Gilpin observer., 1919-05-01
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN

WG0 G6N
One of the largest shipments of rub
ber ever dispatched In single lot is
proceeding across country from San
francisco to Detroit in special train
,f twenty-six cars. THE weight of the
,hipment is 2,240,OOO pounds.
Never before has tile demand for
1ried prunes been so great as now,
Or the price so high and seldom has
The prospect for II crop in the VIII
annette valley, Oregon, been so bright,
according to Eugene buyers of fruit
By order of Gov. Thomas Riggs, jr.,
The Cordova, Alaska, Home Guards
aave been discharged from service ow-
eng to lack of funds with which to
maintain the organization. Guns and
equipment of the guards have been
ordered stored
Fire, starting in the Portsmouth HO-
tel, Los Angeles, did damage there
and in adjacent buildings estimated
1t $4,000, and resulted in a number of
spectacular rescues by firemen and
policemen, but in no loss of life or
serious injuries.
r. l.. Francis, assistant purchasing
igent of the Federal Railroad Admin
istration, Southern Pacific lines, has
begun placing orders for railroad ties
to aggregate 20,OOO,00O feet among the
mills of the Northwest, it was an
nounced in Portland
William Ranft of Los Angeles, won
the title Of national singles handball
champion in Los Angeles, when he de-
feated Joe Lacey, 21-13,21-11, at the
Los Angeles Athletic Club. Lacey was
known as Southern California cham
pion, and this was his first defeat in
tournament.
Slightly less than half the total num-
ber of bills introduced at the forty
third biennial session of the California
legislature were sent to the governor
for executive action. A list of the
measures, completed, showed that 9O1
passed both houses. OF this number
500 were assembly killed.
Appointment Of w. #. Ingram as
federal treasurer for the Southern Pa
cific Railroad, north and south of
Ashland, Ore, and for the Arizona
Eastern Railroad, and Charles Elsey
treasurer for the Western Pacific,
Tldewater Southern and Deep Creek
Railroads, was announced in San Fran
cisco by railroad administration Of
ficials
WASHINGTON
Lieut.. Charles Moore of Cortland,
N. Y, and Z. f. Kreege of Northamp-
ton, Pa, were killed when an aero
plane in which they were riding fell
near the COblenz aerodrome.
Maj. Gen. Chase w. Kennedy has
been detailed to command the Pan
anna canal department, relieving Brig
Gen. Richard NJ. Blatchford, who will
be assigned to duty at Western
camp.
A dispatch received from Reval, Rus
sin, says there has been big fire in
the town of Narva, eighty-one miles
southwest Of Petrograd. The confla-
grafton was started by bombardment
of the town by Bolsheviki. Hundreds
of houses were burned, and 5000 per-
sons are homeless.
The government is about to start a
great roundup of draft deserters who
are to be tried and punished as fast
as apprehended. Final separation of
the sheep from the goats among all
these delinquents who, having failed
to report at camps In answer to their
calls under the draft, have been auto
matically classed as deserters, will be
completed by the provost marshal gen.
erals office within the next three
weeks.
Increases In payrolls Of various
classes of railway employees during
government control were shown In de-
tail by railroad administration re-
port, giving members employed In each
class, days and hours worked, pay In
the aggregate per day and per hour
and the rate of advance, as Of Decem
Der, 1917, the last month OF private
operation, and January, 1919. In the
thirteen months between the two dates
the number OF employees rose from
100000 to 1,S4S.O0O, or s5 per cent
The aggregate pay rolls for all classes
rose from $153, ,0S9. 900 in December
1917, to $3.50, 800. 900 last January. witt
the average rate Of pay increase 4S pei
cent.
The War Department announced
that contracts had been concluded To-
the sale Of surplus stocks Of sodium
nitrate, sulphur and copper at curren
rIurket rates to number Of dealers
the sales to be over period of tim
nnc the stocks to be marketed b.
these companies In such way az no
to affect the market price or marke
conditions.
The Paris fair. which German lon
range guns and air raids made impoa
sible last year, has been formal.
opened by President Poincare and 9th