Gilpin observer., 1916-05-04
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o DIN q .. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

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British force of four cavalry squad
rons annihilated by Turks near Qua
tia.
British battleship Russell strikes
mine and sinks; 7O2 saved, 124 miss
ing
Germans repulsed in three night
attacks on French in Vosges south
of Largizen.
Germans report capture of Russian
positions and 5000 prisoners south of
Lake Narocz.
Russian official statement an
nounces repulse of Turkish troops on
Caucasus front and near Bagdad.
Four more British ships have been
sent to the bottom by mines or sub
marines, according to London reports.
Gems. Scott and Funston deadlock
with Obregon over withdrawal of U.
s. troops from Mexico in first con-
ference.
Crisis near in British parliament
over conscription, Irish rebellion and
surrender OF Townshend's army at
Kut-el-Amara.
Paris reports the repulse of Ger
man infantry attacks at Verdun and
subsequent furious bombardments by
heavy German artillery.
The Turks, commenting on the fall
of Kut-el-Amara, declare victory over
British will create profound impres.
sion in the Orient.
French capture trenches north of
Dead Mans hill and north of Cum
mieres In Verdun fighting. Berlin
says French attacks were repulsed.
British force besieged 143 days
in Kut-el-Amara surrenders. London
says there were about 10000 men in
the army. Constantinople puts the
number of prisoners at 13,300
Villas scattered adherents are
gradually being pushed to the WALL
according to unofficial reports at
Columbus. N. NJ, as more men are be-
ing sent over the border to block
coup by the Mexicans.
The Irish revolt has been crushed.
1t was officially announced in London
that all of the rioters leaders had
surrendered. Two hundred casualties
have occurred and property damage
estimated at $1O,O0O,0O0 has been
done.
Western
Mississippi Republicans at Jackson,
elected two negro delegates-at-large
to the Chicago convention.
All saloons in Lincoln, Neb., were
closed for an indefinite period as a
result of a blanket remonstrance filed
at the instance of prohibition leaders.
A new factor is believed to have
been injected into the conference OF
American troop dispositions by the re-
ceipt of fresh reports at Ell Paso
Tex, that Francisco Villa is dead.
Surrounded by the bodies of his
wife and five children, John ,Wycho-
pen was found in his home near Tenn
Pile. Tex, suffering from a bullet
wound through his head which physi.
clans said probably will prove fatal
While pursuing two horse thieves
into Colorado, Sheriff Frank b. Roach
OF Laramie county. Wyo.. and Nels
Nelson, a ranchman residing near
Cheyenne, were shot dead on Box
Elder creek, thirty-five miles north
west of Fort Collins Two men who
confessed the rustling and the double
murder, are held by the Laramie
county, Colo, authorities.
The shearing of 100000 head of
Wyoming sheep has begun. the first
pens having opened in the Rock
Springs district and the Shoshoni dis.
trict to the north. The Australian
system of grading wool is being used
at many shearing pens. The earlier
shearing-pen returns indicates that
Wyomings wool crop this year will
reach 35.000.000 pounds.
Washington
A regular army OF 100000 at peace
strength has practically been agreed
upon by the Senate and House con.
ferees on the army bill.
The tenth annual meeting of the
American Society OF International
Law adjourned after a business ses-
sion at which Elihu Root was re.
elected president.
Conferees on the Indian appropria-
tion bill concluded their work. In the
final draft the bill appropriated
$4,000 for Colorado Navajos and $780,.
900 for Colorado Southern Utes. the
money to be. used for farming imple-
ments and stock. The bill also gives
$4,000 for construction Of a road
from Mesa Verde to Gallup ~
The House adopted an amendment
10 the agricultural bill appropriating
$65.000 for the purchase of live stock
for government experimentation :
Part OF the money will be spent at
Akron, Colo.