The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-10-08
TIE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvE!TS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War

says no outside aid is needed at Ard
more
Petrograd reports indicate that the
German thrust against the Slavs has
been checked
II seems to be generally accepted
conclusion that Bulgaria will enter the
war Oct Is
The German war office announces
in an official bulletin that the allies
have taken hill No. 1911.
British forces now in France. num-
bering about round million, VIII be
augmented by half million more.
The Germans claim to have taken
$4,000 men and sixty-one machine
guns in the battles on the west front.
General Kuropatkin, the Russian
commander in the japanese war, viii
take the field with the Russian army
as chief of the grenadier corps.
Berlin claims the allies lost 10000
killed, wounded and prisoners In the
first week Of the now offensive, of this
number 10000 being French and CO..
900 British.
Petrograd dispatch to Reuters
Telegram Company says that the Rus
sian Red Cross society has published
list of fortysix Sisters of Mercy
who persisted in the bora bardment of
a hospital by the Austrans and Ger
mans.
Field Marshal Won Mackenzen, with
$50. 200 troops withdrawn from the
Russian front, has arrived at the Ser
bian frontier and will direct the Aus
troGerman march on Constantinople.
according to the newspaper Epocha OF
Bucharest
Gen Mehmed Cherif Pasha, one OF
the leaders Of the Radical Turk party,
writing in the Paris Matin, affirms
that the Young Turk party has sold
Constantinople to Bulgaria. with the
pledge of receiving in exchange Rus
sia's Asiatic possessions. Egypt and
all OF north Africa, always assuming
of course. that Germany and her allies
defeat the quadruple entente powers"
Western
A slight earthquake shock was felt
by several cities on the coast No
damage
Bandits blew open the safe OF the
State Bank at Maud okla, and got
away with $4,000.
The government will open 100 farms
for filing October 25th in the Shon-
shone reservation in northwestern
Wyoming
Sacramento, San Jose, Reno, Boise
and Salt Lake City reported slight
earthquake shocks Saturday night.
1t is reported that it is possible that
the 400 indictments against former
strikers and labor leaders in Colora-
do may be quashed.
A letter from President Wilson was
read at the International Dry Farm
Congress in Denver commencing the
organization for it's work
The sweepstakes prize OF $500 for
the best bushel OF wheat displayed al
the Soil Products Exposition was
taken by Saegler Wheeler of Rosthern
Sask
The estate OF A. G. Spalding, who
died at Point Iona, Cal, 1t Is learned
after partial appraisement, will
amount to over 100000 and may
-each twice that
The son OF A. @. Spalding, who died
recently at San Diego, Cal. leaving an
estate valued at $1,000 900 to $1,000
900 has brought suit to have the will
set aside, charging undue influence"
Reopening an old family feud, Mrs
Joseph Kirkpatrick, aged 6S, shot and
killed Dr. A c. Saylor in front of the
grandstand at the Hilsboro, Texas
fair grounds, where William ]. Bryan
had just finished delivering a peace
lecture
Washington
President Wilson will attend the sec
ond game of the worlds series at Phil
adelphia
1t has been decided to hold General
Huerta until a substantial government
has been established in Mexico.
In re the German note on the
Arabic Secretary Lansing announced
that Germany had disayowed the
sinking OF the Arabic and was pre-
pared to pay an indemnity for the
American lives lost,
Secretary Lane reports that twenty
miles of the new Alaskan railroad
have been completed and that pro-
gress is satisfactory.
cable from the Canal Zone says
that further slides will delay the
opening of the canal several days yet
selected Kansas City as the place for
the 1916 encampment.
Secretary Lansing mas announced
his intention of receiving and hearing
the arguments of representatives OF
all the factions originally a part OF
the revolution that overthrow Huerta
IN Mexico