Gilpin observer., 1910-03-03
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Barton o. Aylesworth, former presl-
dent of the Colorado Agricultural col
lege, has been engaged to lecture in
Illinois on the conditions in Colorado
since women were given the ballot.
Both houses OF the Oklahoma Legis-
lature have passed the white slave
bill, which provides a penalty of twen-
ty years imprisonment for any person
found guilty of in any way engaging
in the white slave traffic.
Captain James Lynch, ninety years
cid, the last member of the band that
rescued the survivors of the Mountain
Meadow massacre in Utah, died a few
days since at Hampton, Ark. He was
also a veteran OF the Mexican war.
Davis Bell. los years old, who was
personal friend of David Crockett,
died at Tulsa, Okla, on the 2Sth ult.
Bell had been in Texas, Indian Terri
tory and Mexico. seventy-five years
He was a veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars.
A $4O.O0O,000 railway project de-
signed to open up the west coast of
Mexico. has just been incorporated in
Delaware under the name of the Mex
lean Pacific. The line is to connect
Salin Cruz and Manzanillo and is to
nave steamer connections from Aca-
pulco to California ports.
A special committee of scientists is
making an investigation to ascertain
the stability Of the Leaning Tower at
Pisa, Italy, from the fore foundation
OF which water has been springing for
long time. This has resulted, it is
said, in weakening the understructure
of the historic tower.
In dire straits for food because of
the failure OF their food crops and
without even seed corn Tor planting,
the Tarahumare Indians of the Sierra
Madres are reported to be wandering
through the states of chihuahua and
Coahuila in Mexico. The Tarahumares
are peaceful, and follow agricultural
pursuits.
The deal whereby Martinus Thomp-
son, representing the Canadian Asbes-
tos Trust, sought to secure control OF
the Wyoming asbestos field, on Casper
mountain, is said to be off. the direc-
tors of the North American and Wyo-
ming Consolidated companies having
refused Thompson's offer of $780,
for their holdings.
Federal inquiry into methods of dis
posing of oleomargarin was ordered by
Judge X. NJ. Lands of the United
states District Court at Chicago, after
he had sentenced one of four dealers
indicted for violating the oleomargar-
inc regulations to six years in the fed
eral prison at Fort Leavenworth and
had fined him SIS 900.
Louis Paulhan, the aviator, who was
under contract to make flights with
his airship at Oklahoma City, received
4 telegram that the Wright brothers
had secured an injunction in New
York which prevents him from making
further exhibitions. Paulhan said he
matter is cleared up. He left for New
York City.
News has reached Los Angeles of
the marriage at Laguna, \. NJ, of Miss
Alice Kate Goodman. missionary who
came to Los Angeles year or more
ago from Chicago. to the Rev. Kenichi
'nazawana. pastor of a Japanese church
in Los Angeles. The bride told her
friends that she had reached the con
clusion that inter-racial marriage is
both absolutely right and concretely
wise"