Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-02-07
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were attacked and bombed repeatedly
by enemy airmen, 1t was officially an
nounced
Austria is absolutely dependent up
on Hungary and Rumania for grain.
Herr Haefer, the Austrian food min
lister. said In an interview in London.
Through Mrs. j. F. "A. Strong. wife
of the governor of Alaska. the Juneau
Native Indian Women's Christian
Temperance Union is sending mecca
sins for wounded soldiers in France.
Two captured British airmen, the
Tages zeitung of Berlin says, have
been sentenced by a German court
martial to ten years imprisonment
for dropping a hostile proclamation in
Germany.
Troops of the Finnish government
under General Mannerheim appear to
be closing in on the revolutionary Red
guards at Uleaborg, on the Gulf OF
Bothnia, according to news reaching
Haparanda.
Flying at speed of 80 to 14O miles
an hour and at height of 1000 to
5000 feet in one of the latest and
fastest British battleplanes, cores
pondent inspected the outer air de-
lenses of London.
The total ore shipped from the
mines of Cobalt during the year 1917
amounted to approximately 21,000
tons. This compares with 1850 tons
in 1916. about 10000 tons in 1915 and
about 1920 tons in 1914.
A mutiny which involved large
proportion of the Greek army infantry
regiments stationed at LAMA, about
ninety miles northwest of Athens, and
a few artillerymen in the town &C.
Cured. 1t was promptly suppressed.
The food situation in Sweden is rap
idly growing worse. Pork cards will
be introduced and the extra bread
cards, which formerly were provided
for foreign diplomates, have been
withdrawn, except one for each head
of mission.
Dimes and nickels, said to be the
first ever sent to Fairbanks, Alaska,
were shipped recently to provide a
means Of meeting the provisions OF
war tax Heretofore 25-cent piece
has been the smallest coin used in
Fairbanks and at other interior Alas
ka points.
There was clash between strikers
and the police in the northwestern
part of Berlin. One policeman was
killed and dozen strikers injured
There were minor disturbances in
other sections and in the suburbs of
Berlin. The German press generally
agrees that the outbreak has reached
it's climax in Berlin and is now re-
ceding.
The Supreme War Council, which
met at Versailles, finds no approxima-
ton in the German chancellor's and
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister's
speeches to the terms of the entente
allies, and has decided to continue the
peace can be obtained based on the
principles of freedom, justice and re-
spect for international law"
Sporting News
Coroner II. w. Parker of Bakers
field, Cal, telegraphed Denver police
requesting them to locate the rela-
tives of Roy Snyder, widely known
jockey, who died in California
Former President Roosevelt was in
vited to be a pallbearer at the funeral
of John l.. Sullivan Interment was at
Calvary cemetery, following a funeral
mass at st. Paul's church, Roxbury.
Mass.
John l.. Sullivan, formerly worlds
heavyweight champion boxer, died at
his home in Abingdon, Mass. Sulli-
van, who was SO years of age, had
lived on a farm there for the last ten
years. He was one of the most pic
turesque characters in the history OF
prize fighting. For more than ten
years, from the time he defeated Pad
dy Ryan in 1882. in bare knuckle
fight under the London prize ring
rules, until he was defeated by James
j. Corbett in 1892. his personality and
methods of fighting completely dom
mated sporting circles in the United
States.
Augie Kieckhoefer came within one
inning of equaling a world record at
Chicago when he ran his string OF
fifty three-cushion billiard points in
thirty-seven frames. Kieckhoefer de-
feated Joe Capron so to 2S in the
American billiard players tournament.
General
w
grams in Greater Boston must give up
the field to boys. The State Board of
Labor and Industries ruled that no fe.
male minor should be employed in
messenger service in Massachusetts.
Financial World says that after
prolonged conferences between gov.
eminent authorities and spelter pro
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