Gilpin observer., 1917-12-06
Foreign

Canada's subscriptions to the Vic
tory loan will exceed $40O,0OO,OOO. It
was announced at mass meeting in
Toronto.
Incomplete returns from the elec-
tion for the constituent assembly in
dicate that the Bolsheviki have car
ried Petrograd.
The kings of Norway, Denmark and
Sweden, at their conference at Chris
tiania, reached an agreement on peace
in the three countrys.
The marquis of Lansdownes letter
continues TO be commented on by the
German press, the concensus being
that pacifism is gaining ground In
England.
Two hundred million dollars is the
estimated amount of the actual prop
erty loss from the great floods which
have swept over North China within
the last two months.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
quoted by correspondent of the
Vienna Neue Erie Press as ironically
referring to 1.-The American advertis-
ing Methods
A Russian deputation, the official
Berlin statement says, has arrived at
Bavaria, with the object of arrang-
ing general armistice.
The revolutionary movement in
Ecuador, it is officially announced,
has ended. The rebels suffered de-
feat wherever they appeared. and
their leader, ntriago, has been cap
tured.
According to the Amsterdam Lokal
Anzeiger's Budapest correspondent.
the authorities of the Hungarian cap
ital have discovered conspiracy to
smuggle gold to Turkey by the Balk-
an train.
Reassuring messages from Russia
to the effect that no separate peace
will be tolerated, but that the armies
under Gen. Dukhonin will fight on,
have been received by the Russian
embassy in London.
Inquiries of members of the Rus
sian colony in London show that
nothing is known of the report pub
lished in the London Morning Post
that the Grand Duchess Tatiana. sec
ond daughter of the deposed emperor
of Russia. has come to England. The
story is generally discredited
AS a result of continual revelations
of German spy plots and insidious
anti-Brazilian influence, especially in
the states of Parana and Rio Grande
headed by some of the leading Brazil
ians in Porto Algere. are carrying out
a campaign in an effort to induce the
government to expel all Germans from
Brazilian territory.
Sporting News
Denver bowlers will compete for the
benefit of the Red Cross at the Den
Yer alleys on Wednesday evening.
Dec. ~.
Jack Bratton, well known coast
featherweight, who has been boxing
around Denver for over a year, has
Joined the navy as a fireman.
The first annual tournament for the
boys national indoor tennis cham
pionship will be held simultaneously
with the national junior champion
ships in the Seventh Regiment arm
ory in New York Dec. "a to 81.
Two former Denver ball players
league during the past season. Official
averages show that Clarence Mitchell.
eX-pitcher of the Denver Grizzlies.
ranks twentieth among the hitters
and that Bert Niehoff is fifty-fourth
among 244 players.
General
The price of unwrapped bread in
Chicago will be reduced one cent.
Over 206 persons in United States
get income of millions each year.
Street car service in st. Paul, Mimi,
which was abandoned after score
of cars had been wrecked by crowd
of several hundred union sympathiz-
ers, has been resumed.
Nine cars OF n troop train on the H.
linois Central railroad en- route from
Chicago to Camp Grant were derailed
at Granger, ILL.,, and twenty-three per.
sons, mostly soldiers, were slightly in
jured.
Evidence of plot to poison Mrs.
Bertha Hemple. a widow, and her
four children, has been unearthed in
Hanover township. a pronounced Ger
man community. federal officials an.
nounced in Chicago.
With an appeal to patriotic pro.
ducers to increase their production,
the American National Live Stock AS
sociation issued call for its twenty
first annual convention to be held at
Salt Lake City, Jan. IA, 10 and 16.
John De Saulles, Jr, aged AZ years,
was restored to the custody of his
mother, Mrs. Blanca De Saules. who