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Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

Cheraw will have an alfalfa mill.
Grover has new commercial club.
Hartman has voted to incorporate.
Denver has 1900 automobiles; $50
motorcycles. '
Greeley will have = new $4,000
Baptist church.
A new brass band has been. organ.
ized at Fowler.
Kersey expects to be electrically
lighted soon.
Wray will vote on a $4,000 water
works proposition.
Denver bank clearings last week
were $10.347.O0o.
The anti-salooners at Windsor have
nominated ticket.
Greeley's big sewer, to cost $4,000,
will employ 500 men four months.
The Las Animas Motorcycle Club
has voted to build a saucer track.
The fourth woman's club was or
ganized at Lake City last week.
La veta will vote on $4,000 bond
issue to improve its waterworks.
The Union Pacific's Pleasant Valley
branch will be extended to Purcell.
The new Holyoke electric light
plant is nearly ready for operation.
Daniel Wells, an old resident of Sa
Ida, died Friday, aged eighty-one.
A petition for new water company
franchise was filed in Denver Tues
day.
The Vail Hotel Company, capitalized
at 100000, has been organized at Pu.
eblo.
The penalty for selling liquor in
Greeley has been fixed at from $50 to
5000.
A Gentleman's Riding and Driving
Club has been Incorporated at Lead
vile.
Reports from the fruit districts are
that the 1910 crop will be the biggest
ever.
The new $275.ooo postoffice at Col
orado Springs has been opened fol
business.
A big musical festival is being
planned for the Denver Auditorium
April 1921.
| 1t is said that mountain sheep can
he seen any day on Democrat noun
tain, near Georgetown.
The First National Bank CT Gill
with $4,000 capital, was authorized in
Washington Tuesday.
1t is reported that the Pullman Com
pany intends to build new shops at
Sable, near Denver.
Dennis j. Foley, an Alamosa duck
hunter. is in the hospital as the result
of an accidental shot.
The United Hydro-Electric Company
will extend Its transmission line from
| Georgetown to Lawson.
Word from Khartoum, Tuesday. was
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND TRAIN
JUMPS TRAcK-sPREADINa
RAILS CAUSE.
THREE CARS SMASHED
OMoKER AND DAY COACH TELE.
scoPED AND HARDLY AN
OCCUPANT ESCAPED.

Marshalltown, Ia.-Forty-five per-
sons were killed and 3s were injured.
many Of them fatally, In wreck of a
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train
four and half miles north of Green
Mountain, Ia, Tuesday morning.
The train. which was a consolida-
ton Of one from Chicago and one from
st. Louis, bound for Minneapolis, was
being detoured over the tracks Of the
Chicago Great Western road.
Running at about thirty miles an
hours in a cut north of Green Noun
tain, 1t struck a spread rail. it is be-
neved.
The pilot locomotive jumped the
track and with terrific force was
buried in an embankment of soft clay.
A second locomotive coupled behind
the first rolled over and the impact
Of the sudden stoppage hurled all the
rear cars forward.
A coach, smoker and Pullman
car were smashed to splinters, almost
all the occupants being killed or in
5ured.
The superstructure Of the Pullman
WdS llItIdlly 5hdNCu Oll anu W GO
jammed like ramrod through the
smoker and day coach.
Many passengers were apparently
killed outright.
The wreckage was almost crimson
with blood, some Of the bodies being
crushed beyond recognition by the
mass of twisted rails and splintered
ears.
Decapitated bodies were picked up
and it was almost impossible to assort
correctly the dismembered parts.
The wreck occurred at point diff
cult to reach with prompt relief. Such
bodies as could be pulled out were
stretched out in an adjoining pasture.
But first attention was given to the
wounded. The cries Of these coming
from beneath the cars and from places
which were walled in, were pitiable.
Fortunately the wreckage did not
take fire.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

