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Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT
CRISP PARAaRAPHs.N
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS m OUR OWN AND
~ FOREIGN LANos,
Western Newspaper Union News sefvics
ABOUT THE WAR.

Starvation putting German masses
on verge of revolt. -rM
British casualties reported in the
week ending Dec. 18 totalled 1876 Of
ficers and men.
On the French front several sur
prise attacks were launched, but the
Paris war office says these failed.
In surprise attack near the Ypres-
Staden road, the British were forced
back slightly along front OF several
hundred yards.
Only the utmost vigilance of patrols
and mounted troops prevented an out
break of anti-German rioting at
Buenos Aires.
Five bombs have been dropped on
the town of Goes, In iceland, damag
Ing several houses and seriously injur-
ing one man. iceland is Dutch
province.
All alcoholic beverages except light
wines and beers are denied to mem
bers Of the American expeditionary
forces in France by Gen. Pershing, in
general orders.
The British armed steamer Stephen
Furness has been torpedoed and sunk
by a German submarine in the Irish
channel, it was officially announced
at London Six officers and ninety
five men were lost.
British airmen have brought down
four flyers in conflicts on the battle
front. The war office announces
there were no casualties in the raid
on the English coast Sunday morning.
One enemy plane was brought down.
Following the decisive defeat of the
Teutons for the positions around
Monte Azolone. the AustroG Germans
Monday brought up great numbers of
fresh troops and are planning to
launch the heaviest blow yet attempt
ed in that war theater.
Fighting continued Friday at Odes-
ga, and the Ukranian troops have
been joined by the Russian army from
the Rumanian front under the COM
mand of Gen. Stcherbatcheff. The
Red Guards lost 500 men killed and
1000 wounded in six-day fight.
The Norwegian Foreign office at
Copenhagen announced that the Nor
wegian steamer Ingrid ii. had been
torpedoed and that only four members
OF her crew were saved The Norweg-
ian steamer Borgsten also has been
torpedoed and two of her sailors were
killed.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
officer. Search for Montrose Murdere,

Montrose, Dec. &c. Information
given the police by a man whose name
is withheld that he had seen John o.
Bush here before word had got about
that Bush was suspected of numbering
his 11-yearold son, Ira, led the officers
to believe Bush might have left this
part of the country, but now they are
of the opinion that Bush still is near
here. Bush's mother, Mrs. ]. l. Bush,
has told officers that her son has gone
to Seattle, but this is doubted. Mrs.
]. o. Bush, wife of the missing man,
instead of going to the house Of her
parents at Edna, Kan, as she an
nounced she would do, Is at the home
of her sister-in-law on farm near
Olathe in this county. Mrs. Bush is
said to be in semi-delirious condition,
from which she arouses occasionally
to inquire whether her husband has
been apprehended yet.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27


Two million dollars lent Belgium
brought the total amount of American
credits to that country TO $4,000, 900.
Credits to all the allied countries now
aggregate $S.ss7, 100000.
Permission for the shipment Of
about 100000 tons of corn and oats to
Finland by way of Sweden has been
granted by tie Food Administration
and the War Trade Board upon evi-
dence that thousands Of the Finnish
people are starving 5
Internal Revenue Collector Roper
issued series Of rulings designed to
eliminate unnecessary accounting and
In computing excess profits and in
come taxes, and in many cases to ma
terially reduce the amount of tax to
be paid.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
FOREIGN

Won Kuehlman was elected chair
man of the Slav peace meeting
The resignation of General Kale-
dimes and his associates in the mill
tary government of the Cossacks, who
have been resisting the Bolsheviki, is
reported in Petrograd dispatch.
T Importation of intoxicating liquors
into Canada is prohibited. and their
manufacture will be prohibited after
a date to be determined later, Pre-
mier Borden officially announced at
Ottawa.
The arrival of party of thirty one
members of the American Red Cross.
constituting the permanent commits
sion for Italy of which Robert P. Per-
kins of New York is the head, has
aroused great enthusiasm at Rome.
The Berlin Socialist paper, Vor-
waerts, commenting on the alleged at
tempt to open preliminary peace dis
cussions between Great Britain and
Germany, demands that the govern
ment tell the German people what it
intended to communicate to Great
Britain.
A purported 1917 will of Queen Lilo
ukalani, bequeathing the major part
Of her estate to Princess Theresa Bel
liyeau, was thrown out of court at
Honolulu, T. H., by Judge c. w. Ash
ford, who stated from the bench that
all evidence and his own knowledge
convinced him 1t was forgery.
A resolution was adopted in the
Chamber of Deputies at Paris, depriv-
ing former Premier Joseph Cailaux of
parliamentary immunity in the accu-
sations against him for alleged trea-
sonable dealings with the enemy. The
vote on the resolution was AIT to z.
A similar resolution in regard to
Deputy Louis Loustalot was adopted
with show Of hands by the chamber.
A dispatch to the London Exchange
Telegraph from Copenhagen says:
The Berliner Zeitung says Emperor
William has informed his government
that he contemplates going to Brest-
Litovsk If the diplomats arrive at an
agreement, in which case he will en-
deavor to assemble all the sovereigns
and regents of Europe in a peace con-
ference, as was done after the Ma
poleonic wars"
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
WESTERN.

