Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-06-06
Foreign


Aviator Carter Landram Ovington ID
Louisvills. KY. and another aviatcs
were killed during the first day OF III
present offensive.
Twelve Of Q fleet Of thirty or forty
fishing vessels were sunk by Ger
man submarine. says q Belfast dis
patch to the London Daily Telegraph.
Thirty-eight officers and mon Of the
American expeditionary forces have
been cited by their divisional DOM.
manders In divisional orders for gal.
lantry.
in local operation on the northern
side of the Flanders salient. the Lon
don war office announces. Nearly 200
prisoners were taken.
The entente allied shipping agree
ment with Sweden Is an unfriendly
act on the part Of Sweden toward Ger.
many, writes Count Won Reventlow in
the Amsterdam Tages Zeitung.
The discovery in Moscow and Petro-
grad Of a large counter revolutionary
plot which stretches throughout the
whole of Russia, is announced in a
Russian wireless message received In
London.
1t is reported that Zeppelin air
ing off the Jutland coast by g british
torpedo boat destroyer. The crew of
the aeroplane was drowned, according
to the report.
The epidemic which is sweeping
over Spain, disease which somewhat
resembles grip, is increasing in sever
ity. There are more than 10000
cases in Madrid. The mortality, how
ever, continues to be low
A London military tribunal, after
three weeks elaboration, has decided
that members of the House of Com
mons are doing work of national i'm
portance" and therefore entitled to ex-
emption from military service.
The Germans are paying heavy
penalty in the fruitless attempts to re-
take Cantigny. Air observers report
that the American artillery is inflict-
ing terrible losses on the boches to
the eastward of the new American pc.
sitions.
Germany is so well satisfied with
the progress of events in the Ukraine
that she has decided to withdraw two
thirds Of the German troops now in
the east. The troops withdrawn will
be used on the western front and they
will be replaced in the east with Aus
TRANS.
A posse comitatus composed Of
members of the One Hundred Per
Cent American Club, numbering 500,
under the leadership of United States
Marshal Joe Dillon. rounded up be-
tween 800 and 1000 young men at
Tucson, Ariz., who could not show
draft classification cards.
Cardinal Gaspari, the papal secre-
tary of state, has asked Count de
Sails, British minister to the vatican.
to convey to the British government
the thanks of the Holy See for the
willingness with which it accepted the
vatican's proposal to spare Cologne
from bombardment during the fete u
Corpus Christi.
Sporting News
Ralph De Palma was the winner Of
the 10O-mile Hardness handicap auto
mobile race at Sheepshead Bay speed
way, New York.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, famous
Chicago Cub pitcher, now a soldier at
Camp Funston, and Miss Amy Arrant
of Omaha were married at Manhattan,
Kan.
Ruth Law, aviatrix, defeated Louis
Disbrow in his racing car in two
mile match race over a half-mile dirt
track at Saginaw, Mich, finishing ten
yards in the lead.
The opening of the summer matinee
season of the Gentleman's Driving
and Riding Club at Denver City park
was notable in society as well as in
racing circles. One Of the main events
of the afternoon was a potato race,
In which young women from the VOL
colt school took part The members
of the driving club readily Conceded
that they learned great deal from
the expert way the young women car
ried the potatoes from box to box. and
united in praising those who took
part.
General
Farmers throughout the southwest
are "DlantinQ I'm IN tho limit NJ thoi1
ability to cultivate the ground and
take care of the crops after they are
In the ground"
The New Bedford (Mass.) Cotton
Manufacturers Association announced
10 per cent. wage increase, effective
June 3, for $4,000 operatives in cloth
and yarn mills.