that Colonel Roosevelt would probably
visit Denver In August.
The farmers around Mount Hope
have organized q telephone company.
They will connect with Wray. '
A movement Is afoot in Denver to
have moving picture shows, arcades
and window cards censored
Judge George W. Allen was elected
chairman of the Denver city Republi.
can committee Tuesday night.
Eli Dewey, aged II. relative Of
Admiral George Dewey. was killed by
Santa Fe train near Lamar. Friday.
r. A. Huleatt, near Loveland, har-
vested his dry farm corn crop and
learned he had forty bushels to the
acre.
The Elk River Anthracite Railway
Company has been incorporated at
Steamboat Springs. capitalized at
$4,000.
Denver papers believe that q new
| smelling, concern is preparing to do
business in Colorado and that Dennis
Sheedy will have a good deal to do
with it.
| The federal authorities will soon be-
gin proceedings to recover the price Of
about 100000 feet of timber which
has been cut from the public domain
and, used by different mines in this
state.
total of $4,000 horsepower will
be the generating capacity of the two
plants OF the Central Colorado Power
Company, after July 1st. on which
I date the company's Boulder or Neder-
land plant will be ready to turn on.
BY the vote Of stockholders. at their
adjourned meeting at Colorado
Springs, Tuesday, A. L. Burris and as
sociates retain control Of the Ell Paso
company.
At Marshall, Monday, R. e. Walker.
a farmer, had part Of a thumb bitten
off by Tony Girardo. teamster. who
had been beating his team with .
shovel, when Walker interfered.
The following new Colorado post
masters have been appointed: Phipps-
burg, Routt county. Agnes X. Parfitt.
vice NJ. M. Whitney, resigned Radi.
ant, Fremont county. Charles E. King
er, vice G. F Purdum, resigned; River
Bend, Elbert county. Benjamin E. Kes.
Ter, vice NJ. O'Connor, resigned.
Colorado Springs.-A rare old book.
printed in London in 1868, and a rifle
captured from an Indian chief at the
battle of Sand Creek. have been pre-
sented to the Ell Paso County Pioneer
Museum by S. NJ Busard. a ranchman,
and Henry Templeton. The first ros-
ter of Colorado Springs Post No. %.
G. A. r., issued July "a, 1888, for the
G. A. r. national encampment at Den
| yer. has also been donated.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Jack johnson win begin training in
April.
Democrats claim gains in several
New York city elections this week.
Paul Morton has been appointed vice
president of the Pan-American Rail
| way.
Fire destroyed 100000 worth OF
mills and elevators at New Ulm, Min
nesota.
President Taft was a guest of the
University Club, Albany, N. Y. Satur-
day night.
The Carnegie steel plants in Penn
sylvania and Ohio will hereafter be
closed down Sundays.
The Philadelphia carmen Sunday
voted to repudiate the offer of the rail-
way company and continue the strike.
Frank Hartman has resigned as
general manager Of the Illinois Cen
tral.
Weston is several days ahead of his
schedule on his walk across the con-
tinent.
The Standard Oil Company on Tues
day paid its quarterly divident of SIS
share.
The prohibition constitutional
amendment will not be submitted to
vote this year.
Sam Langford knocked out Jim
Flynn in the eighth round at Los An
geles Thursday.
AS the result Of race war. two me-
groes were lynched at Marion, Arkan-
sas. Friday morning.
| Heavy frosts in Alabama Wednesday
and Thursday night did great damage
to early vegetable crops.
James A. Patten, the wheat king,
that he was mobbed in Manchester.
A movement has been started to
erect handsome memorial to EXPIRES
ident Cleveland at Princeton, New
Jersey.
Conferences between the warning fac.
tions in Philadelphia Tuesday failed to
result in any advance toward peace.
A special committee OF the Cana.
dian Parliament has reported favora.
bly, bill to prohibit bookmaking on
all race tracks In Canada.
Registrations for the Chicago city
election number over 100000. three
times the usual. The wet.or.dry issue
will be prominent.
After cutting every telephone and
telegraph line leading out OF the town.
cracksmen early Tuesday blew open
the vault in the Bank OF Brookland.
Ark, securing $2,500
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
FOREIGN NEWS.

