Gilpin observer., 1917-04-05
Foreign

port submitted to the ministries OF
foreign affairs.
Dispatches from Berlin announce
the death of Gen. Mex Won Prittwitz
und Gaffron, the man to whom in a
way Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
owes his rise to fame.
Col. Rafael Manduley, former gov.
ernor of Oriente province and presi-
dent of the Liberal party of that
province, has surrendered with 500
followers at Guantanamo.
The commandant' of cadets at OK.
ford University has assured the Amer
lean students, 1t is announced, that IL
they desire to join the officers train
ing corps they can be accommodated
Restoration to China of the strip of
ground at Tientsin seized by the
French after the Boxer uprising is
being urged by DR.. WI Ting-fang, the
Chinese minister of foreign affairs, in
conferences with M Comfy, the
French minister to China.
The German Emperor and Chancel-
lor Won Bethmann-Hollweg were bit
terly denounced by Deputy Skabeloff,
vice president of the council of work.
men, soldiers and delegates, during
demonstration in front of the Duma
building, according to a Petrograd
dispatch to Reuter-.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
London News says that the commits
sion, investigating the charges that
Russian commanders had been bribed
by Germany, has substantiated the re-
port that the commander of Libau re-
ceived $2,000,000 from Germany and
the commander of Mittau $1,5OO,OO
Telegraphing from Vienna, the cor
respondent of the semi-official Nord-
dectsche Allgemeine zeitung of Ber-
lin says: with the view to obvi-
ating all misunderstanding, we are
authorized to state that the journey
of Frederic c. Penfield, the Ameri-
can ambassador, to Washington,
means no change in the relations be-
tween Austria-Hungary and the Unit
ed States"
Sporting News
Stanley Yoakum of Denver was
given a decision over Dave Smith at
the end of ten hard-fought rounds at
the Brooklyn. A. C. in New York.
The body of Lloyd Jevne, holder of
the worlds three-cushion. billiard
championship from 1900 to 1907, was
taken to Los Angeles for burial. He
died in hospital at San Francisco.
Miss Elaine v. Rosenthal of the
Ravisloe Club. Chicago, won the
women's North and South golf cham.
pionship at Pinehurst, N. c., by de-
feating Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd,
Pittsburg. in the finals, 8 and 2.
Eddie Casey. Harvard's famous
halfback, announces that IL the inter-
national crisis results in war he will
start the study of aviation at the
Curtiss school, at Newport News, Va.
William Swart, member of the var.
sity track team, roommate of
Casey's, is also going to Virginia.
Wilcox, the runner, and Jimmy
Knowles, varsity outfielder, are two
Harvard athletes already on their
way south for aviation training. John
Pfaffman. the tennis captain, is to re-
sign, as he plans to start for France
to drive an ambulance.
General
Secretary McAdooS three sons have
volunteered for service in the naval
reserve in case of war
The Miami Copper Company de-
clared an extra dividend of 81 a share
in addition to a quarterly dividend of
s1.50.
AT the annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Colt Patent Fire Arms
Manufacturing Company, a $2,5OO,OO0
melon was cut.
Under the federal regulations there
is closed season from Feb. to
Sept. G, inclusive, each year through.
out the United States on waterfowl
and other migratory game birds.
Speaker Champ Clark and the en-.
tire Democratic organization Of the
House were renominated for the extra
session of the Sixty-fifth Congress by
the caucus of Democratic representa-.
tives.
Two thousand boys, 16 to 10, are
under arms, 100000 are subject to
compulsory military training and 22,-
900 will be under arms by September
in the state of New York. under the
new training law.
Five thousand men wearing Ameri.
can flags paraded at Tucson, Ariz., on
foot and assembled at the state
armory to hear speeches by local ora.
tors as demonstration of sentiment
in support of the government.
An urgent appeal for money and
food to relieve the suffering inhabi-
tants of Moyon, France, recently
evacuated by the Germans, was re-
ceived by the war relief clearing
house for France and her allies from