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Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS in THIS AND FOR.
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOiNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Robert G. Fowler, the transcontinen-
tai aviator, whose machine failed him
at ColfaX, Calf, has his machine
ready for flight and has resumed his
eastward journey.
1t has been announced by Judge
Walter Bordwell of Los Angeles that
the trial of John j. and James B. Nc
Namara, alleged dynamiter conspira-
tors, would begin October 11th.
An out-of-town friend of the House
of Good Shepherd has offered 100000
in cash toward the new home being
erected in Denver for the institution,
on the condition that like amount be
raised in Denver by the Sisters.
At realistic wild west celebration
at Pendleton. Ore, Buffalo" Vernon,
cowboy, succeeded in leaping from
the back of galloping horse to the
horns of steer, wrestling the animal
to the ground and holding it down,
in one minute and thirteen seconds.
Uncle Sans next big land lottery
will be in South Dakota October 2nd
to October 21st, inclusive, when 1885,
562 acres of land in the Rosebud and
Pineridge reservations will be offered
to land seekers. Gregory, Dallas,
Chamberlain and Rapid City will be
the registration points.
Edmond H. Madison, representative
from the Seventh Kansas district in
Congress, died at the breakfast table
at his home in Dodge City, Kans.
Nod xx-hi1 ti,c
breakfast with his wife. He did not
utter a word after the first attack. A
physician reached the house in few
minutes, but death had preceded him.
The cause was given as heart disease.
William ]. Bryan, who owns farm
of 200 acres in the valley of the Lower
Rio Grande near Mission, Tex, made
such a success raising Bermuda onions
and other products that he has turned
his handsome new country residence
over for the use of his superintendent
and family and has had plans prepared
for a more magnificent new home for
himself. He will erect the house this
fall at cost of $25,000.
En- route from San Francisco To New
York, Aviator, Bob" Fowler, met with
the first mishap of his pioneer cross
country aerial voyage at Alta, Calf.
when. in trying to make a landing.
necessitated by a refractory engine
and steering gear, his biplane collided
with two trees, hurling it to the
ground and slightly injuring the
dauntless birdman. Both planes of the
craft and it's two propellers were
broken and Fowler will be delayed
here several days before he can re-
sume his eastward journey.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
FOREIGN.

The national printing works were
destroyed by fire at Rio Janeiro. and
the damage is estimated at $4,000, 900.
Lieut.. II. A. Cammel, of the British
aviation school at Marlborough, Eng
land, was killed while making a flight
at Hendon
The Russian premier, Peter A.
Stolypin, died from the bullet wounds
of an assassin during gala perform.
ance at the municipal theater In Kiev
An imperial edict issued says the
ring-leaders in the disorders in Szcch
uen province, China, intended to pro.
claim Independence. AS conse,
quence, the Chinese government has
ordered the viceroy to destroy the
rebels to the last man.
The eruption of Mt. Etna seems to
be losing some of its activity and the
earthquakes are less frequent but the
immense flood of lava which mas
spread down the mountain continues
It's destruction. There are five
streams stretching for miles over the
country.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21