Colonel Roosevelt expects to arrive
at Paris about April 25th.
1t is reported that an edict for a
constitutional government has been is.
sued in China.
Col. w. J. Bryan has been banquet
ed by the minister OF foreign affairs
at Rio de Janeiro.
David Lloyd George has gone to
Brighton for rest, after his strenu-
GUS work of the past six months.
Colonel Roosevelt will arrive in
Rome April Sd; Paris, April 21st; Ber-
lin, April 8th, and will be in London
about the 18th.
Rear Admiral Bacon. who command
ed the original Dreadnaught, predicts
the size of the future vessel of this
type will be increased fifty per cent.
The government proposes to inter-
vene in the Bethlehem Steel Company
strike, where large number of men
have been out for four weeks. An Of
ficial of the department of commerce
and labor has gone to South Bethle.
hem, Pa, and will go over the situa.
tion carefully.
The Portuguese governor of the Az
ores cabled from Horta. island of Fay
al. that the Portuguese bark reported
Wednesday as lost in storm off Pico
island was loaded with emigrants
bound for America. Forty lives were
lost. ,Twenty-three Of the passengers
and crew were saved. The bodies OF
twenty-eight persons have been
washed ashore.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
News Summary of the Past Week

| President Taft has proclaimed that
France is entitled to the minimum tar
iff rates under the Payne-Aldrich law.
A number of changes will be made
in the railroad bill. This announce
ment after conference of Senate
leaders with Secretary Wickersham.
Denver postoffice bids were opened
Tuesday. There were eighteen. 1t is
believed Colorado marble will be used.
The lowest bid for this material was
$1,362,1s2.
President Taft on Tuesday sent a
special message to Congress urging
the adoption OF measures for the pro.
lection OF seals on the islands of st.
Paul and st. George.
A naval board of inquiry is at work
at the Charlestown navy yard investi.
masters safe on board the United
States gunboat Castine.
The House committe on naval af.
fairs has favorably reported a bill ap-
propriating 100000 to raise the wreck
of the battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor. The action was taken on the
statement of the navy department that
the wreck was a menace to naviga.
tion.
The Navy Department has ordered
the taking over from the contractors
the new big battleships the Delaware
and the North Dakota, sister ships Of
$1,000 tons each. The Delaware will
be commissioned at Norfolk, April
4th. and the North Dakota at Boston.
two days later.
The proposal to have Congress re.
ward Commander Peary for his discov.
cry of the North pole met with an.
other set back in the House committee
on naval affairs Tuesday and incident.
ly Representative Englebright Of Cal.
ifornia, his principal advocate In the
committee. was badly outvoted. E
According to close friends OF Miss
Agnes p. Gerard. the Daughters Of the
American Revolution clerk, who was
discharged for alleged insubordination
by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, the presi.
dent general, Miss Gerard will soon
institute suit for 1Iander against Mrs.
Scott and sue for 100000 damages.
Satisfied that the present methods
of operating its smelters by the Ana,
conda Copper Mining Company are not
only destructive Of the surrounding ma.
tural forests, but unnecessary, Attorn.
ey General Wickersham has caused a
bill in equity to be filed Mt Helena,
Mont, against the company. The bill
asks for permanent injunction to
compel the company to operate Its
plant at Anaconda In such a manner
as to end the destruction complained
Of.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
WESTERN NEWS.

The Nebraska County Option
League has been organized.
Forty bodies of the Wellington ava
lanche victims have been identified.
Fire insurance rates have been cut
nearly one-half by the Texas Rating
Board.
A lower freight rate from the Wns'
to Utah and Wyoming points has been
announced.
The main building of Cherokee Sem.
mary at Talequah, Oklahoma, was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday.
George Sinkford, John Overman and
Charles Dideen were killed in a mine
day.
Manuel Taylor, negro. has confessed
that he killed Mrs. Mary Albert, pro
prietor of grocery in Kansas City,
Kan, Monday.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has
been forced by illness to take a rest
His action on forty-two bills is there
by postponed.
The Southwest Shippers Traffic AS
sociation presented their grievances to
a member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission at Kansas City, Friday.
A nerve specialist who examined
Thomas F. Walsh at San Antonio Tex.
as, has expressed the belief that Mr..
Walsh's condition is not serious.
Judge Rice of Deadwood has issued
an injunction against the union min
ers interfering with the employees of
the Golden Reward Company by "eith-
er word, act or sign"
High water in the Missouri river
bottoms near Glencoe, North Dakota,
will cause damages of 100000. Fears
are felt for three families in the in
undated tract.
The secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to
construct structures of various types at
numerous places along laterals under
the North Platte irrigation project in
Nebraska and Wyoming. The struc-
lures consist of concrete drops. turn
out gates, bridge piers. culverts,
fumes. ETC.. and 1t is estimated that
the total cost will be about 100000.
Seventy.five leading citizens Of San
Francisco were chosen Tuesday to act
as members Of the general finance
committee Of the Panama-Pacific ex
position to be held in that city to cele.
brate the opening Of the Panama can.
al. w. B. Bourn. president OF the
Spring Valley Water Company, was
elected chairman. He called a meet.
ing to devise means for the collection
Of $5.000.000 with which to begin &C.
tual operations.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
New Pharmacists.

