Gilpin observer., 1907-07-04

OLnerS eScdpeu uuHurt.
The official text of the France
Spanish agreement has been pub
lished. 1t amounts practically to &
military convention Tor the mutual
guarantee of their possessions In tn
Mediterranean.
One whole block Immediately ad
joining the exposition grounds a.
jamestown, Va, WAS swept by fire
recently and a number of frame no
tells and restaurants destroyed. This
loss was estimated at 100000.
At a join meeting of the Musko
gee. l. T., Commercial club and the
executive committee of the Trans
Mississippi congress resolutions wer
adopted favoring Kansas City as tn.
place for the next republican nation
al convention.
A temporary restraining order has
been granted in st. Louis prohibiting
the state board of railroad and ware
house commissioners from enforcing
the law regarding the inspection and
weighing of grain outside OF public
elevators.
While on the way to attend the
commencement exercises at Yale az
automobile containing four passengers
plunged off a bridge. ID. l.. Oliver. a
student. was killed and the other oc'
cupants seriously injured.
For the eighth time the Cornell
crew succeeded in winning the eight
Dared race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y
Columbia was second and the United
States Naval academy third.
The premature explosion Of box
of dynamite near Tola, Charlotte
county, Va, killed eight persons ana
injured six others.
At New London, Conn. Harvard
won the eight-oared freshman race BY
a close margin. while Yale won the
varsity four cared race by te7
lengths.
At Findlay. Ohio. the jury in th'
trial of the Standard Oil company or
a charge of violating the state anti
trust law disagreed and were dis
charged.
The pension department VIII urSt
congress at its. next session to equal
ize the pensions of soldiers willows
on a basis of $l2.
The board of police commissioner;
of San Francisco has denied permis
sion to Japanese to keep intelligence
offices In that city.
Judge I.andis, in the federal cour'
at Chicago. has refused the reques'
of the attorneys for John ID. Rocke
feller for the withdrawal of the sub
poena recently issued for their client
A Russo-Italian commercial treaty
has been signed at st. Petersburg.
Judge Chytraus. of Chicago. has &c
clared the law passed by the las
Legislature prohibiting the sale O
cigarettes in Illinois invaled.
According to the verdict OF a Jury
in the federal court at Fort Dodge
Iowa. grain transactions on boards o
trade are gambling and debts thu.
contracted can not be collected.
Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual varsity eight-oared race at New
London. Conn, by scant beats
boats length before the largest crowd
that ever witnessed race on tn.
Thames river. The time was 2l:1O.
E. H. Hartman. the railroad mag
nate. was arrested DUNG the Yale
Harvard boat race at New London,
Conn. and confined on revenue cut
ter for violating the rules of the
course.
All OF the mail carriers OF Butte
Mont, have gone on strike, declaring
that they could not live on the salaries
paid at present by the government
On the Kickapoo Indian reservation
near Horton. Kan, Jack Masquat and
his wife were struck by lightning and
killed.
A destructive flood is reported in
the saltwater Valley, Montana. Five
of the seven bridges over the Still
water river were carried out
In the United States district court
at Chicago Judge Lands overruled
the motion of the Standard OIL COM
pany for a new trial of the case in
which they were recently convicted
Vi iCoueth5'
The sentencing of Mayor Schmitz
OF San Francisco, convicted of eXtor-
ton, has been postponed by Judge
Dunno. until July S. Schmitz must
remain in Jail,
Harry Vaughan. Edward Raymond
and George Ryan. the three convicts
In the Missouri penitentiary who
killed their guards In n desperate at
tempt to escape, were hanged in the
county jail at Jefferson City.
Upon invitation of President Diaz,
Secretary of State Root will visit
Mexico the later part of the summer.
The navy department has sent the
new cruiser Milwaukee to Central
American ports in anticipation Of