Gilpin observer., 1911-06-15
GEN ERAL.

has donated $205,000 for heroic fund
in Holland.
The first death of the year as a re-
suit of the heat in Oklahoma has been
reported from Oklahoma City.
Attorneys for the Standard OIL Com
pany are at work on plans for reor-
ganization to conform to the decision
Of the Supreme Court.
June 10 seven deaths were caused by
the extreme heat, and many prostra-
tions reported in Chicago. The ther-
mometer registered 9S.3.
For the first time in the history of
the Albany. N. Y. law school. a wom-
an carried off the highest honors of
commencement this year.
The signature of Governor Foss is
all that is now needed to enact into
law the direct nominations bill for
Massachusetts,.
There was never a June day in Chica-
go as hot as June 9th in forty years in
which temperature record has been
kept. The thermometer climbed until
9S.5 degrees was registered.
The Wisconsin Senate adopted a
resolution declaring Senator Ike
Stephenson bought his seat in the
United States Senate, and requesting
that body to investigate his election.
A carload of babies left the Grand
Central station in New York for the
West. They came from the New York
Founding Asylum and are bound for
homes in Colorado. Nebraska, Mime.
sofa.
Eighty years of age and still enjoy.
ing college life. Mrs. Amy D. Winship
of Racine, Wis. will enter the Uni
versity of Wisconsin next fall as the
only octogenarian coed in the United
States. and probably in the world.
The will of Mrs. Carrie A. Nation.
who died at Leavenworth, Kan, re-
Gently, has been filed. The will is dat
ed in 1907 and in it Mrs. Nation de-
clared herself to be a resident of
Washington The estate is valued at
$4,000.
Physicians of Manchester. Conn,
have organized a medical and surgical
trust and arranged a scale of prices.
The price for amputation Of one toe or
finger is $40. IS for each finger or toe
additional. 1t will cost IS more to have
twins than babies one at time.
Four railroad presidents. two inter-
state commerce commissioners. for
mer cabinet officer. bankers, manufac-
turers. college professors. lawyers and
labor leaders will meet in New York.
June 23. to frame model law for uni
form state public utilities legislation.
At the behest OF the Southern Lum-
ber manufacturers Association, the
Long-Bell Lumber Company, which
controls thousands of acres of timber.
land. curtailed its yellow pine output
33h per cent during six months of
1904. So testified r. A. Long, presi-
dent Of the company.
A wind. rain. hail and electrical
storm struck the lower end OF the vir-
ginla peninsula and left trail of
death and ruin. 1t was difficult even
to estimate the number of dead for
many small craft went down in the
SNulm III ot NhIiouS poihtS ttiOuS Tic
James river and in Hampton roads.
Conservative estimates placed the
dead at not more than fifteen.
Disgusted by Mayor Doris. who an.
nounced that all white persons con-
victed OF drunkenness. must either ac-
company him to church for ten con-
secutive Sundays or serve thirty days
on the streets. chronic drinkers are
fleeing from Cordele, Ga.
Present indications point to this
years cotton crop as the largest the
country ever has produced. according
to government experts. The crop Will
be greater by about 2,500000 bales
than the average and larger by nearly
100000 bales than the biggest crop
the country ever raised-thst Of 1904