Gilpin observer., 1912-04-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o N G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERlNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Dates for the American Mining Con-
gress to be held in Spokane this year
have been fixed for Nov. $500.
The breaking up of the ice in the
Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers in Ne
braska is causing serious floods.
To make smooth the path of the bor-
rowers. the legal authorities of Salt
Lake county, Utah, are making war
on loan sharks.
Hearings on the House free sugar
bill have begun before the Senate COM
mittee on finance. They are expected
to continue a fortnight
The Butte, Mont, miners union Of
the Western Federation of Miners
voted tC take a referendum vote upon
the question of striking.
The Interstate Commerce Commits,
sion has refused to grant the proposed
advance on lemons from California
points to Colorado, Montana and Utah.
Columbine university of New York
will send a large squad of students to
the wheat fields of Kansas, Nebraska,
hOHlCLlld anu lut bdhOldS lllIS SuluIh
to work as farm hands and laborers.
a cave-in in a stope at the Utah
Apex mine at Bingham, Utah, buried
Harry Thomas and Thomas Bosanko,
miners. They were dead when taken
out.
The proposition to bond the city of
San Francisco for sS,S00,oOO for the
purchase of land and the erection of
municipal buildings in the proposed
civic center carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
Perfecting its plans for intervention
in Mexico, the war department at
Washington is receiving hourly details
as to the militia strength and condi-
tion from adjutant generals of militia
from the states.
In a case of vital interest to irriga-
ton farmers of the West, the Supreme
Court held that land owners along a
river had no right to object TO change
in the rivers current by riparian
owners below them.
The Democratic wool bill passed the
House, 1S9 to 80, with twenty Pro-
gressive Republicans voting for it.
Supporters of the bill declared it
would not cut the governments rev
enue, but would save more than $780,
100000 a year to consumers.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the express companies OF the
country have practically reached an
agreement as to reforms to be insti-
tuted in the express business, which
will be of far-reaching Importance and
will, it is predicted, revolutionize the
express business.
The Postoffice Department an
nounces that January 81, 1912, there
were scventy-seven postal savings de-
positories in operation in Colorado,
with deposits amounting to over s495,-
900. This amount was deposited by
about 1900 depositors, or an average
of $l0S per depositor.
That Jake Mckinney, formerly The
convict in the state prison at Rusk,
Texas, who was freed by Governor
Colquitt because of a touching poem
the convict was said to have written,
stole The poem, is the assertion made
by the News, published at the Colum-
bus, Ohio, state prison.
That nearly fifty of the Industrial
Workers ot the World arrested in San
Francisco have admitted they were
trying to overthrow the United States
government is one of the statements
u-u in report which the Cali.
tornia authorities will send to the i'm.
migration bureau at Washington.
Frank Stribbling, who went duck
hunting recently near Fremont, Neb
and was supposed to have been
drowned in the Platte river flood, has
been located in the top Of big tree
two miles out in the river from the
city. He had been caught by the ris.
ing waters and had climbed the tree,
where he had been four days and
where he must remain several days.