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Amnesty to Austrian peserters.

hester-by-the-Sea, Mass. - De.
tailed instructions in regard to the
manner in which certain classes of de
serters from the Austro-Hungarian
army and navy may obtain amnesty
from their imperial government have
been made public by Baron l.. Am
brosy, charge d'affaires of the Austro.
Hungarian embassy. It is known that
q number OF deserters are In America
and 1t is believed at the embassy that
many Of them will grasp the opportu.
nifty to procure amnesty by applying
70 the nearest consular office.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
Political Riots In Mexico.

Mexico City.-Two dead. twenty in.
jured and more than 200 arrested form
the result of political riots in Guadala
jara Monday. The riots started when
a mob broke up meeting in Delgado
theater. called In the interest Of Por.
firio Diaz, the president, and Ramon
Corral. vice-president, for reelection.
The orators were stoned in the street
cars. carriages and automobiles in
which they rode. Mobs paraded the
streets crying, Down with Diaz; we
want Reyes" A barricade was erected
and many shots were exchanged
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29

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Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
Modernlzlng Korea.

Victoria. B. C.-Passengers arriving
from the Orient Saturday on the
steamer Empress Of China. brought
further news OF the vigorous policy Of
Viscount Some, the new resident gen.
eral OF Korea. He has launched a
scheme OF railroad development in
volving an expenditure of 325,000,000.
Twenty gunboats are being bailt to
force the fighting against the Korean
insurgents. and after the rebels are
subdued the gunboats will be used as
tenders to Japanese fishing vessels in
Korean waters.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
WESTERN NEWS.

Sheep shearing has been practically
completed in Wyoming. The total clip
is estimated at $4,000, 900 to 10000, 900
pounds, as against 36,OOO,O00 pounds
last year.
Upwards Of 500 head of sheep, which
were being driven to summer pasture
on the Helena national forest reserve,
in Montana, were poisoned by loco
weed and died.
Harry Orchard, life convict in the
Idaho penitentiary for the murder OF
Governor Steunenberg, was baptized a
few days since by Elder Steward of
the Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Ella Gingles was cleared at the close
of her sensational trial in Chicago
from the charge of stealing lace, but
the story she told on the witness
stand of being white slave" victim
was denounced as untrue by the jury
that freed her.
One of the features of the Grand
Army of the Republic encampment at
Salt Lake next month will be a living
flag, composed OF 1,2S4 children in cos
tune. OF this number 544 will be
dressed in red. 4S0 in white and 224 in
blue.
The Utah Automobile Club is CO.
operating with boards of trade and
commercial clubs in Utah and Idaho
to secure the improvement of bad
stretches of road between Salt Lake
City and the Yellowstone National
Park.
James ]. Hill and Edward H. Harri-
man. the two most prominent figures
in the railroad world, will be in at
tendance at the Transmississippi Com
mercial Congress which is to attract
thousands Of visitors to Denver from
August 10th to 21st.
Battery Boutelle OF the San Fran
cisco preside has made worlds rec
ord with the five-nch guns. Ten shots
with service projectiles were fired at
moving target two and one-half miles
out, and all ten of the shots scored
bullseyes.
Four bolts of lightning struck the
residence of John H. Singleton at
American Forks. Utah, killing his
wife, rendering himself and his four
year-old son unconscious, and knock
ing down his brother and a neighbor
who came to their assistance.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad Company has quit the state
Of Montana. according to a document
filed with the Secretary of State at
Helena. and the inference is that its
lines in the southern part Of the state
will hereafter be conducted by the
Great Northern exclusively.
At st. Louis recently private car
filled with mourners and flowers con-
veyed in q plush coffin the body OF
George, a setter dog. to it's last resting
place in De Hodiamont Cemetery. The
setter was the property of Frank
Cleary and had been in the family ten
years.
The International Sheet Metal Work
ers will hold their fifteenth biennial
convention in Denver August I'd to 9th.
About $50 delegates, representing
unions, and 10000 workmen engaged
in that trade. will be present from the
principal cities of the United States
and Canada.
At the meeting of the National Trav-
slers' Association in Chicago, July
Gath. st. Louis was selected as tho
meeting place in 1910. Chicago was
made permanent headquarters of the
organization. Frederick l.. Gross, Mil
waukee. was elected president. A
strong resolution against tipping"
was adopted.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
Can't Come In August.