Crop conditions for winter wheat
show greater acreage but condition
poor.
Mrs. Tabitha Greening the cousin
Puss" Of all Mark Twain's stories. and
the women he left legacy to, died
In Palmyra, H., aged SO years.
Chadron, Neb, near the Wyoming
line, has the oil fever, and several
companies are preparing to drill in
that field, and some rigs are now drill
ing.
Doctor James Beall Morrison, re-
puted to have invented the dental
chair. the dental engine and many 9th.
er accessories now used by dentists,
died at his home in Kansas City,
aged SS.
William Johnson, self-confessed
counterfeiter arrested in Gum, Wyo.,
upon instructions from the govern
ment secret service and taken to Salt
Lake for trial, was sentenced to two
years imprisonment In Leavenworth,
Kan. penitentiary.
Thirty men were under arrest at
Sacramento, Cal, suspected by the po-
lice of being implicated in the explo-
sion at the executive mansion. The
arrests followed the discovery OF what
Chief of Police Ira Conran said he
believed was a plot to dynamite the
electric power house.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
RED CROSS QUOTA EXCESS BIG.
Total Enrolment viii Pass Forecast
Of $4,000, 900,


Washington.-Thirte million Am
ericans Joined the hordes of Red Cross
fighters. The membership campaign,
designed to enlist 100000 new sol.
diers OF mercy by Christmas was a
great success. Practically every di.
vision exceeded its quota.
The lake division. comprising In.
diana, Kentucky and Ohio was in the
lead, finishing with 2,500.000 on q
quota of 1,063,O00.
The Atlantic division reported g..
100000 with third OF its chapters
still at work. Its quota was 2,015,000.
Its figures we're: New York, $780,
OOo0; New Jersey, 100000; Connecti.
cut. 325.OOO.
In the central division, comprising
Iowa, Wisconsin. Nebraska, Michigan
and Illinois, 1,1S9,000 was reported on
quota of 1,646.000. The campaign
there will continue for a week.
The Rocky Mountain division, wyo.
ming, Colorado. Utah and New Mexico,
with a quota Of 181 900. reported 2lo,.
900 members enrolled with returns in.
complete.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Accused Men Bumped Into Ditch.

Observation-Disclosures C. M. Fer
guson, in an effort to capture a car
believed to contain bootleg whisky
frim Cheyenne, drove his auto against
the suspected machine and dumped it
into the ditch at the Sand Creek
bridge. near Denver and shot one Of
the occupants. The upset was the
closing feature in an exciting chase
from Brighton ''most into Denver.
The two men in the car were brought
into Brighton and placed in Jail. The
man shot and wounded by the sheriff
gave his name as Harry Reide of Den
yer and the other as Jack Daniels.
The sheriff says he found thirty-five
cases of whisky in the captured car.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
GEN RAJ.

Missouri grew $546.263,624 worth OF
farm crops during the last year ac-
cording to report by the State Board
of Agriculture,
A cargo of Australian wool, valued
at $7,000,000 reached the Boston port
II is the first lot to be released by the
British government since last spring
A vigilance committee was formed
by the Cook County Bankers Associa-
tion to cooperate with the Chicago
authorities in an effort to curb bank
robberies In Illinois.
Christmas mail and passenger traf-
fic on coast trains was seriously ham.
pered by washouts In the Cascades, ac-
cording to reports received by the
Railway Postal Service at Fargo, N. d.
Henry Dodge Estabrook. widely
known as an attorney and former gen.
eral solicitor for the Western Union
Telegraph Company, formerly OF
Omaha, Neb.. died suddenly in a mo.
ton picture theater at Tarrytown, N.
Y.
Three persons were instantly killed
and five others seriously injured when
an auto bus, operated between Battle
Creek, Mich, and Camp Custer, was
struck by the Canadian flier," at .
crossing OF the Michigan Central rail.
road at Battle Creek.
James M. Simcoe, conductor, was
killed and four other members of q
freight train crew Of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad were seriously injured
on the Park City branch line. Salt
Lake, when the brakes failed to act
on steep decline and the train
plunged over fifty-fost embankmsnt
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
"charIots Of Iron" at oaza.


