Gilpin observer., 1908-12-24
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EvENT1 AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. ooINes, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS,

0OIuIiciu, INcN., WdHlS Juc next SeS-
sion OF the American Mining Congress.
The maximum temperature at st.
Louis December 18th was 72 degrees.
A class of candidates for commits
sions as second lieutenants in the
army will be examined at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kansas, January End.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
National Live Stock Association will
be held at Los Angeles January 26th
to 28th.
James Clancy, said to have been the
oldest Civil War veteran, died at the
National Soldiers Home in Milwaukee
on the 10th inst, aged 100 years.
Francis j. Heney at Chicago Monday,
on his way to New York. said he was
feeling no effects from the bullet
wound which he received recently in
court.
For the week ending December 18th
Denver stood as the twentieth city in
the United States in the amount OF
its bank clearings, which were $10,-
$4,000. 1t ranked above St. Paul and
Seattle.
A very brilliant meteor was seen at
st. Joseph, Mo-, Wichita, Kas., and
other points in that section of Missouri
and Kansas in the evening of the Goth
inst. It left behind 1t trail of sparks
visible for fifteen minutes.
Pushed by crowds of Christmas
shoppers, Elmer A. Birdseye, the sew
en-year-old son OF George Birdseye. a
wholesale grocer of Seattle, Wash.
was crushed to death in an elevator of
the Boston store at Chicago.
A baggage car half filled with mail
was burned with all it's contents at
Hanna, Wyo., December goth. On the
21st the greater part of the contents
of a full car Of mail was burned at Dale
Creek, Wyo. Both trains were west
bound.
Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne of
Chicago has obtained possession of her
art treasures, seized last summer by
the government. by paying into court
$S2.411. in addition to the s70,409,1 Is
previously paid by her for duties and
penalties on the property.
S. G. Lillis. a wealthy banker and
stockman of Lemoore, Cal, was SEN
fenced by Judge Wellborn at a special
session of the federal court at Fresno.
Cal. to six months in Jail and fined
$1,000. Lillis was convicted at the
last session of the federal court on a
charge of Illegally enclosing large
areas of government land.
To every boy in Iowa who will take
pledge to use neither tobacco nor
liquor, Samuel Saucerman, a wealthy
Des Moines resident, will give 81, a
cent day for three years and another
dollar at the end of three years. Mr..
Saucerman is reputed to be worth ST.
100000. The new organization he is
perfecting to help boys is to be known
as The Trimmer Band"
III. p. Agar of Princeton, Indiana.
whose family We're trying to collect
$4,000 life insurance In the belief that
he vas dead, has been discovered at
San Benito. California. where he was
in business under the name OF r. A.
Conner. He has been arrested and is
charged with forgeries to the extent of
Sl25.OO0. He fell from a barge on the
Wabash river and was reported to be
drowned.
official announcement of the S20,-
100000 lumber merger, known as the
Virginia Rainy Lake Company, was
made public at Duluth Saturday by Ed
ward Hines, president OF the corpora
tion. The new company is the amalga-
nation of the Edward Hines Company,
the Wyerhaueer interests and the Vir.
ginia Lumber Company. In the ANAL
gamation what is known as the Du-
luth, Rainy Lake Il Winnipeg railroad
Will become the property of the Cana
dian Northern railroad.