Gilpin observer., 1918-07-04
Foreign

by unanimous vote of the City Coun-
Gil.
The Brazilian government Sunday
announced that the Fourth Of July
would be celebrated as a national hol-
iday.
Rumors are in circulation. says the
Amsterdam Echo Beige, that an cpl
demic OF typhoid is raging among the
German soldiers in northern France.
Emperor Charles of Austria has re-
fused to accept the resignation Of the
Austrian premier, DR.. Won Seydler,
and has summoned the Austrian Par
lament to meet on July 16.
The Berlin press is now predicting
that DR.. Won Kuehlmann, the German
foreign secretary, will retain his Of
flee. In fact, it is certain, the news
papers declare, that he will remain at
his post.
Alexander Kerensky, the former
Russian provisional premier, arrived
| in Paris from London. Shortly after
| his arrival he had a long conference
| with M Maklakoff, the Russian ambas-
sador in Paris.
Uruguay has made July 4 a perma-
| nent national holiday in honor of the
United States. A bill to that effect was
passed by both the Chamber of Repre-
| sentatives and the Senate and Presi-
dent Viera signed the act Immediately.
There is an epidemic at San Juan.
Porto Rico. Of disease known locally
as hay fever, but which bears a re-
| semblance to the recent epidemic of
influenza in several Spanish cities. It
Is estimated that there are 1000 cases
in San Juan.
With the peasantry of the Ukraine
| fighting desperately to save their
crops from the Germans. the Bolshe-
Wiki do not want allied assistance The
soviets will resist any army Of inter
| vention sent by the allies. War Min
lister Trotzky announces, according TO
| word from Moscow.
Premier Wekerle. addressing the
Hungarian parliament, declared that
the total Austro-Hungarian losses In
| killed, wounded and missing In the
Italian drive were 100000, Budapest
| dispatch declared. I'VE took more than
$4,000 prisoners, while the Italians
took only 12,000," he said.
Great Britain must turn over its war
| feet to Germany, return Gibraltar to
Spain and restore Egypt and the Sues
canal to Turkey. Great Britain, France
and the United States must pay Ger
many an indemnity of at least $45, ,000,-
100000. Belgium and French territory
must be surrendered. These are the
conditions included in the German
peace program published in the Mach
riohten of Goerlits. Prussia, by Count
Room. a member of the Prussian
House Of Lords. according to Havas
agency dispatch from Basel, Switzer-
land.
Sporting News
King George consented to follow the
presidential precedent in the United
States by throwing the first ball at
the American baseball game ON the
Fourth Of July, in London.
Golfing by the light of the midnight
sun is one OF the summer sports in the
|
Horse, Yukon territory. Links are
laid out on a flat overlooking the Yu-
kon river and every year as soon as
the snow clears golfers are busy.
Mrs. Adelaide wager won the singles
championship of the Great Plains ten
mis- tournament for women at Kansas
City, Mo-. defeating Miss Evelyn Sea-
vey. 81, 6-3. The doubles champion
ship was won by Mrs r. 8. Speer and
Miss Marguerite Chesney, who defeat.
ed Mrs. wager and Miss Lyle Hayes.
General
The Montana Farming Corporation,
with capital of 100000, has been
organized for the purpose of furnish
ing facilities for wheat growing on the
Indian reservations in Montana and
Wyoming.
Both July 4, American Independence
day, and July IA, the French national
holiday, will be celebrated jointly by
Americans and French In Paris this
year
resolution protesting against the
prohibition amendment to the agricul-
tural appropriation bill now before
Congress was adopted in New York
by the Central Federated Labor Union.
The federal oil inspection board, Gre
ated by the Department of Labor and
empowered to handle all labor ques-
tions arising in the California oil
fields, issued bulletin outlining its
policy, prescribing the scope Of its op-
erations and fixing a wage scale to be
| followed In the flfura