Gilpin observer., 1912-01-18
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO IN G s, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

That the ravages of spinal meningi-
tbs in Texas have been checked is the
statement of the State Board OF
Health.
Assemblyman John E. Mutually,
member of the last California Legisla-
ture, was shot and killed by three rob-
bers in his saloon in San Francisco
Mrs. Rachael Sparln, seventy-six
and blind, of Baxter, Kan, burned to
death in her cottage when coal fell
from her clay pipe and set her dress
afire.
According to a cattleman from For
est City, S. D. several thousand cattle
are gathered at Swift Bird creek and
hundreds are dying from starvation
and cold.
Three are known to be dead and
ten more or less seriously injured in
a Missouri Pacific wreck, which oc-
Cured at a bridge mile west OF
Norton Lyndon, Kans.
d. H. Arnold, ranchman living
seven miles northeast of Hillrose,
Colo, was probably fatally shot while
pursuing a stranger whom he caught
prowling about his ranch.
Women of Greeley, Colo, who are
members of the Graphic Club, at a
meeting of the organization recently
laid plans for women's club rooms,
Y. w. C. A, more lights and a new
water system.
Hope for the lives of thousands of
starving cattle on the Texas ranges
was held out by sudden rise in tenn
perature to 40 degrees above zero.
This is the first thaw in the Texas
Panhandle for three weeks.
Forty persons at Max Bass, N. D.,
are suffering from ptomaine poisoning
from eating pie at a chicken supper
given by a church there. The pie was
left in a tin pan for an entire day be-
fore being warmed to be served. All
of the sick persons will recover.
Charges of misappropriation of
funds of the old Southern Colorado
Receiver Frank P. Read of Denver
are contained in bill of exceptions
filed in Trinidad in the District Court
by the ST. Louis Union Trust Com
pany.
With a sheriff on one side and
jailer on the other, Mrs. Alberta Gent
ry, charged with completely in the
murder of her husband, Thomas ].
Gentry, braved the gaze of 5000 per-
sons to be present at her husbands
funeral at Oklahoma City. The serv-
ices were held at the First Christian
church. Mrs. Gentry refused an op-
portunity to take last look at the
body, thereby disappointing many who
fought to get inside the fashionable
church.
The war department has announced
that joint militia and regular army
maneuvers will be held this year on
the Crow Creek military reserve near
Fort Russell, Wyo., at time to be
set later, which will be attended by
regular troops and militia from Wyo-
ming, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana
and Utah. The maneuver grounds ag-
gregate 10000 acres of well watered
and timbered country and are re-
garded by the War Department as the
best at the disposal of the army for
summer camp and maneuvers. Up
ward of 10000 troops will participate.
BY order of the secretary of the
treasury, Chief Harry NJ. Moffatt of
the United States Secret Service Of
flee, has seized at the First National
bank of Oakland, Cal, valuable
painting entitled Barrels of Money"
The seizure was made for the reason
that the painting represented $4,000
900 in United States currency, piled
up in barrels. 1t is against the fed
eral regulations to paint, photograph,
or make or exhibit any representa-
tion of the currency or coins of the
United States. The painting is from
the brush of Y. Dubreuil, a noted
French artist.