Gilpin observer., 1916-04-27
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
eAvlNes, DON g 3, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
N....rn New.pap.r Union New. service.
About the War

marines.
British recapture part Of trenches
recently lost north of Ypres.
The British steamship Parisiana of
4.763 tons gross has been sunk.
Turks report British lost 5000 men,
1000 killed, in repulse at Telahie.
Turks report defeat of Russians
south of Biths and east of Mush.
Premier Skoulodis, who is wealthy,
has given $1,OOO,OOO to the state.
Russians capture important Turk
ish position SO miles west of Erzerum.
Floods compel Germans to evacuate
trenches near Ypres, recently cap
tured from British.
The United States has prepared
plans to protect Americans If break
comes with Germany.
French estimate that Germans have
up to date used 100000 men in at
tempt to take Verdun.
British column in German East Az
RIGA occupies town of KOndoa, driving
Germans before them.
Heavy bombardments continue be-
fore Verdun and in the Argonne for
est. French shell enemy positions
from air.
London reports capture of Sir Roger
Easement, Irish Separatist leader, in
effort to smuggle arms into Ireland
with German aid.
Austrians enraged by Italian aerial
attack on Triest in which monastery
containing hundreds of noncombatants
was destroyed and several killed
Constantinople reports that the
British force besieged in Kut-el-Amara
Is near famine and has ordered the
civil population to evacuate the town.
Gen. Funston is sending to Gen.
Pershing more than 1000 additional
troops and there is reason to believe
that even more will be placed at his
disposal IL the campaign against villa
is continued.
Western
Last falls sowing of winter wheat
in Kansas is estimated to be approx
mately S,454,000 acres.
The annual election of officers of
the International Typographical Un-
ion will be held May "a.
Information received at Ell Paso,
Texas, by an American mining con-
cern with large interests in the Guer-
rero district, stated that the majority
of the American troops were now con-
centrated near NamiQuipa.
Apathy displayed by leading club
women Of Los Angeles toward the Wis.,
It Of twenty-three members of the Con-
gressional Union for Woman Suffrage
who arrived on the Suffrage Special"
failed to effect any change in the Wis
itOrs' plans
Ralph Bertram and Fred Jones, the
two young holdups who were cap.
tured by posse of cowboys and Off
GERS after they had shot William H.
Cabler. a watchman at the Denver
. stockyards, were held for Cabler's
death by coroners jury in Denver.
Public execution in the Plaza at
chihuahua City is to end the career
OF Pablo Lopez, the Villa bandit, cap
tured near Santa Ysabel, according to
passengers arriving at El Paso from
Chihuahua. A similar fate will be
meted out to the three men who were
taken with Lopez
william l.. Carlisle, the Union Pa
cific train bandit who held up three
trains In six weeks, and was cap
tured by a posse near Fort Steele
Wyo.. Saturday afternoon, was taken
from the Rawlins Jail to Cheyenne on
special train Monday and arraigned
on an information of five counts
charging robbery of passengers on
Overland Limited train No. /. near
Cheyenne. April 4. He pleaded not
guilty to all counts, but his counsel
reserved the right to change the plea
later.
Washir gton
The Senate voted to recede from
amendments to House free sugar re.
peal bill. and approved the bill as II
passed the House.
Mail reports reaching the public
health service say that typhus in To.
kio is increasing. One hundred and
ten cases were reported within nine.
teen days before the report
Naval subcommittee agreed on the
draft Of naval appropriation bill car.
rying $217.000,000.
The House banking committee ia.
vorably reported bill to create system
OF land mortgage banks.
a Sharp rises in food prices in Den.
mark have alarmed the people, who
fear further increases II the war con.
tinues, say consular advices.
Resolution of inquiry regarding the
detention o. Samuel Schwartz an
American. by British authorities, was
introduced by Representative Bennet