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Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
WASHING

Senator Warren of Wyoming intro
duced bill to increase homestead en-
tries to $40 acres.
The monetary commissions plan for
a national reserve association when it
goes to Congress, will provide for an
organization SO constituted that the
financial institutions OF New York will
control less than 10 per cent of the
total representation in the central as
sociation, although they possess fully
80 per cent of the banking capital.
Senator Crawford introduced a bill
to provide for the appointment by the
United States of members of an inter-
national commission to investigate the
general increase of the cost of living.
The measure would provide for a gen.
erial inquiry relative to the wages. the
effect of trusts and the influence Of
the increased volume of gold. The
bill is in line with suggestions at the
recent economic congress in Washing
ton.
Enlarged application, OF the leasing
principle as applied to the public do
main, especially liberal leasing Jaw
for the development Of the mineral re-
sources OF Alaska. particularly it's coal
lands, and immediate consideration by
Congress of the whole subject of wa
ter power development and control,
are the most important recommends
tions contained in the annual report
Of Secretary Of the Interior Fisher
The Forestry Bureau is preparing to
announce a general reduction OF the
rates charged for cattle and sheep
grazing In the National forests.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
FOREIGN.

Hardin advices say that all the high
er Chinese officials have already been
expelled from Urga, the capital Of
Mongolia.
The influences being brought to
bear in order to induce Italy to renew
or not to renew the triple alliance
with Germany and Austria Hungary
are becoming daily more pressing.
The coast provinces of Ecuador have
recognized the provisional government
proclaimed at Guayaquil by Gen. Pedro
Montero, Dec. %, six days after the
sudden death of President Emilio Es-
trada.
Two important developments have
intensified the interest in the situation
in China. These were renewal of
hostilities and the demand of the Rus
sian government that China recognize
the independence OF outer Mongolia
Shen Chow has ben captured.
Unless Yuan Shi Kai yields to sua-
sion and the armistice is extended,
| fighting will be resumed in China. The
republican troops will commence the
march on Peking. The carefully
guarded movements of the troops. cou-
pied with the deficiency of commune
cation, makes it almost impossible to
estimate correctly the strength of the
revolutionists, but it is certain that it
approXimates 10000 men.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
eix MILLION DOLLAR MARBLE
AND GRANITE STRUCTURE
A MASS OF RUINS.
SIX KNOWN DEAD
SEVERAL ARE MISSING AND THE
DEATH LIST. MAY BE
GREATER.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York. The home of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, the
immense marble and granite struc.
ture covering a block in lower
Broadway, an historic landmark OF
New York's early period of skyscraper
buildings and one of the citys i'm.
portant financial centers, was de.
stroyed by fire with a loss of six
lives and probably $6.OOO,0OO in prop
erty. A dozen persons were injured
Valuable records, including the biog.
raphy of E. H. Hartman and two
priceless libraries which cannot be re.
placed, went up in flames, and the
fate of hundreds of millions of dol.
lars worth of securities, stored in
safe deposit vaults, is in question, al.
though 1t was believed that fireproof
construction would save them from
damage.
The great structure, which besides
containing the main offices of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, was
the home of the Mercantile Trust Com.
pany, the Equitable Trust Company.
the banking house of Kountze broth.
ers, August Belmont & Co., the Har.
riman railroad lines, the Mercantile
Safe Deposit Company. the Lawyers
Club and many of the city's most
prominent law firms, stands shell
Of ice-coated granite.
The intense cold caused a thick ice
coating to form on the facades Of
skyscrapers adjacent and on the pave
ments for blocks around. The bull
wark of modern fireproof structures
nearby, according to Fire Commission
er Johnson, protected the entire finan-
cial district. The damage, except by
water, was confined to the Equitable
structure.
OF those who lost their lives, three
employees were killed by jumping from
the roof to which they were driven
by flames. They were employees in the
building.
Battalion Chief William ]. Walsh
disappeared in a whirl of smoke and
flame when a cave-in occurred on the
third floor, where he was fighting the
fire.
Two other men. William Campiol,
captain OF the watchmen in the Mer-
camille Safe Deposit vaults, and Frank
J. Neider, special officer, whose
bodies have not been recovered, com
plete the list of dead. SO far as known.
Several persons, watchmen and 9TH
ers. who were in the structure when
the fire broke out, have not been ac-
counted for, but are believed to have
escaped. The death total has not been
fly ed.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Colorado Files Demurrer.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Griffith, at
torney general for Colorado, filed in
the Supreme Court a demurrer to the
complaint of the state of wyoming,
which seeks to restrain the state Of
Colorado, the Greeley-Poudre Irriga'
tion district and the Laramie-Poudre
Reservoir & Irrigation Company, from
6iverting the waters of the Laramie
river in Colorado and preventing their
flow into Wyoming. The demurrer
states that the bill Of complaint is
without equity and asks that 1t be dis
missed.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
SPORT.

