Gilpin observer., 1911-10-26

date in the first election under Pueb-
los new charter, drew first position
on the ballot.
1t has been announced by President
Vallery that the threatened strike of
engineers and trainmen on the Colo
RADIO Midland railway has been called
off.
The seventh annual convention of
the National Commercial Gas Associa-
ton was held in Denver and was at
tended by delegates from all over the
nation.
County officer and private detec-
tives who have been searching for the
murdered of the Snowman family, at
Ellsworth, Kan, have given up the
hunt.
The Woodrow Wilson Democratic
Club of Colorado sprang into being at
a meeting held in the convention hall
of the Albany, in Denver. Some hun
dred men and women were present.
That women may be drafted to COM
plete the jury which is to pass upon
the guilt or innocence of James B. Nc
Namara in Los Angeles, is one of the
interesting possibilities incident to the
recent victory of woman suffrage in
California.
While hunting big game in party
of five on the Hoodoo range ten
miles from Newport, Wash, George
Davidson was accidentally shot
through the abdomen by gun held in
the hands of his son. He died in a
short time.
A man giving his name as Adrian
Lockhard held up the cashier of the
State bank at Vera, Okla, getting ST.
600. He compelled the cashier and 4
depositor to accompany him half a
mile into the country, where the two
men seized him.
Out of eleven talesmen who sat in
the jury box at the Mcnamara muir
der trial at the opening of court in
Los Angeles, only six were left when
court adjourned. OF these six it is
considered more than possible that
two or perhaps three will find them
selves on the jury when it is sworn in.
Secretary James Wilson of the De-
partment of Agriculture is opposed to
federal appropriations for building
highways, because, eff once started
it might lead to nobody knows
where" The secretary expressed the
belief that the federal aid feature is
instigated by automobile manufactur-
ers.
The forty-third annual meeting of
the Woman's Board of Missions of the
interior was held in the Plymouth
Congregational Church in Denver.
Fully 200 delegates from Colorado,
North and South Dakota, Illinois, In
diana, Iowa. Kansas, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Missouri. Nebraska, Montana,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Wyo-
ming were present.
Two Indian students were severely
injured and the main building and two
smaller buildings of the ST. Francis
mission on the Rosebud reservation
at Valentine, Neb., have bean entirely
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000
Nearly a hundred persons were in the
building when the fire started and
there were several narrow escapes.
S. Chandler Rogers. who was at
tackled by three ruffians in New York
City, the night of May /, 1897, and
thrown into the Hudson river, after
his skull had been fractured, wan
dered about the world for fourteen
years under the name of George
Kelly, and was restored to himself in
Seattle, WASH, as the result of sur
gical operation that removed pressure
upon his skull. His first act was to
write to relative and he then told
his strange story.
Ed. Suddeth, a negro, was shot to
death by IA mob of citizens at Coweta,
Okla, who had armed themselves fol-
lowing battle between blacks and
whites in which Suddeth killed j. ID.
Beavers, city attorney. and wounded
Carmen Oliver and Steller Thompson,
white men. Suddeth was wounded
and strung up to a water tank, but
was cut down before he died and
locked in vacant building. Deputy
Sheriff Flowers attempted to take The
slayer to Wagner to jail. AS the
negro was being lifted into an auto
mobile. the mob opened fire on him.
Probably fifty shots entered his body.
According to word received confer
ences held in Detroit have resulted
In steps being taken to consolidate
the Alaska-Pacific, Alaska Coast and
North Pacific Coast Steamship Com
panies. operating fourteen steam.
ers on the Pacific coast.
At meeting in Beaumont, Tex, OF
the executive committee OF the South.
ern Rice Growers Association, The
schedule of prices for rough rice were
advanced ten to fifteen cents, accord.
ing to grade. The new prices in
grades in numerical order follows:
1925, 1910. $2.S5, $3.50. $2.20 and 81.