Gilpin observer., 1911-10-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO I N q 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

hearty welcome. The streets of Los
Angeles were thronged.
w. d. Street, a pioneer plainsman,
scout and Indian fighter, died at Ober-
lin, Kan, of apoplexy. He was scout
and guide with Gen. Custer.
Tommy Ward, aged -, of Ardmore.
Okla, leaving a note to his mother
that he was tired picking cotton, shot
himself with an old army revolver,
dying instantly.
Philip Verrill Mighels. the well
known author and playwright, died at
Winnemucca, New, as the result of an
accidental gunshot wound self-in
flicted.
The net earnings of the Colorado &
Southern lines during its fiscal year,
ending June 80, 1911, were $5,4S9,954,
according to the annual report filed
with the board of directors in New
York.
Seven people were killed and twen-
ty-two injured, four of them seriously,
in a collision between Missouri Pa
cific passenger train No. 105, north
bound, en- route for Omaha, Neb, and
a fast freight train.
Woman suffrage in China, under a
republic established through a revolu-
tion organized and financed in the
United States, is the plan announced
in San Francisco by Sun Fo, son of DR..
Sun Vat Sen, the revolutionists
choice for president.
The Louisiana state and fire rating
board, at its regular monthly session,
at Baton Rouge, adopted a resolution
reducing the conflagration hazard
charge in the congested district of
New Orleans from 25 cents to Is
cents.
There are many women holding
elective offices in Kansas, according
to the political census just COM
pleted. The list totals seventy-four
and with the exception of Mrs. Ella
Wilson, the only woman mayor, all
were elected by the votes of men
alone.
To be lost on the desert with five
small children to care for, the re-
mains of husband unburied and men,
aced by bowling coyotes, was the
frightful experience of Mrs. George
McDermott, of Utah, who was found
by desert teamsters twenty miles from
Wild Rose canon, California.
A new use for the common cactus
plant of the western country is sug-
gested by Theodore H. Adams of Den
yer, who is authority for the state
| ment that durable paint may be
made from the cactus and that the
people of South American countries
have used this natural paint for years
What is pronounced by Sheriff Nat
Stewart of Santa Barbara county, Cali
fornia, and w. F. Wines of San Fran
cisco, special agent for the Southern
Pacific, to have been a deliberate at
tempt to dynamite an S00-foot bridge
twenty-five miles north of Santa Bar
bara, over which President Taft's
special train passed, was frustrated by
the vigilance of Mexican bridge
watchman.
A total of approximately 100,00d
young trout, yellow perch and bass
were planted in Colorado lakes and
streams from the United States fish
hatcheries in 1911, through the efforts
of Senator Guggenheim. The distribu
ton, which was made during the sum
mer, extended over the entire state,
and through the efforts of the senator
many isolated places were stocked
with young fish from the government:
hatcheries.
The bodies of VIII Snowman, q
chauffeur, his wife and three small
children, were discovered slain in the
Snowman home in Ellsworth, Kan, by
neighbor who CHANGED to call and
who entered the house when no one
responded to his knocks. The fea
lures of all the victims were battered
past recognition by the Flows of al
axe, which the slayer had used. The
youngest member of the family 9
baby, had been beaten until its heat
was severed from the body. All three
of the children were under sever
years Of age.