Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-03-26
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ABOUT THE WAR

western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
England and France have modified
the blockade order, on protest from
the United States.
Memel, German port on the Bal
tic. was occupied by the Russians, ac-
cording to an official German an
nouncement.
Germans at resorts in the Italian
riviera have been privately notified
by the authorities to leave Italian ter
ritory Immediately.
There are 100000 soldiers buried in
L triangle only few miles in size be-
tween Warsaw and Skierniewice, ac-
cording to correspondent who has
Just completed a trip by automobile
over this portion of the fighting line.
The London foreign office was ad-
vised that Turkish soldiers recently
ran wild in the Urumiah district or
northwestern Persia and killed several
hundred civilians. The Turks are said
to have burned several villages after
looting them.
Two British battleships of the first
class. the Irresistible and the Ocean.
and the French battleship Bouvet and
a torpedo boat destroyer, were sunk
by mines and eight or ten other craft
of the allies badly damaged by mines
and shells in the Dardanelles March
Is, according to statements from the
war offices of London and Paris.
The British casualty list for the five
days from March 10 to March IA, in
elusive. during which the battles of
Neuve, Chapells and st. Eloi were
fought, show that 112 officers we're
killed or died from wounds and that
1893 officers were wounded or are miss
sing. The list of casualties among the
men has not been published but COM
petent critics state them at about two
thirds of those suffered by the Ger
mans, which Field Marshal John
French, the British commander-in-
chief, said were between 1900 and
$4,000.
WESTERN
Mrs. Alice Haldeman of Girard,
Kan, sister of Miss Jane Adams and
one of the few women bankers in the
shitco oIitSo oASu Al SuhSdSo.
Six persons were serious injured,
the others slightly injured and two
story house was wrecked by a terrific
gas explosion at Salt Lake.
A chunk of gold ore weighing 104
pounds and assaying almost so per
cent of yellow metal was taken out OF
the Sugerman mine at Sonora, Cal.
The posse under command of Mar
shal Nebeker, which has been in the
field more than month against the
rebellious Piutes, departed from Bluff,
Utah, Friday.
Rev. VIM. Alfred Tucker, rector of
St Agnes Episcopal church at Miami.
Fla, shot and killed Harriet Delaney,
member of his church, and then com
mitted suicide.
The strike of the coal miners in the
Eastern Kentucky fields came to a
sudden termination when an agree
ment was reached between the miners
and the operators.
Governor Spry of Utah filed with
the secretary of state his veto of the
Wooton statewide prohibition bill
by vote of 40 to in the House and
16 to in the Senate. AS the Legis.
lature has adjourned, the governors
veto of the measure is final.
Judge John ii. Denison In the Dis
trict Court in Denver signed the fin
al decree in the suit for divorce
brought by John III. Bartleson, Den
yer club and society man. Bartleson
claims he divorced his wife, Mrs.
Mary +. Bartleson, so she might wed
Claude L. Griffey of st. Paul.
In a message made public at San
antonio, Texas, in which Carranza an
nounced restoration of the Catholic
church at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, 20
the Catholic congregation, Carranza
says he is planning to turn over all
other Catholic churches to their re-
spective congregations as conditions
warrant.
WASHINGTON
Without formalities, the five mem
bers of the Federal Trade Commits
sion took up their offices.
The Census Bureau reports that the
estimated 1914 production of cotton