Gilpin observer., 1907-04-25

so to rs per cent and damage to the
oat crop from the same cause at 95
per cent.
Fire at Manila destroyed LOO ma
tive houses recently, burning over a
district of 100 acres in two hours.
The Drovers and Farmers bank of
Seymour, Ia, has closed it's doors and
is in the hand of a state bank ex-
aminer.
Members who attended the meeting
Of the Missouri Valley Horticultural
society in Kansas City were of the
opinion that 90 per cent Of the peach
and apple crop had been DESTROYED
and that cherries, plums and pears
are total loss.
The annual reunion of the Rough
Riders" of the Spanish American
war is to be held in Prescott, Rriz.,
July { next.
Fifteen governors have accepted
the invitation of the National Civic
federation to name delegates to attend
the national conference on trusts in
Chicago May 2S to 81.
More than 800 members of the
Vienna Mannergeseng Verein have
sailed for the United States and will
give concerts in the larger cities here
Seventeen inches of snow fell in
Colorado during the recent storm
which extended from Wyoming to Ell
Paso, Tex, and was the latest snow
fall that has ever occurred at the lat
ter point.
A colony of newspaper men is to
be established in Routt county, Colo
rado, on land thrown open to settle
ment by the state. The plan is to
make the colony an up-to-date farm
ing community.
The supreme court of Illinois has
dismissed the suit of the state against
the Illinois Central railroad for an ac-
counting and recovery of share OF
the gross receipts of the road.
Roy Sing Stevens, of Shell City,
Mo-, has been acquitted of the charge
of killing Dora Bright in rooming
house at Wichita, Kan.
of the seven cardinals. recently Gre
ated at public consistory held in
st. Peters at Rome. The pope con-
ferred the emblems of their office
upon the candidates.
Henry Ach, counsel for Abraham
Ruef, was recently stricken in the
court room at San Francisco with
ptomaine poisoning. He. will recover.
Gov. Haggerman, of New Mexico,
has resigned and the president has
appointed Capt. George Curry, now
governor of Samar province, Philip
pine islands, to succeed him.
During the year which has passed
since the great disaster San Francisco
has expended $75,00O,00O in the work
of rebuilding and permits have been
granted for new fire proof buildings
to cost s50,000,000 more.
District Attorney Jerome has be-
gun an investigation of the report
that members CT the Thaw jury had
been approached" while the trial
was in progress.
III speecu at lie banquet
in Buffalo, N. Y, w. C. Brown,
vice president of the New York Cen
tral railroad, declared that the people
had right to regulate the railroads.
The New York assembly has passed
bill providing for a two cent rate
on railroads in the state.
The defendants in the suit for an
accounting of the property of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy have filed their
| answer in court making a general de-
nial Of all the allegations IN the COM
plants.
Regis II. Post has been inaugurated
governor af Porto Rico in succession
to Beekman Winthrop, who becomes
assistant secretary of the treasury at
Washington.
The Gath annual boat race between
Oxford and Cambridge was won by
the latter
With 81 of the delegates present
and not voting the constitution for
the proposed new state of Oklahoma
as framed by the convention was
finally adopted.
Arrangements are being made for
the celebration in 1909 at Geneva of
the fourth centennial of the birth of
John Calvin.
A fast mail train on the Illinois
Central railroad ran down hand car
near Ellis, Ia. and killed five Aus
trian employees of the road.
Robbers recently dynamited the
safe in the bank at Bixby, |. T. Sc
curing several thou and dollars in cur
rency.
Great loss and mucn suffering is
being caused in Jamaica by the
drought which has prevailed for some