Gilpin observer., 1916-05-11
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAvINos. D o IN G 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News Service
About the War

Of Denmark.
Mexican raiders killed boy mute
and three u. 8. soldiers at Glenn
Springs. Tex.
Italian aircraft raid Durazzo. AL
bania. and Austrian airmen raid Av-
Iona and Brindisi
Germans launch offensive against
Russians south of nlukst, but meet
with no success.
Russians make further advances in
Galicia and repulse Turkish attacks
in Black sea region.
Constantinople reports big uprising
of natives in Sudan against British,
who are retreating to Nile.
Germans capture entire system of
trenches on hill 3O4 at Verdun and
mflict heavy losses ON French.
Berlin reports sinking of transport
m Mediterranean and death of nearly
500 Russian soldiers aboard.
Russians in Asia Minor compel
Turks to withdraw from entire front
line trenches in region of Erzingan.
Germans report twenty-six allied
aeroplanes destroyed in April and ad-
NIT loss of twenty-five machines.
Petrograd reports Turkish cruiser
Breslau bombarded Eupatoria, an un-
fortified health station in the Crimea.
Turks beaten back by Russians in
attack near Baiburt, Asia Minor
Turkish trenches captured near Err
ingan.
White Star liner Cymric torpedoed
by submarine. London reports one
} other British ship and one French
vessel sunk.
Fire from warships of allied fleet
brings down Zeppelin in Saloniki har-
bor. Another Zeppelin destroyed off
coast of Schleswig.
A full squadron of 230 men of the
Eleventh cavalry surprised and
routed . much larger force of Vii.
listas at Ojo-Azules, seventeen miles
south of Cusihuiriachic, killing forty
two Mexicans and taking many pris-
oners
Western
The Arizona Republican delegates
to the Chicago convention 90 unin.
structed.
The Wyoming Democratic State
Convention at Casper, unanimously
elected John e. Osborne national
committeeman and named Gov. ]. B.
kendrick, George T. Johnson, J. II.
Carpenter, Peter Kinney, ]. j. Cash
and p. J. O'Connor delegates to the
national convention at st. Louis.
Six delegates to the Republican Ma.
tional Convention were elected at the
Wyoming State Convention at Chey-
enne. They are: ID. Il. Hollister,
Cody; Ralph DEMO, Sheridan; Pat
rick Sullivan, Casper; John Hay.
Rock Springs; C. l.. Hinkle Chey.
enne and Thomas Sneddon, Diamond
Vile
How American states can help
meet the commercial and economic
conditions after the world war is the
big question to be discussed at the
ninth annual meeting of the COVER,
nors' conference which opens in Salt
Lake Tuesday, June 81. Executives
from most of the forty eight states
are expected to be present at the
time
Washington
A standing army of 250,O0O men.
provided for in the Senate amend
ment to the army bill, was rejected
by the House, 221 to 142.
Monsignor Bonzano, papal delegate
IN ATt.p l,tv tl.,
cation to President Wilson from
Pope Benedict urging the President
to use every effort to keep out of war
with Germany.
The United States government ac.
cepted Germany's concessions In the
submarine issue. but declined to ac-
eede to the German suggestion for
linking the German situation with
British-American controversies.
Representations have. been made
TO the British government by the
State Department, protesting against
seizure on the West Mexican coast
by the British cruiser Rainbow OF
the American power schooner Ore
gon.
Party lines disappeared old scores
we're forgotten by the House when,
during the first hour OF its regular
session, It Joined in paying tribute
TO Representative Cannon of Illinois
the former speaker, who is so years
old. Never before In the history OF
the House had an hour of the work.
ing session been set aside to honor
living member.
The winter wheat crop will be
about 499,280.000 bushels, according
to forecast announced in the May
crop report Of the Department of Az.
riculture.