Gilpin observer., 1908-04-02

of the six-inch guns of the Missouri
blew off. No one was injured
Friends of the commission plan of
| city government recently adopted at
i Des Moines, Ia, were defeated at the
city election.
At a conference of the general so
held at st. Louis, it was decided to
renew the fight ON the two-cent far,
law in Missouri.
The Indiana railroad commission af
ter an investigation lasting several
months has ordered express rates re-
duced on an average of between 10
and - per cent.
1t is estimated by an officer of the
fleet that $40 tons of ammunition will
be shot away during the target prac-
tice at Magdalena bay and that the
cost for the first eight ships will be
$136.00O and slightly less for the third
and fourth divisions.
The government will not prosecute
railroads for failure to comply with
the commodity clause" of the railroad
rate law pending a decision of the su-
preme court.
The American car in the New York
to-Paris race will not make the trip
through Alaska but will be shipped
from Seattle to Vladivostok and take
the southern Siberian route.
Five hundred and fifty-one Mis-
sourians and 1876 Kansans are taking
the famous world cruise with the bat
tleship fleet.
The suit Of Attorney General Jack
son of Kansas against the millers'
trust has been compromised, the mil
iers conceding everything the state
asked for.
A jury has found R. ]. Greene of
Lincoln, Neb., guilty of extorting
remonstrances with the excise board
and exacting cash payments for the
withdrawal of the suits.
The circuit court at Joplin, Mo- has
decided that the city council of Car
thage may not reduce telephone
charges as contemplated in an ordi-
nance recently adopted.
The postoffice department has is
sued fraud order against H. H.
Tucker, Jr, former secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company of Kansas.
The circuit court at Toledo, O., has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
by which 20 prominent lumbermen of
Toledo must serve six months in the
county Jail for violation of the anti
trust law.
AS a result of heavy rains part of
the dam of the Commonwealth Power
company at Kalamazoo, Mich, went
out inficting heavy damage to the
structure which cost $250,000
Former Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells Of Colorado, who took leading
part in the suppression of labor trou
bles in that state in 1904 and 1905 and
who now is general manager of the
Smuggler Union mine at Pandora, mar
| rowly escaped death by the explosion
| of bomb placed under his bed at his
home He was blown into the yard,
the bed was demolished and blown to
fragments and one side of the house
was blown out. Mr.. Wells escaped
without serious injury.
Chilapa, Mexico, city of $4,000 in
habitants, was recently visited by
NioIthI WHICH utSlTOytu
many of the principal buildings. Fire
following the shock completed the
work of destruction. There was little
II any loss of life.
Damages in the sum of $4,000 has
been awarded E. l.. Phillip, president
of the Union Refrigerator Transit
company of Milwaukee, against the
Mcclure publishing company for libel.
The suit was tried in New York.
The North Dakota Democratic state
convention adopted resolutions indors-
ing William J. Bryan and instructing
their delegates to the national conven-
tion to vote for his nomination.
The Illinois Republican state conven-
ton was solid for Speaker Cannon for
president Senators Cullom and Hop
kins, Gov. Deneen and Postmaster
Busse of Chicago were named as dele
gates at large to the national con-
vention.
The Leland hotel at Springfield, H.,
one of the best known hotels in the
country, was practically destroyed by
fire recently. There was no loss of
life, but most of the delegates to the
state Republican convention lost all
their baggage.
Tenness ee Republicans in state con-
vention at Nashville engaged in a
rough and tumble fight two factions
attempting to organize the convention.
Two conventions were finally held.
both electing delegates at large to the
national convention.
Several dozen women, members of
the First Methodist church of Chilli
cothe, Mo-, have pledged to the church
to pay off debt, the money they ex-
pected to spend for new hat this
spring.