Denver.-Because Of the long con-
tinued tariff debate in Congress and
the absolute impossibility of speedy
adjournment Of that body. President
Taft will not be the guest of the Trans
Denver the first part Of August. ac.
cording to a dispatch from Washing
ton, which states that the Presidents
itinerary for his Western trip has
been revised, making his visit in Den
yer fall upon Tuesday, September 21s,
He will remain In Colorado three days
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
tuberculosis Conference.

Under the auspices Of the Swedish
National League Against Tuberculo-
sis. the International tuberculosis con-
ference held its annual meeting in
Stockholm July 8 to 10. Among the
American speakers on the program
were DR.. Hermann NJ. Biggs of New
York and DR.. John C. Wise. medical
director Of the United States navy.
who was the official representative Of
this country. Two subjects of special
interest discussed were: Care OF
Tuberculous Families. Especially OF
Healthy Children" and Tuberculosis
and the Schools
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29

Orman G. Crook have finished the
grading of the Denver. Laramie &
Northwestern Railroad to Hillsboro.
and all culverts and bridges have been
built. Track laying is progressing. tho
rails having been laid as far as
Brighton. Grading is now being done
on the main line to Greeley. Rapid
progress 10 being made on the town.
site of Milliken.
DR.. George II. Stover, the Denver X.
ray specialist, who is being treated in
Boston for burns received in the use
Of the ray. is reported to be recovering
rapidly.
Maj. A. v. Bohn. recently appointed
postmaster at Leadvills. has assumed
the management OF the office.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
PoSTPoNING THE OFFICIAL TEST,
oRvILLE GIVES AN ExHlBI.
TloN FLIGHT.
SKILFUL Ev0LUTIoNS
LIEUTENANT LAHM TO RIDE
WITH ORVlllE ON HIS EN-.
DURANGO TRIAL.

Washington.-Orville, Wright made
two and half mile flight under
very adverse conditions with his aero
plane at Fort Myer Monday evening.
The occasion. by reason of the pres
ence of President Taft and a brilliant
assemblage of Washington official
life, bore an air more social than aero.
nautic.
Everybody had expected Wright to
make the first of his official tests
the so-called endurance test" Of an
hour in the air with a passenger-and
nobody had forgotten that the last time
he attempted this feat, only ten
months ago. it cost the life of Leuten-
ant Selfridge of the signal corps, and
a broken thigh and ribs for Wright
himself That was the main reason
for the vast crowd, and beneath the
gaiety there was an undertone of ap-
prehension.
A stiff wind caused the postpone
ment of the expected trial and all that
Wright attempted was brief flight
without passenger. in order to show
the President that the aeroplane
really could fly and to avoid disap-
pointing the great crowd.
With President Taft, thanked on
either side by Speaker Cannon and
Senator Aldrich, looking on, the ma
chine was trundled to the foot of the
starting derrick in the center of the
drill field and poised on the monorail
preparatory to the start.
Heretofore it has been the unvary-
ing practice of Orville Wright when
giving exhibition or test flights at
Fort Meyer to use thirty-foot der
rick and weights to project his aero
plane into the air. Tuesday, however,
he discarded this artificial means and
scared away easily and gracefully
from the monorail by the aid of the
motors own power.
The spectators cheered loudly as
the white machine rose slowly into
the air, and again as it swerved. top
tilted at an angle of nearly forty-five
degrees at the north end of the field.
Three times the machine was taken
around the field, the planes seemingly
assuming a more dangerous angle at
each turn, and with sharp swerve
was brought into the wind and care
fully landed.
1t was not until o'clock that the
Wright brothers abandoned hope OF
undergoing the endurance test OF one
hours duration with a passenger.
From early in the afternoon until that
hour, the two brothers were besieged
in their shed by cabinet ministers, dip
lomats, senators and representatives.
who had come to the reservation to
witness the flights. They wanted to
see the machine and have 1t explained
to them. They naturally were disap-
pointed when the Wrights decided not
to make the endurance test, but con-
ceded it would be better to wait for
more favorable weather.
The war department has designated
Lieutenant Lahm to accompany Or
vile Wright in his endurance flight,
which is to be witnessed by an official
board consisting OF Maj. George o.
Squier. Maj. c. Nick. Saultzman. Capt.
C. def. Chandler, Lieutenant LAhm.
Lieut.. Benjamin d. Foulois. Lieutenant
Humphrey and Lieutenant Comman-
der Sweet OF the navy.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
Pathos in a Fire Report.

