Gilpin observer., 1918-09-12
Foreign

Prince Ferdinand Of Hohenlohe has
been, killed in action At the front, &C.
cording to the Cologne Gazette.
The municipal council of Paris has
unanimously agreed to present to
Marshal Foch a sword of honor In
recognition of his services.
Wounded British soldiers. arriving
from German prison camps, tell Of the
harsh treatment imposed on British
and American prisoners Of war.
The American mission which has
opment Of agricultural production of
Algeria arrived in that country.
An official report is that the Boil
sheviki had retaken Samara. II this
report is true, Orenburg, Simbirsk and
other important cities in that district
are in danger
The American flag presented to
Paris by the city of Philadelphia was
hoisted over the city hall in COM
memoration of the anniversary of the
birth of Lafayette.
Dora Kaplan, the alleged assailant
of the Bolshevist premier, Nikolai
Lenine. was executed on Sept. 4, ac-
cording to Moscow dispatch to the
Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin.
A presidential decree directing that
the price of food served in restaur-
ants must be plainly shown on plac-
ards is now in effect in all parishes
of over 5000 inhabitants throughout
France
American refugees from Moscow
reached Stockholm-twelve days after
their departure from the Bolshevik
capital. In Finland, the Americans
were impressed by the orderly condi-
tions.
All the relatives of Alexander Ker-
ensky, the former provisional pre-
mier of Russia, have been arrested
by order of the Bolshevist extraor.
dinary commission, according to the
Izvestia of Moscow.
From Olovyanna to Penza, dis
tance of 1000 miles, Czecho-Slovak
forces held the railway, 1t was stated.
This indicates the Czecho-S -Slovaks
of Russia, loosening the Bolshevik
grip.
According to an official announce
ment made at Petrograd and received
at Amsterdam, up to the present 512
alleged counter revolutionaries, In.
Guiding ten members of the Right So
cial Revolutionary party. have been
shot as reprisal for the murder of
Moses Uritzky, chairman of the Petro-
grad commission for the suppression
of counter revolution.
Sporting News
Statistics compiled by the Y. NJ. G.
A. officials show that baseball is by
far the most popular sport among
our soldiers and sailors, both here
and abroad.
Boston won two out of three games
in the worlds series at Chicago, and
the first game played ON the home
grounds at Boston-winning three of
the first four games played.
Duke Kahanomoku, holder of all the
worlds swimming records from twen-
>,
transferred from draft class 3 to class
by his exemption board at Honolulu.
T. H. He will be inducted into the
army.
A height of 23,5OO feet, claimed at
Chicago to be a world record for alti-
tude by two-seater aeroplane, was
reached by Lieut.. M. B. Kelleher. who
flew from the United States war ex.
position ground in Grant park with
passenger. Lieutenant Kelleher and
his passenger. State Senator AL Clark,
when attempting to land crashed into
fence and both we're stunned, but
not seriously injured.
General
Fire in Lincoln, Nebr., lumber
yard did 100000 damage.
Contracts for 2.O21.OOO pairs Of
metallic-fastened field and marching
shoes for the army to cost $14. .1O7 600,
were awarded by the quartermaster
corps to thirty-one shoe manufactur-
ers, deliveries on the field shoes to be
completed by next Dec. 10 and on the
marching shoes by next Jan. 81.
BLACK Jack" Pershing, the biggest
youth In the trenches, the leader of
the American expeditionary forces In
France, was born In Linn county, Mo-,
nfty'eight years ago Friday. Although
his birthday is not a national or le-
gal holiday, patriotic celebrations and
demonstrations were planned through.
out the country for Friday. the thir.
teenth. in honor Of the leader OF our
boys over there.
Sixteen men held In Fresno and
Sacramento jails on federal warrants
will be charged with responsibility
for the wheat field fires In North Da.
kota and big lumber mill fires In