Announcement was made Wednes
day that in the examination held by
the State Board of Pharmacy, March
11th and 18th, the following have
Frank w. Autrey, Dave Berlaud
Henry Foss, P. G. Frandsen, Ernest j
Goldworthy, L. M. Gwinn, T. B. Hack
Ter. Henry Hendrickson, Anthony Hol
lebrand, E. Hoffman, Ernest E. Hunt
George Cooper Moore. M. Robbins
Maggie Rothwell, Steinbruner, Wiltz
B. Tribe, Emanuel Trattner, c. E
Walton, Frank Woodford, e. A
Yount, William Kreamer, A. E. Ham
mer.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Prof. H. S. Evans, dean of the engin-
eering department Of the State uni
versity, and Professors Hunter, Will
liams. jenkins, Sullivan and Stocker,
the engineering students of the senior
and junior classes have started on the
sixth annual inspection trip to visit
the larger mechanical installations in
various cities of the state. Denver,
Georgetown and Idaho Springs will be
visited.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Indications are that the vote of the
Western Federation of Miners to affil-
late with the American Federation OF
Labor will be practically unanimous.
The Chicago City Council has de-
cided, at least for the present, that
it would be inexpedient to attempt to
regulate the length Of women's hat
pins by law.
The Geological Surveys estimated
production of silver in 1909 OF 55.s49,-
900 fine ounces, valued at $2s,0lO, 100,
indicates an increase of 1,40S,2O0 fine
ounces in quantity, but decrease in
value over the product of 1908 Of
$4O,50O.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
A Good Showing.

Denver.-The annual report OF the
State Railroad Commission, issued
last week, shows a particularly flat
tering record for the Colorado &
Southern during the year just ended.
No passengers were killed and only
three injured, although several million
passengers were carried over the va
rious lines of the company during the
year.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Mystery Probably Cleared up

Telluride.-Two skeletons found in
the mountains Saturday night were
partially identified today as the re-
mains of two boys. Frank Jane, aged
IA, and Ernest Donaldson, aged 9,
who mysteriously dropped out of sight
June /, 1908, and whose disappearance
has since remained an unsolved mys-
terry. It is presumed they had endeav-
ored to climb to an eagles nest, about
which there had been considerable
talk. and had slipped down q preci-
pice to their deaths. The parents of
the boys were miners who have moved
away, their present whereabouts be-
ing unknown.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Bio Irritation Project.

Greeley.-The contract was let Fri.
day for the Stove Prairie reservoir,
which will have a capacity of 1,500..
OOO,O cubic feet of water and be built
directly across the Poudre river about
forty miles northeast of here. The
dam will be solid granite wall. Not
only will flood and river water be i'm
pounded, but many small mountain
streams will be drained into it. The
contract price was 100000.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Gold Strike Near Fort Collins.

Fort Collins.-Reports Of a gold
strike which promises to reveal a rich
district comes from Bald Mountain,
where c. c. Hollister, formerly of this
city. with associates, has purchased
several claims yielding ore assaying
from 5000 to $4,000 per ton in gold.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Pensions to presidents' Widows.

Washington.-The Senate committee
On pensions Monday agreed to report
favorably bills to grant pensions OF
$4,000 year to Frances Folsom Cleve.
land, widow OF Grover Cleveland. and
Mary Lord Harrison, widow Of BenJa.
min Harrison.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

GoIden-LittIeton irrigation District.
Golden.-An official call was issued
Friday by the directors of the Golden
Littleton Irrigation district for an elec-
ton April 9th. when residents of the
district are to vote again upon rati-
fication of the Camfield contract, in
volving $4,o0O,OoO. and whether bonds
of the district for $55O,OOO shall be is
sued.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Senator Daniel Improving.

