Gilpin observer., 1916-03-30
CONDENSED RECORD OF tn e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
fROLl ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN G 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News servics.
About the War

SltlOu OIL HSiSHto
German raider and armed British
merohaptman sunk in North sea bat
tie.
The czar's troops are still chasing
the Turks out of the Black sea coast
region.
in Mesopotamia by surprise attack.
Turks lombard Kut-el-Amara.
The entente allies have promised
Belgium she will be invited to partici'
pate in the peace negotiations.
The Germans are making stubborn
resistance to the Russians between
Dvinsk and wilma. but have lost two
lines of trenches near Postavy.
Intense cannonading reported to
the north of Verdun. Both sides are
using their big guns and the infantry
is idle while the artillery duel RACES.
The Germans, after period of
comparative quiet, have again begun
sheling Bethincourt, LIE Mort
Homme and Cumieres, west of the
Meuse.
French biplane, whose observer,
a Greek volunteer, Albert Mi..vachi, a
native of Saloniki, was shot down at
height of 5000 feet, falling into
Lake Doiran.
The British expeditionary force
campaigning against German East
Africa is making further progress in
its aggressive operations. according
to an official statement at London.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele
graph Company from Copenhagen
says the German armed trawlers sunk
by the British outside Sylt harbor
were named Braunschweig and Otto
Rudolf.
The British have blown up about
100 yards of German trench in the
captured 600 yards of first and Sec
ond line German trenches in bayo-
net charge.
Western
Cole Younger, the famous. bandit,
died at his home at Lees Summit.
Mo.
Progressives in Kansas will hold
their state convention at Topeka on
May 25.
Five men, four of whom are Off
BARRIERS union, were arrested in con-
aection with the dynamiting of a
outrate barber shop.
The Republican state committee
has selected Cheyenne as the place
for holding the Wyoming convention
to elect delegates to the national con-
vention, and designated May s, as
the date.
Mrs. Alice Ruiz, who was among
the passengers of the steamship Sus.
sex when the vessel was struck by
torpedo or mine in the English
channel. is daughter of Mrs. Frank
Webb of Denver. Her mother WAS
visiting in Boulder when notified
that the young woman was safe in
Paris.
A meeting at the Denver Uniol
Station between 200-pound Wyom-
ing rancher and Colorado Springs
nurse. which, the nurse says, was 20
result in a wedding, a weeks honey
moon and then happy days on a big
Wyoming ranch, is still dream of
the future, as the rancher failed to
appear.
Returning American refugees and
oattlemen at El Paso, who know the
country where villa has taken refuge,
are unanimous In their expression
that villa will never be taken. The
nature OF the country and the fat t
that villa is among his own people,
who idolize him. make the bandit s
capture unlikely, they declare.
Washington
A total of 1888 recruits have been
added to the army in the last ten
days, the War Department announced
Thomas ]. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, who
has been i'll for several months as
result OF pneumonia, died at his
home in Washington.
Army officials are satisfied tha
the end of the pursuit of villa is near
There are $4,000 Carranza troops IL
the state of Sonora, shutting off al
escape for villa to the west
The literacy test was kept in tn,
immigration bill by the House work
ing in committee of the whole by ,
vote of 225 to so, which defeated
motion by Representative Sabbath o
Illinois to strike 1t out.
Threatened complications in tn
Mexican situation disappeared whel
the Senate Republicans decided t
accept administration assurance
that sufficient troops were on tn
border for protection of American II
terests. and determined not TO carr
the agitation for more troops furths
at this time.