Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27
Foreign

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ernment troop and are moving north
ward.
The Swiss government Is preparing
| to issue a fourth loan of 100,000.00O
francs. 1t will offer for subscriptions
bonds bearing Az per cent interest.
Richardson, sixty miles from Fair
banks, Alaska, reported 80 degrees be-
low zero Saturday Other points re-
ported from to GO degrees below.
The site has been chosen for the
statue that is to be erected in COM
memoration of Edith Cavell, the Brit
ish nurse who was executed in Bel
GUM.
The Neue Zuricher Zeitung Luxem-
burg correspondent announces that
the marriage of Grand Duchess Marie
of Luxemburg probably will take place
shortly.
Gov. L. B. Hanna OF North Dakota,
who went to Copenhagen with the
Ford peace party, departed for Eng
land and later plans to go to the south
of France.
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty.
which ruled China before the estab-
lishment of the republic, has been pro-
claimed by the leaders of an uprising
| in eastern Mongolia.
Press dispatches from Rome say
that considerable anxiety is felt in
Vienna in consequence Of the illness
| of Emperor Francis Joseph, whose
chronic bronchitis has assumed an
acute form.
An Anglo French corporation with a
capital of 4S0,000000 leu (about $685.
000.00O) has been formed to buy up
all available grain, so that the ceD-
tral powers will be unable TO import
needed supplies.
Germany has submitted to the Unit
ed States through Ambassador Won
| Bernstorff, another written proposal
designated to bring about a settlement
of the controversy over the sinking
of the steamship Lusitania, with loss
of more than 100 American lives.
Sporting News
The baseball season will open April
22nd.
Vic Hanson of California won a de-
cision ip ten rounds over Dick Gilbert
of Denver at Kansas City.
Word to the effect that Jimmy Nc
Gill, who is in Indianapolis, has pur-
chased Third Baseman Dyer from the
New York Giants reached Denver.
Fred Toney will pitch for the Reds
this year for $4,000 salary, or not
pitch at ALL" This was the statement
of President August Hermann of the
Reds at Cincinnati, answering Toney's
conditional release.
Full details of the dog sled race
from Anchorage to Old Knik and re.
turn, which was won by Frank Dixon
who was forced to take the place in
harness of his leading Malamute to
help drag his sled across the finish
line, were made public at Anchorage
| Alaska.
The National Western Horse and
Stock Show closed in Denver before
the largest matinee crowd ever as.
sembled in the big stadium. Miss
Loula Long, with stable of eighteen
horses, took eleven blue ribbons, seven
second ribbons, four third pennants
and was fourth only twice. Mr.
Thompsons horses won six firsts
seven second ribbons. three thirds
and was fourth only once.
General
Oscar Hammerstein, former grand
opera impresario, was adjudged a
bankrupt at New York.
! Brig. Gen. Isaac Swarthwood Catlin
u. S. A., retired, eighty-one years old
died after stroke of apoplexy, at his
home in Brooklyn
General Felix Diaz issued a state
ment in New York denying that hi
had planned or is planning another
revolution in Mexico.
Travel by land and sea and com
munication of all sorts were out o
joint Monday in the western one-thirt
of the United States. because of rain
snow and wind.
: Preliminary arrangements wre mad,
+ at mass meeting to have citizei
+ military training camp for the inter
mountain region at Salt Lake City il
5 August, September and October of thi
, year.
e Mrs. Eliza ID. Lathrop, 102 years old
died at Binghampton. N. Y. In an in
/ terview given out on her last birth
4 day, she said her chief article of die
a was pickles and said their use KEEP
her well.
/. William ]. Bryan issued statemen
/. saying he had no intention of follow
l. ing President Wilson on his tri
l. through the middle West to max
speeches in answer to the Presiden
a on preparedness.
J. Capt. A. Vladimir Seferovitch, Nor