Gilpin observer., 1920-03-11
FOREIGN

Saghalin island, off the coast of East
Siberia, to protect Japanese residents
The allies have granted the German
government an extension of three
months in which to reduce the German
army to the size ordered by the peace
terms.
Bolsheviki at Odessa captured the
Russian cruiser Admiral Nakhimoff
four topedO boat destroyers, one scout
vessel, one steamer, three trawlers,
two cutters, two submarines, says
Moscow wireless message
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
says the red army has "victoriously
broken through to the shores of the
Arctic ocean, 1t adds that the Muir
mansk railway is free of the white
forces rs far as Murmansk
]. Austen Chamberlain, chancellor OF
the exchequer, has announced that
England and France had agreed not to
renew the Anglo-French loan issued
In the United States In 1915 and were
taking steps for Its repayment
The strike situation in Portugal is
becoming more acute and all the pub
lie services are paralyzed, according
to dispatch from Lisbon. The new
cabinet formed by Antonio Silva has
resigned on account of the strike, the
dispatch adds.
Children attending the Berlin schools
are to be weighed and measured at the
beginning of each semi-annual term.
A special school is also to be estab-
lished for pupils who are unable to
follow regular instruction because of
deficient eyesight
The first plenary meeting of the
newly elected Moscow soviet has just
taken place. In the elections $4,000
votes were cast, or 81 per cent of the
voters. There were 5SS,OO0 who had
no right to vote, of whom 1884, were
children. The others We're criminals
and those whose incomes were not de-
rived from labor
Acquisition of wheat from Argentina
to supply Spain until the next harvest
has been decided by a council of min
listers at Madrid. The cabinet parlia-
mentary commission is determined not
to permit too large an increase of the
budget of which the deficit, it Is be-
lieved, will reach one billion pesatas
1t is thought the cabinet will be
obliged to float n loan. the revenues
being insufficient for expenses.
GENERAL
President Gray of the Union Pacific |
announced at Omaha the system had
bought S6,000,000 worth of locomotives |
and S4.000000 of refrigerator cars.
More than seventy alleged anar
chists and radicals have been arrested |
at Akron, Ohio, in extensive raids con
Quoted by Department of Justice of |
ficials.
Announcement has been made that
officials believed the fire which has
ragged in the underground workings at
the Girard Mammoth colliery at Raven
Run, Pa, for fifteen years, is now un-
der control. In Il short time the burn.
ing area will be opened up and hun
dreds of thousands of tons of anthra-
cite will be reclaimed.
The biggest collection of mammals
ever taken out of Mongolia-1,3O,
specimens, weighing more than eight
tons-has been brought from that
country by the second Asiatic expedi,
tion of the American Museum of Nat
ural History, it was announced in New
York by Roy Chapman Andrews, asso.
ciate curator of mammalogy of the mu-
scum and chief of the expedition.
Twenty fellowships, each with a
stipend OF at least 81 900 and in some
cases $1,000, will be awarded to Amer
lean students, men and women, for
technical and humanstic study in the
University of Sweden, Denmark and
Norway, the American Scandinavian
foundation announced in New York. In
addition to the ten fellowships for
Sweden, established last year, five stu
dents will be sent to Norway and five
to Denmark.
John +. Jelke, convicted Chicago
oleomnrgarine manufacturer, who has
been pardoned by President Wilson,
paid the government for his freedom
from n prison term S27S,000 in fines
and back taxes.
Fifteen gallons of wine year is the
maximum quantity family of Jewish
faith may receive for religious cere-
monies, according to ruling received
in Hartford, Conn, from Washington
to Civil Revenue Collector J. w.
Walsh. The ruling says Jewish fami-
lies, after gaining approval of their
rabbi, who IN turn will secure permits
forcement director may secure n max
imum of fifteen gallons year.
The state of New York will receive
SS,S91 as an inheritance tax from the
estate of the late Col. Theodore Roose-