Gilpin observer., 1919-10-30
FOREIGN

are the cOStIleSt on record.
A disaster in the, ,Levant mine at St.
Just, Cornwall, England, caused about
forty deaths. Many miners were in
| jured.
"The japanese government shortly
will sign the peace treaty without con-
sulting parliament" says Central News
agency dispatch for Toxic.
1t has been reported in dispatches
from Lisbon that Portugal had granted
the United States concession In the
Azores for a naval station.
Bella Kun, the former soviet chief
of Hungary. is accused of murder and
| The theft of 2,OOO,OOO rubles from two
emlssaries of General Deniklne.
Marshal Foch has informed the Bel
| gian government by telegraph that 4O,-
600 Belgian freight cars have been
found on the left bank of the Rhine
Hundreds of American children will
receive Christmas dolls. gifts of the
French children of the city of Mez-
ieres, as mark of their gratitude for
the organization there of the schools by
the American Red Cross
A large quantity of arms and ammu-
milton intended for Portuguese revOlu-
tionaries has been taken over by the
Spanish authorities at Alamedilla
Park, in Salamanca, about 115 miles
northwest of Madrid The seizure was
made at the request of the Portuguese
consul.
| 1t is given out that Archduke Joseph
of Austria will soon be elected king of
Hungary. If the entente objects, the
crown of Hungary will be offered, it
is stated, to foreign prince, probably
of the English royal family. A re-
sumption of the throne by former En-
perOr Charles is ont of the question.
An official census shows that the
population of Korea at the end of 1918
was 17.O57 ,O32. This shows an increase
of SS,033 as compared with the end of
| 1917 and of 3,744,O15 over the figures
for 1910, the year of annexation to
Japan. Japanese residents number
33G,ST2.
The British government has already
realized $S12, 10000 by the sale of war
stores which it had on hand when
peace was declared Hundreds of
motor cars and trucks have been
marketed at prices frequently in excess
of the price originally paid for them
by the war office, owing to the great
scarcity of cars.
The net bag of German submarines
destroyed by the American, French
and British navies during the war was
200 out of total of 37O completed by
| the enemy up to the armistice, accord
ing to the war cabinet blue book Each
of the three navies developed entirely
different systems of submarine detec-
ton apparatus, and their results were
constantly exchanged.
GENERAL
George Babe Ruth, world cham
pion home-run hitter of the Boston
Americans, said before leaving for Los
| Angeles that he would demand $4,000
salary next year.
The final coupon on the Second 4
per cent Liberty Bonds becomes due
next month and the last coupon on
the First 4 per cents, being converted
31a per cents is payable in December.
For hours detectives with drawn
guns guarded IL papiermache safe in a
store in New York. Burglars had re-
moved the real safe to n safe point for
cracking and left "camoufaged' one.
The International Federation of
Trades Unions began its session ut
Washington Monday preliminary to the
meeting of the International Labor
Conference provided for in the treaty
with Germany.
An early closing of the contract for
the purchase by the navy of the Brit
ish rigid airship RIBS. the largest air
ship in the world, now under construc-
tion in England, is expected. 1t was
stated at the department Monday
Two and one-half million dollars were
appropriated by Congress for the pur-
chase of this airship and for the train
ing of pilots.
Stored in warehouses In Cuba are
nerly lOO.OO0 tons of sugar. sufficient
TO meet American demands until the
next crop is available, according to a
telegram Monday 10 Senator Gronna
chairman of the agriculture committee
from the Cuba Sugar Manufacturers
and Planters Association. The sugar
Is contracted for but not paid for.
The cargo carrier Sundance, named
In honor of Wyoming's work In the
Liberty Loan drives, was launched al
Hog Island. Miss Rosa Maye Ken
drick daughter of Senator and Mrs J
B. Kendrick of Wyoming was the
sponsor. 1t was the sixty-second shiT
launched at the big yard and brought
the deadweight tonnage produced since
August, 1918, to 4S5, $50.
The Old Clothes Society was organ
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