Gilpin observer., 1907-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings CT the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
BENEFIT of Our Readers.
Personal.

News. dropped dead at his home re-
Gently.
President Castro of Venezuela is
critical
Henry Watterson and Mrs. Waiter
son of Louisville, KY, are in Barcel-
onia, Spain, where they are expected
to remain one month.
L. Klopsch, editor of the Christian
Herald, was the first to respond to
President Roosevelt's call for help for
Chinese famine sufferers.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas has issued a
pardon to Orrin Beauchamp who was
serving sentence for criminal care
lessness in handling revolver.
Gen. Alfaro has been formally elect
ed president of Ecuador for the next
four years.
immigration Commissioner Watch
orn is authority for the statement that
the number of aliens who land in this
country this year will reach 1,050.OOO.
Samuel A. Morgan, an old Indian
scout and interpreter for Gen. Hen
~
Leavenworth, died in that city recent
ly aged 104 years.
T. E. Brady, a prominent lawyer
Of Great Falls, Mont, has been in
dicted for illegal fencing of govern
ment land.
Representative Gaines, of Tennessee.
in searching through old rocuments at
ha
an old statute which prohibits con-
gressmen from collecting salaries when
absent from their official duties. un-
less detained by sickness.
John ]. Saphore, a veteran actor who
played with the elder John Drew, is
dead at the Edwin Forest Home in
Philadelphia
Miner Hicks, who was recently re-
leased after spending 16 days in a shaft
at Bakersfield. Cal. has signed a con-
tract to go on the lecture platform, at
$500 per week
Harrison Parkman, the man who
first brought alfalfa from South Amer
lea and planted it in the United States,
died recently in Emporia, Kan, aged
73 years.
President A. ]. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania railroad, died suddenly of
heart disease at his home in Philadel-
phia recently. He had been ailing
since last September, but his death
was entirely unexpected by his family
Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the NJ. E.
church. south, died recently at Ashe-
vile, n. c.
James ]. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, has announced that
he will retire on July l next. His eld.
est son. Louis ]. Hill, Will succeed
him.
miscellaneous.
Otto G. Stallard, charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 from the Peoples Ma
tional bank at Sedan, Kan, has re-
turned to that place and voluntarily
surrendered to the authorities.
The Mississippi authorities have sue
ceeded in quelling the race riots at
Wahalak and Scooba. The militia is
now in complete control of the situa-
ton.
The Mississippi authorities declare
that the recent bloodshed in Ecmper
county was caused by white hoodlums
who will be prosecuted for murder If
captured.
Gov. Magoon denies that there is
any trouble threatened in Santa Clara
province, Cuba.
The demurrers Of Andrew Hamilton
to suits brought against him by the
New York Life Insurance company to
compel an accounting were sustained
by the supreme court of New York.
Attorney General Young of Minneso-
Ia, has begun an action against the
Great Northern railroad to prevent the
issue of $60.000.000 of new stock re-
Gently authorized by the board Of d.
rectors.
More miles of railway have been
constructed in the United States dur
ing 1906 than heve been built during
any year since 1883. according to the
Railway Age
Nine persons were found frozen to
death on roads in England in one .da :
during the recent great storm.
Lawrence Iceberg, tramp, who COM
mitted brutal murder near Las Ami
mas. Col, was taken from the Jail by
mob of citizens and hanged to n tel
egraph pole.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Mobile. Jackson & Kansas City
railroad. running from Mobile to Mid
dleton. Tenn, distance of 360 miles.
The documents in connection with
the Nobel peace prize recently awarded
to President Roosevelt have arrived in
Washington.
Thirty-scven thousand poor people
were given Christmas dinners In New
York by the various charities.
Half of the town of africa, Chile. has
| has been DESTROYED by an earthquake.