Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1916-10-19
Foreign


Japan and Russia entered protests
against concessions for railway and
canal construction in China which
have been granted to Americans.
The converting of the Greek cham.
Der Of deputies, which was to have
taken place Saturday, was postponed
for month by decree of King Con.
stantine.
The Danish submarine Dykkeren
was sunk after being in collision with
Norwegian steamer The crew OF
the submersible is believed to have
been saved.
The wheat crop of Canada for the
present year will be only 1928, 900
bushels as compared with 376,3O3 900
bushels in 1915, according to an Off
cial estimate.
Empress Sadako of Japan has de-
cided to supply artificial limbs and
eyes to the Japanese and Germans
who were wounded in the campaign
at Kiao-Chow.
The Copenhagen Politiken says that
M. Hammarskjold, the Swedish pre-.
mier, will resign and that he will be
succeeded by X. A. Wallenberg, min.
lister of foreign affairs.
James Gilhooley, who has sat in the
British Parliament as member for
the west division of Cork county, Ire
land, since 1885, died at Cork. He
was an Irish Nationalist, and was II
years old.
MEDIC Kerovic, one of the conspira-
tors in the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to
the Austrian throne, in 1914, died in a
military prison, says report from
Sarayevo. Bosnia.
A bill regulating the admission in.
70 Brazil of persons mutilated in the
European war is being pushed by
Deputy Gustavo Borroso Barroso
fears the country will be overrun by
crippled immigrants.
Sporting News
Denver University defeated the
University of Wyoming football
eleven at Laramie 10 to 10, after the
Wyoming Cowboys" seemed to have
won the contest
''Wop" Flynn of Denver put Kid
Mex of Pueblo dead to the world in
the fifteenth round of the fiercest bat
tie staged in Denver for several years
at the National Athletic Club.
More than half the members of the
prana a tnr hnn
Boulder were suspended from further
participation in the sport for alleged
violations of training rules, upon COM
plant to the authorities of Coach
Bretnall
The Marine corps cup, one of the
most important trophies contested for
in the United States, was won at
Jacksonville, Fla, at the national rifle
matches by Capt. D. A. Preussner,
First Iowa infantry, who scored 1856
points out of possible 200, defeating
519 competitors.
The Boston Americans divided the
winners spoils of the worlds series
which they closed with a victory over
the Brooklyn Nationals at Boston
Full shares of s3S2625 each were
given twenty-five players, including
several who had figured but little in
the teams success. The remainder of
the s97,756.47 which the team won
was given to substitutes and club
employees.
General
Two negroes were lynched by a mob
at Paducah, KY, and their bodies
burned.
DIR. Grant ]. Roberts, 255l Sheffield
avenue, Chicago, formerly in the
United States medical corps in the
Canal zone, was shot down in the
street by his daughter, Miss Fern
Roberts.
The United States Geological Sur
vey credits Wyoming Montana and
Colorado during 1915 with the pro.
duction of 347397, 900 cubic feet OF
gas. This greatly exceeds any other
year for these states.
The Adamson so-called eight.hour
law is in reality law increasing the
wages of railroad employees. That
was the admission made by William
G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen at Cleveland,
Ohio.
At no time since the mobilization OF
the national guard has It been safe
TO reduce the number of men on the
Mexican border, in the opinion OF
Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, com.
handing the southern department OF
the army.
G. X. Vason, doorkeeper in the
Georgia House of Representatives
who was convicted of stabbing Thorn.
as b. Fielder, an Atlanta lawyer, was
sentenced at Atlanta to serve one year