Gilpin observer., 1910-02-03
WESTERN NEWS.

n edTIuQudke SHOCK was IelU
at bakersfield, Calf, January 2Sth.
The Transcontinental Passenger
Association has announced it's inten-
ton of charging for next summer the
same colonist rates from Chicago to
Pacific coast points as last year.
The jury in the case of Frederick
w. keitel and Franklin P. Fay, tried
in the United States Court at Denver
on the charge of conspiracy to defraud
the government of coal lands in Routt
county, Colo, brought in verdict of
not guilty.
High prices for food in Chicago are
driving children to work. In the last
three month 1000 more permits have
been asked of the state factory inspec-
tors office than in the corresponding
three months year ago. This is an
increase of more than thirty-three per
cent.
The Senate of Illinois has passed
the direct plurality primary bill which
carries the Gibson amendment provid-
ing for the blanket ballot. The Glib
son amendment provides that the vot-
er need not state his party affiliation
and may secretly vote any primary
party ticket he chooses, but must con-
fine himself to only one party column.
Governor Spry of Utah, on his re-
turn from Washington, where he at
tended the convention Of governors, in
reply to questions in regard to the
Jeffries-Johnson fight, said: II see no
reason for changing my position in
the matter. AS have repeatedly stat
ed, there will positively be no fight in
Utah while l am governor"
Miss Annie Barber, formerly of Col
orado Springs, has been chosen by the
new sultan of Turkey to devise a new
heating plant for the royal palace. one
Of the largest and most magnificent
structures in the world. She is in Lon
don, where she is the manager of
big contracting firm. She is sister
of T. P. and William Barber, Colorado
Springs architects.
That the San Pedro, Los Angeles G
Salt Lake Railroad Company will be
out of the trans-continental business
at least year, was the announcement
made at Los Angeles by officials of
that system, following the completion
of an investigation to determine the
recent flood damage along the right of
way. 1t was found that eighty miles
OF track had been washed out in Ne
vada.
The question of the validity Of the
California statute which provides the
death penalty for a life term convict
who assaults guard or fellow con-
vict, has been placed before the
United States Supreme Court by Chief
Justice Beatty Of the State Supreme
Court, who has granted writ of error
in the case Of Jacob Oppenheimer the
San Quentin convict under sentence
&c hang for assaulting fellow con-
vict.
ponent for twenty-six miles and al
lowing him to take the pace at all
times, Dorando Pietro, the Italian Mar
athon runner, went to the front in the
last two laps of his race with Johnny
Hayes of New York at San Francisco
and won with sixty yards to spare. The
time of the race was two hours, forty
one minutes and thirty-five seconds,
which is within forty-five seconds of
the record.
Following the sensational story from
Los Angeles that 800 babies had been
provided homes in that city without
the supposed fathers" knowing but
what they were their own flesh and
blood, came the statement at Chicgao
Of Treasurer Lyman w. Rogers of the
National Maternity hospital. that there
are in Chicago fully 5000 husbands
fondling infants that are not their own.
but babies adopted by their wives
and the deluded fathers are none the
wiser.