Gilpin observer., 1908-07-02
Operations have been begun for the
further deepening of He'll Gate. New

further deepening Of He'll Gate. New
York city.
Secretary Taft was at New Haven
Tuesday and sat, with members OF his
class of '7S in Yale university, to wit
ness a base ball game between Yale
and Harvard, in which Yale won.
A telegram received at Manila from
the island of Negros tells of the muir
der of Fl. ID. Everett, government for
ester; T. b. Wakley, a school teacher,
and four Filipinos by Hill tribesmen.
The Empress of China left Yoko-
homa, Japan, Sunday with 100 saloon
and $50 Chinese steerage passengers
and the Empress of India left a day
later with fifty saloon and 345 Chin
ese.
A bill to prevent the drinking of in
toxicatin;s liquors on passenger trains
in Louisiana has been passed by the
House of that state, 81 to II. The bill
mad previously been passed by the
Senate.
Leon de la Grange will come to
America late in July and in the first
two weeks of August will give exhi-
bitions of his aeroplane flights in some
locality in the Immediate vicinity of
New York City.
William F. Walker, absconding treas
urer of the New Britain, Connecticut,
Savings bank, will be extradted by
the Mexican government, the Supreme
Court of Mexico having decided
against his appeal.
The friends of George A. Garden,
chairman of the state Democratic eX-
ecutive committee of Texas, are try
ing to organize strength to make him
temporary chairman of the national
convention at Denver.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana has
signed the Locke anti-racing bill and
1t will go into effect July 25th. Sew
eral tracks are now operating in Louis
lana and the effect of the law is
awaited with much interest.
Elihu Root, secretary of state, began
Monday at Muldoon's sanitarium at
White Plains, New York. course of
physical training intended to put him
in physical condition for another
year of hard work at Washington.
Lieutenant Commander Reginald R.
Belknap, naval attache to the United
States embassy at Berlin, and Allison
V. Armour were among the guests OF
Emperor William at a dinnels on board
the imperial yacht HohenZollern Sat
urday night.
The government has decided to call
an international conference in Paris
with the object of establishing regu-
lations to facilitate automobile travel
in Europe. This conference will meet
simultaneously with the International
Road Congress.
BY vote of twenty to fourteen the
Senate of Louisiana defeated the
state referendum prohibition bill. This
will probably end the fight for prohibi-
ton in the state at this session of the
Legislature. A similar measure was
recently defeated in the House.
The christening of the infant son of
King Alfonso under the name of Jaime
took place Monday in the chapel house
at La Granja with all the pomp and
ceremony of the Spanish court. The
prince howled Justify throughout the
proceedings.
With flags flying and the city deco
rated in holiday attire the city of
Cleveland began Monday the entertain
ment of the $4,000 or more school
teachers from al parts of the country
attending the forty-sixth annual con-
vention of the National Educational as
sociation.
The federal court at Berne. Switzer-
land. has upon appeal from the lower
courts, ordered the release of four
American Mormons convicted of
preaching their doctrines. The court
holds that they committed no offense
and that propagandism is not punisha.
BILE under the law.
The courts at Rochester. New York,
| have granted a temporary injunction
restraining the Supreme Court of the
Independent Order of Foresters from
increasing its insurance rates, pend
ing the action brought on that point
by Henry J. Simmelink. The increase
was ordered at the annual meeting at
| Toronto in June.
To determine which of a great va
riety of chewing tobacco will serve the
needs of the United States jack tars
for next year. a board of paymasters at
the Brooklyn navy yard has begun a
solemn conclave to last a week. A
force of bluejackets detailed from the
several ships at the yard will act as ex-
perts.
The three thousand or more women
in attendance at the ninth biennial con
vention of the General Federation OF
Women's clubs in Boston enjoyed a
quiet Sunday. An informal reception
given by the president of the fedora.
tion, Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Den
yer, at the Hotel Vendome, was the
chief event of the day.