Gilpin observer., 1916-03-16
Foreign


for foreign affairs, is announced.
The London Opera House, which
was built by Oscar Hammerstein in
1911, has been purchased by vaude-
vile syndicate.
]. p Morgan, who has been in
Liverpool for New York on the
steamer Philadelphia.
Four German submarines are re-
ported to be in the English channel,
prepared to enforce rigidly Germany's
recently announced policy of naval
warfare.
Wassili N. Kroupenski, the Russian
minister to China, has been appointed
ambassador to Japan to fill the va
cancy caused by the recall of Nicholas
A. Nalevsky- Malevitch on account of
i'll health.
J. b. Osborne, American consul at
Havre. in his report to Washington
on the sinking of the Norwegian bark
Silius, is understood to bring out
clearly that the Silius was torpedoed
by submarine.
The London Weekly Nation says it
believes that Col Winston Spencer
Churchill formerly first lord of the
admiralty intends to resign his COM
MISSION in the army and return to
parliament.
BY vote of slightly more than
two to one, Manitoba approved the
provincial temperance act, which
closes all bars, wholesale liquor
houses and licensed clubs in the
province after May 81, next.
The hero of the hour in France is
George Guynemer, young airman
who has just brought down the sixth
enemy machine, and who wears the
military cross, war cross and the Le-
gion of Honor, in token of his
bravery.
The marriage of Prince Joachim,
the fifth son of Emperor William, and
Princess Marie Augustine, daughter
of Prince Edward of Anhalt, was
celebrated in the royal castle at
Bellevue, according to dispatch
| from Berlin.
Sporting News
Sir Thomas Lipton in a letter to
the Essex Yacht Club, says he hopes
to compete next year for the Ameri-
can cup.
President McGill of the Hoosiers
and the Denver Bears will accompany
his band of Indians to Albany, Ca,
where they will open up preparatory
for the annual pennant grind
The Riverside Polo team defeated
the Denver four, eleven goals to three
and quarter, in the opening game
of the junior championship at the
| Colorado Country Club at San Diego
| Cal.
Frank Shaw rolled 6S5 in the
| singles of the American Bowling
Congress tournament at Toledo. Ohio,
counts of POS. PSF and 223 giving him
the lead over the former leaders,
Harry Patterson of Chicago and Pete
Brunnett of Cleveland
General
Allan L. Benson of Yonhers, n. Y,
has been chosen Il candidate for presi-
den. of the Socialist party by a ref
,erendum vote. George r. Kirkpatrick
of New York was nominated for vice
president
That q reward of 10000 pesos for
the body of Francisco Villa had been
standing for the last sixty days in
Carranza consulates was disclosed
through letters to an Albuquerque
| n. NJ, Carranza official.
An average increase in wages OF 2
cents an hour for every machinist EN-
ployed by the Atchison, Topeka a.
Santa Fe was announced at the gen.
eral offices at Topeka, Kan. The or.
der affects 1900 men.
Flood warnings were sent out from
Phoenix, Ariz., by the United States
reclamation service advising residents
of the lowlands along the Salt and
ella rivers of five-foot rise in the
Verde river caused by melting noun
tain snow. The Verde flows into the
Salt, which empties into the Gila
river, the main tributary of the Colo
RADIO.
The town of Columbus, n. Mex. /.
partly in ruins and at least sixteef
United States citizens are dead, fol
lowing murderous raid over thu
border early Thursday morning b,
Pancho Villa at the head of 1000 o
his Mexican bandits. The Mexican.
paid dearly for their raid. Pabl,
Lopez. Villas chief lieutenant. wal
killed and scores of the outlaws fel
under the fire of the United States
soldiers and citizens
The 2-year old son of Mrs. Maudt
Hawk Wright. who was given to {
Mexican family when Wright wa.
murdered by Villa bandits, ant
Mrs. Wright was forced to &C
company the soldiers to Co
lumbus, n. NJ, Is with Charlie.