In the annual report OF the fire mar
shal Of Kentucky the following extract
is not without a suggestion of Little
Boy Blue"
Among the odds and ends Of the
attic. usually are vanished furniture.
rags smeared with grease to take fire
themselves. painting oils liable to
take fire when the sun beats on the
roof. and broken toys Of children who
are grown and gone away. or who
went to sleep long ago"
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29

When President Taft takes his trip
down the Mississippi river from St..
Louis to New Orleans, Mark Twain,
humorist, will act as pilot on the boat
carrying the country's chief executive.
Crete has been evacuated by the
four protecting powers-Great Britain,
France, Russia and Italy-whose
troops left Sunday and Monday. There
is great rejoicing among the inhsbi.
tants.
The United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals, in a decision handed down
at San Francisco has sustained the
constitutionality of the federal enact
ments providing that cattle or sheep
in transit by rail must be watered and
fed every twenty-eght hours.
The British immigration to Canada
during the last year was 52,S01, as
compared with 12O,1S2 in the fiscal
grafton for the same period was 34.175,
as compared with S3,975. Immigrants
from the United States numbered 3d.
S32, being 500 more than came in dur
ing the preceding year.
The success of several London suf-
fragettes in obtaining their release
from prison by carrying out "hunger
strike" has caused all of the suffra-
gettes in Holloway Jail to adopt this
method of gaining their freedom. Miss
Elsie Mackenzie was discharged from
prison in critical condition, having
gone ISL hours without food.
Swift retribution overlook two reck-
less automobilists at Yonkers, N. Y,
who ran down and killed James Sim,
motorman. The men in the car kept
on at unabated speed. Then within
sight OF the group that gathered about
their victim, their machine skidded
into q tree, overturned and was de-
stroyed by fire. The occupants leaped
out and disappeared.
The prosecutors of Harry Thaw are
criticised and insanity experts scored
in 20-page booklet which Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, mother of Thaw, has
just issued 1t bears the title, THE Sc
cret Unveiled" and alleges the exist
ence OF a 'cowardly combination"
against Thaw and the taking of unusu-
ally oppressive measures in his case.
His entire sanity at present is strong
ly asserted.
At Vichy, France, on the 21st inst.
Paul Tissandier made an aeroplane
flight of fifty-six minutes.
A company has been formed at Ber-
lin for the purpose Of erecting great
airship garage, with landing and test
ing grounds. AS the company is inter
ested in dirigible balloons, it designs
to lease about 1,600 acres near Berlin
where it will erect great sheds and re
pair shops and benzine and hydrogen
reservoirs.
John S. Wise, Jr., Of New York. who
is now in Paris, says that former
President Roosevelt, just prior to his
departure from New York on his At
frican hunting expedition, promised
him and other Republicans in New
York that he would return in time for
the mayoralty campaign. Mr.. Wise
Mr.. Roosevelt will head the mayoralty
ticket in New York this autumn.
A cantilever bridge 1850 feet in
length and costing 100000 is being
built across the Copper River in
Alaska. 1t will be completed within
eighteen months. The bridge crosses
the river between two large glaciers.
the Miles and Childs, the latter having
frontage on the siver varying from
800 to 700 feet. Huge masses Of Ice
weighing hundreds Of tons break away
from the face and plunge into the
river with a report like the roar Of .
cannon.
Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
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Gilpin observer., 1909-07-29
WAS HE RIGHT.

