Gilpin observer., 1918-12-19
FOREIGN

Germany, according to telegram ro
ceived in Berlin from Warsaw.
Serious trouble is feared in Lisbon
as the result of reports that the assas
sination of President Paes was part
government.
President and Mrs. Wilson made
their entry into Paris Saturday morn
ing, greeted by 100000 of the popula
tion not only OF the city but of the
surrounding districts
The executive committee of the
Brussels Chamber of Commerce has
unanimously adopted resolution in
favor OF Belgian annexation of Zee
land and the Maestricht enclave.
Lieut.. Col: Chester Harding, gov.
ernor of the Panama canal zone, sailed
tor New York. He will go to Wash
ington to appear before the congres
sional committees having to do with
canal matters.
While the official result of Satur-
days election will not be known for
a fortnight, there is every indication
that the Lloyd George coalition gov
ernment has been reelected by con-
siderable majority
Germany made a great blunder in
entering the war and should admit
that she was wrong, declared the
Grand Duchess Anastasie of Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin mother of the former
German crown princess, in an inter-
view at Geneva
An order in council adopted at Of
tawa authorizes the seed purchasing
commission to buy in the United
States seed oats required in Alberta
and southern Saskatchewan, and pro-
vides that the oats purchased shall not
be subject to customs duties.
The CzechoSlovak government, ac-
cording to advices from Prague, plans
to present to the national assembly a
bill providing for the division of
into twenty-five can.
tons, four or five of which would in
clude German language territory.
Norwegian leaders in sciehce, poll
tics and business have formed a socl-
ETY. for the purpose of enrolling Nor
way in league of nations built upon
a democratic base, Prof. F. Nansen
the famous Arctic explorer and scien.
tist, has been elected president of the
society.
President Wilson, at the conclusion
of his address at the Paris city hall
Monday in reply to the greetings of
Adrien Mithouard, the president Of
the municipal council of Paris. was
presented with the great gold medal OF
the city of Paris. To Mrs. Wilson was
presented diamond brooch adorned
with an enamel dove. The President
left Paris in an automobile Tuesday to
visit the principal points along the old
fighting front, notably the battlefield
on the Marne
SPORT
Baseball in the Western league is to
be r-established on a pre- war basis
at meeting of the club owners to be
held in Kansas City.
Billy Miske of st. Paul knocked out
Jim Flynn of Pueblo, Colo, in the SEQ
ond round of a scheduled fifteen-rount
fight at Tulsa Okla.
Four army airplanes from Rockwell
Held. San Diego, Cal, engaged in map.
ping air mail routes, arrived in New
Orleans from Baton Rouge, La.
Carl Zamlock, former Denver base.
ball player, now stationed at the Pre-
sidio has been placed in charge OF al
athletics at the Letterman hospital a,
San Francisco.
The most pretentious football trir
OF 1918 Will get under way at Great
Lakes, H., when the Great Lakes nav
al training squad hits the tran 70.
California to play at the annual tour
nament of Roses held in Pasadena o,
New Year day.
GENERAL
President Wilson has accepted az
invitation from King George to visi,
England and it is expected he wi,
stop in London on his way home.
Government control of steel. coppe,
and other hitherto restricted prices is
to be discontinued at the end of the
year. and the way paved for the nor.
nal laws of supply and demand to re.
turn to their own
Women who displaced striking wait.
ers in the dining rooms and banquet
halls of large New York hotels have
ben so successful that they never wifi
be superseded by men, in the opinion
OF Oscar Tschirky
William G. McAdoo, In an address
in New York on the eve of his retire.
ment as secretary of the treasury,
predicted the success of the fifth Lib.
erty loan and declared that 1t was for
a majority of the people to decide
whether the nations railroads should
be privately or government-owned.
That fatalities from starvation ap