Gilpin observer., 1906-05-10

ment or wireless Telegraph StatlOH
at Hammerfest, in connection with his
polar expedition.
Documents seized by the Paris po-
lice show that the Bonapartists con-
tributed funds to help the recent la
Dor demonstrations.
1t is announced that the Union Pa
cific interests proposed to build a line
from Topeka, Kan, to Denison, Tex,
to create an outlet for that system
direct to the gulf.
On the advice OF President John
Mitchell, the miners convention at
Scranton, Pa, voted to accept the pro-
position of the operators and thus end
the coal strike in the anthracite re-
gions.
Bishop Jolly, head of the Mormon
Settlement in Big Horn county, Wyo.,
has been arrested on the charge Of
sustaining polygamous relations with
two wives.
Ten persons were killed and 25
injured in a collision on the Pennsyl
vania railroad near Altoona, Pa. Two
express trains came together while
running at Iull speed.
The German steamship Soerabaya,
Russian blockande runner, which had
been missing for year and six
months, has been found near Nicolaie-
vsk. twenty-five miles up the Amur
river The vessel was encased in ice
and the crew had been frozen to death.
John r. Walsh, former president of
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been held to the federal grand jury
in bonds of $4,000.
The international cotton conference
at Washington adjourned after de-
nouncing the reports of the agricu,-
tural department. No satisfactory
scheme of remedy was, however, sug..
gested.
The Kansas republican convention
at Topeka recently held renominated
Gov. Hoch for second term by ac-
clamation. The action of the convention
was entirely harmonious and the ticket
nominated is conceded to be a strong
one
During the past month 5000 pen
sioners of the civil war who were
members Of the G. A. r. have died.
| May day was celebrated in the United
States by the Inauguration of many
strikes, the principal one being that
| among marine workmen on the great
lakes, shipment of freight was gen.
points.
In a recent interview Corporal Tan
ner, commander-in-chief OF the G. A.
R., stated that according to statistics
| compiled by himself the old veterans
were dying at the rate of 5000 a
month.
| For the ten months of the present
| fiscal year the receipts of the govern
ment have exceeded the expediture
by $4,020,566. as against a deficit for
the corresponding time last year Of
$33. .6S9,557.
Owing to misaprehension in the
south the order for a military escort
to Rev. Father Sherman, son of Gen
| w. T. Sherman in his trip over the
ground covered by his father in his
historic march from Atlanta to the
sea, has been recalled by the presi-
dent
In the Olympic games at Athens
the Americans took IL firsts. six sec
onds and five thirds out of 20 events.
Eight men were recently taken un-
conscious from the McAdoo tunnel un-
der the Hudson river at New York,
as the result Of an explosion of gas.
| Gov. Pardee has sent a petition to
congress asking that the government
pay the various claims Of California
now pending aggregating $6,000.000.
According to a preliminary report OF
the production of anthracite in 1905
made public by the United States geo.
logical survey. the tonnage during
that year was the largest in the his
tory Of the industry.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Semi-official announcement is made
that the senate committee will report
adversely on Senator Newland's prop
osition to make government loan to
San Francisco.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has agreed to vote on
the Smoot case on May IS.
An agreement has been reached by
| the senate on court review amend
ment to the railroad rate bill. The
amendment as agreed upon is salts
factory to the president. The early
passage OF the measure seems as
| surcd.
In special message to congress
President Roosevelt transmitted the
report of Commissioner of Corpora
tions Garfield regarding the relations
OF the oil industry to the railroads.
The commissioner finds that the
Standard Oil company profited to a
large extent by secret rates and re-
bates.
In a recent speech in the senate
Mr. Tillman of South Carolina made