Gilpin observer., 1908-10-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

The Canadian Pacific mechanics
strike has been officially declared off.
Pleased with the results given by a
motor police patrol, Los Angeles has
ordered another, which will be the larg-
est in service in the United States.
Minnesota motorists are facing a
hard fight in the legislature for the re-
vision of automobile laws, there being
a general demand for the re-establish-
ment of the system of state registra-
tion abandoned two years ago.
Ten thousand school children in Chi
cago are insufficiently nourished,
some live constantly on the verge of
starvation, and many are not suffici-
emily clad to keep them in healthy
condition, according to report just
made to the board of education.
Operating officials of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad deny the report that
inefficient motive power on their road
has caused a congestion of wheat along
the western end of the line. In fact,
200 cars day are now being handled
in excess of those moved last year.
The surveyors general of Utah, Col
orado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington,
Montana and Wyoming have been in
vited by d. A. Utter, surveyor general
of Idaho, to meet at Boise at a date to
be fixed later, to consider the adoption
of uniform system of conducting
their work.
Theodore Roosevelt for President
again eight years from now was the
declaration of the Presidents son-in
law, Congressman Nicholas Long
worth, in speech at Rock Island on
the grounds of the Tri-state EXposi
tion to an audience of several thou
sand persons, who cheered the senti-
ment again and again. He wants Taft
= to be elected and then reelected.
After exhaustive experiments con-
Quoted through long period, the man.
agement of the Hartman lines has de-
cided to adopt steel constructed pas
senger cars over the entire system of
roads. AS a starter in this direction,
an order has been given to the Pull
man company at Chicago by the Har.
riman people for 220 steel passenger
cars of miscellaneous types.
Plans for the new S20,0OO,00O passen-
ger depot of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad, to be built at Mckenzie
and Madison streets, in Chicago, have
just been completed. Work on the
structure will begin in a short time.
The present station of the Chicago &
Northwestern has a capacity of $4,000
people day. The new station will
ho ah To dot
The meeting of the American Bank
ers Association at Denver finished its
work and adjourned Thursday after
electing the following officers: Presi-
dent, George NJ. Reynolds, president
Continental National Bank, Chicago;
vice president, Lewis E. Pierson, pres
ident Irving National Exchange Bank,
New York. Fred G. Moffat of the
First National Bank of Denver was
elected member of the executive
council and E. S. Irish of the Denver
National Bank, as vice president from
Colorado.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
declared as unconstitutional the Wis
consin eighthour railroad telegraphers'
law which was enacted in 1907, The
law is declared unconstitutional on the
theory that it is in conflict with the
provisions of the federal constitution,
which clothes congress with the power
to regulate interstate commerce, and
further on the theory that congress,
having already provided law fixing
the hours of railway telegraphers, it
was not within the power of the state
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change these hours of labor.