Gilpin observer., 1907-01-03
In order to prevent the Standard
OIL company from getting control of

OIL company from getting control OF
the pipe lines in Indian territory Sec
retary Hitchcock has prepared strin-
gent regulations which give the in
terror department complete super
vision of the companies owning the
pipe lines.
w. E. Johnson, special agent sent
from Washington to stop boot
Logging" in Indian territory, recent
ly destroyed 23 consignments of H.
quor at Muskogee.
The G. A. r., of Denver and vicinity
are angry because a national guard
commander sold cannon that were
used at Gettysburg to Chicago junk
dealers. Gov. Mcdonald will try to
recover the guns.
A 14-year-old negro boy was run
down and instantly killed in Wash
| ington by the touring car of Levi z.
Letter.
| One person was killed and IA
others injured at Ashtabula, O., when
fast passenger train struck troll
ley car on a grade crossing.
Reinforcements of United States
cavalry have been sent to Santa
Clara province, Cuba, to run down
and capture armed bands of Negro
insurgents who have been raiding the
plantations in that vicinity.
A letter has been sent to Secretary
| of State Root by prominent New
Workers calling his attention to con-
| ditions in the Congo Free State,
where it is asserted fragrant inhu-
manity exists.
Several negroes of the Ninth cavalry
| stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
after beating up the conductor and
motorman of an electric car, raced
with the car to the fort where
they were locked up. Several white
| women were on the car during the
| disturbance.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
tion held three days meeting at To-
peka recently. Among the noted
speakers present were w. J. Bryan. w.
"A. White and Richard Outcault.
Fire originating from defective gas
lshtins system destroyed three bus
mess blocks in Perry, Ia, recently.
The striking firemen on the South
ern Pacific railroad declare their in
tention to tie up the entire Hartman
system completely.
The dead body of Lee B Soper who
has just completed his second term as
county clerk of Clay county Missouri,
was found recently in 4 shed in the
rear OF his home in Liberty. Despond-
ency over i'll health is believed to have
impellci him to take his life.
Yaqui Indians recently raided Len
chow, railroad station in Sonora,
| Mex, killing s Mexicans and burning
the tent houses. Other depredations
| in the same vicinity were reported.
Troops went in pursuit of the Indians.
London was recently covered with
| two inches of snow and in the coun-
try districts mail any railway traffic
was interfered with.
A negro member of the Twenty-fifth
infantry at Ell Reno. Ok, threw the
wife of a prominent physician into the
street from the sidewalk. The negro
made his escape. Race feeling is at
white heat over the occurrence.
Representative Miller, of Kansas,
has turned over to the department of
commerce and labor facts and figures
| bearing on several of the so-called
| lumber trusts in the middle west. In
quiries are to be started simultaneous
ly at Kansas City, Chicago and St.
Louis.
| Mayor Rose of Wichita, Kan, and
! the city of Wichita have been granted
| 20 days additional time in which 10
answer to the custer suits filed against
them by Attorney General Coleman.
President Diaz of Mexico has ordered
the irrigation company responsible for
the break in the Colorado river to per-
manently return the water to its origin
al channal or have its charter revoked.
! Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and four
other Russian naval officers have been
sentenced to death for having surren-
dered to the japanese at the battle Of
the Sea of Japan.
George w. Perkins. formerly presi-
dent of the New York Life Insurance
company, and Charles S. Fairchild. a
trustee. have been indicted by a grand
jury at New York for forgery in the
third degree. The indictments are the
outgrowth of the legislative investiga-
ton of last winter.
Five merchants of Alton have been
fined for violation of the Illinois child
, labor law.
An earthquake lasting three hours
was recorded by the seismographs on
the Isle of Wight and other points
in Europe.
The Chicago Commercial association
is planning TO hold the greatest agri-
cultural exposition in that city next fall
that was ever held in this country.