Gilpin observer., 1909-12-02
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WESTERN NEWS.

Armour & Company. packers, are
said to be working on the details OF
a comprehensive industrial insurance
plan for the benefit of their employees.
Since the recent lynching at Cairo,
ILL.,, committee of fifty business
men has been organized to bring about
a better enforcement of the laws. The
mayor has closed all gambling houses.
Governor Deneen has postponed the
special session of the General Assemb-
IL of Illinois pending the outcome of
an Investigation of the Cherry mine
disaster. The probable date is Decem-
ber 14th.
The Union depot of the Rock Island
and the Ell Paso & Southwestern at
Santa Rosa, New Mex, was burned on
the morning of November 23d, most OF
the railroad records being destroyed.
| The loss is estimated at about $4,000.
| The Western railroads are said to
have come to the conclusion that it
will be impracticable to discontinue
January l the practice of granting
stop-overs on limited tickets where
these stop-overs operate to extend the
time allowance.
Twenty-seven Japanese were killed
and fifteen injured in the recent
smash-up of a work train on the Great
Northern near New Westminster, B.
c. Many of the Japanese were smoth-
cred to death in the mud of the Bru-
nette river, into which the cars fell
Complete returns from the British
Columbia elections give the Conserva-
tives 3S seats in parliament, the So
cialists 2, and the Liberals g. The
Conservative ministry appealed to the
country to endorse it's purpose to grant
subsidy to the Canadian Northern
railroad.
On complaint of Postal Inspector Jo-
seph O'Connell, ]. w. Wilson was ar
rested at San Francisco few days
since charged with obtaining from
farmers in California and other states
carload consignments of produce,
which were sold by him and never ac-
counted for.
On the night of the 29th ult., Samuel
j. Lewis, managing editor of the
Denver Times, was robbed and beaten
by two holdups near his residence on
Capitol Hill, in Denver, soon after
dark. He fought desperately, but was
overpowered and robbed of $74 in
money. In the attempt of the robbers
to take ring from one of his fingers
his hand was badly hurt-but he
saved the ring, which is valuable.
Judge Cotteral of the Federal Court
at Guthrie has granted temporary re-
straining orders in favor of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe, the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific and the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railroad Com
panies against State Auditor Trapp, to
prevent the collection of the gross rev.
clue tax of one-half of one per cent.
levied on the earnings of all railroads
operating in Oklahoma.
After a conference between Govern
or Stubbs and the officers of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Kansas State Board
of Railroad Commissioners issued an
order to that road to put its lines in
Kansas in standard condition before
the close of the year 1910. The order
is based on letters written to the board
stating the intended improvements
and includes re-ballasting, re-surfacing
and repairing tracks and 100 miles of
new steel rails on the Central branch.
The bankers of Kansas and else.
where say that Kansas farmers are
specializing in wheat and they offer
as proof. the fact that s15,OO0,0OO in
bank deposits have been withdrawn
from the country banks. This, 1t is
presumed, the farmers are using for
living expenses in lieu of selling the
wheat which is crowding the elevators
all over the state and is piled up on
the ground about the farmers prem
ises.