Gilpin observer., 1909-10-07
WESTERN NEWS.

The strike of 800 Greek laborers in
the Utah Copper Company's plant has
been satisfactorily settled.
The American Association of Public
Accountants will hold it's annual con-
vention at Denver, October 18th to 22d
Thomas H. Swope, millionaire
and philanthropist, died suddenly at
his home in Kansas City Sunday
night, following a stroke of apopleXy.
He was 80 years old
September gold receipts at the Sc
attic assay office were less than ST.
100000, or nearly a million less than
for September of last year. This is
due to lack of water for placer min
ing in Alaska because of the dry sum-
mer. Total receipts for the year will
be about the same as in 1908, little
more than $1S,OOO,0OO
Utah sheepmen are no longer dis
posed to treat lightly the alarming re-
ports of prevalency of lip and leg dis
ease among the flocks of the state.
Testimony confirming the stories of
havoc wrought by the disease was fur
nished by the flockmasters who met
at Salt Lake with the state officers.
Experts will investigate.
After an examination of the docu-
ments relating to the services of for
mer Consul Pasquale Corte, the Ital-
ian Department of Foreign affairs in
Rome has turned over to the public
prosecutor the evidence brought by
Consul General Rossi of Denver charg-
ing Corte with peculation and fraud
involving the amount of $4,000.
At Los Angeles a few days since
mice, gnawing at a bag Of matches,
set fire to The Ark, bird and dog
store. A score Of big green and red
hued parrots, frantic at the sight of
the blaze, called loudly for help. Fire,
fire, help, help" the birds shrieked, or
words to that effect. Passers by and
the fire department saved many of the
birds, but 1875 We're burned.
At St. Louis Sunday, on the arrival
Of the first boats of the torpedo flo
tilla for the city's centenary, $4,000
enthusiastic and curious persons tried
TO board four tiny torpedo boats at the
same time. The boats would not hold
them and part of the overflow, num-
oering 1853, were pushed into the Mis-
sissippi to be drawn ashore by police,
sailors and others.
Attired in linen duster, an old
black slouch hat and swinging an cleo
trio lantern at his side, President Taft
was locked in a narrow iron cage and
dropped 1,2O0 feet through midnight
blackness into the depths of the IA
nous old Leonard copper mine at
Butte. He had the rare experience
Of seeing miners at work with a giant
drill in vein of high-grade ore that
sparkled green with its wealth of min
eral.
Mrs. Mary Smith, Ss years old. died
at Newport, KY. Mrs. Smith was for
forty years daily communicate at
early mass at st. Peters cathedral.
She and her husband came to America
from Lancashire. England, when She
was 4S years old. She had attended
mass daily for more than twenty-four
years before she left England. That
would make a total Of more than 22,-
900 times she had gone to church. She
had given two-thirds of her small for
tune to charity.
]. Mills. sheepherder Of Wyoming,
undoubtedly saved his life by hacking
off finger with dull knife. Mills,
while on the range. was bitten on the
end of finger by a rattlesnake. He
attempted to amputate the finger
above the bite, but his knife was SO
dull that he could only cut the flesh
away from the bite. This. however,
was sufficient to prevent the poison
entering his system. He then walked
ten miles to telegraph station and
ordered an automobile. in which he
was taken to Cheyenne and placed in
. hospital.