Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
About the War

ihO hdliOuo AOW dI wal nave iooI
5,95O,0OO men in the first eight months
Of the conflict and spent $S,4OO,OOO,000
In the first six months, according TO
figures prepared for the Avanti, 4
Paris Socialist organ, by it's military
Expert
The French offensive in the Woeve,
which, according to official reports
from Paris, continues to make pro-
Bress, although the Germans reiterate
that all the French attacks have been
repulsed, it is believed is only the
prelude to big general effort in the
west
A further casualty list issued by the
British war office adds 1,038 names
to the list of British soldiers killed or
wounded in the battle of Neuve
Chapelle, France, last month. This
latest list brings the total British cas-
ualties in the fighting at Neuve Cha
pelle so far announced to 6,561. OF
this number 2,051 men were killed.
With the capture by the Russians
of Hill 992 and the rest of the main
chain of mountains the battle of the
Carpathians, which has lasted up
ward of eighty days, has apparently
come to an end over one extensive
front, for the Russians are now NOV
Ing by railways and roads and along
the rivers and streams, down the
southern slopes on the plains of Hun
gary.
German submarines have again
been showing activity and, besides the
Harpalyce which, according to one
member of her crew and the officers
of another steamer, was torpedoed,
they have attacked since Saturday
night the British liner Wayfarer, the
French steamer Frederic Franck and
the little steamer President. The
Wayfarer reached Queenstown in a
sinking condition; the Frederic Franck
was towed into Plymouth, and the
President was still afloat when her
crew of ten left her
Western
At Madison, Wis, the assembly
passed the antitipping bill.
Edward Preston Moxey, formerly
special bank examiner for the United
States government, died suddenly in
Chicago
The Iowa Senate passed the Klinker
bill, which provides that absent voters
may send their ballots to their home
precinct by mail.
Charles johnson, alleged to be a
member of the Henry Starr gang of
bank robbers, was arrested at Paw
huska and taken to jail at Chandler,
Okla.
There will be a flood of immigra-
tion to the United States and Canada
at the conclusion of the European
war, according to Sir Thomas o.
Shaughnessy.
Gustavo di Rosa, Italian consul at
Boston, and Miss Maude Cupples
Scudder, granddaughter and heir of
the late Samuel Cupples, millionaire
manufacturer, were married at the
Scudder home in st. Louis.
80 The trial of Charles Ebenbach, an
Idaho ranchman, charged with having
perpetrated the sensational Yellow
stone park stage robberies last sum-
mer, was started in Sheridan, Wyo..
at special term of the United States
District Court held in that city.
Charles n. Tew, lawyer, of Greeley;
William S. Tiff and Samuel II. Shields
of Denver, with five other men whose
total wealth runs into many millions,
have been indicted by the federal
grand jury at Chicago on charges con-
nected with the financing of the
Greeley, Colorado-Pou Irrigation
project, according to Postal Inspector
William McHenry. of Denver.
W.
President Wilson has decided de-
finitely not to accompany Secretary
Daniels on his contemplated trip
through the Panama canal to San
Francisco in July.
Nicaraguan revolutionists, said to
be headed by Salvador Castrillo
formerly minister to the United States
have met crushing defeat, according
to advices to the Nicaraguan minister
Mr.. Chamorro.
The battleships Missouri, Ohio and
Wisconsin, the naval academy squad
ron, at present in reserve in the Phil
adelphia navy yard, were ordered
placed in full commission They will
&c to Annapolis about May l.
Department of commerce statistics
show TIA vessels of all classes, with
an aggregate tonnage of 153,32S were
built during the last nine months,
while in the same period n year ago,
S9l vessels, with total tonnage of
215.059 were built.
Mai Gen. william c. Gorgas sur.
geon general of the United States
army. was invited by the Rockefeller
foundation to become permanent
member of Its staff in the capacity of
general adviser in matters relating to
public sanitation and the control Of
epidemiCs