Tombstone epitaph., 1915-10-17
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 About the War
 Governor Williams of Oklahoma says no outside aid is needed at Ard, more.
 Petrograd reports indicate that the German thrust against the Slavs has been checked.
 It seems to be a generally accepted conclusion that Bulgaria will enter the war Oct. Is.
 Berlin claims the allies lost l9O,0OO Killed. wounded and prisoners in the first week of the new offensive, of this number 1S0.o00 being French and O. 900 British.
 A Petrograd dispatch to Reuters Telegram Company says that the Rus sian Red Cross society has published list of forty-six Sisters of Mercy who perished in the bo1bardment of . hospital by the Austrians and Ger mans.
 Field Marshal von Mackenzen, with z5O.000 troops withdrawn from the Russian front. has arrived at the Ser bian frontier and will direct the Aus tro-German march on Constantinople. according to the newspaper Epocha of Bucharest.
 German forces have begun the in vasion of Serbia, 40O,0OO men having been sent across the Danube. the Save and the Drina rivers in an attempt to crush the Serbs and cut their way through the kingdom and effect a juncture with Bulgaria.
 Renewed fighting of great severity in the Champagne was reported in the announcement from army headquar- ters in Berlin. Six massed infantry attacks by the French northwest of Souain were broken down. the war office states, with very heavy losses to the attackers.
 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, thas Germany and her allies defea: 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 go. away with 5000.
 The government will open 100 farms for filing October 18th in the Shon- shone reservation in northwestern Wyoming.
 Sacramento. San Jose. Reno. Boise and Salt Lake City reported slight earthquake shocks Saturday night
 It is reported that it is possible that the 800 indictments against former strikers and labor leaders in Cobra do may be quashed.
 A letter from President Wilson was read at the international Dry Farm Congress in Denver commenting the organization for its work
 The entire Arizona militia, compris-
 
 placed in readiness by Governor Hunt so that they can proceed to Clifton at a moments notice.
 The son of A. G. Spalding. who died recently at San Diego. Cal. leaving an estate valued at $1.000,000 to s2,000.- O00 has brought suit to have the will set aside, charging undue influence" The application of the attorneys of John R. Lawson for bond was granted by the Colorado Supreme Court The sum fixed was $35.000. Lawson has been in jail at Trinidad under sent ence of life imprisonment.
 Washington
 Recognition of the Carranza govern ment in Mexico, it was learned in of ficial circles, is likely to be accorded by the United States within the next few weeks.
 The governments October crop re- port estimates the wheat production of the United States for this year at more than 100000, 900 bushels, the largest crop ever raised by any na- tion for one year.
 In re the German note on the Arabic, Secretary Lansing announced that Germany had disavowed the sinking of the Arabic and was pre- pared to pay an indemnity for the American lives lost"
 It has been decided to hold General Huerta until a substantial government has been established in Mexico.
 The engagement of President Wood row Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait has been announced. Though the date of the wedding has not been set. il will probably be early in December. superintendents of the New York assay office and the San Francisco mint were authorized today to issue checks to the depositors for s9 per cent of the value of foreign gold coin deposited with them.