History repeats itself down to min
ute details. the London Star reminds
us, and recalls previous operations at
GAIA related in the Book of Joshua.
It says:
If that picturesque special CORE
spondent to whom we owe the narra-
tive of the sun and moon standing still
In the valley Of Ajalon had witnessed
the onslaught of General Allenby's
auxiliaries, he might have pictured be-
hemoth wallowing ON the shore and
leviathan rising out Of the sea. 1t IL
related In the Book of Judges that
though the tribe of Judah took GAIA,
they could not drive out the inhabt
tants Of the valley because they had
chariots Of iron.'
ALLOWING for the intervening CEN
lures which have transformed the
'chariots of iron into tanks, we see
that in this case the omens are In
favor of the invaders, and we may
reasonably hope that the clearing out
Of the Philistines will be final and COM
plete."
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
OFFICIAL CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
Sent to Army and Navy by Secretaries
Baker and DanjeIs.

Washington.-C Christmas greetings
were sent to the nations fighting
forces by Secretaries Baker and Dan
iels. Mr.. Bakers message to the SOL
diers in France and America said:
ITO the soldiers in France and the
soldiers in training in America and
their families, the War Department
sends word of hearty Christmas
greeting of appreciation of the spirit
of resolute courage which fills their
hearts and Of congratulations upon
the opportunity which lies before them
to do a great work for their country
and for the world"
To the men of the Navy Secretary
Daniels sent this message:
Christmas greetings to all in the
naval service. The country reposes
confidence in Its Navy, is proud of the
service 1t has already rendered in this
war, and has faith that it will meas
ure up to the demands made upon It,"
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
How He Made Window sashes

How He Made Window sashes,
A young Welshman, a woodworker.
applied at the work Of building ma
terial company for Job.
What can you do?" inquired the
foreman in charge.
"Indeet, look you," said Taffy. II
can do any joinery work whateffer."
"Can you make window sashesr
asked the foreman.
"Surely!" was the laconic answer.
swell, just take of your coat and
let me see you make one.
So Taffy set to work. while the fore
man went Off round the works. The
first sash the new hand attempted
was failure. so planting 1t under the
bench, Taffy got ahead with second
one, and had just finished 1t when the
foreman returned and taking hold Of
the sash, said, "Call that sash, do
yer2 Don't believe could find .
worse one In the country"
"Indeet," said the wood butcher,
grinning, "you may find q ferry much
worse one under the bench made from
your own timberi"
Then he got a move on.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Three New Wells Near Florence.

Florence, Colo, Dec. 22.-(Special to
The Chieftain) THE United OIL Com
pany has encountered a good showing
of oil in well No. 536. located In the
vicinity of Black Dog mountain. This
makes the third well encountered by
the company in the past month, and
they all give promise OF becoming
steady producers. The three lucky"
strikes have been made at well No.
b34, on the road to Pyrolite; No. 53b,
on the Coal Creek branch. and No. 536,
drilled into day or two ago in the
Black Dog section
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Reinforced Concrete Dry

Reinforced Concrete Dry Dock.
The completion of the first dry dock
made of re-enforced concrete was cele.
brated at Moss, a city In Norway. This
dock Is in the nature Of an expert
ment. MS 1t will receive ships of only
100 tons, 90 feet long; but It IL said
to be successful and much cheaper
than steel and more quickly built, The
shipyard that built this dock Is now
receiving Inquiries for docks up to
5000 tons.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Bed, Mus. Have Been L.ro.

Beds Must Have Been Large.
Little Ethel had just returned from
Sunday school and was looking very
puzzled. Mamma" she said, did
they have very large beds in Bible
days2"
II don't know, DEAR" said her moth
er. "Why do you askT
Because" said the little girl, "our
teacher said today that Abraham slept
with his four fathers"
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
cuTIcURA HEALS SORE HANDS
That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and
eleed-Trlal Free.

In a wonderfully short time In most
cases these fragrant, super-creamy
emollients succeed. Soak hands ON re-
firing in the hot suds Of Cuticura Soap,
dry and rub Cuticura Ointment into
the hands for some time. Remove sur
plus Ointment with soft tissue paper.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept I.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Trinidad Man Survivor Of Disaster.

