Gilpin observer., 1912-11-21
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Ed Gantz of Sturgis, S. D., shot and
seriously injured his divorced wife
and then shot and killed himself. They
had quarreled.
The woman who was struck down
with hammer in the Saratoga hotel,
in Chicago, died without regaining
consciousness.
The Commercial barn at McCook,
Neb., was destroyed by fire. 1t was
valued at $4,000 and insured for ST.
900. Twelve horses were burned to
death.
Three people were killed and three
seriously injured when the westbound
Chicago & Alton red hummer" train
struck carriage at grade crossing
III Dwight, Ill.
Woodrow Wilson, President-elect,
Mrs. Wilson and the Misses Eleanor
and Jessie Wilson, left New York for
Bermuda, on the steamship Bermuda
an. They will be gone till December
10th.
Gen. Homer Lea of Los Angeles,
whose services as adviser to DR.. Sun
Vat Sen, leader of the Chinese revolu-
ton, made him an international fig
ure, left an estate valued at only
$4,000.
Woodrow Wilson carried Idaho in
the recent election by LOO votes.
With one small county incomplete and
all other official, the vote ON President
stands: Wilson. 34,O1O; Taft; 32,91O;
Roosevelt, 25,510.
The three bandits who impressed a
motor car chauffeur and mechani-
clan at lola, Kan, and went on a raid
of farm houses and villages in the vi
taken to jail.
Nevada has elected an anti-divorce
Legislature, and when the session
opens In January an amendment to
the present lax divorce measure will
be presented, fixing the period of res
idence at one year.
After a chase in automobiles lasting
five days and covering 700 miles, fiji
teen men suspected of having sold
liquor to Indians were taken to Mis-
soula, Mont, by deputy United States
Marshal Miller and posse.
A diet of hominy and honey has re-
juvenated Joaquin Miller, Poet of the
Sierras," of San Francisco, who at the
age of seventy-five has undertaken
what he considers the greatest poem
he has ever worked upon.
An elopement that began in East
Providence, r. l., week ago, ended in
jail when John A. Simmons,
twenty-three. and Mary Enos, fifteen,
were arrested as they stepped from a
train at Sacramento, Cal.
Three additional arrests were made
in Portland, Ore, in connection with a
scandal among men and boys which
has shaken Portland since Saturday,
when eleven men were arrested and
one other attempted suicide.
DR.. Phillip William Duprees eight
ruonths-old son, who died in Little
Rock, Ark, as a result of a nurse CIV
ing the child carbolic acid by mistake
for wine, is said to have been heir to
$4,000.000 estate in France.
Kansas cast the largest vote ever
recorded in the state at the election
two weeks ago. The total Republi-
can and Democratic vote will exceed
$4,000 and the Socialist vote will
reach 10000 according to the returns.
Attorney General Cossan of Iowa
has been asked to determine what
happens when voters elect dead man
to office Victor Schrik was elected
county supervisor after he had been in
his grave five days. A. A. Patten, his
opponent who received half as many
votes is claiming the election.