The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-04-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM. ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o DIN G 3, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union New. service
ABOUT THE WAR }

ABOUT THE WAR
The battle of the Carpathian passes
now rivals the bombardment of the
Dardenelles in political possibilities.
Belgrade has again been bombarded
by Austrian guns, while Austrian air
men have dropped bombs ON Cettinje.
the Montenegrin capital.
A German protest and threat of re-
prisals on account of the treatment by
Great Britain of the prisoners taken
on board German submarines was
made public at London.
The British losses already reported
for the week ending March 81 were
five steamers. sixth vessel was
torpedoed, but reached port. During
the week, however, 1863 vessels en-
tered and sailed from British ports.
Preceding the reoccupation by the
Russians of Salmac plains in Aver
baijan province, northwest of Uru-
miah, hundreds of native Christians
were rounded up by the Turks in the
village of Haftdewan and massacred
Eleven thousand German dead have
been taken from the trenches won by
The French during twenty days fighting
In the Champagne country. The Ger
man losses in killed, prisoners and
wounded is estimated by the French
military authorities as $4,000.
Austrian losses in Lyutta valley and
the province of Bereg northeast Hun
gary) ON March 2S, are estimated at
$4,000. according to dispatches re-
,ceived by Swiss newspapers. These
advices state that column Of 1900
Austrians was annihilated in less than
an hour during a desperate action in
Bereg province, six miles north of
Verceske.
The Germans have added two more
steamers to the long list of merchant
men sunk off Beachy Head. The vic
tins this time were the French
steamer Emma. which was torpedoed
without notice. nineteen of her crew
going down with their ship. and the
British steamer Seven Seas, sent to
the bottom without warning. seven of
her crew being drowned.
WESTERN
Six desperate men In the North Da-
kota penitentiary at Bismarck sawed
their way through bars and escaped
j. c. Clancy. chauffeur, and Hardy
White, an electrician, were shot from
ambush near a roadside inn fourteen
miles west OF Ell Paso. Texas.
David Starkey, according to Sheriff
Davis. has confessed that he started
ha ti
and burned his wife and baby to death
at Ottawa, Ill.
Many of the postoffices of Wyoming
and Colorado have been given warn
ing to watch out for postal money or
ders stolen from the Station A Of
flee in Portland. Ore last February.
Cole Younger. last of the group of
bandits who terrorized Missouri short
ly after the Civil war. is dying at his
home at Lees Summit. Mo. Deep feel
ing over the death of Frank James is
believed to be Fastening the death OF
Younger.
Twenty-Five stockyards, packing
houses and commission men from the
Denver Union Stockyards are plan
ming to go to Douglas. Wyo., to attend
lhe convention of the Wyoming Stock
Growers Association in that city April
Is and 16.
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., In a tele-
gram to the Colorado state commit
tee on unemployment and relief. an
nounced that the Rockefeller founda-
tion stood ready to contribute $780,
900 to relieve distress among the
workers in Colorado. particularly in
the mining districts.
WASHINGTON
Louisiana's sugar crop for the sea-
son just closed totaled 242,00O tons,
OF about 10000 less than in 1913.
President Wilson will deliver the
principal memorial address at the
Grand Army exercises in Arlington
cemetery May 80.
Practical eradication of the live
stock foot and mouth disease in the
United States was announced by the
Department of Agriculture.
The fight for nationwide prohibit
ton will be renewed with greater
yigor than ever at the next session
of Congress, Senator Sheppard OF
Texas announced.
Interests concerned in the Midwest
Oil Company case are preparing to ask
the Supreme Court to reconsider its
recent decision upholding the validity
of President Taft's withdrawal of
large sections of public oil lands in
1,I;forpia and wyoming
Dispatches to the State Department
said that the revolution which broke
out in Paraguay recently was still
under way. Sixty persons were under