internal trade
and improvements made to the New
York Chamber of Commerce, the re-
port being adopted.
General Matsumara, according to the
TOXIC correspondent Of the London
Daily Telegraph, recently died at the
front from congestion of the brain. He
commanded the operations at 203-Me-
ter hill, and was decorated and pro-
NOTED for heroism.
The London Telegraph correspond
ent states that 140 OF the persons ar
rested on January 22d started for ST.
IBERIA on Monday. Others will follow.
1t is reported that 100000 trans-Cau.
casian non-conformists intend to emf
crate to California.
corps OF automobile owners has
been organized for the German army,
the members of which, with Yheir ma
chimes, are liable to be called OUT Tor
war duty. They will wear an olive
green uniform. not unlike that of
United States army officers.
According to statistics gathered by
New York insurance Company, the
sum of $10,000,0bS was embeZzled in
the United States in 1904. New York
state headed the list with embezzle-
ments amounting to $1,S5L585. Cali
fornia was next with total OF 81 ,05S.-
S25.
A great religious revival is in prog
ress in London. 1t was opened on the
4th inst. by Reuben A. Torrey and
Charles NJ. Alexander, the American
evangelists, who addressed an audi
ence that filled Royal Albert hall, the
largest auditorium in the city, holding
1000 people.
The wife Of Maxim Gorky. the Rus.
sian author has hpan nermittnd to visit