The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-04-01
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D 20 N G 3, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

teries at the Dardanelles.
message from Bucharest says
The fall of Przemysl has caused IA
sensation in Bucharest, and resulted
in increased popular clamor that Ru-
mania enter the war on the side of
the allies"
A British air fleet, flying inland
from the coast above Antwerp, routed
two Zeppelins and five Taubes in
battle in mid-air following an attack
on the German submarine base at
Hohoken. in which one submarine was
sunk and another badly damaged by
bombs.
The size of the garrison at
Przemysi and the number of men
who surrendered to the Russians
greatly exceed all estimates. Accord
ing to Tuesdays dispatches received
from Petrograd the garrison original
ly consisted of 10000 men, of whom
10000 were killed.
Efforts of Prince Won Buelow, the
German ambassador, to bring about an
agreement between the Italian and
Austrian governments regarding the
cession OF territory have definitely
failed, according to the Agenzia Ma
tionale in Rome. 1t is reported that
Prince Won Buelow has resigned the
role of mediator.
The admiralty has good reason to
believe the German submarine U-29
has been sunk with all hands, says
London report. 1t was this vessel
which week ago torpedoed six
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the Scilly islands within two days.
This news. published following as it
did reports that the attack on the
Dardanelles had been resumed and
that the Russians had won important
victories over the Austrians in
Bukowina and at Uzsok pass in the
Carpathians. gave the peoples of the
allied countries cause for cheerful
ness.
WESTERN
Three hundred striking longshore-
men, trike-breakers and sympathizers
engaged in a riot on the principal
business streets at Tamoca. Wash.
With the thermometer as law as %
degrees. fruit growers say the Harri-
son county. Tex, fruit crop is ruined
and the yield in the main Texas belt
this year will be way below normal.
The Sells-Floto circus with Buffalo
Bill was to show In San Francisco
from May to May IL. The board of
supervisors OF the Panama Pacific ex-
position. however. voted 10 to to ex-
clude the circus.
Lowell A. Young, formerly of Den
yer, was fined 500 in Judge Prindi-
ville's court in Chicago on the tech
nical charge of assault and battery,
which in this case means taking i'm
proper liberties with young women.
Following the death of Miss Amy
Tanner. aged 23. at Alliance, Ohio, p.
A. George, high priest, and ten other
members of the new love" religious
cult were arrested, charged with COM
plicity in the girls death. Five of
those arrested are women.
Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, guest of honor
at banquet of the Bonneville club
at Salt Lake, paid high tribute to
what he termed the primitive virtues
of the Indian and besought fair treat
ment OF the four Piutes he brought
from San Juan county to Salt Lake
City.
Matthew Bradley. twenty-years old.
son of Mrs. Anna Bradley, who shot
and killed former United States Sen
ator Arthur Brown of Utah at Wash
ington, ID. c., in 1906. died at Price,
Utah, of knife wounds inflicted in
quarrel by Arthur Brown Bradley. his
half brother, fifteen years old. who is
a son of the former senator.
WASHINGTON
The tidewater terminal of the gov
ernment's Alaska railroad will be at
Seward. present terminal of the Alas
kan Northern railroad.
Denver's population is officially
placed at 253,163, as against 245.52S a
year ago, in figures given out by the
United States census director This
is net gain of 39.1S2 persons since
19l0-a gain approximating is per
cent. The population of Colorado is
placed at 9S4.274, as against 909, 537
in 1914. and 799,O24 in 1910--a gain
OF approximately "a per cent.
Chairman Simmons of the Senate
finance committee took issue with
prophecies of a large treasury deficit
in statement saving his investiga.
tions at the treasury have convinced
him the deficit will not exceed s26.-
100000.
Secretary Bryan revealed that in
the original report of the murder of
John b. McManus, an American citi
zen in Mexico City. by Zapata troops.
the Brazilian minister had notified the
State Department also that the Amer
lean flag was torn from the house
and partially destroyed.