Gilpin observer., 1916-07-13
FR0l.l ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o. I'm q .. ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERlNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union Vows Service.
About the War

Galician front.
Russians extend drive to cover Riga
front and entire German army In
East may be forced to retire.
According to statement given out
at Berlin by the Overseas News
Agency, German warships between
July and sank eight trawlers near
the English coast.
Signal successes on the eastern
front over the Austro-Gcrman armies
are reported by Petrograd. Teuton
losses since the drive began now are
officially estimated at 100000 men.
During their reid on Jiminez, the
Villista troops captured the Carranza
pay train on its way from Mexico City
with paper money for the army and
civil government of northern Mexico.
Friday the British captured 1000
yards more of trenches at La Bois-
selle. forced their way into the vii
lage of Ovilleres and took three lines
of trenches and two woods north of
Fricourt.
From 200 to 300 Carranza soldiers
and camp-followers were massacred
by Broncho YaQuis in lower Sonora,
according to stories told by arrivals
at Nogales, Ariz., from that part of
Mexico.
Gen. P. Elias Gales, military COM
mander of Sonora, ordered the de-
mobilization of troops now in the bor
der districts, discharged from the ma
tional service, and ordered the re-
opening of all public offices along the
border.
Defying half dozen enemy war
ships patrolling the Atlantic coast
from New York to Charleston, and
eluding the combined North sea fleet
of France and England. super-sub-
marine from Germany passed Vir-
ginia capes and is lying safe at an
Choir in the harbor OF Baltimore.
The French gained Hill 81, COM
manding the Somme river, southeast
of Biaches, Monday, and are near
Peronnne, the fall of which is ex-
pected. Turks report Russian Of
fensive in near East has collapsed.
British report progress against Ger
mans east of Ovillers and La Bois-
selle and that they gained footing
In the Mametz wood. Germans sac
rfice thousands in battle ending in
their gaining entrance to Trones
wood Russians drive foes step by
step back across Stokhod river.
Western
One case of infantile paralysis has
developed in Salt Lake.
Miss jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
Mont, prominent suffragist of the
West, announced herself as a candi-
date for Congress.
The embargo on shipments to Mex
leo has been lifted, it was announced
at department headquarters at Ell
Paso on everything except munitions
of war.
The body of L. c. Schultz, promi-
nent rancher for ten years near Flora
Vista, n. NJ, was found in the barn
of Tom Goulding. neighbor. with the
top of his head blown off
A saloonless nation by 1920 was de
manded in resolutions unanimously
passed by the convention of the Bap-
tist Young Peoples Union of America
in the Coliseum in Chicago.
The United States naval supply
steamer Glacier arrived at San Diego
Cal. with ten refugees, American
Consul William Alger, of Mazatlan,
Mexico, and one stowaway aboard.
Washington
second warning that villa ban.
dts are headed for the Big Bend dis
trict of Texas was given to the State
Department by Eliseo Arredondo. the
Mexican ambassador-designa
Interested American bankers have
been advised that the State Depart
ment would look with favor upon
their participation in loan to China,
providing such a loan were not made
contingent upon concessions.
Pending the result of further Inves.
tigation. the United States has taken
the position that the German submar-
Inc deutschland is an andersen
freight ship, entitled to ply its trade
between German and American ports.
Corroborative evidence to support
the charge made in Secretary Ian.
sings note of June 20 that Carranza
officials harbored villa after the Co.
lumbus raid, was given to the War
Department by Maj Frank Tomp.
kins OF the Seventh cavalry.
The State Department directed
American Charge Miller I'm CONSTANT
nople. to call the Turkish govern.
ment's attention again to the fact thai
II has done nothing with the Amer..
can request that neutrals be permit.
ted to feed the starving Christian
population Of Syria.