Gilpin observer., 1910-11-24
GEN ERAL

GENERAL.
Salt Lake City has population OF
92.777.
Fire destroyed the business session
OF Edgemont, suburb of East st.
Louis; loss 100000.
The Iowa State University football
team won from the Washington uni
versity In st. Louis, by a score of 3S
to O.
An aeroplane flight from Havana,
Cuba. to Key West. Florida. is the
next aviation triumph which John B.
Moissant is planning.
Two hundred miners employed at
the Gibson mines near Des Moines,
Ia. struck because the company re-
fused an additional weighmaster.
Four men, the crew of the sea-going
tug Sea Prince, were drowned in San
Francisco bay, when the British steam
er Greystoke Castle rammed and sank
the tug.
River authorities In Paris announce
that the flood has reached its turning
point and may be expected to drop
steadily for two or three days unless
bad weather sets in.
The mining town of Clifton has won
over Duncan in the fight for county
seat honors of the new county OF
Greenlee, Arizona, which borders on
Grant county. New Mexico.
A disastrous wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania, resulting in the death of a loco
motive engineer and two firemen and
the injury of three other trainmen, oc-
CURED at Altoona.
The recall proposition as recon-.
mended by the majority report Of the
committee, was adopted by the Ari-
zona constitutional convention, 81 to
IL. i ..'.
Robert Woodruff. a ranchman. liv-
ing near Conrad, Mont, took arsenic
by mistake for sulphur to relieve a
sore throat He died shortly after
ward.
A single vote in q district where
more than 1900 ballots were cast No
vember 8, elected Charles Bennett
Smith. Democrat. Of Buffalo a men,
Der Of Congress.
Bad fires in two widely separated
sections of New York drove hundreds
Of perosns panic stricken, into the
streets. and caused property damage
approximated at $150,000.
Senator Charles ]. Hughes, Jr., has
received from Alfred Beirley Of Chi
cago a petition asking the senator to
lend his aid to movement to secure
in Congress the adoption Of new de-
sign for the American flag.
Twelve hundred school teachers
from all parts Of Luzerne county.
Pennsylvania, have voted to unionize
and Join the American Federation of
Labor in an effort to obtain higher
wages and better conditions.
General R. w. Hoyt. in command OF
the Department Of Texas. has been
authorized to use his discretion in
measures to preserve neutrality on the
Mexican border and has ordered cav
airy to Eagle Pass. Texas. for that
purpose.
One Of the largest land transactions
in the history Of Montana has Just
been made public. Deed has been
filed in the office of the clerk and re-
corder transferring the title to 81.
2S6.75 acres from Bert @. Shorey of
Billings. to Alfred l.. Thomas. The
consideration is stated as about $780,
900.
The secretary of the interior, Rich.
ard A. Ballinger. dressed in overalls
and cap. descended 45O feet into the
Rachel mine Of the Pittsburg and Buff
falo Coal Company at Mariana, Pa.
and thoroughly inspected what are
supposed to be the most modernly
equipped underground workings in tho
world.
| In raids 30 important that Postmas.
ter General Hitchcock took charge In
person, his inspectors raided two con-
Germs In New York. which they
charge with swindling the public out
Of more than $40. 100000 by fraudulent
use Of the mails. l-t
E. s. Springer. manager of the
Leavenworth Light, Heat & Power
Company. and e. G. Pickers of New
York. one Of the owners of the
company. were killed in Leavenworth
Kans.. when train backing at a rapid
rate Of speed crashed into the automo-
! bile In which they were riding.