Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-25
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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
The British steamship Ailsa, of
Leith, was sunk.
Before Lemberg the Russians have
been driven back on their last line of
defenses.
Lieut.. Reginald A. J. Warneford.
who gained fame recently by blowing
to pieces a Zeppelin over Belgium,
was killed by the fall of an aeroplane
at Buc, France.
The town of Tarnogrod, just inside
Russian territory to the north of Sien-
lava, and the heights of Krezow to
the northeast of Tarnogrod, are occu-
pied by the troops of the Teutonic al
lies.
Official announcement was made In
Berlin that an allied force which at
tackled German positions north of La
Bassee, northwestern France, was de-
stroyed, only few succeeding in re-
treating
dispatch to the Berlin Lokal
Anzeiger from Karlsruhe says that the
number of victims in the recent allied.
air raid on that city has been in
creased to twenty-five dead and seven
ty-three persons injured.
Red Cross figures say the total
killed in the European conflict up to
March l of this year was 2,146,000;
seriously wounded. 1,150,oOO; slightly
wounded, 3,s71,0OO; prisoners, 1,764.-
900. making a total of 1881, 900 put
out of combat.
The Austro-Hungarian troops are
employing dynamite in the Alpine
passes, blowing up rocks and loosen
ing avalanches on the advancing Ber-
saglieri. The heights dominating Cap
oretto on the Isonzi front have been
occupied by the invading Italians.
Peril of American settlers in the
Yaqui valley of Sonora state brought
orders Thursday for the dispatch of
three cruisers for the west coast of
Mexico and authorization of Admiral
Thomas b. Howard to land an ex-
peditionary force, II he thinks best
The prisoners taken by the German
and Austro-Hungarian armies up to
June IA, totalled 100000, according
to the Bavarian Stats Zeitung. The
newspaper says this is divided as fol-
lows: Russians, 1,24O,000; French,
255,OOO: English, $4,000; Belgian, A.
900; Serbian. $4,000.
WESTERN
A mild earth tremor was felt at Los
Angeles, Friday.
Kansas, with its boundless wheat
crop, has sent out call for $4,000
harvest hands.
Baseball as an insanity cure is to
be tried out at the state hospital at
San Bernardino, Cal.
Thomas ]. Jarvis. once minister to
Brazil and former member of the
United States Senate, died at his
home at Greenyille, N. C., aged seven.
ty-nine years.
Reports from storm swept sections
of the Southwest continued to reach
Kansas City, bringing news of nine
teen deaths and further property
damage that will reach S250,0O0
Normal service on Chicago elevated
and surface car lines was resumed
after an all night session of railway
and labor representatives and coun.
Gil committee headed by Mayor
Thompson haG agreed on arbitration
Roy Montgomery. mayor of Gillette
Wyo., started for the federal peni
tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, to be
gin serving n two and one-half-year
term, as result of his conviction
eighteen months ago on a charge oI
violating the Mann white slave act.
WASHINGTON
Plans for the leasing of oil lands of
the Usage Indians in Oklahoma. worth
millions of dollars, were agreed upon
by the tribal council of the Usage ma
tion and approved by Secretary Lane
of the Interior Department.
The establishment of a military
training school in Colorado and eacl
of the other forty-seven states will be
strongly urged upon Congress at tn,
coming session as practical move
toward military preparedness.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion announced hearings to begin il
Chicago, July 10, and run for at leas
two weeks on one phase of the pro
posed general increase in freight rates
throughout Western territory.
President Wilson called at the hom,
of former Secretary Bryan to bid good
by to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan before the!
departed for a Southern trip.
Gen. Carranza has declined for tn,
present at least to accept overture
for peace in Mexico by the Villa
Zapata faction. Three such Offer
have gone unanswered.
The Supreme Court decided the vir
ginia.West Virginia debt case. |
hold that West Virginia should M,