Cheyenne record., 1915-03-25
Foreign

was formally presented to Secretary
Daniels in Washington.
Vera Figner, one of the most widely
known leaders of Russian Socialism,
has been arrested at Ungheni. near
the Rumanian frontier.
Madame Melba, famous prima DON
| ma, at Melbourne, denied the report
published in New York that she would
appear in vaudeville in America.
Four hundred and seventy cases of
| small pox We're reported in Petrograd
during January and February, as com.
pared with LIS for all of last year.
Three hundred of the crew of the
German cruiser Dresden, sunk off
Juan Fernandez island, have been
| transferred to Quiriquina island, in
Telcahuano bay.
The potato crops throughout east
and south Germany have been SER
iously damaged by sudden frost, ac-
cording to messages received in Lon
don from Copenhagen.
The Anchor line steamer Cameronia,
which arrived at Liverpool from New
York March Is with a cargo valued at
| $5,000000 successfully ran the German
submarine blockade.
The military authorities have
caused to be distributed to Italian
soldiers the Identification cards or
badges which are worn customarily
only during an active campaign.
According to the Berlin Tages
| Zeitung, the American ambassador at
Constantinople, Henry Morgenthau,
has, with the permission of the Turk
ish government, left Constantinople
| for the Dardanelles
An American woman, known as
Miss Florida Settle of New York, was
sentenced to a month in prison and
| fined 200 francs for having shot at a
man named Waterman, who, last No
vember, persisted in teasing her dog,
while in France.
Col. E. NJ. House of New York and
Texas reached Berlin from London
and at once went into a long confer
| ence with James w. Gerard, the
American ambassador Col. House will
| be the ambassadors guest while in
| Berlin. Col. House is working in the
interest of possible peace
Sporting News
| The baseball season opens In Rocky
Ford, Colo, Sunday, April 4, when
game will be played with the Nit
chells Of Pueblo.
The vanguard of the 1915 Grizzlies
got into Denver, all smiles, to be back
and eager to start off the training
season with rush.
A bill permitting twenty-round
fights in Nevada upon payment of a
500 license fee is before the COVER
nor. The measure passed both House
and Senate.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt the Norweg-
ian champion, won the women's ma
tional indoor tennis championship at
New York, defeating Miss Marie Wag-
ner, the title holder, GA, Ga.
The Nevada state racing commits
sion announced that the first race
meet under the pari-mutuel system,
legalized by the Legislature, will be
held at Reno following the Denver
meeting ending July 5.
Frank Sites, Los Angeles aviator,
| 80, fell 500 feet in an "air well" at a
motion picture city near there, jumped
from the aeroplane when thirty feet
from the ground and died from his
injuries shortly afterward.
Champions in the various boxing
divisions of the Rocky Mountain
branch of the A. A. U. will get down
to hard work preparing for the
Triangular tournament at the Denver
Athletic Club April and 7.
SprinSing an elventh-hour coup, the
Nevada Legislature passed a gambling
bill just before adjournment, permit
ting the playing of poker, stud poker,
solo, whist, five hundred and a num-
ber of other games, except those op-
Grated under a percentage.
| General
More than $4,000 men took part in
the st. Patrick's day parade in New
York.
The vice president and his party
reached San Francisco to visit the Ex-
position.
The new dreadnought Pennsylva-
MIA was successfully launched at New