Gilpin observer., 1908-03-19
Miscellaneoue.


has affirmed the findings of the federal
court for the western district of Mis-
souri, wherein the Armour Packing
company, Swift & Co., Morris & Co.
and the Cudahy Packing company of
of Kansas City were fined $4,000 each
for accepting rebates. The Chicago
Burlington and Quincy Railway COM
pany was also fined $4,000 for giving
rebates.
Representatives of the American
Tobacco company have placed a gat-
ling gun on the roof of their tobacco
warehouse at Maysville, KY, to pre-
vent night riders from burning the
building.
Five express companies of Nebraska
have asked the supreme court for a
writ of injunction to prevent the state
enforcing the law passed at the last
session of the legislature reducing ex-
press rates 25 per cent.
Students to the number of 1000 at
Ann Arbor, Mich, wrecked theater
and overpowered the police. When
the firemen appeared to turn water
upon them they captured the hose
and paraded the streets until weary
The first class cruisers New York,
st. Louis and Milwaukee are to be
placed in reserve at Puget sound under
conditions which will allow them to
be ready for service within "a hours.
Kansas Populists recently held their
state convention at Topeka and elec-
ted delegates to the national conven-
tion at st. Louis. Resolutions indors-
ing Thomas Watson for president were
adopted.
The surgeon general of the navy
states that there is much pyeyentable
suffering in the navy and recommends
the organization of trained women
nurses in the hospital corps and the
appointment of dental surgeons.
The target ranges have been estab-
lished at Magdalena Bay and the
world-girdling fleet is busy at target
practice with the big guns.
The minister of justice has asked
the Russian douma for $1,000,O00 for
the enlargement of the Russian pris-
ons which are overcrowded.
The jury in the first of the Pennsyl-
vania capitol graft cases returned a
verdict finding the four defendants,
Sanlerson, Snyder. Mathues and Shu-
maker guilty of defrauding the state.
The trial lasted seven weeks and the
jury was out six hours. There are
ten other persons yet to be tried for
the same offense.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has begun pro-
ceedings for divorce from her hus-
band, Harry X. Thaw. Papers in
the case have been served on the de-
fendant in Matteawan asylum and up
on his mother as next of kin.
The American battleship feet ar
rived at Magdalena bay two days
ahead of schedule, after a journey of
$4,000 miles, with all the vessels in
better shape than when they left
Hampton Roads three moN.hs ago. In
his message announcing his arrival
Admiral Evans said the fesA was ready
for any emergency on one days notice.
Giuseppe Ala. the Italian anarchist
who killed Catholic priest at the
altar in his church at Denver, has
been convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced TO hang.
The final reply from Washington re-
garding the immigration question has
greatly pleased Japan.
Fifteen thousand Filipinos were
made homeless by the destruction OF
1000 native huts at Manila by a fire
which swept through the district.
A disastrous prairie fire occurred
recently near Holton, Kan. The fire
swept over 700 acres of land, destroy.
ing everything in it's path.
The president has issued a procla.
nation promulgating the terms OF the
treaty OF arbitration recently agreed
upon by the United States and
France.
The grand review of the ships OF the
Atlantic and Pacific fleets will take
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