The Colorado statesman., 1915-10-09
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


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.
1t seems to be generally accepted
conclusion that Bulgaria will enter the
war Oct. 10.
The German war office announces
in an official bulletin that the allies
have taken hill No. 1911.
British forces now in France, mum.
bering about round million, will be
augmented by half million more.
The Germans claim to have taken
10000 men and siXty-one machine
guns in the battles on the west front.
General KuropatIin, the Russian
commander in the Japanese war, will
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 new offensive, of this
number 100000 being French and co.
600 British.
4 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 bombardment of
hospital by the Austrians and Ger
mans.
Field Marshal Won Mackenzen, with
250,00O troops withdrawn from the
Russian front, has arrived at the Ser
bian frontier and will direct the Aus
roGerman 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 Matn, affrms
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
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 commenting the
organization for its work.
The. sweepstakes prize of $500 for
the best bushel of wheat displayed at
the Soil Products Exposition was
taken by Saegler Wheeler of Rosthern,
Sask.
The estate of A. G. Spalding, who
died at Point Iona, Cal, it is learned
after partial appraisement, will
amount to over s1.oOO,OOO and may
reach twice that.
The son of A. G. Spalding, who died
recently at San Diego, Cal, leaving an
estate valued at $1,OOO,OOO to $4,000
900 has brought suit to have the will
set aside, charging undue influence"
Reopening an old family feud, Mrs.
Joseph Kirkpatrick, aged GS, shot and
killed DR. A. c. Saylor in front of the
grandstand at the Hillsboro, 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 substantial government
has been established in Mexico.
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"
Secretary Lane reports that twenty
miles of the new Alaskan railroad
have been completed and that pro.
gress is satisfactory.
A 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 has announced
his intention of receiving and hearing
the arguments of representatives of