Gilpin observer., 1906-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Readers.

Vurto OF tne "OrA0 COh0ehbe0
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our ReaAers.
Henry Mills Alden for 81 years edit-
or of Harper's Monthly has celebrat-
ed his 10th birthday.
Mrs. Esther Sumner Damon, the last
surviving widow of soldier Of the
revolutionary war, died at her home
at Plymouth Union, VT, aged 90.
Speaker Cannon, OF the house of
representatives, has been reelected
by plurality 1000 greater than he
received two years ago.
King Edward of England has cele-
brated his 65th birthday. He re-
ceived many congratulatory ~ mes
sages and numerous valuable pres
ents.
Secretary Root will deliver two ad-
dresses in Kansas City while on his
mercial club November 10, the other
before the ransMississippi CONNER
cial congress November 20.
miscellaneous.
It is reported on reliable authority
that the Mexican Central railroad has
been purchased by the Chicago Rock
Island and Pacific and will become
part of the Rock Island system.
Preliminary estimates of the princi-
pal crops of the United States made
by the department of agriculture show
them to be greater in quantity and
IN han fp
year.
The Kansas supreme court has held
that assistant attorneys general have
all the authority of a county attorney
in instituing and maintaing injunc-
lion proceedings under the prohibitory
law.
By a decision of the Kansas su-
preme court the NJ. X. ct. railway
company is declared to be entitled to
a right of way 200 feet wide from
Junction City, Kan, to the south line
of the state in place of the usual width
Of 100 feet.
Medical men and scientists Of San
Francisco have succeeded in charging
an electrical circuit with human cleo
tricity to such an extent that external
sound waves were transmitted and
heard through an ordinary telephone
receiver.
Firemen on the Erie Railroad sys-
TEN, who have made a demand on the
management for reduced working
hours and been refused are voting
follow.
The defeated republican candidates
for state offices in New York have
asked the supreme court to pass upon
the validity of certain ballots cast in
the recent election.
BY the election Of J. T. Harahan as
president of the Illinois Central rail-
road E. II. Hartman, who controls the
Union Pacific system OF roads has OBJ
tanned control of lines which will ex-
tend from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the lakes to the gulf.
Unofficial returns indicate that the
democratic state ticket was elected in
Missouri by about 6.000 majority.
A decision by Judge Garland. of the
United States court of South Dakota,
express companies are declared to be
common carriers and subject to the
orders OF the railroad commission OF
that state.
The Haskell Indians, OF Lawrence.
Kan, were defeated by the football
team of the University OF Texas at
Austin by a score OF 2S to 0.
Sewer laborers. while eating their
lunch around fire near Pittsburg,
Pa. placed ten sticks OF dynamite
near the fire to thaw and the explo-
sion which resulted killed two of
them instantly and injured Is Others
more or less seriously.
After search of five months by
agents OF the United States immigra-
tion commission, Giovanni Bruno.
Sicilian, believed to be one OF the
most dangerous of Italian anarchists.
was arrested at Keon, small sta
ton near Denver.
A majority of the delegates electea
to the constitutional convention Of
the new state of Oklahoma are demo
Gratis. The Indians as a general rule
having voted the democratic ticket.
The Aero club OF America an
nounce that next years balloon race
for the James Gordon Bennett cup
will be held at st. Louis.
The federal grand pury at st. Louis
will take up the investigation OF the
st. Louis end OF the alleged oil COM
bine with a view to the institution
Of criminal proceedings against per-
sons involved.
A secret mutiny OF dissatisfied lib
erals was held in Havana recently