Fought in ten fast rounds, the bout
at Louisville, KY, between Ray Bron-
son of Indianapolis and Tommy Devlin
Of Philadelphia ended in a draw.
Jack Johnson probably will fight a
ten-round battle with someone before
May 1, after which he must engage
in no more contests until he has met
Jim Flynn, according to the articles
of agreement signed in Chicago.
Tommy Dixon of Kansas City and
Johnny Roche of San Francisco, feath-
erweights, fought ten rounds to \
draw in Kansas City. Dixon was the
aggressor from the start, but the coast
boy took his punishment gamely and
finished strong.
After eighteen months Of idleness
Jack Johnson. champion heavyweight
pugilist of the world, has signed arti-
cles to fight finish battle with Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, generally
regarded as one of the best white
hopes" The fight will take place
somewhere in Nevada, next July. AS
a tentative date, July 22nd was se-
lected, but this may be changed at
any time. The fight will be staged
at Windward or Metropolis. For his
services Johnson is to receive $31, 100
and one-third of the receipts from the
sale of the moving picture rights.
Flynn's share of the purse was not an
nounced. He will be paid by his
manager, Jack Carley, who repres ,nt-
ed the promoters. Their identity Ia a
secret.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
$3.50 Recipe Free.
For Weak Kidneys.
Relieves Urinary and Kidney
Troubles, Backache, Straining.
Swelling, Etc.
Stops Pain in the Bladder.
Kidneys and Back.

wouldn't It be nice within a week O. p
TO bsgin to 9,,,ss ssy gooa,Dye forever @ 20 t Sns
quent passage of urine; the forehead and
the back -of-the-h head aches; the stitches
and pains in the back: the growing mus
Gle weakness; spots before the eyes; yel-
low skin; sluggish bowels: swollen eye.
breath; sleeplessness and the despondencyf
have q recipe for these troubles that
you can depend on. and II you want -
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this prescription. but have II and win
be glad to send It to you entirely free.
Just drop me q line like this: DR.. A. r..
Robinson. K-20eo Luck Building, Detroit
Mich.,, and l viii send It by return !! %.!i
you get it. this recipe contains only purH
harmless remedies. but It has great heal
ing and pain-conQuering power.
use It. so think you had better see whas @
free-you can use It and cure yourself -
home.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Gas Excitement on Western Slope

