Gilpin observer., 1916-01-13
Foreign


an illness of more than month.
1t is stated at El Paso, Tex, that
hope for Gen. Huertas recovery has
been abandoned.
decree will be published prohibit.
ing the sale to foreigners of Spanish
ships built within the last fifteen
years.
An Athens dispatch TO the London
Times says that Italy has promised
Greece that her forces shall not ad.
vance beyond the frontier of North.
ern Epirus.
Fire destroyed the wheel work
shops of the Krupp gun plant at
Essen. according to advices received
at Amsterdam, and also damaged
other buildings
Il hope you will make the people
OF the United States understand that
1 am no more pro-German than your
president" said King Constantine at
Athens to the Associated Press corre-
spondent.
The marriage of Prince Joachim,
sixth son of the Kaiser, has been set
for the end of February. it was an
nounced III Berlin. 1t will be purely
a war ceremony with only immediate
relatives present.
| An Amsterdam correspondent states
that German newspapers are demand
ing the immediate recall of Edward
Higgins, American consul at Stuttgart,
on the ground that he has shown anti
German sentiments.
According to estimates by compet-
ent authorities at Berlin, the entente
powers spent $1,250,000000 on the
Dardenelles expedition, not inclusive
of their losses in warships and trad
ing craft" says the Overseas News
Agency.
| Governor General Harrison has re-
commended that the Legislature rati-
fy an agreement for the purchase OF
the Manila railroad, capitalized at
S,OOO,OO0 pesos, with immediate pay
ment of 4.0S0,000 pesos now available
in the insular treasury and the bal.
ance in eighteen months.
Sporting News
Chas. p. Taft has sold the Chicago
Cubs to Chas. Weeghman for 100000
The Omaha Western league club an.
nounced the purchase of Second Base
man Harold Ireland from the Phila
delphia National league club.
The Boston Braves have been sold
to Percy d. Haughton, famous Har
ward football coach. and Arthur c.
| II
firm.
Clarence Griffin and Ward Dawson,
California tennis stars, won the
doubles championship of the Far East,
defeating Mikami and Kamague. the
Japanese champions, at Manila.
President Frank c. Zehrung of the
Western league will visit Denver soon.
The visit will be made in the course
of trip around the circuit which the
new president will take in order to
familiarize himself with conditions.
An offer of $4,000 for the cham
pionship go between Freddie Welsh,
lightweight titleholder, and Charlie
White of Chicago, was made Whites
manager at Chicago by Joe Golden
who represents San Antonio pro
moters.
A. (Scotty) Allan of Nome. Alaska
owner and driver of Alaska racing
dogs which twice won the classic All
Alaska sweepstake 412-mile dog team
race, returned to Seattle from France
where he sold to the government for
army use in the Alps 440 dogs. 10S oil
them from Alaska.
General
Ada Rehan, the actress, died in a
New York hospital after an operation
for arterial affection.
Ten bodies were removed from the
hold of the oil tank steamer Aztec on
which an explosion occurred at New
York.
Advices from Springer, N. NJ, report
thousands of dollars damage done by
a wind of almost cyclonic velocity at
| Cimarron.
Col. James G. Bulger, slayer of
Lloyd +. Nicodemus. in Denver, whose
execution was deferred two months
ago to permit an inquiry into his
sanity, must die the week beginning
Feb. 81.
j. Duffy, former president of the
Butte Miners Union and at one time
member of the State Legislature,
was shot and killed in Phiiipsburg.
Mont, by Mike Lonegan. miner, say
advices received at Helena, Mont
Caught in snowslide which swept
n clean swath down the side of Bull
Run mountain, twenty miles from
Baker, Ore, Albert Weis, 90 years old.
miner living in his cabin on tho
mountainside, was crushed to death.
Sam Rostevo is in Emergency hos.
pital at Dallas, Tex. with one side of