Gilpin observer., 1906-03-22
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field, Missouri, $4,000 without any
condition.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
to Coe College; at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The college will erect 100000 SCI
ence hall.
King Edward has sold to a dealer
the $4,000 collection OF $50 etchings
presented to Queen Victoria in 1887,
| by Whistler, the artist.
Three hundred Independent tele-
| phone companies in Iowa are perfect
ing an organization to fight the Bell
Telephone Company in that state.
The total loss in nineteen provinces
| OF Russia investigated by special COM
| missions inquiring into the agrarian
troubles Of last year was $15,500,000.
There was great rejoicing at Okla
homa City, Oklahoma, over the passage
Of the statehood bill by the Senate and
! universal concurrence in the amend
ments.
A severe earthquake is said to have
| occurred at Kagi, Formosa, March
18th. Hundreds of buildings were de-
stroyed and many hundreds of people
were killed.
The new child labor law, passed by
the Iowa Legislature and signed by the
governor, prohibits the employment of
children under eighteen in any occupa-
tion injurious to health.
Gross earnings of s42,51s,0O0, de-
crease of S1,175,000 as compared with
the preceding year, are shown by the
annual report of the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company for 1905.
Andrew Carnegie's spelling reform
movement finds little favor with Brit
ish authors. Charles Algernon Swine
burne describes the movement as
;'monstrous, barbarous absurdity."
Both houses of Congress have
passed the bill to give the Soldiers
home at Hot Springs, South Dakota,
200 acres Of government land for
park in connection with the home.
A military train armed with machine
guns and quick firers and intended for
use in punitive expeditions, which has
arrived at Kieff, Russia. is said to have
developed a speed of 100 miles an hour.
1t is stated at Berlin that the Rus
sian loan that will be issued after the
Moroccan question is settled will
amount to $250,000,000 and possibly
more New York's percentage will be
small.
President Roosevelt is now honorary
member of the United Veterans, hav-
ing been elected by the camp at Poplar
Bluffs, Missouri. The organization is
composed of Union and Confederate
soldiers.
The leader of the Chinese rebels OF
Kuang 81 province and three others
who were implicated in the attack on
the house of the Rev. DR.. Andrew Beat
tie, the American missionary at Fau,
in February, were beheaded March II.
An airship company, having for it's
definite object to conduct an expert
ment with war craft, has been formed
at Berlin. The directors are hard
headed persons who take up the mat
ter from patriotic impulses and with
the patronage of the emperor.
Robert l.. Gregory, wholesale gro
Ger, is the Democratic candidate for
mayor at Kansas City. The platform
advocates municipal ownership of all
public utilities, and urges that no fran
chises shall be granted or extended
without adequate compensation TO the
city.
The right of a labor union to con-
duct a strike was sustained by Judge
Howard Ferris of the Superior Court
in Cincinnati. The case was that or
the Perkins Campbell Company against
the United Leather Workers, the COM
pany seeking to enjoin the union from
striking.
S. H. Kaufman, president of the
Evening Star Newspaper Company of
Washington City, president Of the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, former presi-
dent of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association, and one of the
best known men in Washington, died
March 18th.
The sugar war between Claus
Spreckels' Western refinery in Cali
fornia and the Sugar Factory Company
of Honolul has caused the former COM
pany to bring raw sugar to the coast
from Cuba. Mr.. Spreckels has put in
line of sailing vessels for this pur-
pose. He also will get cargoes from
Java and the Philippines.
Frank Culver, an attorney, has filed
bill in Chicago in which he complains
of alleged excessive rates on insurance
instituted last May by the supreme
council OF the Royal Arcanum and asks
that the order be prevented by an in
junction from placing the rates in eff
feet. The suit is similar in character
to actions that have been filed in other
states.
Options were recently closed on q
460 acres of ground adjoining Indian
apolis at a cost Of $650,000. Six hun
dred and forty acres will be used by
the New York Central system for cen
trail repair shops to employ 5000 men.
The other land will be used for a
model railroad city. The New York
Central system has appropriated $S,-
100000 for the work.
When the news of the defeat of joint
statehood reached Tucson, Arizona,
whistles were blown, firecrackers ex-
ploded and crowds cheered on the