Gilpin observer., 1907-03-07
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fits alone from the liquor sold the
Inmates was $4,000 annually.
The postal receipts Of the Kansas
City postoffice for the month of Feb
rnary were St29, 1911. The receipts
for the same month last year were
$13,36S.13 or 1rk per cent.
Arthur Brisbane editor of the New
York Journal has purchased a DESERT
ed village in New Jersey which he
proposes to convert into model farm.
The tract contains 600 acres and the
price was $125,OO0.
Lyman X. Lane, former financial
clerk in the office of the Indian agent
at Muskogee, /. T., has been arrested
charged with the embezzlement of
1886 of government funds.
BY vote of 70 to 40, Senator Jo-
seph w. Bailey has been exonerated
by the lower house of the Texas legis-
lature of charges of irregular acts in
public life.
BY the carelessness of a porter who
threw lighted match into keg OF
'fireproof" paint an explosion was
caused at st. Joseph, Mo-, which re-
suited in a fire loss of $4,000
The $4,000 employees of the Colo
RADIO Fuel G. Iron company ceased
work for two hours and a half re-
Gently during the progress Of the
funeral of Frank j. Hearne, presi-
dent of the company
The Y. NJ. c. A. building at Utica.
N. Y, was totally destroyed by fire
recently, causing a loss of $150,O00.
The supreme court of Indiana has
declared unconstitutional the employ
ers liability law except as regards
railroads.
A destructive tornado recently
struck the town of Washington, Ark,
and almost literally wiped it out of
existence. Two negroes were killed
and many persons injured.
William ]. Oliver, the Knoxville,
Tenn, bidder on Panama canal work,
declares he has been handed a
lemon" in exchange for $4,000 of his
money, by the government at Wash
ington.
The United States treasurer's re-
port for February shows surplus for
the month of sS,2O5,00O.
A suit has been filed at Concord,
n. H., by relatives of Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, head of the Christian
Science church, against the trustees
of the institution to compel an ac-
counting of the financial affairs of
the church.
While wrokmen were tearing down
a building in Kansas City recently
the walls collapsed. killing one man
and seriously injuriug four others.
Out of 215 candidates for this years
Rhodes scholarships 13S passed the
prescribed examination. OF these 45
will be chosen to go to Oxford next
October. The scholarships are worth
81 500 year.
According to a recent census bull
letin out of only two fifths of the pop
ulation of the United States more
than half million persons died in
1905. Consumption caused the great
est number of deaths.
By the explosion of dynamite in
the home of Rev. ]. B. Title, a Bap-
tist minister of Carmi, H.. Mr.. Title,
his father, wife and baby were killed
and two children of the fam
lily were fatally injured.
A party headed by Speaker Cannon
and Senator Curtis of Kansas will
spend a month during March and
April cruising in the West Indies.
South America the Panama canal and
Cuba will be visited.
Harry X. Thaw, recently enlivened
an extremely dull session of his trial
by issuing a brief statement in which
he charged District Attorney Jerome |
with unprofessional remarks in court, |
and in conclusion declared that his |
wife's natural real goodness was
above the comprehension of the prose
cutting attorney.
Chief Engineer Stevens reports that |
during February 650,000 cubic yards |
Of dirt were removed from Culebra |
cut on the Panama canal.
The George Washington university |
mas appointed a committee to raise |
100000 to purchase new site for |
he institution at the national cap
tai.
A woman and three children were |
ound dead at St Louis. Nearby lay |
| nearly empty bottle of patent |
which had been recently |
Recent advices from Nicaragua say
hat the governorment forces have
two towns in Honduras af-
er delivering crushing defeat to
he Hondurean army.
Thomas Baldwin, a wealthy I'LL
lois farmer, recently shot and killed
our persons at ColfaN. He had been
lrrested charged with criminal as
ault on n 14-year old girl, and the
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