Gilpin observer., 1917-01-18
Foreign

Flushing q German submarine which
was found In Dutch waters.
The entente powers. through the
Italian minister. have insisted on un-
qualified acceptance of the last en-
tente ultimatum, considering the
Greek governments reply oquivocal.
A war council of Francisco Villas
commanders is expected to be held at
San Andres, Chihuahua. west OF Chi
huahua City, according to information
received at Ell Paso, Tex, and trans
mitted to Washington by government
agents.
The Mexican-American joint COM
mission, which failed to effect an ad-
justment of the questions at issue be-
tween Mexico and the United States
after series of conferences that be-
gan four months ago, was formally dis
solved in New York.
DR.. Alfred Zimmerman, the Ger
man foreign minister, informed the AS.
sociated Press at Berlin that, in his
opinion, the entente reply to President
Wilson's peace note bars the possi-
biliV for the present of further Ger
man steps to bring about peace.
A report from Puerto, Mexico, says
several men, among them Spaniards,
were executed there after conviction
by court martial of being agents of
Jose Isobel Robes, who abandoned
Villa, received an amnesty and then
revolted from the government
The Japanese battle cruiser Tsu-
in the harbor of Yokosuka. Fire on
the Tsukuba caused the magazine to
blow up. One hundred and fifty-three
members of the crew were killed and
157 injured, many of them seriously.
"The submarine menace to the mer-
chant service is far greater now than
at any period of the war, and it re-
quires all of our energy to combat it,"
said Admiral Sir John r. Jellicoe, first
sea lord, in speech at luncheon
given in his honor in London
1t is estimated that between 6,OOO,-
900 and 100000 persons now en-
ployed by the government, represent
ing half the wage-earning population
of the United Kingdom will have to
be discharged at the end of the war,
according to London report of the
committee on labor problems after the
war
Sporting News
Dartmouth's basketball team de-
fcated the Cornell five, "a to 81, in an
league game at Ham
ever, N. II.
C. Browne, Hamilton Club, Chicago.
won the Central A. A. U. champion
ship SS0-yard swim at the Hamilton
Club in 11:51.
Word was received in Denver from
New York stating that A NJ. Poin-
the United States Revolver Associa-
tion.
Roy Corhan, now in Albuquerque,
has sent word that he would like to
purchase half interest in the Pueblo
Baseball Club, If the Savage team is
moved to Pueblo.
After two minutes and 35 seconds
of furious milling in the first round,
Willie Jackson of New York, knocked
out Jonnie Dundee. in the windup at
the Olympia A. A. at Philadelphia.
A telegram was received at Rocky
Ford Colo, from the manager of the
Chicago Americans stating that they
would be in that vicinity March 81 and
would like a game with the local club
Western league baseball club own.
ers, at meeting In Omaha, ordered
abandoned the club houses for visit
ing players which have been main.
tanned since the league was organ.
lied
General
William H. Taft has resigned as
honorary president of the Worlds
Court League, it was announced in
New York.
in fire which destroyed North Side
dwelling in Chicago. One, Carl Bot.
tcher, 70 years old, was blind
The body of Clyde d. Armour, who
disappeared Oct. 23 while on an auto.
mobile trip. was found near Glorieta,
about twenty miles from Santa F9,
n. M.
The officers of the government
aviation squad at Hampstead, l.. l., II
was announced, are arranging flight
to Washington to witness President
Wilson's inauguration.
A New York dispatch says within
the last year explosions of munitions
plants within the metropolitan district
have caused loss OF approximately
S3S.000,000. The life toll has been
heavy.
Col. Harry C. Bishop and Lieut.. W.
A. Robertson lost u. s. army aviators
may have fallen into the hands OF