Gilpin observer., 1912-02-01
GEN ERAL.
once.

Women all over the United States
are planning to boycott butter in an
effort to bring the price back to nor
NAL.
Charles Schultz, his wife and their
foster son were found dead late at
their home in Milwaukee from ahphyx-
iation
Albert w. Wolter, the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago.
was executed at Sing Sing prison.
Fannie Ramsey of Weston, W. Va.
11s years old and said to have been
the nurse of General Stonewall Jack
son when he was an infant, II dead.
An Investigation will be made Of
the charges that the price Of butter
is being manipulated by combina-
tion in New York and other large
cities.
James Whitcomb Riley was awarded
the gold medal for distinction in poet
ry at the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Academy of Arts and Lettehs and
the National Institute of Arts and Let
ters in Philadelphia. A telegram no.
tifying him of the honor was sent to
the poet, who is i'll.
Her pilot lying dead on the bridge,
the victim of a sudden attack of heart
failure, and with no guiding hand at
the wheel, the giant. Hamburg -Ameri-
can liner Cleveland, carrying hundreds
of round-the-world tourists, left her
course in the harbor at Honolulu and,
after veering about for several min
utes, rammed the United States ar
mored cruiser Colorado, lying at an
chor. The Colorado was damaged,
but no lives were lost
One of the most notable achieve
ments of American foreign commerce
in recent years, according to state
ment by the bureua of statistics Of
Dor, was in the automobile business in
1911. More than $2O,OOO,O0O worth Of
automobiles were exported from the
United States. During the year, TWEEN.
ty times as much as decade ago. At
the same time the importations have
decreased from year to year.
Fort Logan, Colorado, and Fort
D. A. Russell, Wyoming, are un-
der prescription by the War De-
partment, and are doomed to abandon
ment if the plans announced by Secre-
tary Stimson are carried out. The Sec
retary, acting upon an exhaustive re-
port by the general staff, has decided
h1 nfra inn of hn nj cd
States army in eight posts, instead Of
the forty-nine now in operation. BY
this means, he believes that the eff
cheney of the army will be multiplied,
while at the same time the govern
rlenS will make saving Of s5,500.000
year.
The worst rioting in the fort
night Of the Lawrence, Mass, tex
tile strike, involving 10000 persons,
occurred when street cars were held
up and stoned by mobs which refused
to let operatives go into the mills.
by stray bullet, patrolman was
stabbed in the back, a militia captain
was badly cut by a brick and several
others hurt by stones as well as by
the clubs of the police and militia.
Governor Foss ordered twelve addi-
tional companies Of infantry and two
cavalry troops to proceed at once to
Lawrence to reinforce the nine COM
panies already there.
The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con.
spiracy in indianapolis begun what 10
expected to be the last week Of its
work. Reports about the district At
torney's office are that at least thir-
ty indictments lave been drawn up.
District Attorney Miller said the in
dictments, IL any are returned, will be
secret, the names of those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
made.
Rear Admiral Lewis o. Heilner, re-
tired, died in New York at the age