Gilpin observer., 1906-10-04

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building suffered injury, some Of them
having been entirely destroyed.
Secretary Taft has issued procla-
nation declaring himself provisional
governor of Cuba and cabled the war
department to send $500 troops to
Cuba at once. Orders have been is
sued and the troops will start from
Newport News, Va. as soon as possi-
BILE.
BY the capsizing or a car ferry at
Chicago three sailors were drowned
and "a railway cars with 800 tons Of
iron were lost In the lake.
Mrs. Mcdonald, wife Of governor
Mcdonald Of Colorado. received SER
ious injury by being thrown from
e. o. Bode, defaulting treasurer of
Falls City, Neb., has been found guilty
Of embezzling $4,000.
Gen. Stoessel is being tried before
high military court for having sur
rendered Port Arthur to the Japanese.
1t is estimated that so per cent OF
the yellow pine timber in Mississippi
A French architect has been award
ed the first prize in competition 70,
designs for the Carnegie palace of
peace and has received from Queen
Wilhelmina an order for the construc.
ton of thnt building at The Hague.
Judge C. F. Irwin, Of the district
court at Kingfisher, Ok, has ordered
the Rock Island railroad company TO
at once commence the erection OF
substantial bridge across the Omar-
ron river where the recent acc.asnt
occurred and severely censured the
railroad management for maintaining
so flimsy structure.
Attorney General Hadlcy, OF Mis-
souri,, has secured from H. Clay
Pierce an admission on the witness
stand that the majority stock Of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company is owned
by the Standard Oil company.
President Palma and Vice President
Capote. of Cuba. have resigned. Prac-
tically the Cuban government has
ceased to exist and all that prevents
absolute anarchy is the fear of the
strong arm of the United States.
Orders have been issued by the
navy department for the Glacier to
stop at Joppa while en- route from
the Philippines in order to allow the
crew to visit the Holy Land. This
is considered an unusual privilege.
The strike of the boilermakers, ma
chinists and blacksmiths of the Wa
bash railroad has been ended by the
company granting an increase in
wages.
A monument to Zebulon Pike. the
discoverer of the peak which bears
his name, was unveiled recently at
Colorado Springs with fitting cere-
| mony
A general order has been promul-
gated by the war department pronibit-
ing the soliciting of pension or other
claims against the government on
military reservations or at military
| posts.
The government is experiencing
and mules for the army. Cavalry
horses are now quoted at s140 and
mules at $3.50 per head.
Fifty representatives of lumber
companies of Missouri, Texas, Ala
bama. Louisiana and Mississippi re-
| Gently met In ST. Louis and formed
! an association. A capital of several
million dollars was represented
Three persons were killed and 81
injured in the wreck of a Wabash
fast passenger train at Catlin, Ill.
The train ran into an open switch
and all the passenger cars but one
turned over and were burned.
In the federal court at Wichita,
Kan, the Boyce Cattle company
pleaded guilty to fencing government
land and was fined $3.50 by Judge
Pollock
Kansas farmers are now asking
for help to husk the largest corn crop
in the history of the state
At the meeting OF the Missouri State
Bar Association. the committee of leg.
| islation recommended an amendment
to the constitution permitting courts
to send to Jail divorced husbands who
refuse to pay alimony to their wives
when ordered to do so by the court.
The Cuban congress in special ses-
sion failed to act on the designations
OF President Palma and his cabinet
because OF inability to secure quo
rum. thus allowing the government Of
the republic to die by default. The
United States marines were immedi-
ately landed at Havana to protect the
treasury.
A salute of II guns in honor of
Brig. Gen. Zebulon Pike was recently
fired from the summit Of Pixies Peak
in honor OF the discoverer. A bronze
tablet commemorating the event was