Mrs. Rant-Do you think men are
more clever than women?
Mr. Rant-Some men are.
Mrs. Rant-Who are they?
Mr.. Rant-Single men.
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Ms Mmdock the Representative From Wichita Kansas

ington took too little care of growing
children In the haste in which the city is
covered with rows of houses and with
apartments, where little ones must live
in an artificial atmosphere or take their
changes in the street"
Mrs. Murdoch is tall and graceful
woman, with unusual charm Of face and
manner She takes a serious interest in
all that concerns her. husband, her home
or the affairs OF her state. Still, she is
sufficiently engrossed in the doings Of
Vanity Fair to make her an addition TO
the social contingent from the middle
west. She was BEFORE her marriage Miss
Pearl Allen, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward I. Allen, formerly of Greencastle.
IND, but for many years residents of
Wichita. During her early married life
She lived in Chicago, where Mr.. Murdoch
went to improve his fortunes after his
marriage In 1890 They returned to Wicli-
managing editor of his fathers paper.
They have since lived In the city where
their romance began and where their
marriage was solemnized. Mrs. Murdoch
has another exceedingly rare quality for
the wife of public man-she is entirely
in sympathy with all her husbands aims
and ambitions. but she never permits any
of his troubles to embitter nor to turn her
from the even tenor of her way. Her
family life is something quite apart from
the turmoil of politics, and her friend
ships are held aloof from the influences
which they exert on her environment. In
Washington she fills all her social duties
with grace and ease and takes pleasure
in the intercourse which life here means
with many kinds of people.
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academy, and if / should say how young
| was when i decided to marry him am
afraid it must demoralize the rising gen.
GRAFTON and get all the parents incensed
that l should acknowledge such juvenile
folly. My parents thought exactly as L
do now, and as l suppose the majority
of parents all over the world view the
calf loves of their offsprings. They
frequently scolded me severely for even
thinking about love, and suggested that
it would be wise if l received some edu-
cation and knowledge of things domestic
before | CONSIDERED the grave proposition
of becoming young Victor's wife. ] lis
tened obediently and really tried to do as
/ was hidden. i even consented to go
away to boarding school, and this was
as much for my youthful lovers sake
my own. You see, Ii was pointed out
that Victor should be given a chance to
apply himself to his work minus the dis
traction of calling frequently on sweet
heart. We both finished our studies in
the little academy in Wichita, and from
the school my husband went at once to
his fathers paper. the Wichita Eagle.
He making good progress. but, of
course. he was young and had to climb
upward slowly. / acknowledged the in
justice of distracting him from his work
and ] went away to a boarding school
in Indiana. making brave effort %
content myself with acquiring wisdom.
But my effort was short-lived. l found it
impossible, and my parents, with good
brought me home, and in a short time
we married. Mr.. Murdoch was nineteen
and ! was sixteen.
Il am often asked if ] approve Of
early marriages and what l think is
the general prospect of young people
being happy when they wed In what
is regarded as an immature age. FroIa
my own standpoint. believe in marry
ing young. and, of course, never do so
except from the strongest devotion and
because you simply cannot live without
the man you love. Then / believe that
one must be very young to love that
way. In later years come more selfish
considerations. Certainly my mar
riage has been happy, and If ! had
waited until | was past thirty l should
not have accomplished more toward
mutual happiness and success in the
sense which married happiness means.
But then j really would not like my
daughter to think about marrying at
sixteen. / should shrink from her as
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STEPHEN Drc4TuR-'

