Gilpin observer., 1919-05-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WoRLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT GvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE
western Newspaper Union New. service.
WESTERN

DIR. F. A. Brewster, of Beaver City,
using an aeroplane he recently pur-
chased for making long professional
calls, flew sixty miles to McCOok, Neb.,
to perform two surgical operations.
The trip was made in fifty minutes.
Boyd Traitors skull was fractured
and both legs and an arm severed
when he was run over by a street car
in Portland. Traylor attempted to
board II moving car and fell under the
trucks. He was former service man.
One man dead, two others reported
drowned scores of persons injured and
property loss of more than n million
dollars at the Goose Creek oil field is
the toll of storm which swept about
fifty miles northwest of Houston, Tex.
American and Mexican army Off
GERS met on the polo field for the first
time at a military festival staged by
the Eighth Cavalry, Col. G. Il. Lang
horne, commanding, at Preside, Tex
as, east of Ell Paso, Texas. The score
was 4 to 4.
A resolution condemning Oregon as
one of the worst states in the union
with regard to the divorce evil and
providing for the appointment of Il
committee to investigate conditions
and instigate legislation to mitigate
the growing tendency to divorce, was
adopted at Portland by the thirty-first
diocesan convention of the Episcopal
Church
Joseph L. Whitehouse, superintend-
ent of Il foundry and machine works at
Salt Lake City, and ]. H. Murphy were
sentenced to serve four months in the
county Jail by United States Judge
Tillman d. Johnson, following convic-
tion of violation of the Reed liquor
amendment The men were found
guilty of shipping liquor into Salt
Lake from San Francisco encased in
cement.
The state of Texas will cooperate
with the Mexican government in
stamping out disorders along the bor-
der, especially the efforts by Mexican
bandits to smuggle arms across the
line, it was announced after confer
ences between -Adjutant General Har-
ley of Texas and Governor Mireless of
Coahuila, Mex. 1t was said the First
Texas cavalry would be used as a bor-
der guard
Thirty-seven days from the time her
keel was laid and twenty-seven days
since being launched, the steel steam
er City of Eureka, $500 TONS built at
Portland by the Columbia River Ship
building Corporation, left on her build
ers' trial trip. The builders claim
worlds records both for the elapsed
time between the laying of the keel
and the launching and between the
launching and the completion of the
vessels equipment.
WASHINGTON
The decision of the Supreme Court
OF the state of Washington that the
vote of State Legislature in ratify-
Ing proposed amendment to the fed.
eral constitution is subject to the ref
erendum vote of the people of n state
having the initiative and referendum
law, opens way for the liquor forces
of the country to prevent the amend
ment to the federal constitution be-
coming operative January /, 1920.
Total subscriptions to the fifth oil
Victory Liberty loan were announced
by the treasury as 5,249,90S, 300, an
oversubscriptlon Of nearly SI5O,OOO,.
600.
Declaring that unregulated vivisec-
ton meant its extensive practice mere
lu IN Of ia
ends, Senator Myers of Montana an
nounced that he intended to soon to in
troduce bill in the Senate narrowly
restricting its practice in the District
of Columbia.
Aeroplane strength of the allied ar
mics on the west front when the arm.
istice was signed was greater than
that of the Berman by more than two
to one, and Italians outnumbered Aus
trians by four to three in machines
according TO official reports to the
War Department. In "balloon
strength" the Germans were declared
TO be superior, with 1T0 craft to la
for the allies, of which the Americans
had %, French ~, British 43 and Bel
gians In use. OF the aeroplanes In
service. British units comprised 1,75s
machines, French 1921, American TAO
and Belgian 1853.
The War Department expects sool
to be able to make public by name re
ports of individual casualties suffere,
by each division in France, with tn
manner In which each soldier met hi
death. General Pershing was instruct
ed to require division adjutants to pre-
pare and forward to Washington re
ports showing these facts.
James l.. Slayden of San Antonio
Tex, was reelected president of tn
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