Gilpin observer., 1916-11-23

been prohibited.
The Teutonic allies have taken
more than 2.100 prisoners in late op-
erations in Wallacb,a.
Nearly 200 delegates and deputies to
the Mexican constitutionalist congress
assembled at Queretaro with every
state in Mexico represented.
Shipping suffered severely in the
heavy gales off the British coast Sat
urday and Sunday. and it is believed
at least seventeen lives were lost.
Mrs. John P. Mitchell, widow of tue
late United States senator from Ore
gon, died in Paris. She was the moth
er Of Duchess de u Rochefoucauld.
The Italian government has Joined
the other entente powers in protesting
against the action Of Germany in pro
claiming Russian Poland an independ-
ent state.
On Nov. the 1,000th German she'll
struck the Cathedral of Rheims. Four
Of the flying buttresses supporting the
roof of the nave have been demolished
and several others hit.
proposal has been made to the
Canadian banks to finance purchases
of grain in the Dominion for the i'm
perial government to the extent of
$30000,0OO, it was learned at Mon
treal.
Germany is in the grip of winter,
the Exchange Telegraph Company's
Berne correspondent reports. Several
trains from Berlin are snowbound
near the Swiss frontier where extreme
cold prevails.
Rigid economy throughout the world
in the consumption of food, in view
of the deficient crops and the extror-
binary requirements of the European
armies, is urged by the International
Institute Of Agriculture at Rome.
Plans to take 5000 English women,
widowed by the war, to Canada have
been completed by officers of the Sal
walton Army working in conjunction
with the officials of the Dominion and
provincial government in Canada.
Interest in the announcement in
Vienna that President Wilson intends
taking concrete action in behalf of
peace, continues undated, though in
many Austrian circles the view is held
that the attitude of the entente pow
ers will render Mr.. Wilson's good Of
fees futile.
Capt. Persius, the German naval
critic. says in the Berlin Tageblatt
that the German government has pub
llshed white book containing copies
Of the correspondence between Berlin
and Washington on the question OF
submarine warfare. Capt. Persius
describes the controversy as "a hard
fight for the right" and expresses the
hope that a similar correspondence
will not occur again.
Sporting News
Yale triumphed over Princeton in
the annual football game at Prince.
ton, N. j., by a score of 10 to 0.
Goading each other into cyclonic
speed, the members of the School of
Mines eleven at Denver defeated the
University of Colorado, 81 to 10.
Sporting, excise and swinging door
circles were agog when it was report
ed that the price of beer is to be
raised to cents a glass in Philadel.
phia.
The seventh annual international
grand prize automobile road race was
won by Johnny Aitken, driving as re-
lief for Howard Wilcox, at SanIa
Monica, Cal.
John Crum Clark, IS, widely known
as circus clown, gymnast and high
jumper sixty years ago, died at Long
Branch, N. j. Clark once said he was
champion high jumper of the world.
The Utah University football team
aroused the fighting spirit in the Col.
orado Aggies at Fort Collins, and the
conference champions came up with
the big end Of 12-to-6 score.
The American record for nonstop
cross-country flight was shattered
when Miss Ruth Law, flying biplAne
of the military scout type, flew from
Chicago to Hornell, 1855 miles, in six
hours and fifty-one minutes, and ex
ceeded by more than 100 miles the rec
ord established by Victor Carlstrom q
month ago.
General
The annual production Of clothing
in New York city amounts to approx
nately $532,000.000.
Joseph Wilson, aged SO. brother
OF William b. Wilson, secretary Of Ia
Dor, was killed while placing pillars
in a mine at st. Benedict, Pa, when
rock fell on him. He died instant
ly.
Twenty unexploded bombs were
found in the sugar cargo Of the Ameri
can steamship Sarnia upon her ar
rival ut Cherbourg. France. after q
voyage starting from New York or
Sept. 2.