Gilpin observer., 1908-03-19

| DerS OF kindred trades to the number
of 1,500 working in the Denver and Rio
Grande shops have gone on a strike.
| The Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru,
siezed by China on the charge of snug
| Cling arms and ammunition to Chinese
revolutionists has been released on
terms proposed by Japan.
Gov. Hughes has appointed a COM
mission to take tesimtny in connec-
| ton with the charges recently filed
against District Attorney Jerome of
| New York city.
England, Germany and France have
each sent war vessels to Haiti to pro.
tect their interests there where gen.
eral massacre of the white residents
is feared.
The bank at Tyro, Kan, was recent
ly entered by two masked men in
broad daylight, who held up the Of
ficials and employees present and sue
ceeded in getting away with all the
cash in sight. The bandits went south
into Oklahoma.
Banker Charles w. Morse and AL
fred H. Curtis pleaded not guilty to
20 counts in an indictment in the
federal court at New York. They are
charged with conspiracy and false
entries.
| China has conceded all of the Jap
anese demands in settlement of the
Tatsu Maru incident including the pur-
chase of the arms aboard the steamer
and salute by Chinese warship to
the Japanese flag when it is re-hoisted
on the Tatsu.
The American torpedo boat flotilla
arrived at Panama from Callao three
days ahead of the time expected.
The new battleship New Hampshire
has been ordered placed in commission
at the League Island navy yard
1t is announced that Japan is find
ing it's nationalized railroads burden
too heavy to carry and proposes to
lease them to private interests for
term of years.
Chancellor MacCracken of New
York university will take up a course
of lectures at Copenhagen university
on the subject of American Univer-
sites.
Emperor William of Germany sent
warm personal congratulations to
President Roosevelt on the arrival of
the fleet at Magdalena Bay ahead of
schedule time
The supreme court of Missouri has
rendered decision that the second
division of the Jackson county criminal
court is constitutional. The decision
is victory for the Kansas City thea
trical people.
The itinerary of the battleship fleet
on its return from the Pacific, is an
nounced as follows: Leaving San
Francisco on July 6. the vessels will
visit Hawaii, Samoa, Melbourne and
Sydney, Australia. thence to Manila,
and from there to New York through
the Suez canal, stopping only at such
ports as are necessary for coaling
purposes.
| Three-fourths of the town of Big
Timber, Mont, was recently wiped
| out by the most disastrous fire in the
history of the state. Three hundred
families were rendered homeless.
The old wagon in which John Brown
used to make his pilgrimages during
his crusade against slavery, was re-
Gently destroyed by fire at Iowa City,
Iowa.
The program of the Nebraska Re-
publican state convention at Omaha
went through without a hitch Gov
Sheldon, Senator Norris Brown, Vic.
tPr Rosewater and Judge A. w. Field
were elected delegates at large and
unanimously instructed for Secretary
Taft.
The wages of 25 900 cotton mill oper-
atives in Massachusetts have been c,st
10 per cent.
The Porto Rican house of delegates
has passed bill authorizing lottery
to be conducted by the insular treas
urer. The bill provides prizes aggre-
eating $4,000 per month.
The Oklahoma Republican sta\e con-
| vention elected B. S. Mcclure. Dennis
Flynn. Patrick Dow and j. A. Harris
as delegates at large and instructed
them to vote for Secretary Taft for
president.
| The Kansas conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church exonerated DR..
J. T, Mcfarland, formerly of Topeka,
of the charge of heresy brought by DR..
George A. Cooke of Troy, n. Y.
The coroner's verdict in the school
horror at Collinwood, Ohio. says that
existing conditions in the building
were to blame for the great loss Of
life, but no fault is charged to anyone.
| The house subcommittee of fortifi-
cations has cut the estimates of the
war department on the fortification
bill from $3S,443,945 to $S,21O,611.
Personal.
Ambassador Bryce of EnSlanI has
announced his intention of attending
both the national conventions this