Gilpin observer., 1906-12-27
In an address in a church in Wash.


I Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri,, has resumed the taking of tes-
timony at New York in the custer suit
against the Standard and other oil
companies.
Joseph S. Kerns, who was captured
recently in an attempt to rob bank
at Great Bend, Kan, in daylight, has
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
the state penitentiary for a term OF
from ten to twenty years.
Madame Gould, the former Countess
Boni De Castellane, has been victori-
GUS in the suits brought by creditors
OF her husband to hold her RESPONSE
BILE for the counts debts.
The state department has been no
tilted that the German cruisers Pan
ther and Bremen will visit this coun
try in January and March.
Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson
We're severely criticised by a special
senate committee recently for with
drawing from allotment nearly 4,OOO,-
900 acres of land belonging to the five
civilized tribes in Indian territory
The senators insisted that the order
be withdrawn.
| The boilers of the steamer w. T.
Scoville, plying on the Mississippi
river exploded recently near Vicks-
burg. Of the so persons on board
about half are unaccounted for.
! Seven persons were injured by the
derailing of Rock Island train at
| H1.fnhincnr VI,
jured were all in the Pullman, which
was the only car to turn over.
Charles Fremont Cochran. who rep
resented the Fourth district of Mis-
souri, in congress from 1896 to 1902,
is dead at his home in ST. Joseph.
The annual report of the interstate
| commerce commission has been SUBJ
| mitted to congress.
In reply to resolution the presi-
dent has submitted to congress all the
papers concerning the discharge of
| three companies of negro troops for
completely in the Brownsville, Tex,
affair of last August. Mr.. Roosevelt
stands on his constitutional rights
and declares that under the same cir
cumstances his action would be the
same if another case should arise.
Bishop Charles C. McCabe of the
Methodist church, died in New York
hospital recently as the result of an
attack of apopleXy.
A hoisting cage containing six min
ers dropped 100 feet to the bottom of
400 foot shaft at the Breese-Trenton
Coal Mining company ten miles west
of Carlyle, ILL.,, and all the men were
killed or fatally wounded
The lower house of the Netherlands
parliament has approved the Algeciras
convention.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, has
commuted the sentence of Albert T.
Patrick, who has been under sentence
of death for the past five years for the
murder of William Marsh Rice, Tex
as millionaire, to life Imprisonment.
The NJ X. & T. railway has an
nounced its intention to make con-
tracts for the coming year with news
papers for advertising to be paid for
in transportation.
Bartlett Richards. Will G. Com
stock and c. c. jameson, millionaire
owners of the Spade ranch in Ne
braska. have been convicted of land
fraud in the federal court at Omaha.
Tams BiXby, the commissioner of
the five civilized tribes in Indian ter
ritory, has been ordered to Washing
ton.
The pope has protested to the pow
ers of Europe against the action of
France in expelling the vatican repre-
sentative and searching the papal nun
ciature at Paris.
The report of the county boundaries
committee of the Oklahoma consti-
tutional convention, providing for IS
couGties in the new state, has been
adopted. The convention adjourned
to meet January 5, 1907.
Capt. Edgar B. Macklin of company
c, Twenty-fifth infantry, was shot ane
seriously wounded recently by an un-
known negro at mis- quarters at Fort
Reno. Ok. The assaiant was believed
to be one of the recently discharged
negro soldiers.
A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department shows the total produc-
ton in bushels in 1906 of corn to 10
1927 ,41G,091; winter wheat, 492 $685.
Goa, and spring wheat 242,372 ,9G6 BUSH
els.
The Japanese consul at Honolulu
says the visiting squadron will not go
to San Francisco as intended because
of fear of second Maine disaster ow-
ing to the overwrought feelings of the
Americans.
The hearing at New York of the tes-
timony for the defense in the Missouri