Gilpin observer., 1908-12-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD,
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOING ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN NEWS.

ruling by the Illinois insurance de-
partment compels all mutual fire insur-
,ance companies organizing in that
state to make provisions for contin-
gent liability on the part of its mem
bers.
Manipulation Of the leading butter
markets of the country by coterie of
Chicago, Elgin and Eastern produce
men is said TO be responsible to
large extent for the present extrava-
giant prices Cor butter.
The great government collier Pro
metheus was successfully launched at
the Mare Island, Cal, navy yard on the
5th inst. The vessel was christened
by Miss Dollie Evans, daughter of Nav
al Constructor Holdena Evans.
The Carlisle Indian football team, in
game on the grounds of the Univer
sty of Denver Saturday. defeated the
university team by score of to 4.
This showing places the Denver eleven
high up in the list of football teams
The civil service commission of Los
Angeles recently issued an order that
any civil service employe, whether on
the active list or not, who was found
to visit the race track or bet on the
races, would be Immediately dis
charged.
pat" Crow, the notorious, is going
on the lecture platform under the aus
pices of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, according to a Chicago
dispatch. His subject has been an
nounced as "The Crime of Society in
Dealing With the Criminal"
The final bore in the Spring Gar
den tunnel of the Western Pacific rail
road, the Gould extension to the Pa
cific coast, was made Friday, when
fresh air passed through the entire
length of 1906 feet. This is the fa-
nous Beckwith Pass tunnel.
The Peoples Mutual Telegraph Com
pany has asked the City Council of
Chicago for franchise on two streets
leading to the city limits. Plans are
announced for a line from Chicago to
st. Louis and Kansas City, to compete
with the two old companies.
After an idleness of thirteen months,
the old Open Hearth department of
the Illinois Steel Company plant at
South Chicago was reopened Tuesday
and 1000 men resumed work Prepar-
ations are Icing made to open five
other blast furnaces.
Figures compiled by the city statis-
ucian of Chicago estimating the citys
total inhabitants at 2.540,S9G are de
clared by Robert C. Giyins, of the
Three Million Club, to be just 259,10i
short OF the correct total. In other
words Mr. Givins estimates Chicagos
population now at 100000.
Butte Montana is much excited over
the statement that the President told
John ID. Ryan that he means to close
every smelter in America whose fumes
injure the forests, unless means can be
devised to make sulphur smoke innoc-
uous to vegetable life. He mentioned
the Smelters at Anaconda and at East
Helena
The army transport Buford sailed for
Manila from San Francisco on the 9TH
inst. with 300 bluejackets and marines
for the Asiatic station and 20 recent
graduates from West Point who have
been commissioned as officers in the
Philippine scouts. The Buford carries
$1,300,000 in new silver pesos and 5000
wortn of pennies.
Newspapers at Los Angeles which
publish tips on races, persons who
sell them on the streets and anyone
who causes them to be circulated in
any manner will be subject to arrest
and prosecution under the anti.tip ordl-
nance which was passed early this year
and which is still in effect The new
prosecuting attorney announces that
he will enforce the law.