Gilpin observer., 1908-01-09

dict of not guilty was reached by the
jury trying George A. Pettibone fol
completely in the murder of ex-Gov
Steunenberg of Idaho.
A little girl was born on a Pullman
car on the Santa Fe railroad just as
the train was pulling into Topeka
Kan, recently.
A large number of the troops al
Goldfield. New, have been recalled
and have returned to their regular
station in California. Only 1876 were
left at Goldfield.
In q letter written to the secretary
Of the navy President Roosevelt Sc
verely condemns the action of Ad
miral Brownson in resigning rather
than appoint surgeon to the com
mand of a hospital ship when ordered
to do so.
The revenues collected through the
postofice department during 1907
amounted to $183,000,000.
Reports from Vancouver, B. c., state
that large numbers of Japanese re.
serve army men have been ordered
to Toxic and that several hundred
are ready to leave for Japan.
Photographs illustrating feats OF
horsemanship by military men OF
European armies accompany recon.
mendations to congress from the
president for betterment of army
| riding.
The Isthmian canal commission
has decided to construct the canal
locks 100 feet wide which is the
width originally projected, unless 1t
| is shown that naval developments
make a greater width desirable.
Col. Marsh NJ. Murdoch, postmaster
Of Wichita, Kan, and editor of the
Eagle, died at his home in that city
recently. He was the father of Con.
gresham Murdoch, and for so years
has been power in Kansas affairs.
He was 70 years of age.
New York authorities estimate that
it will cost s5,OOO,OOO to stamp out
tuberculosis among the cattle herds OF
the state.
Night riders recently swooped down
upon Russellville, Logan county, KY,
burning a number of independent to.
bacco concerns and other establish
ments and shooting three men who ap.
peared upon the streets.
The bank clearings of the country
for the last week in 1907 shows a de.
crease of 41.5 per cent as compared
with the last week in 1906
All the government troops except
two companies have been removed
from Goldfield, New.
| Durinp Daramhar total of o0n
539 cubic yards of earth was exca-
waited on the Panama canal.
At Wharton, Ohio, three families
comprising a dozen people were seri-
ously poisoned by eating cheese.
The Western Passenger association
has refused to grant special rates to
the spring and fall meetings of mer.
chants in Chicago and st. Louis.
| H. F. Storrs, beekkeeper for the
California Safe Deposit and Trust
company at San Francisco, has con,
fessed to making false entries in the
banks book amounting to s1,000,000
Maximilien Harden, who has been
on trial at Berlin for libeling Count
Won Moltke in his paper, has been
sentenced to four months imprison
ment.
| In the Pettibone trial OF Boise, Ida
ho, the prosecution made the only ar
gument to the jury, the defense refus
ing to argue the evidence.
At the last cabinet meeting in 1907
it was decided to appeal from the de
cision of Judge Lewis of Denver by
which all the indictments against
coal land grafters in Colorado were
quashed.
An Atlantic City chair pushel
found a pocketbook containing $40(
in money and jewelry valued at sew
eral thousand dollars which he re
turned to the woman who lost it. His
honesty was rewarded by the gift oI
two nickels and two pennies.
The price of lumber at Minneapo
lis, Mimi, is down from 81 to SO a
thousand feet.
| NJ. De Tross, the Belgian premie,
and minister of the interior, is criti
cally i'll at Brussels.
| Citizens of Franklin, Pa, have
brought suit for damages against the
company which supplies water to the
city charging that recent typhoid
epidemic was caused by the impure
water supplied.
The annual tournament of roses
was held at Pasadena, Cal. on New
Years day. Seventy thousand per
sons witnessed the beautiful floral pa
rade in which Miss May Sutton, the
international tennis champion, was
the queen.
Three members Of the city fire de-
partment Of Vancouver, B. c., were
attacked and badly wounded by q
crowd Of Japanese armed with knives
The firemen had accidentally broken
the glass in front of Japanese
| store.