The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-04
FOREIGN

President Cartiguenave.
Great Britain has informed Japan
that the British government has not
contemplated an alliance with China
War and the food supply will be the
principal topics considered at the
reicbstag session which convened in
Berlin.
Premier Asquith's daughter. Violet,
and his secretary, Bonham Carter.
were married at st. Margarets, West
minister, in London.
Patrick MacGill, known as the
navy poet" was married in London
to Miss Margaret Gibbons, grand
niece of Cardinal Gibbons of Balti
more
British woman suffrage leaders
hailed as their first important victory
the governments appointment of Miss
PRESLEY Smith, organizer, to a secre.
tarial post in the British Christiania
legation.
Viscount Bryce made public the de-
tails of further Armenian massacres,
which in letter accompanying them,
he says, "surpass in horror, if that
were possible, what has been pub
lished already"
Reports that the Carranza authori-
ties had shot several looters arrested
after their occupation of Mexican
Nogales were confirmed The bodies
of three men, said to have robbed
woman, were visible from the Ameri-
can side.
Peter Wright, an Englishman, was
sentenced by court martial at Lau-
same TO Imprisonment for three
months, expulsion from Switzerland
for five years and to pay fine of
l,5OO francs, on the charge of espi-
onage
Carranza forces again have opened
communications between Guaymas
and Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora
state, and Gen. Dieguez is endeavor-
ing to intercept $500 Villa troops sup
posed to be heading through southern
Sonora in an attempt to join Gen. Ban
dera, the Villa commander in north.
ern Sinaloa.
The Alaska Engineering Commits
to dynamite a path through solid ice
at the mouth of Ship Creek so Capt.
Cramer a veteran navigator, can
take the launch Traveller out TO 20
to the assistance of Fred Tracy, agent
of the Alaska Steamship Company,
and live other men who are trying
to reach Anchorage through the Cook
Inlet ice field in the small launch
Onward
SPORTING NEWS
The annual meeting of the National
League will be held in New York Dec.
IA.
DIR. Roller and Carl Posphin, the
Bohemian champion, wrestled to a
draw in New York.
Harry Lub defeated Kid Gonzalas in
the main event of a six-round go at
the Knights of Columbus hall in Den
YER
Terms for a fifteen-round bout be-
tween Freddy Welsh and Johnny Grif-
fiths to take place in Akron, Ohio,
Dec. 81, have been completed.
Colonel Maitland of the royal naval
air service, jumped with parachute
at London from an aeroplane which
was 10000 feet in the air He landed
safely.
Out of 5000 college, academy and
high school students who participated
in football contests in Oklahoma dur.
ing the 1915 season, one man was
killed and twenty-one slightly injured.
The curtailed racing season Just
ended in England is regarded as sat
isfactory, even from the point of view
of the racing men. The figures for
attendance at Newmarket show that
at the ordinary meetings there was
an increase of visitors, while all the
extra fixtures We're well patronized.
GENERAL
A lock Of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair,
obtained while he was at st. Helena.
was bought by George d. Smith for
$107.50 at the John e. Burton library
sale in the Anderson galleries in New
York.
Business Improvement, wholly aside
from that attributable to the Panama
Pacific and Panama California exposi-
tions. was reported from all portions
of the Pacific slope, and the far North
west.
Work on dirigible balloon for the
navy will begin at the navy yard
at Portsmouth, N. H., on December
15. The airship will be It's feet long
and so feet in diameter. 1t will cost
$4,000.
Physicians held out little hope for
the recovery of Col. William p. Hep
burn, 50, former congressman repre-
senting the Eighth Iowa district. now