drastic step of "suspending the consti-
tutional guarantees" throughout the
whole country. This means martial
law.
"The grave measure we have taken
Is absolutely imperative, not only for
the defense of public institutions, but
for society ITSELF" said Premier Cana
lejas. 1.-The suspension of the consti-
tutional guarantee has been decided
upon by the government in the pres
ence OF a movement Enthusiastically rev.
olutionary and anarchistic in charac-
ter-a movement 1t may be assumed
directed against all social order"
All meetings have been forbidden
The Spanish government has long
been aware that some such movement
was contemplated for the end of Sep
tember but was unwilling to take radi-
cal measures until its true nature was
apparent. The movement was support
ed by the Socialists and possibly by
the extreme Republican party, and
was directed by committee composed
OF Spaniards and foreigners, with
headquarters at Barcelona.
Emissaries were sent out through.
out the peninsula with Instructions to
foment general strikes In all the prov.
inces. the object being to paralyze the
life of the nation by stopping all pub
lie services. The government laid
plans accordingly and is resoiveu OF,
the re-establishment Of order as rap
idly as possible, and at any cost.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
KING SIGNS DECREE sUsPENDING
THE NATIONAL
GUARANTEE.
GENERAL STRIKE CALLED
MOVEMENT SAID TO BE REvOLU-
TIoNARY-PuBLlc SER
VICE STOPPED.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Madrid.-A crisis equal in gravity
to that following the riots in BARGE
Iona in 1909 is the situation Spain is
now facing. The agitation and the
power of the agitators on the masses
have increased in proportion to the
rigor of the repressive measures un-
dertaken by the government
King Alfonso has signed a decree
suspending the national guarantees
throughout Spain. This is equivalent
to declaring the country under martial
law.
What at its origin was purely la
Dor movement, has now developed into
revolutionary conflict, a commune
having actually been proclaimed at
two towns near Valencia. At these
places the authorities were driven out
of the districts.
The affiliated trades unions have de-
cided to call general strike through
out Spain, and the government, aban-
doning the tone of optimism hereto.
fore maintained, decided upon the
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21

to feel better when l had taken only
one bottle of Compound, but kept on
as was afraid to stop too soon. Mrs.
SADIE MULLEN, 2728 N. B. St., Ell
wood, Ind.
why will women take chances with
an operation or drag out q sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths Of the Joy Of living, when they
can find health in Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compoundp
For thirty years 1t has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
has cured thousands of women who
have been troubled with such all
ments as displacements, Inflammation.
liberation, fbroid tumors. irregulari-
ties, periodic pains, backache, indiges-
hon, and nervous prostration.
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound will help yOus
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass, for advice. Your letter
will be absolutely CONFIDENTIAL
and the advice free.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Denver Loses Out.

Denver.-Denver will be little
further off the railroad map of the
country in the future, so far as being
on a through line between the East
and the West is concerned. This
state of affairs has been brought
about by the refusal of the Southern
Pacific, the Western Pacific and the
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railroads to handle the through cars
of the Burlington and Rock Island
entering Salt Lake or Ogden. via the
Denver G Rio Grande from Denver.
The trouble is caused by disagree
ment over the division of passenger
rates.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
SPORT.
LEAGUE STANDING.

Tommy Murphy of New York and
Pal Moore of Philadelphia fought 12
rounds to a draw in Boston.
Work ON a new $250,O00 grand
stand for the Cincinnati National
league baseball park has begun.
Jos. Mandot of New Orleans was
awarded the decision over Tommy
Kilbane of Cleveland after eight
rounds of fast fighting in Memphis,
Tenn.
Asowa, the first Japanese to play
on an American football team, so far
as known, will be given place as a
regular member of the freshman team
of Leland Stamford university in Cali.
fornia.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman.
fought winning battle of ten terrific
rounds with Carl Morris, the gigantic
heavyweight of Oklahoma, at Madison
Square Gardens, n. Y.
Both the Wright and Curtiss schools
steadfastly refuse to teach feminine
pupils at any price, but woman is
gradually forcing her way into the
hazardous game of aviation, and fol.
lowers of the sport are discussing
with interest the report that Mrs
Ralph Johnstone of Kansas City,
whose husband met death at Denver
is soon going to New York to master
the craft that widowed her.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Qualified Prayer.

Marion's mother was Ill. and ths
aunt who took her place at the head
Of the household piled the children
with unaccustomed and sometimes dis
liked articles of diet. One day, after
being compelled to eat onions. Marion
refused to say grace.
Then you must sit at the table un.
til you are ready to say it," was the
aunt's stern judgment An hour or
80 later, when the brilliant sunshine
and impatient calls Of her comrades
together comprised an Irresistible ap-
peal. Marion capitulated-thus:
"Oh, Lord, make me thankful for
having had to eat horrid old onions,
II you can do 1t. But know you
can't"
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Bio Rather Suicides.

