Gilpin observer., 1918-01-31
Foreign

Cd at $b00,0O0 when fire wiped out
one-half Of the business section.
Three thousand persons took part in
riot in suburb Of Prague against
reduction Of the flour rations, Wen
ma dispatch says.
The Belgian government was ad-
vised that the American Red Cross
has placed at its disposal 100000
francs for the relief of Belgian ref
ugees.
1t is officially announced that the
Turkish cruiser Sultan Yawu Selim
(formerly the German cruiser Goeben)
has been refloated and entered the
Dardanelles.>
Count Czernin's offer to open nego
tiations with Wilson endangers Ger
many's life and interests" declared
Count Won Reventlow. foremost advo-
cate of .Prussianism.
German Foreign Minister Kuehl-
mann flatly disavowed annexationist
principles in his speech before the
main Reichstag committee, according
to details received at Amsterdam.
Open demand that the German peo-
pie revolt, "to save themselves" and
reference to the Kaiser as "Germany's
hangman' was made by the Deutsch-
es Tages Zeitung in copies of that pa
per received at Amsterdam.
There has been an increase of
100000 women in British industry
since the war began and an increase
of between G15O,000,0OO and G2OO.-
100000 in women's earnings, according
to Lord D'Aberon, controller of liquor
traffic.
The government commissioners at
Petrograd announce that diplomatic
relations tn Rumania have been
broken and that the Rumanian lega-
tion and all of the Rumanian repre-
sentatives here will be sent out of the
country by the shortest route.
The latest reports received in Lon
don from British correspondents in
Petrograd say that conditions there
are steadily becoming worse. Oppo-
sition to the Bolshevik government is
growing, principally because of the
of ;he Kerensky cabinet.
Referring to President Wilson's
speech, Herr Harden OF Amsterdam.
says: Belief is still firm that peace
is possible and that the cleavage be-
tween the two fighting groups no long
er is so wide that it can be filled only
by new heaps of corpses. 1t will, how
ever, widen into an unbridgeable gulf
if the people again refuse to acknowl-
edge changed world" He pleads for
the sanctity of treaties, a reduction
of ornaments. the right to self-deter-
mination of nations, and favors a re-
consideration of the question of AL
sace-Lorraine.
Sporting News
The same events with the same add
ed money values will feature the
spring meetings at the Churchill
Downs and Douglas park race tracks
at Louisville, Ky, and at the Latonia
track.
The entries for the Denver city
checker championship to be held at
the Colorado Chess and Checker Club
in Denver are coming in rapidly, show
ing that a strong field will face the
starters on Feb.
Swelling the number of entries to
seven, Mrs. Fred Chance nominated
herself as a candidate for speed hon
ors in the woman's international
championship. scheduled for Ascot
Speedway at Los Angeles.
Forty-one ski jumpers. of whom fiji
teen are professionals. competed in
the national tournament held at Cary
ILL.,. suburb of Chicago The list of
contestants announced includes Rag
mar Omtvedt, holder of the profession.
al national championship. Henry Hall
of Steamboat Springs, Colo, whose
mark of 2OS feet is the worlds record
for long distance leaping, and Hans
Hansen national amateur champion
General
The National News of London says
1t understands British labor delega-
tion soon will leave England for the
United States.
With thousands of industries and
business houses closed throughout the
country Monday-the second 'heatless
holiday"-snow and cold swept the
Eastern seaboard. clogging freight
Freight traffic throughout large
section of the eastern states was prac-
tically abandoned Monday on account
of blizzard conditions, according to re-
ports received by A. II. Smith, region
al director OF railroads.
Mrs. Isabel Lawler, wife of Attorney
John G. Lawler of the Thomas Mooney
defense, committed suicide at San
Francisco during the night by firing
two shots into her own brain. De-
spondency over separation from her