Gilpin observer., 1920-05-13
FOREIGN.


and demonstrators have been reported
by the Giornal D'Italla in Rome.
Germany's presidential election prob.
ably will be held late In August, &C
cOrding to Berlin dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company. The
Deutsche Zeitung is quoted as saying
President Ebert will not seek re-elec-
tion,
france is sending note to Germany
demanding action in the war guilt
trials which the German government
has promised to conduct in the newly
created Supreme Court at Leipzig.
France 10 seeking evidence of good
faith that Germany will fulfill her
promises.
Negotiations between Japan and the
Vladivostok Russian government for
buffer state In Siberia as preliminary
to the complete withdrawal of Japan.
ese troops in that region were reported
by ViscOunt Uchida, Japanese foreign
minister, to be proceeding satisfactory,
according to the newspapers.
A fleet of twenty-five American mo-
tor trucks is engaged in transporting
merchandise within the city of Shang-
hal 1t is the first public motor truck
service to be established in China and
is conducted by the China Garage Com
pany of Shanghai, which started this
improved system of transportation last
August
"Gay Paree" is particularly gay
Il
an invasion by American money kings
and queens is coming true. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that American
wealth arriving in Paris daily amounts
to $20,000,O0O The Mauretania alone,
Just in, had n list of millionaires aggre-
eating $5O.OOO,OOO.
The 100000 dance club opened in
Paris by Tom Morgan, the American
promoter, is nightly attracting large
and brilliant crowd of Americans
Even the most spoiled visitors express
amazement at the riot of expenditure
manifest in the luxurious fittings. All
dishes are of solid silver and cham
payne is obligatory.
Representatives of the American
War Department at Paris estimate
that about 60 per cent of the American
soldiers buried in France will be ex-
humed and taken back to their native
land. A little more than 1900 Ameri-
can hurials have been registered by
the graves registration service and
about 1000 of these are in France.
The total cost of the world war in
lives has reached the appalling figure
of 35,3SO,O00 according to final esti-
mates made by the Copenhagen Soc-
ETY. for the Study of the Consequences
of the War made public. These figures
were reached after an exhaustive study
of the decrease in the birth rates of
the countries involved, as well as in
crease in deaths from causes directly
attributed to the war; Actual military
deaths in killed totaled 9,S29,000, ac-
cording to the report Each nation in
volved lost the equivalent of S.S per
cent of its population from all causes.
Each nations actual killed equaled 2.5
per cent of its population. Serbia was
the heaviest sufferer of all the bellig-
erents. She lost 35 per cent of her
equaled 14.S per cent.
GENERAL.
Spokane. wash, ranking rs forty
eighth city of the country in 1910, had
decrease of 1913 in population in the
last ten years and now has 104,2O4
people, the Census Bureau announced
Mrs. Thomas Yosich of Cairo, ILL.,,
mother of four children, shot and killed
her stepfather, John Lilley, SO, be-
couse, she asserted, he insisted on fore
dered to the sheriff.
Chicago is to have the worlds great
est hotel, to cost $15,O00,0OO and con
prise 1000 rooms. This will mean
hostelry larger than the combined
Pennsylvania and Commodore hotels of
New York, at present the worlds big
gest.
Completely disguised as woman,
from blond wig down to corset and silk
lingerie, n man who later gave his
name as Bruce Barthing, was captured
by the police after chase in Chicago
The police believe he has taken part in
a number of robberies In an exclusive
North Side residence district.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon of
New York issued an order permitting
the Equitable Trust Company of New
York to sell approximately S2,0O0,0OO
worth of securities held as collateral
on a loan to the Denver & Rio Grandc
Railroad Company contracted some
years ago. Both parties consented to
the step.
A few hours after he.had cried bad
luck" as picture fell from wall,
William c. Krauter, wealthy real es-
tate man, was shot and killed In his