Trinidad.-John Stewart, formerly
of Trinidad. was one of the survivors
of the American submarine FL
rammed and sunk In an Atlantic port
Dec. II, according to word received
here Stewart enlisted in the navy
last September and was employed as
second cook at local hotel.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
MexIeans Hang American Mail Carrier

Valentine, Tex. - The men who
brought the body OF Michey Welch,
the United States mail carrier who
was hanged and his throat cut by
Mexican bandits at Candelaria, Tex,
reported American troops and the
rear guard of the Mexican bandits
fighting in the vicinity of Candelaria.
The men who arrived In an automo-
bile fro mthe river front at Cands.
laria. also reported that the two
American.Mexicans who were ridins
with Welch were killed.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Just an Extr. Potato.

Jones was urging Smith to run over
to dinner some time. "But am afraid
that your wife will go to lot Of trou-
BILE, Smith demurred.
"A lot Of trouble-nonsense 10
piled the hOspitable man. 1T Just
means to boil an extra potato. And
what is seventy-five cents between
endsT-Judge.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
CUT THROAT
0F-y.S. SOLDIER
LONE AMERICAN SENTRY MUIR
DERED WHEN BocHE FORCE
TRAPS HIM IN TRENCHES.
.BRI FIsH DROP BOMBS
soLsHEvfkI FORCES BEGIN At.
TACK ON KHARkoV AND HOLD
RAILROAD LINES.
western Newspaper Union New. Service


London, Dec. 26.-An American sol.
dier's body has been found in a raid.
ed German trench with throat cut
from ear to ear, Indicating the Sam.
my wao killed after capture. The &C
count of the atrocity was given In an
official bulletin posted in the Ameri-
can camp.
Heavy German counter attacks
have regained several important posi-
tions lost to the Austro-Germans in
the raid on the Asiago plateau Mon
day. The Rome official report says
a battery was completely destroyed.
Increased cannonading near Yer.
dun, especially around Douaumont,
the Chaume wood and the Caurieres
wood, which year ago were the
scenes Of some Of the fiercest fight
ing of the war, indicates apparently
the intention Of the Germans to at.
tempt to break the line there. The
allies are making every preparation
to meet the attack.
A British air squadron has dropped
a ton Of bombs on the great CONNER.
cial city of Mannheim, on the Rhine,
in Germany Numbers of fires were
started. One British plane was forced
to descend.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27

Petrograd, Dec 26.-News Of a
revolutionary plot against King Fer
dinand of Rumania has been received
at the Smolny institute. the Bolshevik
headquarters, according to the eve
ming newspapers. There are also said
to be disturbed conditions in Ru-
mania. These reports are confirmed
in some respects by dispatches re-
ceived here indicating unsettled con-
ditions and a political crisis.
The Bolsheviki have begun an at
tack on Kharkov, about 400 miles
south Of Moscow. The Bolsheviki con.
troll railroads to the south, according
to the official news agency, which
adds that a telephone message from
Moscow declares that a large force
Of Cossacks and railway men have
stopped troops from proceeding north
of Tzaritzin, in the province of Sara
tow.
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
Specification

OPSOIIICHtIONs
That man is always running other
people down."
Scandal or autor'
Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27

Smile on wash day. That's when you uss
Red Gross Bag Blue. Clothes whittier than
snow. All grocers. Adv.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
PLAN FOR CATCHING RABBITS
illustration Shows Scheme RECON-
mended by Department Of A0ri.
.cuIture-Tlie ID Used. ~

A clever plan for catching rabbits
II recommended BY the department OF
agriculture. It is a trap which catches
the rabbits alive, and almost any boy
can construct one quickly. :
The materials required consist Of a
twelye-inch sewer tile with a six-inch'
side outlet, and two lengths OF six
inch tiles. The long end Of the larger
tile Is set downward in the ground 50
that the small side outlet Is below the
surface, as shown. The two small tiles
are connected with the side outlet so
that the opening will extend out to
the surface. fa HfN@ ta VI
The tiles are we'll covered with soil
to exclude all light, and q close-fltting
cover Is placed over the upper end Of
the large tile. The open end Of the
small tie may be surrounded with a
few small stones and brush to make It
inviting to the rabbits.
The rabbits are free to pass In and
out Of the dens thus made. When they
are located In nne Of them 1t II an
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
DAIRY CAMPAIGN PLAN
Make Fullest Use Of Every Drop
OF Milk Produced.
Large Portion Of 6y-Products MIGHT
AdvantageousIy Be Made Directly
=. . ~ S0tLF
Irto Food for Human
Consumption.

