Gilpin observer., 1916-09-14
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About the War

distant. afire
On the Caucasus front in the re-
gion of Sakkiz the Russians have oc-
cupied the town of Bana.
Italian troops have captured a
strong Austrian position in the Leno
valley ON the Trentino front.
Paris war office reports 7,700 Ger
mans have been taken prisoners In
the Somme drive since Sept. 3.
British capture Ginchy and terri
tory to Leuze wood in attack on
three-mile front in Somme sector.
French assaults repulsed with SAN
culinary losses in Berleux- Belly sector,
Berlin claims. Nine allied aeroplanes
brought down.
German and Bulgarian forces oper-
ating In Rumania capture strongly
fortified town of Silstria, sixty miles
from Bucharest.
Paris reports repulse of repeated
German attacks on the Somme, in
which the assailants used liquid fire
in large quantities.
Russian gains near Shypot ad-
mitted In official statement from
Berlin. Attacks everywhere else re-
pulsed. says statement.
German casualties in the war dur
ing the month of August, according
to a compilation at London from the
German casualty lists, totalled 240,-
900.
German and Bulgarian troops have
captured the Rumanian stronghold of
Turtakai, with 10000 prisoners and
100 guns. Both armies lost heavily
in the battle for possession of the
fortress. Vienna admits retirement
on both the Russian and Rumanian
fronts under pressure.
The British troops in their advance
across the Struma in the region OF
Lake Tahinos, have driven the Bull
garians from four villages, says war
office statement of the operations in
Macedonia. The British also re-
pulsed strong Bulgarian counter at
tacks.
Western
Capt. Daniel b. Hodgsdon, U. S. N,
retired, died at his home in Detroit,
Mich.
A wind storm approaching the vio-
lence of tornado wrecked the small
town of Cairo. fourteen miles north
west of Grand Island, Neb.
The Sioux City unit of the Ameri-
can Red Cross will see service on the
border. Ten women have been Or
dered to report at Llano Grande, Tex.
A date for the execution of Oscar
w. White, sentenced to be hanged for
the murder of Anderson Coffee near
Casper, Aug. ~, 1918, is to be set by
the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The heaviest Neutrality-suspicious. rain
in fifteen years, following Fridays
steady downpour, sent desert streams
coursing across the Salt River Valley
In Arizona.
A box containing sS,07O, which was
stolen when two men held up and
fatally wounded Lee Rankin, paymas-
ter for the Youghiogheny and Ohio
Coal Company, near Martins Ferry,
Ohio, was found by boys in wood
few hundred yards from the scene of
the robbery.
Thirty Mexicans, supposed to be
Villistas, made raid on the engineer
camp of the American punitive expe-
dition and escaped with mule, nc.
cording to members of the expedi
tiOnary force arriving at FL Paso.
Tex, from Mexico by way of CoMm.
bus, N. M.
Washington
Thu session of the Sixty-fourth Con
gress which closed Sept. was re
markable chiefly for the enormous in
crease II made in the army and navy
for the defense of the country I'm.
portai.t bills passed by the Congress
since last December include: Pre-.
paredness. rural credits. Philippines.
child labor. vocational training, work.
mems compensation. shipping, good
roads. emergency revenue. rivers and
harbors, railroad eight-hour day. Othe
important acts were the ratification O
the Nicaraguan and Haitian treaties
and the confirmation OF Louis ID. Bran
deis az associate justice OF the United
States Supreme Court.
Mai. Gen. James B. Aleshire, quar-
ter master general of the army since
July, 1907, was placed on the retired
list on account of physical disability.
Representative Heating of Colorado
asked the United States Geological
Survey TO make survey around Pu
eblo, Colo, with a view to developing
oil and gas.
A report by the United States De
partment OF Commerce shows $50 32
bales of cotton ginned from the 1916
crop prior to Sept. 1. as against 4G3.
S83 for 1915, 480,317 for 1914 and $780,.
099 for 1918.