Gilpin observer., 1917-02-22
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About the War


frontier of Rumania.
Shows still interfere with military
operations on Russian front. e.
Berlin says Russ attacks in Oituz
valley of Rumania were repulsed.
Petrograd reports driving out Ger
mans who entered trenches south of
Dvinsk.
Germans try in vain to recapturc
ground captured by British on Ancre
front In France.
Turks forced back on Tigris river;
British capturing all of ground in
Dahra bend and taking 1895 prison
arU.
Sensational charges, to the effect
that the allies are starving the Greeks
by the blockade which has been estab-
iished around Greece, were made in a
statement given to the press by the
Greek legation at Washington.
Lloyd's announces the sinking of
the British stea Langscar, 2,777
tons; the Hopemoor, 3,740 tons; the
Alton, 1.156 tons; the Greenland, L.
753 tons; the Kyunsti, tonnage not
recorded; the schooner Percy Roy
and trawler.
British slowly but surely winning
campaign in Asiatic Turkey. English
troops blow hostile mine east of Sou
chez, France, and make Germans pris-
oners. Berlin reports failure of Brit
ish attacks in northern France. Artil-
L., Jta1i 1inr
theater. No important developments
on other fronts on Monday.
Casualties in the German army, ex-
elusive of Colonial troops, reported in
the German casualty lists in the
month of January, 1917, totaled 1884
officers and men killed. wounded,
prisoners or missing These casualties
bring the total of Germans killed and
those who died of wounds or sickness
TO 9SS,329, and the total casualties
since. the war began to 4,0S7 ,692.
Western
Employees of the postoffice in Chi.
cago have been order to refrain from
discussing international politics either
among themselves or with the public.
Orders for equipping with steel
rails valued at more than $4,000, 900
are to be given out Immediately by
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road, 1t was announced in Chicago.
A recent order of the Postoffice De-
-partment makes the Chicago postof.
flee the dead letter" center for the
Middle West. controlling that class of
mail for ten states Formerly all dead
letters were forwarded to Washing,
ton.
George Harmon, young man held
at Ell Paso. Tex, on robbery charges,
confessed to numbering Stephen
Hughes. ranch owner of Tempe.
Ark., in December last, the police
say. Discovery of the body by the au.
thorities at Tempe followed.
Three American duck hunters were
held up in Sonora by two Mexicans
dressed in soldiers uniforms, relieved
of 1856 in cash, two shotguns and Il
rifle, and one of them was threatened
with death, according to their story,
related to- Col. Richard H. Wilson,
commanding the Fourteenth United
States infantry, stationed at Yuma,
Ariz.
Washington
Without a roll call, the House
passed the bill to continue temper.
arily the present government in the
Danish West Indies and appropriate
t25,0o0,000 to pay Denmark for the
islands.
American Minister Vopicka, accred.
ited to Rumania. Servia and Bulgaria,
and recently ordered home, reported
that he had reached Copenhagen and
would sail on the Danish steamer
United States.
William b. Colver a st. Paul news
paper publisher, and John Franklin
Fort, former governor OF New Jersey
were nominated by President Wilson
as members of the Federal Trade
Commission.
In protest against the continued
picketing of the White House by suf
fragists during the present interna
tional crisis, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, noted suffrage worker, re
signed from the Congressional Union
She has taken up the work OF making
bandages Tor use in case of war.
That community action is necessary
for settlers on irrigated land is point
ed out in the new year book of the
United States Department of Agricul
tnre.
A committee appointment Of bene
fit to Colorado has been made in tn,
transfer of Senator Shafroth of Colo
RADIO to the Senate committee on pub
Lie lands.
The Navy Department awarded
contracts to three componies for thu
manufacture Of 14,200 14-inch she'll
for the navy at Q total price of 81