Gilpin observer., 1908-10-08

chanics, which started Aug. 4th, has
been declared Off About 10000 me.l
are affected. This will be followed by
similar declaration in the East.
Butler Ames, who was nominated
Thursday by acclamation for fourth
term in Congress at the Fifth Massa-
chusetts district Republican conven-
tion, was next day nominated by the
Democratic convention.
Hart o. Berg, business manager of
the Wright Brothers, has confirmed
the report that Lazare WELLER, the
French financier and aerop-ane pro-
moter, was ordering the construction
Of fifty aeroplanes on the Wright
model.
There were 232,S42 natives employed
in the mining districts of the Trans
vaal in June. which was an increase of
1,216 over the previous month. The
gradual expectation of the coolies is go
ing on, and for the month of June 3,199
were exported, as their time was ex-
pired. On the 31st of July 1S,413 Chi
nese were at work.
Lieut.. Gov. Eben S. Draper was
nominated for governor by acclama-
tion by the Massachusetts Republican
state convention. Louis r. Frothing-
ham of Boston was nominated for lieu
tenant governor, also by acclamation.
An Oil pipe line is to be built for the
Standard Oil Company from Robinson,
Illinois, to Coal Grove, Pennsylvania,
at cost Of s12,OOOOOO.
The steamer Roosevelt, on which
Peary started from Etah, West Green.
land, August 18th in his quest for the
north pole, has three Americans be-
side Commander Peary, the regular
crew of the steamer, 25 Eskimos and
$50 dogs. The Eskimos are eager to
assist the explorer. The Roosevelt
has an ample supply of walrus meat
for the dogs.
1nfuriated by the belief that the fatal
ferry disaster at Smyrna, when 140
drowned, was due to the fact that the
captain of the Turkish steamer, which
ran down the ferryboat, was absent
from his post, a mob Thursday de-
scended upon the offices of the Hami-
deeh company, owner of the steamer,
and burned them, together with the
piers and landing stations.
Negro, full grown African lion, es-
capped last week from the winter quar-
ters of a circus near New Brunswick,
N. j.. and after having been hunted
by keepers all night, was shot and
killed by Edward Radel, a farmer Be-
fore its end the lion killed two COWS
and calf. In escaping, the lion had
attacked one of the camels connected
with the show, and then forced the
keepers to flee.
At Lemans, France, Saturday, viii,
bur Wright broke another aeroplane
record. With French journalist by
his side he remained in the air for
fifty-five minutes and thirty-seven sec
onds, circling the field twenty-four
times and covering a distance official
ly estimated at thirty-six miles, His
best previous flight with a passenger
was eleven minutes and thirty-five
and two-fifths seconds.
The business depression is felt se-
verely in England. Since 1908 began,
trade activity at Manchester, as meas
ured by clearing house exchanges, has
declined six and three-eighths per cent.
from 1907. This means the cotton in
dustry. At Birmingham, the iron GEN.
ter, the shrinkage has been 107s per
cent; at Newcastle, the coal market,
21B; at Liverpool, the shipping mar
ket, 75s.
E. H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel corporation, has denied
the statement that the corporation had
given men work for the purpose of in
fluencing the presidential election. An
unnamed politician was quoted as say
ing that, without being justified by the
trade conditions, the steel corporation
had recently given employment to 100,-
600 men in Ohio Indiana, Illinois and
West Virginia, thus contributing to the
Republican campaign fund in a round.
about method.