tians. saluted the American flag and then
had the pleasure of hearing Hail Column
bia'' played by the American band.
+ =
Decatur was at the height of his fame.
War was over and he was made one OF
the board Of navy commissioners. He
built fine house for himself In WASH
ington, and, having an ample fortune.
began to enjoy life to the utmost.
Years before he had been a member of
the court-martial that had tried Com
modore Barron. The commodore in 1907.
while in command OF the Chesapeake. had
been halted by the British warship
Leopard, and the Leopard, after firing on
the Chesapeake. had taken three men off
the Chesapeake, declaring they were de-
serters. Two of the men We're American
citizens. For surrendering his ship and
for going to sea unprepared to defend
the vessel. the Commodore was put on
trial and the court had sentenced him to
five years suspension. The sentence had
expired in 1872, but Barron did not return
to the United States until after the close
of the war. Then he applied for rein
statement. While disclaiming any preju-
dice against Barron, Decatur, as navy
commissioner, opposed the reinstatement
of the commodore.
Bitterly resenting the attitude of De-
catur. Commodore Barron began a cor
respondence with his old shipmate, which
led to Barron, February 8. 1920, chal-
longing Decatur to a duel. March ~
the two commodores met on the field of
Bladensburg. Commodore cambridge was
Decatur's second and Capt. Elliott, whose
conduct at the battle of Lake Erie was
bad, was second for Barron.
X \
The men were by no means equally
matched. Decatur was a master hand
with the pistol. Barron was so near
sighted that he could not distinguish an
object 100 yards away. Decatur had de-
ternined to permit Barron to fire at him,
but not to reply. Then some one propos-
ed to make the distance eight PAGES, so
Barron's disadvantage would be mini.
mixed. This was agreed to- -ecatur
then decided to fire, but simply > wound
Barron.
Eight PAGES We're measured of. The
men faced each other. AS the word was
about to be given Barron made a remark
that would have paved the way to a
peaceful settlement. Decatur replied in
the same spirit, but neither Of the sec
onds sought to bring about an adjust
ment of the trouble
Decatur had told cambridge he would
hit Barron in the left hip.
cambridge called 'One, two and both
men fired. Barron fell, shot in the spot
Decatur had indicated. Decatur stood
erect. The seconds stepped forward
Then Decatur put his hand to AS side.
staggered and fell. He died that night
Copyright. 1909. by Richard spIllane.
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danger of permitting certain evils to go
unreformed. Kansas, conciseiy statlns
the case. has granted limited Suffrage
to women They vote on school questions
and for the county and municipal offl-
GERS, and generally on those questions
where increase of taxes and such vital
points are decided. The women OF Kan
sas certainly make good use of their
privilege. and / have heard that in states
where they have full suffrage they en-
ploy their power judiciously. But there
is one thing which makes me fear 1or
my sex getting supreme power OF the
ballot. They do not rise to the objective
viewpoint. which nearly always domi-
mates men In their handling of national
or even big local issues. The sting or
opposition seems to rankle too deeply IN
the soul of women. and the personal ele-
ment creeps out to defeat measures
which should in all justice be enacted.
Then / shrink from the ordeal which it
means for women to mix in politics. The
bitterness and strife, the heartacheS and
disappointments seem inadequate for the
reward l think women have so much
better work-all women-nOt only those
who marry and have homes to superin-
tend and children to rear. but the single
woman who has elected to spend her life
alone.
1.-THE old idea about the hand that
rocks the cradle appeals to me no mat
ter how hackneyed this saying has be-
come or how obsolete such ideas may be
regarded If women wish to be real
forces in Yational affairs, if they wish
to fulfill the highest duty of citizenship.
it can be done in their homes and without
any controversy about the ballot. The
influence which a woman has over her
husband and sons. her father or brothers
is something which might be taken into
account. / believe that all women should
study politics from the higher ground,
but also from the result which local pol
itics have on home affairs.
1.-The woman who influences her hus-
band to vote right is doing splendid
work in the making of the nation. The
woman who looks into matters and
knows what every man who is on a
local ticket stands for and what his
success would mean to the community is
I think accomplishing more than if she
filled halls to hear her talk on good citi-
zenship and her alienable rights to get
civil privilege which comes TO man. l
am glad that many women, especially
married women, feel as ] do. When
we all get back to the views of the