Daytona, Fla.-The condition of
United States Senator Daniel of Vir-
ginia, who has been lingering between
life and death here for some days, is
improved. Sunday afternoon the SEN
Ator was nearly conscious for about
an hour and the attending physicians
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Company I to be Mustered Out

Company I to be Mustered Out.
Fort Morgan.-At a meeting here at
tended by Major Lee Of the Colorado
National Guard, 1t was decided to
abandon the proposed reorganization
Of Company l and the company will
be mustered out. The company was
rganized about eight years ago, and
for six years was considered one of
the best companies in the state.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
JOHN W. DANIEL
United States Senator from VIRGINIA.
felt encouraged enough to issue the

felt encouraged enough to issue the
the following bulletin:
Senator Daniels condition tonight
shows but slight change since morn
ing. His periods of consciousness
have been much more satisfactory to-
day than previously. There has been
. slight movement Of the paralyzed
arm today. Pulse. respiration and tenn
perature continue favorable. Kidneys
and bowels are in good condition. He
takes satisfactory amount Of nour-
ishment."
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
NEWS FROM WARRINGTON.

Senior Murguindo, Uruguayan con.
sui general. died Wednesday.
The white slave" bill will become
a law as soon as signed by the presi'
dent. 90"
A protocol bearing upon the bound.
ary differences between Costa Rico
and Panama has been signed.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

An aching back is instantly
relieved by an application Of
Sloan's Liniment.
This liniment takes the place
of massage and is better than
sticky plasters. 1t penetrates
without rubbing = through
the skin and muscular tissue
right to the bone, quickens the
blood, relieves congestion, and
gives permanent as well as
temporary relief.
Here's the Proof.
Mr.. JAMES q. LEE, of 100 9th St..
Sc, Washington, DC, writes "Thirty
years ago fell from scaffold and serf-
ously injured my back. 1 suffered terri
bly, at times; from the small of my back
All around my stomach was Just as II
had been beaten with n club. l used
every plaster could got with no relief.
Sioan's Liniment took the pain right
out, and l can now do as much ladder
work as any man In tho shop, thanks to
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Ditch at Panama Is Booming.

Washington.-Work on the Panama
canal is booming. More material was
taken out of the Culebra cut last
month than in any other February
since ground was first broken for the
canal. The total was 1,259,413 cubic
yards and the daily average 54,757.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
To Protect the Name

Greeley.-Greeley spud growers will
take action to prevent other potatoes
than those grown in that district to
be sold under the pane Greeley po-
tatoes."
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Leather Workers Strike.

Kansas City.-Prospects for an ear
ly settlement of the Leather Work.
ers' strike, which went into effect on
Monday In all sections of the United
States except the East, are good.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Lookout Mountain Electric Road.
Golden.-At its next meeting the
City Council will be petiuoned for a
franchise for an electric railway to the
top Of Lookout mountain.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Auto Road Commenced.

Boulder.-Work has commenced on
the road between here and Louisville,
which is to become part Of main
thoroughfare and automobile route be-
tween Boulder and Denver.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Difficult Choice.

(which do you prefer" said the idle
conversationalist, life in the country
or in the city?"
I'm not sure" answered Miss Cay
enne. ut depends on whether I am
in a mood to be attacked by a COW
or a trolley car"
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
War on Washers.

Denver.-The police have declared
war on "mashers" and eight youths
we're Jailed Sunday. r"
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Engineering Students to Inspect.
Boulder-Under the direction c
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Broadmoor Leased. .

Colorado Springs-Manager W. o.
Brinker Of the Acacia hotel has leased
The Broadmoor hotel and casino, which
has been in his charge for several
summers.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Prospective Tenant (noticing sew
eral inches Of water in the cellar)-
My, this cellar leaks.
Landlord-It don't leak a drop. That
water has been in here for two
months and not a single drop has es-
caped
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Sporting Definition.

Tommy-Pop, what is hope?
Tommys Pop.-Breaking pair to
draw to a flush, my son.-Philadelphi
Record.
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24
Sloans
Liininnent

Mr.. j. p. EVANS, of Mt. Airy, Ga.
says: "After being afflicted for three
years with rheumatism, I used Sloan's
Liniment, and was cured sound and
well, and am glad to say haven't been
Srouoled with rheumatism since. My
leg was badly swollen from my hin to
my knee. One-half a bottle took ths
palm and sWellln0 ont '~S
Gilpin observer., 1910-03-24

Sloan's Liniment
has no equal as q
remedy for Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia
or any pain or
stiffness in the
muscles or joints.
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