Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1917-01-04
Foreign

ton OF Chang Kuo-Kan, appointed
minister of the interior by Premier
Tuan ChiJui OF China
A total estimated population of IT,
2S9,696 in Japan, Korea and Formosa
and the Japanese half of Saghalien ISL
and, is announced officially.
The steamships Hero and Nystrand
and the three-masted bark Kprinmo.
all flying the Norwegian flag, have
been sunk. The crews have been
landed.
In addition to a decree creating Gen
Joffre a marshal of France, President
Poincare has signed another revokine
the DEGREES OF Dec. 2, 1915, and Dec.
10, 1916.
The coronation festivities are in full
swing at Budapest, under the bright
est Of winter skies. and Budapest, for
the time being, seems to have forgot
ten the war
Three hundred persons persisted in
the wreck of the Japanese steamship
Sankaku Maru, on the Chinese coast
near Chefoo, according to a dispatch
received at Toxic.
A Vienna dispatch says that Privy
Councillor Rudolf Seighart, governor Of
the Austrian land credit bank, has re-
signed, at the request of Emperor
Charles. He is succeeded by Ritter
Won Leth.
Forty-six women were burned to
death in fire that destroyed st. Fer
dinand de Halifax asylum, at st. Fer
dinand de Halifax, Megantic county,
Quebec, according to report received
at Montreal
With Europe in a death grapple, the
Mormon Church has chosen the oppor-
tunity for PROSECUTING on a scale which
anti-Mormon leaders and organizations
assert to be the most far-reaching ever
undertaken, in London.
An assemblage of 1900 Hungarian
mobiles witnessed the coronation of
King Charles and Queen Zita at Buda-
pest. 1t was the most brilliant in the
history OF the country. Not even the
browning of Francis Joseph presented
such a spectacle of the kingdoms
wealth.
1.-THE number of civilians assassinat-
ed in East Prussia in 1914 during the
Russian invasion, now has been Off
cially made public by the Koenigsberg
statistical office, and totals 6,O4S, OF
statement.
Speaking in London at a meeting of
the Rumanian Consolidated Oil Fields,
William w. Rutherford, member of
Parliament from Liverpool, said that
probably the value OF the oil fields de-
stroyed by the allies in the Rumanian
retreat amounted to 930.O00,0O0.
In reply to the proffer Of Germany
and her allies for peace conference
the entente allies in a collective note
declare that they refuse to consider
proposal which is empty and insin-
cere." The note was handed to the
American ambassador, William Graves
Sharp by Premier BRAND, and was
made public simultaneously in London
and Paris.
Sporting News
Elliott H. Binzen of Fordham Uni
versity won the national indoor junior
tennis championship by defeating Hen
ry B. O'Boyle of Georgetown Univers-
ity in the finals in New York, 6-1, rs,
g.
C. g. Williams, business manager Of
On he hoc Ill lot
to the Tucson Chamber of Commerce
asking If arrangements can be made
to have the Cubs spend two weeks In
Tucson, Ariz., on their southern train
ing tour
Johan Henry ("Honus") Wagner,
well known Pittsburg National League
infielder, and Miss Bessie Smith.
daughter OF John G. Smith, former
county detective, were married in Car
negie, Pa, at the parsonage OF the st.
Johns Lutheran church.
General
Exports of American manufactures
and commodities through the port of
New York were $2,7S5.331 ,906 in 1916,
or about $1,000, 900, 900 more than in
1915.
Dealings in bonds on the New York
Stock Exchange during the year 1916
totalcd par value OF s1,15S,209, 900,
and set new record. The total in
1915 was 1851 ,79S,000.
Mrs. Joseph II. T. Jones, widow OF
Capt. Jones. has been elected presI.
dent Of the Gulf & Ship Island Rail-
road to succeed her husband, It was
announced in New York.
While twelve alleged affinitiss OF
Edward II. Stock, salesman, looked on.
Judge Thomas +. Graham at San Fran.
cisco granted Stocks wife. Mrs. Carrie
Stock, divorce, $4,000 cash and $40
a month for two years.
Redress and revenge are not to fig