Gilpin observer., 1919-09-18
FOREIGN

treat only 5000 survived according to
Marshal Foch has recently asked the
Belgian government to have search
made for the body of his son, who was
killed in August, 1914, in the Belgian
| ArdenneS
Struck by a steel mine car weighing
more than 1000 pounds when it fell
forty feet from "A landing, Albert, the
4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Sieg of Golden, was killed at copper
| mine in Cananea, Mexico.
figures voiced by American Red Cross
workers and forwarded to national
headquarters Most of these returned
to their homes to find themselves or
phans, and the Red Cross is seeking to
aid them by the establishment of or
| phanuges
To show that he Is really patriot
Prince Louis of Bourbon, pretender to
the French throne has just entered
the butter trade in Paris. He says he
| will fight prOfiteering and If he can
reduce the cost of butter he will feel
he has done his bit for the people.
An American company having cap
ital of $100OOO.OOO is being organized
| in Poland to extend credits to Polish
| cities so they may meet their necessi-
| ties, especially for the construction of
canals, water plants and hospitals, ac-
| cording to the Vossische Zeitung Of
| Berlin.
Extension of relief activities in
| waStprp RusSia and tho RoItip prOy-
inces has resulted in the American
Red Cross increasing the appropriation
| for its commission in that region from
S27O,OOO to $5O0,OOO, it has been an
nounced. Both Esthonia and Lithu-
ania will benefit.
Alberta's wheat yield few weeks
ago was estimated as being practically
negligible, but two weeks fairly steady
rains so improved thes ituatiOn that
the yield is conservatively estimated
at 21,94S,0O0 bushels, while the yield of
oats is estimated at 56,220,000, barley
1851, 900 and rye 100000. These fig
ures are certain to be exceeded as the
threshing results are exceeding eXpec-
tationS.
GENERAL
Figures have been compiled showing
that upward of $1S,0OO,OOO worth of
automobiles were stolen last year.
Johnny Dundee holds a twelve
round decision over frankie Britt of
New Bedford. Dundee was Britt's
master in every round at Providence.
Two unmasked bandits robbed the
State Bank of Chautauqua county at
Wichita and escaped with $1,000 in
currency and Liberty bonds valued at
from $500 to $4,000.
Capt. Kermit Roosevelt has been
appointed secretary or the American
Ship and Commerce Corporation, the
holding company of the Cramps Ship
building Company and the Kerr Navi-
CATION Company.
One soldier, Oliver Eager, 10, is
dead and five others are in the hos
pital mt Fort Benjamin Harrison as
result of drinking poison which it is
said they mistook for whisky. The
men We're prisoners.
A bomb was found at the rear en-
under the window of District Judge NJ
Il. Blanding's office at Lawton, Okla.
A percussion cap was in place, but the
mechanism to explode it had not been
attached.
Burial of the dead at Mobile, Ala,
on Sunday is punishable by fine of
500 under city ordinance Just
adopted. Passage of the ordinance
was the result of petition to the city
| commission by ministers, undertakers
and grave diggers.
Two men were killed and six In
jured by the explosion of six-inch
shell which was being unloaded from
n barge in the Raritan river at the
Raritan arsenal ut Bonhamtown, n. ].
The ammunition on the barge was
being transferred to one of the maga-
zines. The victims of the accident
all were civilian employees.
Thousands of shipyard workers who
quit work in Brooklyn, Staten Island
and New Jersey yards in an attempt
to force a demand for n Saturday half
holiday. found themselves discharged
| when they reported for work.
Demobllization of the navy has de-
moralized the Atlantic fleet so far as
man power Is concerned, y has been
said at the Navy Department Scores
of battleships, cruisers. destroyers and
| other vessels are moored at navy
yards with crews so greatly reduced
that in many casts 1t is difficult, and
| in some cases impossible to keep
| up steam. Only two battleships of the
Atlantic fleet have anywhere near full
| crews.
"If anyone attempts to raise the rel
flag of anarchy in this country, shoot
him on the spot" declared Clarendon