Gilpin observer., 1915-09-23
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PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
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STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUI IdE WAX
Russia will call an additional army
of 100000 reserves to colors.
Forty-five thousand Bulgarians in
Macedonia and Thrace have been
called to the colors.
An Austrian submarine torpedoed
and sank a large British transport in
the southern Adriatic.
The number of Russians taken
prisoners since May l by the Aus
trians and Germans is reckoned by La
Suisse at 2,571,75O.
Advices received at Athens from
diplomatic sources are to the effect
that freight traffic has been suspend
ed on the Bulgarian railroads.
Official announcement was made in
the House of Commons that the total
of British war casualties up to Aug.
81 was 3S1, ,9S3 officers and men killed,
wounded or missing
The Lausanne Gazette at Geneva
says it has learned that the German
government has decided to issue a
declaration annexing to the German
empire the occupied territories in
France and Belgium
new vote of credit for $3.50, ,O00,-
900 was asked in the House of Com
mons by Premier Asquith. This
brings the total up TO $6,31O, 100000
The premier announced that nearly
100000 men had enlisted.
The Germans have lost twenty sub
marines since the beginning of the
war, according to an editorial note In
the London Motorship and Motorboat
while the British losses have been
only seven, including the Ell.
According to the most recent finan-
cial report, NJ. Ribot said, the average
monthly war expenses of Russia were
1.SOO,OOO,OOO francs ($36O, 900, ,OOO) /;
Germany's monthly war expenses ap.
proach 2,5O0,O0O,OOO francs ($5OO, ,OOO,-
O0O), while Great Britain's exceed this
amount
The Germans have occupied Wilma
and have succeed in almost surround
ing a portion of the Russian army
whic is fighting in the railway tri-
angle between Wilma, Ida and Vile
ika At the southern end of the line
General Ivanoff is keeping Field Mar
shal Won Mackensen at 's-length
from the fortress of Rovno, the key
to the route to Kiev, and in counter
attacks has retaken a number of vii
lagos in Volhynia and Galicia
WESTERN
Colorado is to have axto mail deliv.
cry.
Attendance at the Panama-Pacifi,
Exposition has reached the $4,000, ,O0t
mark.
At Deal, N. j., Newman Erb, mil
lionaire railroad magnate, has won hi
fight for life.
At Brownsville, Tex, United State
military officials have enlisted the ali
of Indians in running down Mexican
bandits.
The control of the Moffat Road ha
passed to a syndicate of Denver men
headed by Lawrence C. Phipps, ant
will be completed by them to Sal
Lake City.
A large party representing the elite
of society of half a dozen cities, jour
neyed by special train from New York
to Easthampton, l.. l., to attend the
wedding of Miss Olga Wiborg and Sid
ney Webster Fish.
There Is nothing suggestive of thu
casual or perfunctory in the examina
tion that John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., IL
making Of conditions of the coal com
panies operated by the Colorado Fue
and Iron Company in southern Colo
RADIO. Nothing escapes the keen, aler
young man of millions who visited
TRINIDAD and other points to learn fol
himself the exact situation as to the
surroundings and working conditions
OF men employed in the southern Goa
fields, especially In connection with
the company of which he is a director
The Rt. Rev. Thos A. Conaty,
bishop Of the Catholic diocese of Los
Angeles and Monterey was found dead
In bed in a cottage at Coronado
Beach. Calf
WASHINGTON
An appeal from American citizens
In Mexico City. urging the American
Red Cross not to discontinue its re
lief work there, was made public by
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman
of the Red Cross National Relief
Board.
Big cereal crops this year in nearly
all of the worlds chief agricultural
countries are forecasted in cable rc.
ports received at the Department OF
Agriculture from the International In.
stitute of Agriculture at Rome.
When the Grand Army of the Re.
public passes in review in Washing.
ton on Sept. 90 two of the most fam.
GUS Indian fighters of the United
States will be marshals of the parade.
One will be Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles. acting as chief marshal, and
Gen Frank d. Baldwin of Denver, cap.