Grand Junctfon.-With the discovery
of natural gas in four different places
in the eastern end Of Mesa county.
the entire Western slope is intensely
excited over the latest and possibly
most valuable of all resources OF
western Colorado. When this discov-
cry became known q dozen parties left
for Buzzard creek and followed the
belt of oil seepage and sand to the
Crested Butte mountains. They
discovered nuberous other leaks
and meantime strong flow OF
gas had been struck sixteen
miles south of Grand Junction.
OF all the flows known on the West
ern slope the last is the strongest, but
1t artificial, while the others are nat
ural.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D oIN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Five inches Is the average depth OF
snowfall over northern Idaho. In the
southern part of the state the fall Wa:
less.
The intense cold and deep snow
have brought severe suffering among
homesteaders in the Black Hills in
south Dakota.
Marooned for more than a week in
way car attached to an Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe freight train,
stuck fast in the snow near Laird in
western Kansas, two brakemen lived
on jackrabbits.
Arthur Lewis, accused Of numbering
his stepniece, Helen Rumball, by
breaking her neck, at Oroville, Cal,
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment in San Quentin penitentiary. A
jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
The new county grand jury at Los
Angeles has determined to renew the
dynamite investigation, and subpoe-
naed five persons formerly connected
with the Mcnamara defense. The
principal charge is that of jury brib-
cry.
Carcasses of twenty bison of herd
of 12O in the Yellowstone national
park. were burned. twenty-five ami
mails died, the victims of black leg.
Government experts who have been
working with the epidemic believe
they have it stamped out.
A sympathetic strike of more than
100000 members of the Federated
Railroad Shop Employees, to be called
within a month and possibly within
two weeks, was predicted by Ernest L.
Reguin, president of the Federated
Shop Employees of the Hartman lines.
State Health Officer Steiner at Aus
tin, Texas, announces that the COM
monwealth board of health would meet
in Dallas to consider the spread of
spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas
has had about 140 cases and Waco
eighty-four cases since Oct. 1.
Montana is covered with snow. the
fall having been the heaviest for sew
eral years. Zero weather, with some
reporting even lower temperatures. is
general throughout the state. High
winds have drifted the snow in many
sections and country roads are i'm
passable.
A suit against the Independence Gas
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Kansas Natural Gas
Company, charging conspiracy to
raise prices and to prevent competi-
ton, has been filed by Attorney Gen
eral Dawson in District Court at In
dependence, Kan.
Most short railroad lines in the
Black Hills of South Dakota are
blocked with snow and the cold, and
the Burlington & Northwestern. while
they keep trains moving, are expert
encing much difficulty and all the
traffic is considerably behind schedule
The temperature is 33 degrees below.
Unable to see the station lights in
the binding snowstorm which swept
over WESTERN Kansas Engineer c. c..
Deming of the Santa Fe passenger
train No. ran past the station at
Wright, Kan. Before he could back
his train into the siding after he had
discovered his mistake, his train was
hit by the Newton-Dodge City local
westbound. Deming was fatally
scalded, Engineer ]. w. Chalfant of
the local was killed and twelve pas
sengers were hurt.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
GENERAL.

The temperature at st. Paul, MiDn.,
was for several days 81 degrees below
zero.
Richard T. Crane. head OF Crane
company and foe of universities, diei
at his home in Chicago.
A total of eleven deaths from the
extreme cold was the record in New
York for the winters coolest day.
Records for cold weather for years
over Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
were broken. with temperatures Of
to 81 below.
Chicago, former president of the Un-
ion Pacific. was destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Twenty laundries in st. Louis have
ceased operations because Of short
age Of water supply which threatens
to become a famine,
Radical reduction of freight rates
on livestock have been prescribed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
ON western railroads.
In full view of passing crowds and
in the principal business street Of
Newark. Ohio, burglars looted Jew
elry store of $4,000.
The special grand Jury investigat-
ing the jury-bribery phase of the Mo
Namara dynamiting case in Los An
geles, will make an effort to connect
other men with the supposed consl ir.
acy.
Some Moros were killed and one
American officer and one Filipino
scout were injured in the recent trou.
BILE on the Island of Jolo when the
American forces under General Perish.
ing succeeded in forcing the disarm-
ament of the Moros.
Whatever Ort.e e. McManigal, the
confessed dynamiter, knows about the
completely of others besides the Nc.
Namara brothers in the blowing up Of
more than 100 open shop" structures
in various sections of the country In
the last five or six years, is believed
to have ben related by him in his pre-
lininary story before the federal
grand jury. Taken from his cell in the
federal building, where he had been
lodged before daylight after his secret
trip in the custody Of government Of.
ficials from Los Angeles, McManigal
went before the jurors after his writ
ten confession had been presented in
detail.
The common towel has been barred
by the Department Of Health Of
Greater New York and must follow
the common drinking cup into the lis
card. In all public places hereafter,
II one would wash, one must bring his
own drying apparatus.
The Re'. Clarence v. T. Richesop
confessed his guilt Of the murder Of
his formsr sweetheart, Avis Linnell Of
Hyannis, Mass, in document made
public by his counsel. The confession
declares that the accused Is guilty Of
murder In the first degree.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Cornered.

Lord Guilford tells a story Of
young lady's resources at bazaar.
Business was in full swing when .
young man strolled around the vari-
GUS stalls. with no intention OF pur-
chasing anything. As he passed .
large. beautifully decorated stall the
young lady seller detained him.
Won't you buy q cigarette holder.
sirf" she asked. mo, thank you. l
don't smoke" was the curt reply. "Or
pen writer worked with my own
handsr II don't write" Then do
have this nice box Of chocolatss.- II
don't eat sweets" The young ladys
patience was exhausted. Sir" she
said grimly,- will you buy this bog
Of soap?"
The young man paid up.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Farm Extension Work Favored.

