Gilpin observer., 1908-02-20


The officers and men of the Goth
Kansas regiment are to receive med
ais, congress having voted them to vol
unteer soldiers who performed service
in the Philippines after their term of
enlistment had expired.
Five hundred or more American
school teachers will visit Europe next
summer for the inspection of schools
and the methods of teaching in use
there. The arrangements are being
made by the National Civic Federation.
The Burlington railroad has with
drawn all passes issued to doctors and
lawyers in Nebraska on account of
threatened prosecution by the state
railroad commission.
In an interview at Detroit, eX-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Shaw is credited
with saying that ]. Pierpont Morgan
would make an ideal candidate for
president.
c. w. Morse. the New York banker
and promoter, has been indicted by the
federal and state grand juries for mis-
application of the funds of the bank
The Kansas railroad commissioners
have ordered the railroads of the state
to put into effect the maximum freight
rate tariff by February IA.
P. P. Mast & Co., dealers in agri-
cultural implements at Springfield, O..
have been placed in the hands of re-
ceivers.
Six automobiles recently started
from New York in race of 10000
m fC Do .i, ~f
will be consumed in the journey.
Lincoln's birthday was celebrated at
Grand Rapids, Mich, by a brilliant
banquet at which Secretary Taft and
other prominent men were speakers.
Two thousand persons occupied seats
at the tables.
A wealthy building contractor of AL
ton, ILL.,, has confessed to robbing many
of the stores of his neighbors. He did
not use the stolen goods. but merely
gloated over them for a time and
then destroyed them.
The Farmers and Manufacturers
Bank of Rich Hill. Mo-. was recently
dynamited and robbed by bandits who
succeeded in getting away with 100000
in currency and gold coin. A reward
has been offered for their capture.
Gov. Shelton, of Nebraska, has COM
muted the sentence of John Martin
whose sweetheart came from Alaska
to plead for his liberty.
The Frisco railroad is storing coal
along it's line in anticipation of a
strike of miners in. April.
Two men were killed and several
others injured by the bursting of a
blast furnace at McKeesport, Pa.
The long overdue steamer Eagle
Point has reached Philadelphia from
London. The vessel was given up for
lost for time.
The Missouri supreme court has de
clared unconstitutional the law requir-
ing that free return transportation be
given to shippers of live stock with
each car load by the railroads of the
state.
Suit has been filed in the federal
district court at Cincinnati charging
the American Express company with
| violation of the postal laws in carry
ing first-class mail matter without a
stamp being affixed.
Smallpox has broken out in the Ne
braska university and Chancellor An
drews has directed that all students
be vaccinated at once.
The president has ordered a COM
pany of infantry from Fort Gibbon to
! Fairbanks, Alaska, to help authori-
ties in keeping peace among striking
miners. The troops will have to make
journey of $50 miles on dog sleds.
| Owing to the growing intimacy be-
tween the regular army and the militia
a new division has been created in the
war department to be known as the
division of militia affairs.