Gilpin observer., 1909-01-07

object the disfranchisement of negroes
Anson r. Flower, a noted banker
and philanthropist, brother of the late
Gov. Roswell p. Flower of New York,
died on the 3rd inst. at Watertown,
years.
St. Petersburg ss!l continues to suf-
fer from the Asiatic cholera There
were eighteen new cases and five
deaths from the disease Monday. This
has been the daily average for the last
month.
Robert Fowler, formerly of the Cam
bridge Athletic club of Boston, but now
unattached, won the Yonkers Mara
thon race on New Years day in two
hours, fifty-two minutes and forty-five
and two-fifth seconds.
Tom Longboat, the Indian long dis
tance runner, was married to Miss Lo-
zetta Miracle at Toronto December
2Sth. Tom Flanagan, the Indian man
ager, was best man. The bride was
given away by her brother, an Indian
chief.
Warden Mudd of the Kentucky
State Penitentiary plans to organize
a baseball team of long con-
victs, and games will be played with
other teams of the institutions. Mudd
believes baseball will make better pris-
oners.
Railroad construction in the United
States in 1908 aggregated only 3,214
Of oi tra oil hn
tai for any year since 1897, when only
2,1O9 miles of track were laid. and
decrease of 1898 miles, or 1873 per
cent. from the figures of 1907.
Or advice of his counsel, Samuel
Gompers has discontinued his I'VE
Don't Patronizc" list in the Fedora
tionalist, the labor organ. This was
followed by the suspension of it's un-
far list by the Central Federated
Union
The Hague foreign office has made
the statement that the trouble between
Venezuela and Holland is regarded AS
Professionally at an end and that The
Netherlands intends to hold it's hand
pending the progress of the new Co
mez administration.
AS holiday diversion December 26th
the President-elect made an excursion
to Aiken, S. c., and played golf on the
famous Palmetto links Mr. Taft was
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and the
three children and John Hays Ham
mond, his wife and children.
Germany is not able to supply its
home demand for eggs, according to
Consul General Richard Guenther o.
Frankfort, who reports that last year
$34,643,O0O worth of eggs were i'm
ported, this representing about 3,000
100000, or an average of 46 per capita.
The long war with the Yaquis In
dians in Mexico in which scores were
killed at different times, including
many Americans, has been terminated
ma treaty of peace, agreed upon by
three Indian chiefs and 166 of their
| followers and the governor of the State
of Sonora, Mexico.
The Steel corporation has issued a
Christmas bonus to all employees hold
ing stock in the company 1t is esti-
mated that sixty-five per cent. in num-
ber of the holdings are in the hands
of ths workmen. The net earnings are
expected to run between s25,0OO,OOO
and $s6,000,000 for the quarter.
According to an announcement Just
made, none but unmarried men witbe
accepted by the government in future
to serve as officers in the constabulary
Toll
officers already in the service will not
be allowed to marry without the con-
sent of the government until they have
attained to their captaincies.
Senator Benjamin b. Tillman, in an
address before the State Teachers AS
sociation at Columbus, S. c.. took occa-
sion to warn the people against the agi-
tation for compulsory education, assert
ing that should such law be passed
it would mean the education of the ne
gro, which would in the end mean
blow to white supremacy.
Wilbur Wright made another long
flight at lie Mans, France. December
30th, remaining in the air for one hour,
fifty-two minutes and forty seconds
and covering a distance of sixty miles.
He was obliged to stop on account of
| the intense cold. Both himself and his
machine were covered with ice and the
oil in the motor was frozen.
Yekaterinoslav. Russia, hasn't any
harder name than 1t deserves. Al that
town on New Years day the military
court pronounced forty-one death sen.
tences, nine for recent crimes. Thir.
ty-two of the condemned men were
strikers in the railroad troubles OF Oc-
| tober. 1905. In addition to the death