The Ordway new era., 1915-09-10
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY. OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

ana missing.
Four Turkish transports have been
to-pedoed by British submarines. An
nouncemcnt to this effect was made
officially at Paris.
Two Mexican bandits were shot to
death near Kathryn, Tex. They had
been arrested by . posse and were
trying to escape.
The Russian fortress OF Lutsk has
been captured by Teutonic forces. 1t
was officially announced by the Aus
trian war office.
The British steamer Sir William
Stephenson Of 1.540 tons. has been
sunk by a German submarine, accord
ing to London reports. VOL.
A telegram from Maasbode says al
lied aviators destroyed . large build
ing at Ghent, Belgium, used by the
Germans for housing air craft.
German forces attacking the Rms
sian fortress Of Grodno have taken
two OF the outer forts Of the strong.
hold. 1t was officially announced by
German army headquarters at Berlin.
Fighting continues in the Kane
runs. the German colony in Western
Africa which the British and French
have been attempting since the early
part Of the war to wrest from the
Germans.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company says 1t is
reported that Admiral Won Tirpitz, the
German minister of marine. will re-
.,i~ ,,,itI hy Il ira
Won Posi-, now chief of the admiralty
staff and commander of the German
battle fleet.
The British employed 10000 men
In their attacks on Turkish positions
Oh Gallipoli peninsula, according to
dispatch from Constantinople to the
Berlin Frankfurter Zeitung. and their
losses were extremely heavy. The
correspondent estimates that since
Aug. 6Hhe British losses have been
in excess OF $4,000.
More than 100000 Russians have
been taken prisoners by the Germans
since the campaign in Galicia began
on May 2, German army headquarters
anpounced. Captures of Russians dur
ing the month of August totalled 1000
officers and 2G9,S39 men. while $500
cannon and $50 machine guns were
taken.
WESTERN
Several farmhouses are reported to
have been destroyed by newly dis
covered fire in the Malhour forest in
the central part Of Oregon.
The project of harnessing the gi-
santic power of the Colorado river In
the vast depths of the Grand canon of
Arizona is now to be reality.
From Sioux Falls, S. D.. to Denver
is the route OF q proposed new rail
road. which Tore Teigen, an attorney
from the South Dakota city, Is pro-
noting.
A law passed by the last California
Legislature requiring the labelling OF
imported eggs was declared unconsti-
tutional In the Superior Court at San
Francisco.
Suffragist leaders In Illinois will
seek final ruling In the courts on the
right of Illinois women to vote for ma
tional delegates az well as presiden-
tial electors.
The Utah highway commission has
let . contract for concrete highway
between Salt Lake City and Murray,
the cost Of which will be $234,O00, ac-
cording to Walter b. E;cock
John 8. Mosby, Jr., Of Washington,
D. c., well known in Denver and Colo
rado, as Jack Mosby, former law.
yer. newspaperman and educator, died
at the Emergency hospital, Washing
ton. aged 81.
WASHINGTON
To date 425.0O0 horses and mules
have been shipped out of the United
States for the European belligerents.
The Department of Justice Is max.
ing thorough investigation OF charges
against several officers of the Colo.
RADIO National Guard involving mis-.
appropriation of government funds
and the disappearance of government
property during and prior to the strike
in the southern Colorado coal fields
Serious weaknesses common to all
four Of the nayy's IF" type of sub
marines are pointed out in the report
OF the board of inquiry which made
an investigation at Honolulu immedi-
ately after the loss of the F.4 with
her crew of twenty-five last March
The United States treasury is in ex
cellent condition, and there is no pres
ent prospect that the administration
VIII issue bonds or short-term notes
to fill its Golfers, according to state
ment by Secretary McAdoo on his re
l turn to Washington from a months
vacation in Maine.