Gilpin observer., 1912-08-01
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM all SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

and made ready for burial, Charles
Singer, living near Urbania, Kan, re-
vived after twenty-four hours.
Rio Blanco county, Colo, is harvest
ing the greatest crop of alfalfa in tea
years. More than $4,000 acres are av-
eraging two and one-half tons per
acre.
j. E. Cody, who claims to be the
worlds champion diver, performed the
| feat of swimming down the Willamette
river from Oregon City, to Portland,
Ore, distance of thirteen miles.
Flashing the success of the most dis
| tinctive achievement in the history OF
wireless telegraphy, newspaper dis,
| patches amounting to 1900 words
were sent direct from San Francisco
to Honolulu, distance Of 2,100 miles.
Further investigation into the land
fraud cases instituted by the govern
ment against the Southern Pacific in
Oregon has begun in San Francisco,
with B. D. Townsend, special agent
of the Department of Justice, in
charge of the inquiry.
James b. Mcnamara, serving a life
sentence in San Quentin, Calf. pen
itentiary for murder committed in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building, is held in solitary confine-
ment in an effort to make him con-
fess further details Of that conspiracy.
Bishop Henry White Warren, dis
tinguished, scientist, author, mission
cto Nd ne ha
beloved figures in all the great Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, died recently at
his home in Denver at the age of
eighty-two. Death was due to pneu-
monia.
By the testimony of Robert Oxnard,
now president of the American Beet
Sugar Company. it was shown in the
government inquiry in San Francisco
that H. o. Havemeyer controlled the
Western sugar market, as well as the
other territory in the United States,
as far back as 1891.
Mrs. George Brown of Tacoma.
Wash, mother of Belmore Brown,
companion of Prof. Herchell Parker
in the expedition to climb Mount Nc
INihlCy, mas lCCClNcu hdllOu ludl
the party reached a height of 10000
feet and then returned. That is AGA
feet from the summit.
Lieut. Costigan of the New York po.
lice force. in testifying before the
grand jury which is investigating the
killing of Rosenthal, the gambler, who,
alter threatening to expose officials
rp, th,t ait
declared that Police Commissioner
Waldo had entire charge of the gam
bling situation, raids and arrests being
made only upon his authority.
Believed to have been mentally un.
balanced by the grief over the loss of
her five children who were drowned at
the seme time at Reno during the flood
the William Hogg, general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific at Pu-
ebla and cousin of Governor Hogg
of Texas, committed suicide at Man
haitian. New, by shooting herself
One thousand square miles of graz
ing land under one fence, with a thir-
ty-year lease at something like IS per
opuoiS ihiiC Pti yCdi 10 thC III
ducement to be held out to Western
stockmen by the Argentine govern.
ment. Details of the plan to encour.
age sheep and cattle raising in the
Patagonian territory obtained by Ar.
gentine in settlement with Chill have
been received in Washington by the
Department Of Agriculture.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Salt Lake City for the Provo
& Eastern Utah Railroad Company
1t is announced the new company will
build a railroad from Springville to
Jensen, Utah, a point near the Utah
Colorado line, and later will extend
the road to Steamboat Springs, Colo
the present terminus of the Moffat
line. The incorporators denied that
the new road is to be affiliated with
the Moffat line. The new company is
Incorporated for s10,O00,O00.
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