Gilpin observer., 1909-04-01

George Robertson, driving a iocs.nc-
bile car, broke the worlds record for
gasoline car for five miles at Dayton.
Ohio, March oath. Time. 2:45 1-5.
Admiral George F. Beresford, COM
mander of the British channel fleet,
hauled down his flag at Portsmouth
March oath. thus ending fifty years of
actual serice.
In an automobile race at Dayton,
o., March 23d, David Bruce Brown,
the millionaire amateur driver, ran
his machine mile in thirty-three sec
onds, breaking the worlds amateur
record of 35 80, which was held by
him.
The Pope received Hart O. Berg. fl
nancial agent OF the Wright brothers,
and said that when Wilbur Wright
came to Rome he hoped the daring
aviator would fly directly over the
vatican so as to give it's occupants
chance to see the aeroplane.
The Panama libel cases against the
Press Publishing Company and Caleb
Van Hamm, one of the editors of the
World, will not be dropped so long as
he is district attorney, is the statement
made by United States Attorney Slim
son in New York
The leaders Of the Socialist party
and the Socialist newspapers Of Paris
comment with jubilation upon the out.
come Of the strike of the French teleg-
raphers and postmen. They call 1t
victory over the government which
the government can never retrieve
In race against time Sunday to
reach the bedside of his dying mother,
Frank l.. Vandellip, president of
the National City bank of New York,
covered the distance from New York TO
Chicago in 10 hours and So minutes
This broke all records for the trip. Mr.
Vanderlip arrived twenty-five minutes
after his mother died.
A holy war is again threatened in
Morocco. Reliable news received at
Washington says that Fee and the sur
rounding country, including the town
of Mequinz, some of whose principal
supporters in Fee, have deserted and
have Joined in the revolt proclaiming
the pretenders and a holy war. The
situation in Fez is critical.
In support of the contention Of lead
ing railroad officials that the present
rates paid by the government to the
railways for the transportation of mail
are far too low, julius Kruttschnitt,
vice president of the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific system, has pre-
pared a pamphlet making an exhaus-
tive argument for all increase.
In the opinion of Dana Estes, the
Boston publisher, who arrived in New
York few days since, after journey
of $4,000 miles in Europe, Asia and
Africa, former President Roosevelt will
find hunting big game in East Africa
like shooting cows in back yard"
He says that the antelopes, zebras, os-
triches, etc, are so tame that they
don't even look up when train passes.
DIR. Moses Clegg, bacteriologist of
the bureau of science at Manila, has
succeeded in cultivating the leprosy
bacillus. He used the organisms from
both living lepers and the bodies Of
victims of leprosy. The bureau of
science has prepared leprosy vaccine
and proposes to carry forward a series
of experiments for the purpose of es-
tablishing specific treatment for lep-
rosy.
A national campaign in behalf of the
good roads cause is likely to be an out
come of the ocean-to-ocean automobile
race from New York to Seattle, judg-
ing by the requests which have been
made to the pathfinders now mapping
out the course. The offer of $3.50
made by Robert Guggenheim for the
best design for trophy to cost $4,000.
has resulted in designs and models
being sent in from artists all over the
country and Canada.