The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-10-23
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 -.w. service.

hood of Florence are to be used as
hospitals.
The Turkish ministry of war places
the total of men under arms at pres
ent at 1,322,000.
The Austrian barracks at Rovereto,
a town in Tyrol with about 10000
Italian inhabitants, was blown up.
Italy has given her adhesion to the
agreement already signed by the al
lied powers not to conclude separate
peace.
The Austrian emperor's proclama-
ton to his people recalling the vic
tories over Italy, has further inflamed
Italian feeling.
Kaiser Wilhelm has called for 2,OOO,-
600 volunteer troops as result OF
Italy's declaration of war against
Austria according to Berlin dis
patches.
All the most valuable works of art
from the cities of northern Italy al
ready have been taken to Florence in
anticipation of possible bombardments
by the Austrians.
The Austrian fleet, accompanied by
an aeroplane squadron, has bombarded
the entire Adriatic coast of Italy. from
Venice to Barletta. $50 miles apart,
according to an official announcement
by the war office at Rome.
A dispatch from Paris to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company says a
telegram from Basel states that the
Wolff agency announces Germany has
declared war against Italy and re-
called Prince Won Buelow, her ambas-
sador at Rome.
A Stefani dispatch from Rome says:
From May IS a state of war is de-
clared in the provinces of Sondriow.
Brescia. Verona, NicenZa, Belluno.
udine. Venezia. Treviso. Padua. Man
tua and Ferrara and the islands and
communes on the Adriatic coast, as
well as in all fortresses which may be
declared in a state of resistance. This
proclamation is made by order of the
ministers OF war and marine"
Western
The ninth annual conference OF the
National Tax Association will be held
at San Francisco, Aug. 10 to u.
Iassen's peak brbbled over again
Friday and sent a river OF mud cas-
cading down the mountain side near
Redding, Cal.
Announcement is made by the peo-
pie of eastern Arizona that they will
celebrate the completion of the Mascot
a Western railroad some time in June.
One hundred and thirty-six million
bushels OF wheat is the estimate of
Secretary Mohler of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture for the 1915 crop.
Only the 1914 monster yield OF $780,
0oo.O 900 bushels surpasses the present
outlook
Five OF the .Anen convicted in the
dynamite conspiracy cases at Indian
apolis were among the 1855 prisoners
who applied for release from the
United States penitentiary when the
Federal Pardon Board convened at
Leavenworth. Kan.
The torrent of mud and volcanic
substance from the crater of Lassen
peak was diverted in its ruinous rush
into old lava fields, and the lower part
of the fertile Hat Creek valley, in Cal
ifornia. was temporarily saved from
the threatening flood.
Federal officers of Rupert. Idaho, ar
rested Edward Trafton of Denver on
warrant charging him with having
held up and robbed fifteen stage
coaches in the Yellowstone National
Park, July %. 1914. The Yellowstone
robberies were among the most spec
tacular ever committed in the West
The robber obtained $4,000 from the
passengers.
Washington
Several popular demonstrations be-
cause OF the food shortage have oc-
CURED in the Mexican capital within
the last few days.
President Wilson. speaking at the
opening of the Pan-American Finan-
cial Conference, expressed the hope
that the Americans might show the
world the path to peace.
Ambassador Gerard at Berlin cabled
the State Department that reports to
the effect that members of the Ameri-
can embassy staff are advising Ameri-
cans to leave Germany at once are
without foundation.
Secretary McAdoo was being con
graduated over the birth OF a daughter
ard also over his first appearance at
his office in the Treasury Department
since he was operated on for appen-
dicitis about two months ago.
The Mexico City famine is growing
worse rapidly, according to State De-
partment advices. Eight thousand
persons. far more than could be sup
piled, gathered when the authorities
began distributing corn, 1t was stated,
and In the struggle which ensued $50
Es'nted