Gilpin observer., 1918-08-01
Foreign

ivostok dispatch to the London Times.
Bread strikes are in progress in
some parts of Austria and Germany.
according to newspapers received at
Berne.
Fur dealers in London say that furs
in America and Great Britain are to
be higher in price next fall and winter
than ever.
Miss Milado Jamschek, a teacher
of languages, has been sentenced to
death by the Vienna military tribunal
on charge of espionage.
Six airplanes dropped bombs on
Constantinople, according to Turkish
official report received at Amsterdam.
Five persons were wounded.
DR.. Won Seydler, the former Austrian
premier. according to the Cologne Ga
zette's Vienna correspondent, has been
| appointed director of the emperor's
cabinet
A reduction in the weekly meat ra-
| ton in Germany from $50 to 200
grammes is reported by the Vossische
Zeitung of Berlin. The new ration
comes into effect on Aug. ~.
Both the American and the United
States Smelling companies report in
| creased earnings from Mexican plants,
where labor is fairly abundant and
government war work does not inter-
fere.
The Irish Association for the Pre-
vention of Intemperance has approved
the recommendation of the liquor trade
finance committee that at least one
half of the 1896 houses for the sale
of drink in Ireland should cease to be
licensed
"The relations between Germany
and Turkey have been severed, &C.
cording to direct information from
Constantinople" This announcement
is made by the Copenhagen correspon-
dent of the London Exchange Tele-
graph Company.
The Rome newspapers prominently
display announcement of American
troops at a point behind the Italian
front. The Americans were enthusi-
aHtically greeted everywhere along
the route, patriotic associations turn
ing out with bands.
More than $50 American warships
now have permanent bases in Euro
pean waters, Franklin ID. Roosevelt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, an
nounced during speech at the Amer
lean Luncheon Club, in London.
Roosevelt paid tribute to the British
for their aid in transporting American
troops. Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of
the admiralty, responded with enthu-
siastic reciprocation for American aid.
Roosevelt had long interview with
King George.
Sporting News
Maj. Percy D. Haughton, former
Harvard football coach, announced
that he had resigned as president Of
the Boston National League baseball
club.
On Wednesday, July IT, the Chicago
Cubs and the Philadelphia Nationals
played twenty-one-inning game in
Chicago. On Friday, July II, 1914, or
just four years ago. New York and
Pittsburg played twenty-one-inning
game and the score was to / In IA
vor of New York.
Phil Yoder of Meriden, Wyo.. won
the worlds steer roping championship
at Frontier Days, at Cheyenne, instead
of Joe Gardener of Ell Paso, Tex. as
was previously announced. A recon-
putation by the Frontier Days manage
ment of the average time in the con-
test found the champions time TO be
thirty seconds and Gardeners time to
be thirty and one-fifteenth seconds.
General
Seventy-five thousand armed peas
ants are marching on Kiev. capital of
Ukrainia, according to information re-
ceived at the State department from
Stockholm.
A receiver for the property of Nat
G. Goodwin, actor, was appointed in
the City Court of New York.
King Ferdinand has left Bulgaria
for an extended trip" to foreign lands,
presumably on account of his health,
according to French dispatches, quot
ing reports from Basic.
One thousand and fifty-seven sol
diers We're naturalized at Camp Cody,
Deming. N. NJ, by ex-Treasurer F. C.
Emmerich, according to advice re-
ceived at the Denver office of the nat
uralization bureau
Flying Cadet Fred C. Campbell Jr.,
whose home is Rosedale, Kan, was
killed at Fort Worth, Tex, when his
plane dropped into tail spin at a
low altitude. He was &c years old.
His father lives at Browning, Mont.
J. A. Van Dis, associate director of
the department Of boys reserves In
the United States, is In Denver, and
he said that there are 100000 boys en-