Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-02-28
Foreign

Cork, Ireland.
The revolution in Costa RIGA has
been put down and order restored, al
most without resistance.
Telegraphic communication with
the interior of Guatemala is inter
rupted as a result of earthquake
shocks of an extremely violent char
acter.
Germany's peace terms have been
accepted by Nikolai Lenine, the Boil
shevik premier, and Leon Trotzky, for
eign minister, acting for the central
executive committee of the soviets.
Count Won Hertling, the German
imperial chancellor, announced in the
Reichstag that the Russian govern
ment had accepted the German peace
conditions and he added that the con-
clusion Of peace must ensue shortly.
At the Bolshevik headquarters in
Petrograd confirmation is given to the
report that Swedish forces have
seized the Aland islands. The land
ing force was resisted stubbornly by
the small garrison of Bolshevik
troops.
Egyptian crops estimates are of the
most satisfactory character. Rice Is
81 per cent above normal. and the
yield of wheat and barley will be well
above the average In every case the
area under cultivation is larger than
ever before.
The former Austrian steamer Lucia,
equipped with a new "nonsinkable"
system, sailed from Gulf port with
cargo. The steamer is equipped with
more than 10000 air and water-tight
cells, which the inventor claims will
keep the vessel afloat even should she
be torpedoed.
Speaking before the Reichstag, the
imperial German chancellor, Count
Won Hertling, made this declaration
Il can fundamentally agree with the
four principles, which in President
Wilson's view mus. be applied in a
mutual exchange of views, and thus
declare with President Wilson that
such basis
Germany plans to restore the mon
archy in Russia, according to tele-
gram date at Petrograd to the Lon
don Morning Post. 1t says the grand
duke of Hesse has been appointed the
commander in the Riga section of the
German front. His sister," the dis
patch adds, "the former Empress AL
exandria, as the guardian of her son,
the former czarevitch, is the favorite
German candidate for the throne"
Sporting News
Jack Dempsey stopped Bill Brennan
in the sixth round of scheduled ten
round bout at Milwaukee, Wis.
Fred Fulton knocked out Frank Mo
ran in the third round of their twenty
round bout in the open air arena of
the Louisiana Auditorium at New Or
leans, La.
Newspaper critics gave Mike o.
Dowd of st. Paul, middleweight cham
pion, a shade over Harry Greb of
Pittsburg, at the end of ten-round
bout at st. Paul, MINI.
Kid Williams, former bantamweight
Baltimore, was given the decision at
the Lakeside A. C. in Denver over Joe
Leopold of Denver at the end of ten
rounds of bout that was full of &C.
ton.
General
Bond of $4,000 has been furnished
by Mrs. r. H. Case, held for the MUIR
der of her husband, whom she shot
and killed at Santa Fe, N. NJ, alleged
ly in self-defense. w. ]. Rand of Ell
Paso, brother, and Santa Fe bank
ers are sureties.
The sinking of the Spanish steamer
Mar Caspio makes the third such oc-
currence In less than four weeks. On
Jan. % a German submarine sunk the
Spanish steamer Giralda and Feb. IL
the Spanish steamer Ceferino was de-
stroyed by U-boat. On Feb. 10 the
Italian steamship Duca Di Geneva was
sunk within Spanish territorial waters.
A civilian flying instructor and two
cadets at the United States aviation
training school at Park Field, near
Memphis, Tenn, were killed in col
lision between two airplanes.
The crack Red Cross liner Florizel,
from st. Johns. N. F., for New York
by way of Halifax, with 40 persons
aboard, including rs passengers. piled
up on the lodges near Cape Race dur.
ing blizzard Sunday. and 1t is be.
lieved that all on board were lost.
An American steamship arriving at
an Atlantic port brought seventeen
members Of the crew Of the Danish
steamer Tranquebar who were picked
up at sea. There had been no previ-
GUS report Of the loss Of the Tranque-
bar. a vessel of 34h2 tons Rross