Rocky Ford.-The committee which
has been interviewing the people all
over Otero county relative to the move
ment to keep up the farm extension
work of the State Agricultural col
lege will make a favorable report. The
committee has found the great major
ity of Otero county people are in IA
vor of the scheme. The committee
will go before the County Commits
sioners at the next meeting and ask
that support be given the movement.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
THe BAtter Part.

"A certain woman went down from
Jerusalem to Jericho. and 1t chancsd
that her gown was not fully buttonsd
up in the back. Now. . priest and .
Levite, meeting the woman and Per
ceiving her plight. passed By on the
other side. without saying . word. But
. certain Samaritan. journeyed that
way. was touched With compassion.
Madam" quoth he. your hac
hum"
"sir!" the woman thereupon sx-
claimed and gave him . look which
froze him on the spot:
When It appears that discretion u
the better part of valor.-Puok.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
To Pension Indian War Veterans.

Denver.-Henry Hegwer, secretary
of the United Indian War Veterans.
with headquarters in Denver. has is
sued circular asking for the names
of all soldiers who served on the west
ern frontier ninety days or more, from
1866 to 1890. House Bill No. 779,
which was introduced in Congress by
Mr.. Rucker Of Colorado, and provides
for pensions for the old Indian fight
ers, is expected to be acted upon f.
vorably.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Barbed Wire Telephone Lines.

Fosston.-Barbed wire fences are do
ing double duty in the vicinity Of Fos1-
ton, where homesteaders are usin /,
them for telephone lines, the system
having been made possible by H. w.
Foss, a farmer who inaugurated 1t and
connected the private lines with the
trunk system at Greeley through a
switchboard set up in his house. This
system is managed over the fences
for distance east OF nearly twenty
rtiles.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Miners Cause Riot.

Greeley.-Declaring that they would
prevent non-union miners from taking
their places in the Alpha coal mine.
one and half miles northwest Of Fort
Lupton, threatening farmers IL thev
purchased coal at the mine and put
ting up signs bearing the words: BE
ware, Scabs," twenty-five strikers
caused riot at Tracyville and five OF
them were arrested and brought to
Greeley.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Land owners Give Rieht-of-way.

Grand Junction.-The last obstacle
to construction of the Grand Valley
project for irrigating $4,000 acres was
removed when LOG land owners Of
Palisade voted unanimously to give
right Of way to the canal on the route
favored by the government. Thess
land owners have been demanding
that their land be not touched. as 1t
would involve heavy loss to their
orchards.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Engineer Killed In Wreck.

Canon City.-Pinned beneath his To-
comotive. which turned over at Hillside
it struck snowbank, Engineer Au-
gust Guyer was killed. His fireman,
R. Roberts. was slightly injured. Guy
er's body was crushed and was held
beneath the cab in such position
that it could not be removed until the
arrival of the wrecking crew.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Miner peeapitated by cable.

Telluride.-Tom Williams, tramme,
at the Smuggler-Union mine, was in
stantly killed when struck by the in
clin tram cable when a loaded ore
car broke loose from the cable. A
loop formed by the recoil of the heavy
steel wire caught Williams with such
terrific force as to completely sever
his head and one arm.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Grand Junction Wants Flynn.

Grand Junction.-The Chamber OF
Commerce sent to Jim Flynn, the Pu-
eblo fireman, an offer to provide quar-
ters for training for his battle with
Jack Joanson next July and to pay
the greater part Of his expenses. Trout
fishing near the quarters on Cotton
wood lake is one of the allurements
of the offer. Flynn's father-in-law re-
sides here.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
rhaw saves Texas Cattle.

Dalhart, Tex.-Hope for the lives Of
thousands Of starving cattle on the
ranges was held out by a sudden fise
in temperature to 40 degrees above
zero. This is the first thaw in the
Texas Panhandle for three weeks. 1t
was feared that stockmen would lose
heavily.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Boulder Five Successful.

Boulder.AThe University of Colora-
do basketball five returned after a
successful tour of the state, winning
every game played and scoring to-
tai of 555 points against 142 for their
opponents, or making an average Of
fifty-five and one-half points in each
of the ten games.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Democrats Choose Baltimore.

Washington.-Money talked in the
contest before the National Democrat
ic committee and enabled Baltimore
with cash offer OF 100000 to cap
ture the convention. while Denver
failed to get the prize but neverthe.
less put up game fight.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Mayor Feeds tho Poor.

