Gilpin observer., 1906-12-20
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will be limited to American firms.
Ray Kohl. who killed w. P. Dill.
worth In an attempt to rob his store
at Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty tc
murder and was given a life sentence
IN the penitentiary.
1t has been reported to the United
States government that two regi-
ments OF Japanese completely. Offs
cered are in Honolulu.
Monsignor Mentagnini, secretary of
the papal nunciature at Paris has been
arrested and expelled from France.
Ills residence was searched and a
vast quantity of documents seized.
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri, has filed motion in the SUI
preme court for rehearing in the an
u-pool selling case. He contends tha,
the courts recent decision is in con-
flict with the act of the legislature
: Of 1905.
| Andrew Carnegie, in a speech be-
fore the National Civic Federation at
New York, declared that the create:
portion of the estates of enormously
| wealthy men should go to the state
upon the death of the possessor
! The attorney general of Minnesota
has rendered an opinion that the re-
cent increase in the capital stock OF
the Great Northern railway is invalid
under the state laws
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has set the hearing of the Texas
Cattle Raisers' association against
the M. K. & T. railroad for January
z at Chicago.
! Edouard Muller vice president of
the federal council. has been elected
president Of the Swiss confederation
in succession to NJ. l.. Frerre.
Jesse Clyde Rumsey. who robbed
two trains near Glasgow, Mo-, plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to term
of 20 years in the state penitentiary.
the minimum sentence under the Mis-
souri, law.
The famous divorce case of Angus
tus Hartje, the millionaire paper
manufacturer of Pittsburg, Pa, has
been decided in favor of the wife
Mrs. Hartje retains control of the
children. The costs of the trial were
assessed against Hartje.
Six of the negroes of the Twenty
fifth infantry, recently discharged
without honor for completely in the
Brownsville, Tex, affair, have ap-
piled to Secretary Taft for reinstate-
ment
In an address before the Oklahoma
constitutional convention at Guthrie,
Oscar &. Colquitt, member of the
Texas railroad commission, declared
the railroad law OF his state was
failure so far as the making of rates
was concerned.
An epidemic of robbery seems to
be prevalent in the southwest. Banks
at Morris, l. T., Ashen, Ok, and
Drexel, Mo-. were dynamited and
robbed in one night recently, and the
safe in the post office at Zincite,
near Joplin, NO., was blown up and
the building burned by the bandits.
Gov. Hoch brands the stories sent
out from Topeka to eastern newspa-
pers regarding suffering in the south
western counties of Kansas as an
Outrageous eXaggeration."
Complaints filed by shippers
throughout the west with the Inter-
state Commerce commission reveal
an appalling state of affairs brought
to supply cars to transport freight.
In the southwest cattle are being
turned lose on the prairies. while in
the northwest grain lies rotting along
the railroad tracks. Much suffering
is repcrted in the northwestern states
by the shortage of fuel.
A court martial has been ordered
to try Maj. Penrose and Capt. Mack
lin, who commanded the negro
trops at Brownsville, Tex, during the
recent trouble.
President Roosevelt has res"inded
his order to the public printer to use
the simplified spelling in public docu-
ments.
Monsignor Montagnini, who was re-
Gently expelled from France, visited
the pope upon his arrival at Rome
and gave a detailed account of his eX-
pulsion. He presented rather dark
picture of the situation.
A plan is under consideration by
the administration for the formation
Of big corporation by the govern
ment and the Indian tribes for the pur-
pose Of holding and developing the
coal lands of the Indian territory.
Joseph E. Smith. president of tie
Mormon church, and director Of
the Union Pacific railway and two
other officials Of the road residing
In Salt Lake, have been summoned
to answer indictments in the federal
court for unlawful discrimination.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000