Gilpin observer., 1919-06-19
FOREIGN

been destroyed by fire.
During an attempt to put down q
strike near Sombarheek, western Hun
gary, 10S railway men were killed. The
strike is continuing.
The government has completed the
erection at Tampico, Mexico, of
wireless station which, it is claimed,
has n sending radius ut night OF 1000
miles.
A rioting in connection with Com
munist demonstration In Vienna, eight
jured. The trouble began when 5000
demonstrants attempted to obtain the
release from prison of Communist
leaders arrested.
General Pershing has advised that
he proposes to transport 375,Oo0 men
homeward during the month OF June.
This breaks all previous records for
moving troops overseas, and exceeds
the number Great Britain moved across
the channel in any month.
Adjutaht Casale, the French aviator
who established u new world altitude
record in France by ascending to a
height of 1O,1O0 meters approximately
33, 1876 feet. The flight was made in
fifty-five minutes. The temperature
at the height of 10,100 meters was
8 degrees below zero.
The case of Robert Minor, former
cartoonist and writer for the New York
World. who was arrested mysterious
ly in Paris, is now in the hands of the
American military authorities. Infor-
nation regarding the charge against
Minor and his whereabouts is with
held pending further investigation.
Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur
w. Brown, in their Vickers- yimy BIZ
plane, landed at Clifden Ireland, COM
pleting the first nonstop airplane flight
across the Atlantic. Their trip from
st. Johns, n. F., was made in sixteen
hours and twelve minutes. In taking
the ground the machine struck heav-
lily and the fuselage ploughed into the
sand. Neither of the occupants were
injured.
SPORT
Rudolph Wilhelm, present state
champion, won the golf championship
of Oregon again at Portland, when he
defeated r. L. Macleay, up and to
play.
Fifty-five thousand guide posts have
been placed on the boulevards of
Southern California, by the Automo-
bile Club of Southern California, ac-
cording to an announcement just made
by officials of that organization.
Capt. d. R. Raymond, quartermas-
ter's corps of Crawford, Neb., finished
first in the elimination preliminaries
for the pistol team to represent the
United States in the interallied small
arms competition which begins June
22nd at Lemans, France.
Four thousand wrestling fans saw
Joe Pesek defeat Zbyszko, one fall in
two hours, three minutes and fifteen
seconds, at Gordon, Neb. The match
was evenly contested for one hour, af-
ter which Pesek went behind and
stayed there until the final fall.
Nelson Whitney of New Orleans and
Richard Bockenkamp of st. Louis
were all square in the finals at the end
of thirty-six holes of the transmissis-
sippi golf championship, the decision
going to extra holes after a see-saw
game on the last eighteen at st. Louis.
GENERAL
Illinois went on record Tuesday as
favoring woman suffrage. She set the
pace for all the other states in the
Union when the General Assembly
yntad for tho adnption Of Sap,tor Cnrn
wells joint resolution ratifying the
suffrage amendment as passed by Con
gress few days ago.
Toy Con, former director of air SER
vice of the Chinese army, member of
special commission appointed by the
government, has purchased at Day
ton, Ohio, n number of DeHaviland air
planes equipped with Liberty motors.
He also has negotiated with another
company for several commercial ma
chimes.
Mrs. Lottie Baker was freed of a
charge of murder of her husband, Lus-
CO Baker, when the jury hearing her
case brought in a verdict of not guilty
at Oklahoma City. Her trial had con-
sumed nearly week. Mrs Baker was
accused of shooting her husband when
she met him on the street with an
other woman.
The NC-4, the first airplane to make
the transatlantic flight, should have an
honored place in the Smithsonian In
stitute, the governments museum at
Washington, according to f. II. Rus
sell, president of the Manufacturers
Aircraft Association. Mr. Russell both
wrote and telegraphed Secretary Dan
iels, urging that the NC-4 be given a
permanent place in the national muse
um besice the Wright biplane.
John Kelli, a Honolulu swimmer, is