Gilpin observer., 1908-08-27
WESTERN NEWS.

The railroad town of Hazen, forty
miles east of Reno, Nevada, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday. The loss is
$125,000.
The recent heavy rains in Missouri,
sured a heavy corn crop in nearly
every section of those states.
st. Louis is to have new auditor
ium with a seating capacity of $4,000,
which may on occasion be increased to
10000. The cornerstone was laid Sat
urday.
A number of model roads are under
construction in various parts of Wis
consin, under direction of the state ge-
illogical survey The localities fur
nish the labor and materials, the state
engineers to direct the work.
The American Life Insurance con-
vention, which has just closed its ses-
sion at Denver, selected Cincinnati as
its place of meeting in 1908 and elected
Samuel Smith of Chattanooga, Tenn,
president. Thomas Daily was chosen
as Colorado vice president.
On the 18th inst. the Western Pas
senger association notified the Rock
Island road that their advertised rates
of one and one-half fares for Kansas
state fairs was premature and illegal.
Other Kansas roads protested strongly
against the reduction from cents.
Governor John A. Johnson was re-
nominated for governor by the Demo
cratic state convention of Minnesota
on the 10Th inst. The first mention OF
his name was the occasion of cheers
and applause that lasted SiXty-four
minutes.
While Mr.. Bryan was speaking at the
ball park in Des Mones Friday night
the temporary platform on which were
seated several hundred people col
lapsed, but no one was hurt and he
resumed his speech within five
minutes.
John V. Farwell, senior member of
the wholesale dry goods firm of ]. v.
Farwell & Co., died at Chicago on the
Goth inst, after long illness, aged
eighty three. He had been engaged in
the dry goods business in Chicago
since 1862.
The Dominion government has de-
cided to dam all of the streams run
nning down the entire eastern slope OF
the Rocky mountains in Canada, with
the view of conserving the supply and
preventing an annual waste of water
by flood in the spring.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon,
after a visit to E. H. Hartman, says
that Mr. Hartman will build road
across central Oregon and also road
south from the Columbia river, either
up the Des Chutes river or continue
ton of the Columbia Southern to a
point in central Oregon, where such a
road would cut the proposed line rum
ming east and west
The new army portable wireless
telegraph kits, perfected last winter.
have just been given their first tests
in the Northwest at Camp David S.
Stanley. where the regular army and
the National Guards of Washington
and Oregon are holding their annual
field maneuvers. Messages were picked
up from a number of wireless stations
on Puget sound. Instead Of using a
telescope pole to carry the radiating
and receiving wires in the air, two
huge king kites were sent up. to which
the wires connecting with the instru-
ments were attached.
The cruiser Colorado, which went on
lue rocks at Double Bluff. Puget sound.
Saturday. was more seriously damaged
than at first was supposed. An ex-
animation at the Bremerton navy yard
showed that her forward plates were
badly dented in several places and
that ,Ae plates were sprung 1t will
be necessary to put the vessel in dry
dock for perhaps thirty days to make
repairs. The Colorado will be unable
to join the Pacific fleet on its cruise
to the Samoan islands, but 1t is expect
ed she will join 1t probably on the re-
turn trip from the Samoan islands to
Honolulu.