Gilpin observer., 1907-04-18

Spanish-American war was recently
dedicated in the National cemetery
at Arlington with an elaborate mill
tary display.
Final motions to quash the indict-
ment against the Standard Oil COM
pany have been overruled by Judge
Landis in the federal court Of Chi
cago.
Appropriations of the recent
Nebraska legislature aggregating
$250,000 have been vetoed by Gov.
Sheldon. The loss falls heavily on
state educational institutions.
Butcher workmen in the various
packing plants throughout the West
are preparing to demand an increase
in wages.
A negro killing and burglary have
so aroused the citizens of Altus. Ok,
that they have driven all the negroes
from the city.
The forestry bureau of the govern
ment has ordered 10000 trees planted
in the Garden City, Kan, reserve this
spring.
| conditions in the Chinese famine dis
trict are growing worse. Five thous-
and persons are daily dying Of starva-
ton. The relief committee appeals
to America for s3,0O0,00O in the next
three weeks to aid the sufferers.
After deliberating AZ hours ani
eight minutes, the jury which has
been trying Harry X. Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White in New
York, reported to the court its inabil-
ity to agree on 4 verdict and were dis
charged. Seven of the IL men favored
! murder in the first degree and five
favored acquittal. The prisoner was
remanded to Jail without bail.
| President Bonilla, of Honduras has
surrendered to the Nicaraguan forces
at Amapalpa, thus ending the war
between the two Central American
republics.
| In preparation for the nine hour
law. the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road is closing scores of its smaller
offices throughout Iowa.
| Gov. Hoch has granted condi-
tional pardon to Willie Sell, who has
been serving life sentence in the
Kansas penitentiary since 1888 for
the murder of his father, mother,
brother and sister. The principal
condition is that he must not exhibit
himself for the purpose of making
money.
H. H. Tucker, Jr., secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company, with head
quarters in Kansas City, Kan, has
been indicted by the federal grand
| jury at Topeka on charge of using
the mails to defraud. Tucker claims
he is being prosecuted by the Stand
ard Oil company.
D. c. Willoughby who recently
sailed from New York for Europe, is
wanted in Des Moines, Omaha and
Denver for issuing fraudulent deeds
to farm land in the west.
A passenger train on the st. Johns
bury and Lake Champlain railroad
plunged down a 40 foot embankment
killing one person and injuring about
Is others.
None of the express companies
| doing business in Nebraska have
lowered their rates in compliance
with the new state law which re-
duces charges % per cent.
The New York Herald Publishing
company has been sentenced to pay
fines aggregating s31, 400 on pleas
of guilty to using the United States
mails for improper purposes.
The policies OF President Roosevelt
were recently indorsed by the Con-
necticut legislature by a rising vote.
| Spooner, of Wisconsin, warmly de-
| Tended the United States senate, say
ing there was not in the world a
legislative body more loyal to public
| interests.
Moore's Opera House at Nevada,
| The news that Gen. Lee Christmas,
of Memphis, Tenn, had been killed
in Honduras by Nicaraguan soldiers
has been confirmed.
In the federal court at Chicago
Judge Lands decided that the Stand
ard Oil company may produce evil
dence showing that it did not intend
to violate the law in the acceptance
of unlawful rates.
| DR.. Kinnard, commissioner of the
Society of Friends, who was sent to
Russia to investigate famine condi.
tions, says there are 2o,OOO,OOO people
in danger of starvation in the south
eastern provinces. He appeals to the
Anglo-Saxons for s2.500,OoO to aid
| them.
The Rock Island railroad company
has been found guilty by the federal
grand jury at Topeka, Kan, of cruel
ty to animals and fined $500 because
1t carried live stock without feed and