Grand Junction.-A twenty-two-inch
rattlesnake captured alive by H. A.
Rich and Milton Clifford and placed in
large bottle, rather than be held cap
tive, committed suicide by biting its
body nearly in two several inches
above it's rattles.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Ouray Man Ends Life.

Ouray-James Law, living at Port
land, four miles north of here, took
strychnine and sat down to await its
effects. His wife became suspicious
and questioned him. but he deceived
her. Soon afterward he fell in a
spasm, when she telephoned for doc
tor, who tried to conteract the effect
of the poison, without avail, Law dy-
ing soon afterwards.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
GEN NERAL.

Complete official returns from the
special elections shows Maine voted
wet by 26 votes.
The wholesale price of refined su-
gar in Chicago now stands at 7H
cents pound, the highest price in
90 years.
The third aviator to start on the
transcontinental race, C. P. Rogers,
has started from New York to San
Francisco.
Farmers are fleeing in boats from
the lowlands near the Marmilton
river, at Nevada, Mo-, which is high
than ever before.
AS the result of an explosion of
ether. in Philadelphia, nine persons
were fatally injured and property
damaged $4,000.
A 12-year-old child was run over and
instantly killed by Thomas A. Edison's
automobile at Lauf, Bavaria, short
distance from Nuremburg, a special
despatch to New York from Lauf says.
Four members of the family of
Frank Klein. Rockfield. Wis, were
killed. one is dying and another was
injured when the Klein automobile
was struck by 500 line train at Ger
mantown, Wis.
Nominally it is between Germany
and France that relations are strained.
Really it is between Germany and
England. To predict early hostilities
would be going too far There IS
possibility of them-no more.
Two persons were killed and third
probably fatally injured when street
car leaped from the tracks and
plunged over a hundred-foot hill in
Kansas City. There were but the
three passengers in the car.
From the branch of the Bank Of
Montreal in Westminster. B. c.,
S315,000 was stolen. Five buglars en-
tered the bank by the front door,
broke through the thin metal coating
of the vault, blew the safe by charges
Of nitroglycerine and got away with
their booty.
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
in the Department of Agriculture, DR..
Harvey w. Wiley, will not be asked to
resign by President Taft, despite rec
concentrations to that effect made by
the personnel board of the department
and Endorsed by Attorney General
Wickersham.
Not to be out done by the British pos
tai authorities in the carrying of mails
through the air, Postmaster General
Hitchcock gave his consent to the es-
tablishment of an experimental aero
plane mail route between a branch OF
the Brooklyn, n. Y, postoffce and
the aerodrome at Nassau boulevard,
Long Island, during the international
aviation meet, which will be held
there from Sept. 2S to Oct. l.
C. p. Rodgers and ]. j. Ward, the
aviators who are flying to the Pacific |
coast from New York for the Hearst
prize of $4,000, are companions in |
misfortune. Rodgers flyer is wreck |
at Middletown, where he landed after |
an initial flight of about so miles from |
the Sheepshead bay race track. and |
Ward is at Corning, about $50 miles |
from New York, with the engine of his |
machine so badly burned that it is
useless.
One member of stag" joy riding
party in Memphis. Tenn. was killed
outright and the other five were fatal.
Iy injured when their automobile
turned turtle in rounding curve on
he motor speedway in Riverside park.
going a mile n minute.
Captain Paul Beck, of the United
States army. Is the aviator who will
carry the first special delivery mail
sack that has ever been transported
through the air. He will make trips
twice daily from Nassau boulevard,
Long Island, TO Brooklyn.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Shoe Men Indicted.

Boston. - SIX men connected
with the United Shoe Machinery
Company have been indicted by the
federal grand jury for alleged viola.
tions of the Sherman antitrust law.
The indictments allege maintenance
of unlawful combination in restraint
OF trade .r.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Three Buried In Deep Mine.

Leadville.-Entombed $50 feet he.
low the surface when the No. so shaft
of the Morning Star mine caved IN,
three Finnish miners communicated
the news of their perilous situation
and started the work of rescue. which
it is believed will be successful.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Trains Delayed to Save "Hobo."