Indlanapolis.-Mayor Shank took II
upon himself to see that the poor did
not suffer from the pangs OF hunger.
as well as the cold. In the basement
Of the market house. the mayor per
sonally conducted a free lunch coun-
ter.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Income Tax Constitutional.

-Wisconsin's income tax
law, enacted by the last Legislature,
was held to be constitutional in de-
cision of the State Supreme Court.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11

Grand Junction.-The frozen body
f t. D. Savage, aged sixty-fivo,
wealthy ranchman of this district, who
disappeared Dec. %, was found two
miles from his home by Carrie Angel.
a fourteen-year-old girl.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Richard T. Crane Is Dead.

Chicago.-Richard T. Crane, head Of
Crane company and foe OF universities
died at his home here.
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
MIsIsadlna anasxes.

"How did you como ON with your
study Of the Russian languagsr'
mot we'll. While was trying to
pronounce a few words our family
physician came along and forced me
TO take all kinds Of medicine 70 break
up . cold"
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Woman's Way,

"A woman's convention, shf What
do women know about enthusiasmf
Now, At the last national convention
We men cheersd our candidates Tor
IN hour"
That's all right" said his wffe.
We threw kisses at ours for stxty-
seven minutes BY the clock"
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
Their Limit.

Their Limit.
There 10 one queer thing about Ash
Stories"
What 70 thatf''
"F1shermen, in telling Of their
catches. never seem able 10 draw ~
tine"
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
A pioneer.

why was Jonah thrown over
boardf"
I'm not sure, but I've always
thought he was the flrst man to rock
Q boat"
Gilpin observer., 1912-01-11
COLORADO
TIE NEW S
western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Frozen Body Found.

January 16-20-Seventh Annual Ma.
tional western Stock Show, Denver.
The Yale expositor., 1912-05-02
FRAUD POSED AS A SAINT

A man Eamed Bursy and venerated
in upper Silesia as a prophet and saint
has been arrested on charge OF a
long succession Of frauds. He is a
person of humble origin. with disin.
clination to work. who managed to
persuade the country people that he
vas endowed with supernatural pow
ers and could foretell the future.
From all parts of Silesia pilgrims
came for his aid and advice. and he
received them in a room adorned with
religious pictures and fragrant with
incense burning in dimly lit lamps.
Sometimes a hundred persons visited
him in a single day.
His fees and gratuities brought him
an annual income OF $500. and he
might still have been in the receipt of
this competency had it not been for
the cutlery made by a poor widow.
from whom he tried to extort $50, for
which he guaranteed to rescue her
late husband from the sufferings he
was supposed 10 be enduring in the
other world
The woman made great effort TO
raise the money, and the story came
to the police, who promptly arrested
the swindler.
The Yale expositor., 1912-05-02
CUPS WORTH A FORTUNE

Romantic as are the associations OF
historic plate with the life of the past,
there Is scarcely less romance asso
ciated with the battles fought over
cid cups and spoons and salts when
they make their appearance In the
salesroom. Perhaps there is no more
amazing example than the pair OF
standing cups made for the corpora
ton of Boston. England, in the year
1852. The silversmith who wrought
them, cunning man Of his hands, got
no more than 500 for the work Two
hundred and fifty-five years later the
corporation, doubtless in fit or pri'
vate madness, sold them for the paltry
sum OF Is guineas. Five years ago they
fetched S2,900 (about $l4,50O). a
commentary sufficiently incisive on
the prophetic insight OF Boston's city
fathers. One is permitted to guess
what would be the state Of mind OF
the silversmith IL he could know that
his standing cups had been sold for
a sum representing l40 times the
amount he was paid for them.
The story of the famous piece
known as the Blacksmiths cup is
hardly less astonishing. What 1t cost
originally cannot be told. but In 1862
it fetched $1S5. a decade later it had
sprung to $1.750. in 1890 it was sold
for $2675 and last year reached the
enormous figure of 100000.
Not long 400 a silver ipkStand Of
the year 1880 was sold for $500 an
ounce, while Mr.. Holms. a Glasgow
man with singularly choice collec'
ton. has given 1900 an ounce for a
font-shaped cup Of the sixteenth cen
fury. In 1903 set Of thirteen Apostle
spoons brought S24 500. while another
set OF eleven only was recently bought
for more than 80 times the amount II
had fetched in 1855.