Gilpin observer., 1908-10-15
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WESTERN NEWS.
Mrs. Richard Yates, mother OF for
mer Governor Yates, and widow of the
Illinois war governor, died at Jackson
vile, H., on the 9Th inst, aged eighty
six
Mrs. George Collier, wife of rancher
at Occidental, near Santa Rosa, Cal,
while inspecting a winery few days
since fell into vat of wine and was
drowned
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president of
Stanford University spoke before the
Trans Mississippi Commercial Con
gress N advocacy of a national bureau
of fish protection.
Butte Miners Union, Local No. l,
Western Federation of Miners, by a
special election has endorsed the $780,
600 strike and benefit fund of the fed
GRAFTON proposed at the recent conven-
ton of the organization.
1t is reported at Winnipeg that
James Oliver Curwood, we'll known
author of Detroit, who recently went
into the Hudson Bay wilds for De-
troit publishing firm, has been killed
by Indians in the Lac La Rouge coun-
try.
At Auburn, Cal, Monday, J. P. Gar
red, who Sunday evening shot and
wounded Louis Fuller and his wife,
Bertha, at Dutch Flat, during dispute
over land sale, was riddled with bull
lets by posse which was hunting for
him, and upon whom he opened fire,
wounding one man.
Governor Norris of Montana, by ad-
vice of the State Livestock and SAM
tary boards, who fear anthrax contag
ion, has ordered that no domestic ami
mails of any kind, horses, cattle, swine,
sheep, goats, dogs or any sort of ami
NAL shall be permitted to enter Mon
tana from any part of North or South
Dakota or Wyoming unless accompan-
led by bill of health.
The handsome silver mounted gavel
presented to the Transmissippi Com
mercial congress by the Daughters of
the Confederacy of Louisiana disap-
peared at the close of the session in
San Francisco and could not be found.
The gavel was made of wood taken
from the battlefield of Chalmette, La,
where General Jackson defeated Pack
enhams veterans in 1872.
Henry Baker, aged forty-two years,
once a noted heavyweight pugilist, was
run over and killed by a train at
Kansas City Friday night. Baker
fought Jim Jefiries to standstill for
eight rounds May 10, 1897, in San
Francisco. In the ninth round, how
ever, Jeffries knocked Baker out and
there were those who saw the fight
who said Jeffres won by a chance
blow.
A new record in wireless telegraphy
is claimed by the United Wireless Tel
egraph Company, which from its sta
ton on Russian hill in San Francisco,
established communication with the
Kuhuku station on the island of Oahu,
one of the Hawaiian group. 1t is
claimed that communication between
| these points was uninterrupted Sun
day for two hours and half. The dis
tance to Honolulu is 2,200 miles.
The executive committee of the
Mississippi Commercial con-
gress has decided to hold the next
meeting of the congress, which is
scheduled fo- Denver, in August, 1909.
The committee has elected officers as
follows: Chairman, Col. Ike T. Pryor,
San Antonio, Tex. vice-chairman, S.
| F. Dutton, Denver; secretary, Arthur
F. Francis, Cripple Creek, Colo;
treasurer, James c. Dahlman, Omaha.
Immigration Inspector w. Il. Mans.
field has received Instructions from
Washington to at once transfer the
headquarters and all records from
Omaha to Denver, where the immigra-
ton bureau will in the future be To-
Gated. The bureau has been located
in Omaha many years and is an i'm
portant one. 1t covers Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, the Dakotas and Colorado and
Wyoming. The entire territory in the
West will be in future subordinate to
Denver, Arizona and New Mexico be-
ing added to 1t.
GENERAL NEWS.