Gilpin observer., 1917-01-18
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STORY OF THE week
aHoWINo THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War
The British have been successful in
raids north of Arras, and the French
have captured prisoners in sortie In
the Vosges.
A Turkish official report of Jan. IL
says British cruiser of the Juno
type was sunk by Turkish gunfire in
the eastern Mediterranean.
A Russian squadron is reported to
have raided the Anatolian coast of the
Black Sea and sunk forty Turkish sail
ing vessels carrying food to Constanti-
nople.
According to the London war office
the right bank of the Tigris river, ex-
cept for small strip northeast Of
Kut-El-Amara, has been cleared Of
Ottoman troops.
The Teutonic allies now are in full
control of Vadeni, six miles south
west of Galatz, Rumania, and Galatz
is under the fire of the Bulgarian
artillery from the right bank Of the
Danube.
south of Lake Ochrida there has been
several encounters between the
French and the Austro-Germans, in
which the Teutonic allies are declared
by Germany finally to have driven
the French across the Czerna river.
Fierce fighting along the lower Ser
eth line resulted in the capture by
y;eh nf ha ID
of Mihalea, northwest of Braila, and
400 men of its garrison. Others of
the defending force, attempting to es-.
cape, were drowned in the Sereth.
The Bulgarians have taken a monas-
terry near the confluence of the Buzeu
and Sereth rivers.
Western
In the hunting season, from Sept.
Is to date, ten hunters met violent
deaths in the state of Washington.
The largest number that ever at
tended funeral in Denver paid their
last tribute of respect to Col. VIM. f.
Cody c'Buffalo BillO on Sunday.
The ashes of Joseph Hillstrom, the
poet executed last year at Salt Lake.
Utah, for murder, were scattered
from small balloons over the country
side at San Jose, Cal, after memorial
services
The Wyoming Bar Association met
In Cheyenne for a three-days' session,
one of the important features of which
will be consideration of legislation to
be recommended to the Legislature
now in session.
Blaming drink for a condition which
may have clouded his mind, Weldon
II. Wells of Kansas City admitted at
Huntington, Ind, the police say, that
he might have killed Mona Simon in
hotel at Columbus, Ohio.
Joseph B. Hanna, Ga, a resident of
Pueblo. Colo, killed himself in a Salt
Lake hotel, leaving a note asking that
his body be taken to Denver, Gre
mated. and the ashes scattered to the
winds from the top of Pixies Peak.
Washington
Rear Admiral Allen " Reed, U. s.
N, retired. a classmate of Admiral
Dewey at the naval academy, died of
heart trouble at his home in Washing.
ton, agen 70 years.
In supplemental brief in the
Adamson law test case, received at
the Supreme Court for formal filing,
the Department of Justice makes sug-
gestions for machinery to put the law
into effect.
Chairman Robert l.. Henry was
named by Thomas w. Lawson as the
congressman in the peace leak"
who. he had said, told him senator
and cabinet official profited through
knowledge of the peace note.
A petition from Massachusetts
carrying 1921 names, demanding
severance of relations with Germany
unless the Belgian deportations are
stopped. was forwarded by tle State
Department to President Wilson
An advance list of members of the
next House of Representatives. pre-
pared by South Trmble, clerk of the
House, gives 2l5 Democrats, 215 Rep.
ubllcans, Progressves, Prohibl.
Zionist, Socialist and l Independent.
BY a vote of 152 to 104 the House
in committee of the whole adopted an
amendment to the postoffice appropri-
alton designed TO retain pneumatic
postal tube service in New York. Chi.
cago. Philadelphia, Boston and st.
Louis
Persia, in n note handed to the state
department by Minister Mehdi Khan
expresses the hope that President
Wilson's note to the belligerents re.
garding the peace terms will prove
successful and calls attention to heI
own sufferings as an invaded neutral
That the bill recently introduced BY
Senator John f. Shafroth. creating an
other federal farm loan district en-
bracing Colorado. Wyoming, Utah anc