(Frrom the United States Department OF
t Agriculture.J ft
A campaign to have every drop OF
milk produced in the United States
make the fullest possible contribution
to the food supply Of the country will
be launched Immediately by the Dairy
Divisions of the United States depart
ment Of agriculture. This campaign
will be carried on with funds made
available by the food production bill
recently enacted by congress. At pres
ent much skim milk and large quanti-
ties of other dairy and creamery by
products are fed to farm animals when,
according to dairy specialists, a consid-
cradle portion of this might more adj
vantageously be made directly into
food for human consumption. Dairy
products constitute cheap forms Of
food. Whole milk, skim milk, and cot
tage and other cheeses are high in pro-
tein and are useful substitutes for
meats.
In work for fuller utilization Of milk
In factories, the dairy division will
devote special attention to cottage
cheese manufacture. Creamery and
milk plant operators will be taught cot
~tage-cheese making by a corps Of spe-
cialists of the division, milk producers
will be encouraged to send as much
whole milk as possible to the cream
ieries, and efforts will be made to In
crease the general consumption of cot
tage cheese by the public.
Other specialists of the division will
aid state extension workers in conduct
Ing campaigns for the improvement
and increased manufacture Of farm
made cottage and cream cheese. These
specialists also will conduct demon
STATIONS before groups Of farm men
and women. s1f' }s-i ! t' +,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
USE AVAILABLE PLANT FOOD
Material Must Readily Dissolve In Soil
and Be Taken Up by Plant and
Then Dtaested.

Every reader of 4 farm paper must
have encountered frequently the x
preston available plant food" AS
defined by Prof. r. R. Huddlson, It
ms1ns the.piant food which will
r6o6ily dtes6afc in the soil water so
that thu pl1ns can take it up. In the
anheads 3tUraefh there are certain d.
gs1iiye Auid9 that dissolve the food 80
thatlt can III absorbed into the blood
stream. The soil must serve as a
stomach for plants and as tha plant
food d~issolves In the soil water 1t Is
absorbed into the plant juices and
moves up through the plant where 1t
can be used. The extra water evapo-
rate1 sffom the leaves and moves up,
giving a constant circulation. From
th1S ttlt1h 6s seen that only dissolved
plant food can be used. Almost all
soil materials canS be dissolved to q
slight extent but often the rate Of dis
'solsinksi IL too SLOW.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
POTATO DoN'Ts

~ Don't injure the selling
and storing quality Of your po-'
tatOes by careless digging.
t2) Don't glut the fall mar
ket and injure your winter mar
ket by placing large quantities
OF ungrnded stock on the mar
ket at harvesting time.
ilg) Don!t chip ANY 4,esttdptir'
aged potatoes. 1t is disastrous.
a.: Ren't dem9yaiize the, pl- |
ready overburdencd transporta-
!, ton facilities BY shipping null
potatoes Unless potatoes are
extremely high in price culls viii
not bring transportation charges
(5) Don't overlook the adyan-
tages of machine STEERS" They
are proving of great value In
many shipping sections.
(6) Don't expect machine
sizers to grade for Qyality-only
human hands can grade out the
defective tuters.
~ Don't mix No. I and No.
2 grade potatoes. There are
customers who desire each sep
arately, but do not want them
mixed.
(S) Don't overlook the potato
grades recommended by the
United States department Of ag-
riculture and the United States
food commission.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
WEED SEED VERY PROLIFIC
Given Crop Does Not oerminats First
Season, But Distributes csrmlna-
ton Qyee Perlcds !

zone year Of seed, seven years OF
weeds" Weed seeds are produced In
great abundance. A given crop %
weed seed does not terminate the first
season, but distributes its termination
over a period Of years.
Seeds deep In the soil do not germi-
nate readily because Of hack Of oxygen,
and those that do grow exhaust the
stored food in the seed before reaching
the surface. Seeds may lie buried In
the soil for years without losing their
power Of terminating. Such seeds may
terminate readily when, brought Ia the
surface.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-10-12
IN CORN LIFTS ouT,
DOESN'T HuRTf BIT!
~ f1oiiShmess! Lift yovee orne
.yr9nd cajtnses of with hneere
it,, like magicl

sofe corns, hard corns. soft corns or
any kind Of 2 Corn. a harplessly be
Apply 'np6n the corn a few drops Of
freezpne, says "a Cincinnati authority.
For little cost n can get q small
bottle Of frehzbne at any drug store.
which will positively rid ones feet Of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
1t is applied and does not wen irri.
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying It or afterwards.
! This announcement will interest
many Of u readers. II y~oufadruggist
hasn't any freezone tell him to surely
get q small bottle for you from hio
wholesale drug house.-adv.