Gilpin observer., 1916-02-03
Foreign

The British labor congress pas,icG
resolutions against conscription..
Ben b.. Lindsey has left Holland for
Berlin to study the needs Of children
in the belligerent countries.
An apparatus which it is claimed
will prevent the destruction of ships
by torpedoes or mines has been In
vented by Frantz Poulsen, engineer at
Copenhagen.
Twenty-eight women, arrested on
charge of selling liquor at Anchorage,
Alaska, principal construction camp
OF the government railroad, pleaded
guilty and were fined 800 each.
Danish sailing vessel that is 129
years old but is still in sound condi-
tion, put into West Hartlepool to dis
charge cargo. The vessel. named De
Tvende Brodre-"The Two Brothers"
was built in 1886.
AS an instance of German thrift and
thoroughness, the Germans remove
the hides from dead army horses, says
the London Daily Nails Balkan cor
respondent. in describing trip from
Constantinople to Nish.
The province of Kweichow, China,
is in full rebellion. The governor was
forced to flee on Jan. 16, and COM
munications have been interrupted. 1t
Is reported that Luchow and Tzeliut-
sing have been captured by the revO-
lutionists.
New York Is the largest city in the
world. London, by reason of losses
occasioned by the war and because Of
a gigantic mistake in estimating the
population must now admit that the
American metropolis is the bigger by
about 25O,OOO people.
Viscount Bryce, formerly British
ambassador at Washington, asked the
government of the United States to
take steps to send relief to the Ar
menians, who. he states, have been
driven by the Turks into the deserts
of Syria and Mesopotamia.
Gen. Tomas Ornelas, commandant
at Juarez until he fled to Ell Paso to
escape death at the hands of Fran.
cisco Villa. was taken from a Mexl-
can Central passenger train at
Laguna. north of Chihuahua City, by
| an armed squad and shot to death.
Sporting News
Jim Coffey of New York, knocked
out Lew Bodie of Montana in the fifth
round of a ten-round exhibition bout
at Syracuse, N. Y.
The Tijuana racetrack, near San
Diego, which has been washed away
by flood, was opened last New Year
day and 109-day meeting was
planned.
Twenty-one thousand dollars for
coach will be the pay of Tad Jones,
according to the contract he has
agreed to sign.
Jimmy Dunn, a heavyweight boxer
who won over Kid Cisneros in the
semiwindup to the recent Bob York.
Young Jack johnson, is in the Pueblo
country, Colo, Jail in default of $500
bond on charge of bottlegging.
Battling Nelson, former light
weight champion, filed a petition for
divorce from Mrs. Fay King Nelson, a
cartoonist and special writer for a
Denver newspaper, on the ground that
she has refused to live with him.
George HORNE, former worlds rec.
ord holder and present running high
jump champion of America, has re-
tired from athletics, according to Il
letter rereived in New York Horine
says henceforth he will devote all his
attention to his ranch in Winton,
Cal.
Denver court officials have been
anxiously waiting for James C. McGill,
| Denver and indianapolis baseball
owner, who was sued by Mr.. and Mrs.
John +. Coffey, each for $4,000 for an
alleged assault upon Mrs. Coffey, 70
file his pleading in the cases. His
answer was filed Monday
General
SiXty-seven members of the Ford
peace expedition arrived in New York
on the Rotterdam.
Exactly S7,O4S dogs and cats wer.
put to humane death by the Morris
Refuge Association In the last year IN
Philadelphia.
Railroad and wire service in Utah
and adjoining states was seriously in
terrupted Friday as &. result of heavy
snowfall and high wind.
| Attorneys for the White Star line
announced in New York that agree
ments had been reached with more
than 200 claimants whereby about
100000 will be paid In claims arising
out of the Titanic disaster.
That the danger of hyphenated
Americanism is thing of the past
and that when the test comes, every
mans heart will be first for America -
was the declaration of President VIII
| snu In n ctirrinp ahdrasa In Milvnu.