Gilpin observer., 1906-03-01
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

The city of Los Angeles is having
fight to prevent the street railway COM
pany from running freight cars on the
streets.
San Diego has arranged with a COM
pany for supply of 100000 gallons
of mountain water day, at 4 cents a
thousand gallons.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, while
in Toxic, invested Admirals Togo and
Field Marshals Symagata and Oyama
with the order of Merit.
At Austin, Texas, Roland Browne,
on trial for the murder Of Congress
man Pinckney at Hampstead year
ago, was acquitted after weeks trial.
Samuel Thomas, the largest manu-
facturer of pig iron in the United
States, died at Allentown, Pennsyl-
vania, February 21st, aged seventy
nine.
David E. Henderson, former speaker
Of the National House of Representa-
tives, died at Dubuque, Iowa, February
25th, from paresis after an illness of
nine months.
1t was stated in the House OF Com
mons that the transfer of Port Arthur
from Russia to Japan does not affect
the status of Wei Hal Wei, which was
leased to Great Britain.
Fifty children were injured but none
dangerously, in a panic at St. Mary's
school in Alton, Illinois. A roll of Gel
luloid films took fire in a moving pic
ture machine, and 400 children rushed
madly for the doors.
Preliminary arrangements for a gen.
eral merger of all the elevated roads in
Chicago involving over $100, ,O00, 900 are
said to be progressing favorably and
the eventual consolidation is declared
to be nearer realization now than at
any former time.
The grand jury of the United States
District Court at Asheville. North
Carolina, returned another true bill
against Congressman Blackburn,
charging him with practicing before
the Treasury Department in violation
of the federal statutes
Former Mayor Robert j. Black of
Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, received
letter from members of the BLACK
Hand" society. demanding $4,000 in
coin before March Sth, or his life
would pay the forfeit, his house be
blown up and his family ruined.
Plans for remodeling the Singer
Manufacturing Company's building in
New York City, which is now a four
teen-story sky scraper, propose to
make it thirty-six stories high, sur
mounted by four more stories in the
form Of a tower, making it 593 feet in
height.
Prof. H. C. Ernst, bacteriologist of
the Harvard Medical school, has
evolved process of photographing
disease germs by means of the So
called ultraviolet rays OF the spectrum,
so that each germ stands out indi-
vidually. Chemical coloration is not
necessary.
Pat Groves trial on the charge of
holding up street cars at Council
Bluffs, has been postponed and he has
been admitted to bail on bond of
81 800 signed by his brother, John
Grove, and the latter's wife and
Joseph Nansel, wealthy farmer of
this county.
The Dominion government, alarmed
by the rapidly spreading use Of Amer
lean silver coins. has arranged with
Canadian banks to collect this cur
rency and ship 1t out of the country. so
that the Dominion mints may have a
chance. The American silver will be
shipped to Washington and exchanged
for gold.
Sir Charles Dixie, NJ. p, for the for.
est of dean division of Gloucester
shire, has actively entered the lists as
champion of the enfranchisement of
women, and IL his bill is adopted,
women will be sitting In Parliament.
The bill also proposes to abolish uni
mi fafi ha unncn nf
Commons.
A report of public and marine hospi-
tai service, which has just been issued,
gives a summary OF the Quarantinable
diseases reported for the city OF Ma
Mia during the calendar year 1905,
showing there were 254 cases and 225'
deaths from cholera; As cases and 43
deaths from plague, and q cases and
% deaths from smallpox.
For forty years they have been low
ers, but not until each had passed the
century mark could Samuel kuhns and
Sarah Jackson, living near Marysville.
Ohio, make up their minds to wed.
The ceremony has just taken place in
Penfield township. Captain Kuhns is
101 and his bride Is little over 100.
She is a relative OF Abraham Lincoln.
A certificate of incorporation has
been issued under the laws of New Jer
sey to the Butte Coalition Mining Com.
pany, with capitalization Of $15. 5.000..
900. The company will engage in the
copper mining business. The incor
porators are: Courtland Betz. Summit,
New Jersey; John G. SAKE. New York.
and Frederick M. Gilbert. Brooklyn.
The realty board Of San Diego. Cali.
fornia, has begun raising by subscrip-
tion a 100000 subsidy for railroad
from San Diego across the desert to
the eastward. The necessary amount
must be raised by the end Of the year,
as under the conditions OF the con.
tract the work must begin on January
l. 1907. The route will be south of or