Gilpin observer., 1906-01-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

| SOihpitItu Ou lHe l4ln lHSl.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth, the newspa-
I, per proprietor, upon whom a peerage
| was conferred last month, has taken
the title of Baron Northcliffe.
| Col. Robert G.. Lowe, owner and
| publisher of the Galveston News, died
on the 18th inst at the age of seventy.
He also started the Dallas News.
| Representative Binger Hermann of
Oregon will be tried in the courts OF
the District of Columbia for completely
in the land frauds in Oregon in March.
John H. Converse of Philadelphia
has endowed the chair of homiletics
and pastoral theology of the Presbyte-
rian theological seminary of Omaha
with $4,000.
Mrs. Lucy E. Polk, the venerable
widow of Col. William II. Polk, and
sister-in-law of President Polk, was
buried at Warrenton, North Carolina,
on the 18th inst.
Sir Thomas Upton will build an
other yacht and try for the Americas
cup again. At least, he is said to be
laying plans for SO doing. Three
times and out" doesn't seem to hold in
his case.
James Brown Scott of California,
professor of law at Columbia Univer-
sity, New York, has been appointed
solicitor of the state department at
Washington to succeed Judge Penfield
resigned.
Morales, the fugitive president OF
Santo Domingo, is refugee with the
American consul there. He wants safe
conduct from the country, which will
be granted if he resigns from office.
Morales leg is broken.
Secretary Bonaparte approved the
sentence of dismissal imposed by
court martial at Annapolis in the case
of Midshipman Trenmor Coffin on con-
yiction of hazing and ordered his dis
missal from the academy.
The first Methodist and Trinity
Methodist churches of Chicago con-
template the erection of a skyscraper
building to cost million dollars and
to contain a huge auditorium to be
used for church purposes.
The new estimates of the cotton
| crop of Mexico reduce the amount to
$4,000 bales, which shows far less than
was at first anticipated. Much cotton
may be lost in the Laguna district, ow-
ing to the scarcity of pickers.
Operations have been begun IN
for the erection of the large steel mills
recently authorized by the United
States Steel corporation. An expendi-
ture of S7,000,000 will be made.
]. c. Napier, the negro lawyer and
| banker of Nashville, who was recently
offered the position of United States
consul at Bahia, Brazil, called on the
President and thanked him for the
proposed appointment, but declined it.
At the funeral of President Harper,
late head of the University of Chicago,
on the 18th instant, the floral tributes
included wreaths from President
Roosevelt. Emperor William of Ger
many and many other distinguished
| persons.
Sir Edwin Cornwall, chairman OF the
London County Council, has issued to
| the press a proposal for an interna-
| tional congress of representative of
capitals having over 100000 population
to meet annually for the discussion of
municipal methods.
Secretary Taft has been for several
weeks endeavoring to reduce his
weight and announced that when he
| began the treatment he weighed 314A
| pounds Now he weighs 294as pounds,
a reduction attained principally
through a careful diet.
General Nogi, who has Just arrived
at Toxic from Manchuria, was given
popular reception similar in enthuSi-
asm to that accorded Admiral Togo.
| Cheering crowds lined the streets as
the general and his staff drove in i'm
| perial carriages to the palace.
John A. Mccall, former president OF
| the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, has mortgaged his palatial home
at Long Branch for S150.000 and given
his check for $4,000 to replace the
sum of $235,000 intrusted to Andrew
Hamilton for political purposes.
Mexico, through her representative
now in Philadelphia, Senor Francisco
| Valdez, has concluded a contract with
the Philadelphia mint, under which the
mint is to coin s4.O00,000 worth of gold
which Mexico has been accommodating
Tor nearly two years. The high price
of silver makes this a favorable time
to dispose of silver dollars.
John Houston, NJ. p, for Nelson,
who disappeared few months ago
and was later located at Goldfield, Ne
vada, returned to claim his seat in the
British Columbia Legislature. AS
member of that body creditors are I'M
able to proceed against Houston for a
month prior, month AFTER or during
the session of the House.
The Sixth United States field battery
has just finished a march of LOO
miles, from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort
Sam Houston. Texas. making the en-
tire distance in fifty-hve days. This is
claimed to be record time for long
distance practice march OF artillery.
Both horses and men were badly
fatigued, having encountered storms,
floods and blizzards.
The Cotton Association at New Or
leans adopted the report of its com