Gilpin observer., 1907-06-06

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adjusting the tariffs to a more salts
factory basis.
The suit of the state of Texas
against the Waters-Pierce Oil COM
pany has resulted in a verdict for the
state of $1,62S,9OO penalties and re-
voking of the permit of the oil COM
pany to do business in Texas.
A man believed to be John j.
Pritchard locomotive fireman on
the Santa Fe railroad fell from a
street car crossing the intercity via
duct at Kansas City and was in
stantly killed.
The cornerstone of the Fourth
Cathedral of st. Paul, Mimi, which,
when completed, four years hence,
will probably surpass any other Amer
ican church in architectural distinc-
tion and beauty has been laid
The socialist convention of Ohio
adopted resolutions expressing sym
pathy for Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone and denouncing President Roose-
welt and Secretary Taft.
The Russian famine committee has
| notified it's representatives in Lon
don and New York to cease agitation
for subscriptions as Russia now is
able to care for her own people.
George Burnham, Jr., former gen.
eral counsel of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company. now serving
a term lin Sing Sing for grand lar
ceny, has been granted new trial.
Four persons lost their lives by the
| burning of the summer cottage occu-
pied by Walter Schiller, secretary of
the United Cigar Manufacturers COM
pany at Long Branch, N. ].
Representatives of the railroads
have notified the Nebraska state
board of assessment that they will
resist the increased valuation of the
roads in the state amounting to
S., 900, 900.
The Kansas supreme court has set
aside the summons in the cases of
Rochester and Imperial Brewing COM
panies and the Helm Real Estate COM
| pany, but refused the same action in
regard to the other brweries in the ac-
ton to appoint receivers for their
property in the state.
| Assistant District Attorney Heney
is authority for the statement that the
San Francisco police force is being
used in an attempt to reach prospect
i've jurors and witnesses in the brib-
ery-graft prosecutions.
| The Chinese rebellion is spreading
and many oil the inhabitants of the
| revolutionary zone are fleeing &c
places of safety. The uprising is at
tributed to excessive taxation.
The general synod of the Lutheran
church has adopted a resolution tC
assess annually each member two cents
for the benefit of the Lutheran Home
at Lincoln. Neb.
The National Federation of Millers
held a three days session at st. Louis
recently. Millers from all parts Of the
in attendance.
Eight thousand persons passed
through the Mckinley home at Canton
O., to view for the last time the feat
ures of the widow of the late presi
dent.
The rumor that Michael CzOlgosz
brother of the slayer of President
Mckinley was in Canton at the time
of Mrs. McKinley's funeral created
stir among the secret service men
but nothing was seen of him.
Thomas d. Jordan, former comp
troller of the Equitable Life Assur
ance society. pleaded not guilty to Ii
indictments for forgery and perjury
in New York, and was released on bail
in the sum of $4,000.
Decoration day was observed as
public holiday in the canal zone and
only work that was absolutely neces
sary was permitted.
| The president has issued a prOcla
nation creating reservation 10 feel
in width along the entire northern
border of Mexico, for the purpose OF
suppressing smuggling along the in
ternational line.
According to figures submitted
to Gov. Gillett, of California. there
are 10000 idle persons in San Fran
cisco as the direct result of the pres
ent labor troubles.
In his Decoration day address at
Indianapolis President Roosevelt
gave the first public utterance to his
views regarding the relationship OF
the government to the railroads. He
declared there would be no deviation
| from from the Dolicy laid down nv
his administration. He prefers ma.
tional incorporation as a remedy for
some of the existing evils.
The republicans of Cleveland, o.,
have adopted resolutions indorsing
Secretary Taft for the presidency.
Memorial Day was generally OBJ
served throughout the country by