Limon.-The humanity OF corpora.
tions was strikingly exemplified when
the Rock Island railroad disarranged
its entire schedule. sidetracked i'm
portant trains, and ordered out spe-
cial caboose and engine to convey a
dying "hobo" from Limon Junction to
Denver.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO
ALL COLORADO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News servic,
COMING EVENTS.

COMINU EN EINTSe
lara.
September 26-29-Las Animas Coun-
ty Fair-Trinidad.
September 2S. 80. 30-Public Lands
convention-Denver.
September 25-3O-Mesa County In
dustrial and Fruit Association-Grand
Junction.
September 2s-Old Settlers Reunion
and Pumpkin Pie Feast-Longmont.
September 2S-30-Sedgwick County
Fair-Julesburg.
September 28-30-San Luis Valley
Fair-Alamosa.
october 4. 8, 6 and 7-El Paso Coun-
ty Fair--Calhan.
October 1920 international Dry
Farming Congress and International
Congress of Farm Women-Colorado
Springs.
October 14-21-Second Annual Show.
Colorado Electric Club. Denver.
Nov. 14-16.-American Apple Con-
gress, Denver.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
District Court convenes.

Hahn's Peak.-The September term
Peak with an exceptionally light
docket and only four or five criminal
cases.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Entombed Miners Rescued.

Leadville.-The three miners who
were entombed by cave-in in shaft
No. of the Morning Star mine were
brought to the surface, after an i'm
prisonment lasting fifty-seven hours.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
olathe Ships 24s Cars Potatee es.

Olathe.-Olathe's potato crop still
sets the pace for Colorado. the total
shipments to date being 243 cars,
which represent value of approxi-
mately $4,000, which has been distrib-
uted among the farmers of this local
ity.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Circuit Court Judge Resigns.

Chicago.-Peter S. Grosscup, pre-
siding judge of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals of the Sew
enth District. has announced to his as
sociates that he would resign about
October 1st and resume the practice
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Deer leavinu Hills.

Meeker, Colo.-Heavy frost In thii
section have caused an appreciable
movement OF the deer from the hills.
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
Wlfeiy Sarcasm.

II hear they are wearing nothing
but old clothes at Plunkville-under-
the-Peak. That's the place for you to
go, wife"
Yes. I can take seven trunks Of
old clothes. II old clothes are the
racket. can make a splurge."
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
How to Find Fault.

Find fault, when you must find
fault, in private; and some time
after the offense. rather than at the
time. The blamed are less inclined
to resist when they are blamed with.
out witnesses; both parties are calm.
er and the accused party is struck
with the forbearance Of the accuser.
who has seen the fault and watched
for a private and proper time for
mentioning It
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21

Die COMPOUND. 1
was sick three
months and could
not walk. I suf-
fered all the time.
Tho doctors said I
could not get well
without an opera
tion, for I could
hardly stand tho
pains in my sides,
especially my right
one, and down my
right leg. I began
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21
WOMAN
ESCAPES
OPERATION
WasCured byLy LydiaE. Pink
hams Vegetable c Compound

Elwood, Ind.-'.Your remedies have
cured me and I have only taken SIX
bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
Gilpin observer., 1911-09-21

of law in Chicago. The most notable
case in which he acted was in the
opinion of the Circuit Court in set
ting aside the $29.0OO.O0O fine imposed
by Judge Lands on the Standard Oil
Company, which decision was pre-
pared and read by Grosscup.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18

Ths tendency seems 10 be,
with the county papers, where
two or more that are published
in one town, to unite the 6ffice'.
thus making fewer papers and
better ones. The cause of
more failures of printing es.
Establishments than any other, is
too many papers according to
population. To supply a "long
felt want" has been the fail
ur.. Of many editors, who de-
served q better fate. Papers,
lik doctors, must have patients,
as 1t t kes money to make the
mare CO." and he who depends
upon creating a demand for his
paper 10y saying it is the best,
is only borrowing trouble for
himself.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18
Notice Of Probate Of Will

