Gilpin observer., 1919-10-16
FOREIGN

The American steamer Mount Hood
is total loss as the result of fire
aboard the vessel at Montevideo, ac-
cording to a dispatch from that port
The Mount Hood was built At
Portland Ore, last year
The Omsk government of Russia
has directed thorough inquiry into
the recent reported arrest of American
soldiers by COssack troops and the
flogglng Of one of them because the
Americans did not have the proper
Identification papers.
The anniversary of the discovery of
America was celebrated in Madrid and
throughout the provinces of Spain.
King Alfonso, the members of the gov
ernment and the representatives of all
the Spanish-Am American countries Ut
tended the celebration in the capital
The German reply to the allied note
demanding the withdrawal of General
Won der GOltz's troops from the Baltic
provinces was discussed by the Su-
preme Council at the resumption of its
meetings 1t was considered unsatis-
factory and Marshal ! och was in
structed to draw up new note to send
the Germans.
A dispatch from COnstantinople
states that Braussa, the ancient capital
of the Turkish sultans and only fifty
seven miles from COnstantinople, has
adhered to the nationalist movement
AdrianOple, the most important town
In European Turkey next to CONSTANT
nople, has also thrown in it's lot with
the natiOnalists.
Capt. Andre Tardieu, member of the
French Peace Commission, speaking at
meeting of the French-American
Club at Paris, gave interesting figures
on the reconstruction work accom-
plished since the armistce. Sixty
thousand of the $4,000 houses in the
battle area wrecked by shell fire have
been rebuilt; 2,Ol6 kilometers of the
3,246 kilOmeters of railway destroyed
have been repaired and 700 of the
1875 kilometers of canals rendered
useless in the course of the hostilities
are again in commission. OF the 1,10O
plants destroyed by the enemy 5SS
have been repaired. Equally remark
able progress is being made in restor-
ing to civilization the vast areas in
the devastated regions which, at the
end of the war, embraced 4.5OO,OOO
acres OF this approximately 100000
acres have been returned to the farm
ers and 100000 acres of it are ready
for the seed
GENERAL
Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harp
er's Magazine since 1869, died at his
home in New York after IL long illness.
He was 81 years old.
Some official action, either by Presi-
dent Wilson or the cabinet, to avert
the threatened strike of soft coal min
ers Nov. l is to be expected, it was
said at the White House. Officials re-
gard the matter as one requiring gov
ernmental action If other efforts to
avert a tieup of the coal mines fail.
Heavily increased use of sugar in
candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other
luxuries in the United States during
the first nine months of 1919, it was
announced in New York, by the Unit
ed States Sugar Equalization Board,
means that such over indulgence in
sections of the East for the next three
Super-chickens and eggs, two or
three times their present size, at cost
hn
was predicted by Alton f. Briggs, Bos-
ton, president of the National Poultry,
Egg and Butter Association, in an ad-
dress to the 1000 delegates attending
the opening session of the thirteenth
convention at Cleveland. Mr..
Briggs said new type of super-hen is
being bred and in the near future
would reach the public, thus doing
much to lower the cost of living.
Six men were reported killed and
five are said by the police to be dying
as the result of boiler explosion on
the oil steamer Chestnut Hill at Phila-
delphia. The killed and injured were
of the crew. Several others
were badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam to depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
. The shrek Of II French seventy-flve
shell calls Edinburgh. Ind. to its work,
sounds lunch time and sends 1t home
in the evening. It's a tame she'll how
ever, adapted TO peaceful pursuits. Err
nest Law, a returned soldier, converted
The shell into whistle for the French
locomotive of which he was engineer.
Then he brought 1t home and it now
occupies high place-on the canning
factory roof
Reports that Russians on the north
eastern coast of Siberia recently con-
flscated the cargo of the American
schooner Belinda, which was In Slber-
ian waters hunting walrus has been re-
ceivcd at Nome. Alaska. Russians, Il
was said, disputed the right of the
Americans to shoot walrus on Siberian