Gilpin observer., 1912-02-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o N q 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS, OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The coal famine in Nome, Alaska,
has been relieved by the army post
there, which supplied the inhabitants
with eighty-two tons.
AS the result of a fire, four per-
sons were seriously injured at Hills
boro, N. D., and property loss of
about $4,000 was caused.
Three children were burned to
death one man fatally and one wom-
an seriously injured in mysterious
explosion which destroyed the home
of Isaac Smith, a farmer living near
Maxwell, la.
The sixty-two miners entombed in
the Bunker Hill mine at Sutter Creek,
Cal, by cavein in the mouth of the
shaft were rescued after a night of
desperate work by miners from near
by mines.
others injured, one seriously at lola,
Kan, in collision between a Missou-
ri Pacific passenger train and street
car. The dead are Mrs. William
Short and Mrs. Anna Coblantz.
Broadcast warnings against accept
ance of fraudulent San Francisco
postoffice money orders have been is
sued following discovery of the theft
of 100 money order blanks from a
sub-station in San Francisco. The
thieves also stole the sub-station
money order stamp.
Shunted about from place to place
as the result of the long government
investigation to determine whether he
was leper or not, John r. Earle, for
merly of Washington, d. c., has been
located at Summit, near Tacoma,
Wash, and will be fenced in on an
acre of land.
Discussion as to how much money
a young man should be earning be.
fore he marries led to a remarkable
discovery in frugality in Chicago. Mrs.
Hannah Krueger, wife of day labor
er, has raised three children on an in
come of $40 a week and deposited 81
each week for six years.
Just as the chaplain was about to
pronounce the benediction at the close
of the morning chapel service at the
state penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb.,
Albert Prince, a negro, under SEN
tence for assault with intent to Kill,
attacked and fatally stabbed Deputy
Warden E. d. Davis. The warden re-
ceived six wounds. He died some
hours later.
A bill granting a second home.
stead right has been introduced in the
House. Under its provisions anyone
who has forfeited or abandoned a fer
mer entry will be permitted to make
another upon showing to the secre-
tary of the interior that the former
entry was made in good faith, that it
was abandoned because of matters
not speculated in his homestead right
or otherwise attempted fraud in con-
nection with the prior entry. 1t is
understood this bill has the approval
of the Interior Department.
Thousands of protested land en-
tries in the West are to be taken in
hand at once by the Interior Depart.
ment and pushed toward settlement
pursuant to an order issued by Sec
retary Fisher as result of pressure
oxerted by Representatives Taylor of
Colorado and Mondell of Wyoming of
the House public land committee.
Twenty-eight hundred entries in Colo
orado alone, some of which have been
under a cloud of the governments
rubber stamp" protest system for
years are to be certified to the Land
Office at once, with reason why they
have not been examined by govern
ment agents.