District Court in and for
Harrison County.
State Of Iowa, :,
Harrison County,. %
To all Whom it May Concern.
Whereas, On the LIST day OF
May, A. D., 1911, a paper pur.
porting to be the last Will and
Testament of Henry Fitzgibbon,
late of said county, deceased,
was filed in my Office, and was
by me opened and read; and
the End day of June, 1911, APP
pointed and fixed as the time
when the same will come be-
fore the court, at the March
term thereof then 10 be held,
for final proof and probate, as
the duly executed last Will q nd
Testament Of the; said Henry
Fitzgibbon, deceased, at whic h
time all persons interested ma =
appear and show cause why tn.
same should not be admitted to-
probate.
Dated this LIST day of May.
1911. A. w. Blackburn,
m4-11-18 Clerk.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18
Tho Gate 10 Tibet.

Just outside Tachienlu Is the stone
bridge which is called the gate to IT,
bet" Tachicnlu is a narrow little city
wEieh had to conform its shape to the
contour Of the mountains which shut 1t
in. There is hardly foot Of level
ground within the walls. 1t Is the
great emporium of trade between Chi
M and Tibet. where the Chinese ex-
change tea for musk and gold dust.
Many rcd frocked lamas are to be seen
about the city. most Of whom live in
large lamasaries outside the walls. On
the flat roofs of the houses flutter in
Vulnerable prayer flags, giving to the
winds the universal Tibetan hymn Of
praise.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18

They used to tell US that it
was no use to elect a Democrat
from the Ninth District, for
the Congress being Republican,
q Democrat member could do
no good. We didn't then be-
lieve it, but on thinking it over,
We believe that is a good idea,
Congress being Democratic, 70
use sending a Republican to
Congress from this district.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18
k.s(e 9o6 BALTIMORE.
~ ovsr lF,easlys Bridge. In The
= oeds oldi pays.

|it Wy ovsr iFIestiys Bridges In che
- on, okdi Days.
Z The road to baltimore is over the
)o<sst of three boating bridges which
have been thrown across1 the Schuyl-
Tin river In the neighborbDod Of Phila-
deiphia. Tho view on, passing this
river. which Il about 26O yards wide.
1s beautiful. The banks on each side
are high and for many miles above at
terd the most delightful situations OF
villas. A very elegant one. laid out in
eRGa1sh taste. II seen on passing the
river just above the bridge Adjoining
to It are public gardens and house
Of entertainment with several good
rooms. to which the citizens OF phila-
lelphiu resort in great numbers during
the summer seasons.
The floating bridges IRE formed OF
IefGe trees. which are placed In the
water transverscly and are chained to-
Rether. beams are then laid length
ways upon these and the whole board,
ed over to render the way convenient
for passengers. On each side there Is
n railing. When very heavy carriages
60 across these bridges they sink
few inches below the surface of the
water. but the passage is by no means
They are kept in an even
across the river by means Of
chains and anchors in different parts
and are also strongly secured on both
shores. Over that part of the river
where the channel lies they are go
that piece con be removed
to allow vessels to pass through.
From Travels Through the States of
North America" BY Isaac Weld. Jr..
1905.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-05-18
Not a Celebration.

George AIDE was out walking with a
guide IN Kioto, Japan. when he OBJ
served 9ve<t procession approve hing,
.lld he paused wdh 1t passed. Tie
people wore gay appnrel aud carried
Burners with Japanese Inscriptions.
Their faccs were grave. They were
mournfatly chanting to the accompani-
nient OF tomtons. cymbals and drums
1t was long procession. Ado took
of his hat with due respect to the un-
known dead Finally he turned to his
guido and asked:
.BuddhaT'
The guide shook his head. J,
"Shinto7" inquired AIDE.
Again the guide shook his head
"Wns not tiiat funeral procession?"
asked Ado.
NO" said the guide THAT'S a way
Of advertising. 1t is tooth powder for
sale."-Chicago Record Herald.