Gilpin observer., 1909-01-21
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
A RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
WESTERN NEWS.

The Idaho Legislature has reelected
Weldon b. Hepburn to the United
States Senate
The Oklahoma City Automobile AS
socaton has pledged 100000 for the
construction of twenty-five-mile
speedway around the, city.
The National Wool Growers Asso
ci->tion at Pocatello selected Ogden as
its next place of meeting and reelected
President Fred w. Gooding.
Western railroad lines have agreed
upon a $25 colonist rate next spring
from the Missouri river to the coast.
This is 50 lower than last years rate.
Chicago is the center of the motor
buggy manufacturing business, for
there are made no fewer than ten diff
ferent makes of the high-wheelers in
that city.
The California railroad commission
has fined the Santa Fe railroad $4,000
for Illegal discrimination in the rates
The Southern Pacific was found guilty
bat was not fined.
The Copeland hotel, a noted hostel
ry at Topeka, Kans., was burned on
the 14th inst. |. L. Lambert, ex-Unit-
ed States district attorney for Kansas
was burned to death and fourteen 9th
er guests injured.
The trustees of the proposed Myron
Stratton home for the poor at Colo
radu Springs have decided to hold a
competition to which architects all
over the United States are eligible for
plans for the projected institution. A
cash prize of probably $4,000 will be
offered.
Judge Dupuy's decree dsmissing the
bill of Margaret Babcock to obtain an
eighth interest in 100000 acres of
land which the state of Texas granted
syndicate in return for the erection
of the capitol of that state, has been
sustained in a decision rendered by the
Court of Appeals in Chicago.
A free-for-all Marathon race for a
distance of twenty-siX miles and 3S5
yards. open to all professional runners
on the Pacific coast, will take place
February 7th at San Francisco. The
prize offered by promoters is $1,000,
to be divided, $3.50 to the winner. $3.50
to the second and 500 to the third.
Lorin Farr. pioneer of Utah. among
the first converts to Mormonism, IL st
mayor of Ogden, husband OF seven
wives and father of 800 children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
and 1ue of the best known men in the
West. was drowned at Utah Hot
Springs, eleven miles north of Ogden
on the 18th inst.
Edmund Burke, who posed as Brit
ish nobleman, was sentenced to three
years in Leavenworth. Kan. peniten-
tiary and fined 81 900 by jury in the
United States District Court at Chi
cago on a charge of impersonating a
United States officer. A Decatur. ILL.,,
girl. who married him in Denver OBJ
tanned a divorce upon his arrest in St.
Louis.
Attorneys for Abraham Ruef. con
yicted of bribery in San Francisco
who was sentenced to fourteen years
in San Quentin upon a conviction for
bribery, have been granted an addi-
tional thirty days to complete the bill
of exceptions upon appeal from the
verdict and judgment. The court
had previously permitted twenty days
for this purpose.
Scott McReynolds of New York, Will
liam K. Hearst's attorney, who has
been in Oklahoma several months col
lecting data pertaining to the libel
suit for 100000 against Hearst by
Governor G. n. Haskell, was arrested
at Guthrie Monday at the instance of
Haskell, charged with conspiracy. Nc.
Reynolds person and room Were
searched and copies of data and evil
dcuce seized.