Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVE,lTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War
western Newspaper Union news Service.

Celayo still are received; both Obre-
gon and Villa claiming victory.
Italy has 100000 soldiers under
arms and fully equipped, according
to General Zupelli, minister of war.
Six children, two men and woman
are dead as the result of the attack
made on Freiburg by French await
or. Eight others, mostly children, are
now in the hospital. several injured
and six more slightly hurt.
The threatened Russian invasion of
Hungary seems SO certain, says mes
sage from Bucharest, that Gen. Won
Hindenburg, it is said, will be made
commander-in-chief of the Austro-
German forces in the Carpathians.
The Russians are still attacking in
the neighborhood of Uzsok pass, the
main road through which is COM
manded by the heights held by the
Germanic allies, but with the melting
SHOWS, the overflowing streams and
rivers and the whole country covered
with deep mud, nothing on large
scale can be attempted.
The British, as an offset to their
success in destroying Turkish tor
pedo boat which attacked the trans
port Manitou off Chios. lost the sub
marine ELS, which, while carrying
out difficult reconnaissance in the
Dardanelles mine field, ran aground
on Keppez point, the crew being made
prisoners. According to the Turkish
report seven of the crew are miss
hg.
Lord Kitchener's army of 100000
men has begun its "big push" to drive
the Germans out of Belgium and
northern France, which has been
promised in the early spring, accord
Ing to dispatches from the front, sup
ported by the London war office Of
ncial report. Abandonment by the
German general staff of plans for
general offensive in France is inferred
from dispatches received at London.
Western
Fire, started by lightning. caused a
loss of $4,000 when the Barkhausen
oil warehouses at Green Bay, Wis,
were destroyed.
Heavy rains, causing much prop
erty damage, were reported from over
RAIN in most localities.
Miss Esther Ross, II, of Prescott,
has been named to christen the battle
ship Arizona which will be launched
In New York, June 10.
Heavy rains in the mountains and
~ af ~ Nf t1a
version dam at the Hondo reservoir
caused flood at Roswell, N. M.
Orders for $4,000 mules for use in
the British army has been placed with
Kansas City livestock dealers by
agents of the British government.
Frederick M. Smith of Independ-
ence. Mo-, was elected president of the
re-organized church of Latter Day
Saints, to succeed his father, the late
Joseph Smith, according to an an
nouncement at Lamont, la.
At Los Angeles, presiding Judge j.
Perry Wood electrified auditors in the
Superior Court by saying that Charles
e. Sebastian, suspended chief of police,
would have to go to trial on a charge
OF attempting to intimidate the grand
jury, even II an indictment accusing
him and Mrs. Lille Pratt with sub
verting. the morals of Edith Serkin
|'bloos up"
Washington
President Wilson went to New
York to attend the annual luncheon
OF the Associated Press.
Senator Borah of Idaho issued
statement saying he was not and
would not become candidate for
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent
rhe interstate commerce commits
sion has announced discontinuance of
its investigation into the rates and
practices of the telephone and tele-
graph companies.
The need of self-possess.ion, calmness
and judicial temperament on the
part OF the United States in the pre-
sent world crisis was urged by Presi,
dent Wilson in speech before the
opening session of the twenty-fourth
continental congress of the Daughters
of the Revolution. The President said
selt-possession was the supreme test
OF nations mettle.
Preparatory to oral arguments be-
fore the Supreme Court on the gov.
ernment suit to forfeit titles of the
Oregon G. California Railroad Com
pany to 100000 acres of Oregon
land. valued by some at $50, 900, 900,
former Representative A. w. Lafferty
filed with the court brief on behalf
of sixty-four intervening actual set
tiers" upon the land.
Washington society circles were sur
prised when it became known that
William F. McCombs. chairman of the
Democratic national committee, and
Mrs. McCombs had separated