Gilpin observer., 1908-02-27

ing Ja. ans aggressive policy in
Manchuria.
Charles b. Ullmo, an ensign in the
French navy, has been sentenced to
life Imprisonment in fortress for
power.
Police Commissioner Bingham Of
New York states that his city is the
dumping ground for the criminals of
Europe and blames the immigration
authorities for the fact.
An Italian anarchist shot and in
stantly killed Father Leo Heinrichs
while he was administering the sacra-
ment in st. Elizabeth's Catholic
church in Denver
The first tunnel for passenger traffic
under the Hudson between New York
City and Jersey City has been COM
pleted after "a years of almost con-
stant effort.
While st. Louis woman was down
town shopping four burglars with a
moving van stole the entire house
furnishings including the stoves with
fire in them.
The democratic state convention at
Hutchinson, Kan, elected John H. At
wood national committeeman. The four
delegates at large to the Denver con-
vention are w. H. L. Pepperill,
Charles II. Sawyer, ]. e. Andrews and
w. A. Harris. They are instructed to
vote solidly for William ]. Bryan for
president.
The grand jury at Kansas City has
returned IL indictments against ]. E.
Brady, former president of the failed
Merchants Refrigerating company.
and wrongful issue of warehouse re-
ceipts.
The Iowa supreme court has handed
down decision declaring the commits
sion form of municipal government
as adopted by the city of Des Moines
to be constitutional in every par
ticular.
The Santa Fe railroad has ordered a
reduction of IS per cent in the me-
chanical force all over the system.
Judge Ball at Chicago has dissolved
the temporary Injunction granted to
Stuyvesant Fish by which 2S6,231
shares of the Illinois Central were
enjoined from being voted at the an
nual election. The decision is a COM
plete victory for E. H. Hartman.
By an explosion of ten tons of dy-
Mantle in a powder mill near Berke-
ley, Cal, four white men and "a Chi
namen were killed. The shock shook
the entire bay region like an earth
quake.
The first test of the Oklahoma guar.
antee bank deposit law resulted in a
victory for the state. The district
court at Guthrie holds that banks are
corporations and as such are account
able to the legislature.
Seven men were injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler in manufacturing
plant at Lowell. Mass. recently.
Two deaths from yellow fever have
occurred on the steamer Crispin at
Galveston, Tex.
The enumeration OF school children
IN Oklahoma. just completed, shows a
;otal of 475,s47.
Because salaries of more than $50,
900 a year are paid to some of their
officers, the Metropolitan, Equitable
and Prudential Life Insurance COM
panies will be refused licenses to do
business in Missouri.
One man was killed and another
badly injured by an explosion in a coal
mine at Pittsburg, Kan, recently.
The cruiser Chicago has arrived at
Punta Arenas on its way from the
Pacific to Annapolis, Md.
The Missouri state democratic con-
vention will be held in Jefferson City
on May 20.
There is talk OF the president send
ing John Mitchell, the retiring presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers, to
Panama the coming summer to make
a report on labor conditions there.
The jury in the case of George
Tennyson, charged with the murder OF
his father at Marysville, Kan, was
instructed by Judge Kimble to bring
in a verdict of acquittal owing to
lack of evidence.
At recent cabinet meeting figures
were submitted by Secretary Straus
showing that immigration had de-
creased nearly 80 per cent during the
past few months
Attorney General Byers OF Iowa.
has decided that breweries can not
own saloons in that state.
+. L. Smith. the brakeman on the
NJ. X. & T., train which was robbed
of an express package containing 49,.
900 recently has confessed to the
theft. All the money was recovered.
Personal.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
1925, 900 to the Robert Koch institute
at Berlin for the investigation of tu.