Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-08
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Governor Williams of Oklahoma
says no outside aid is needed at Ard
more,
Petrograd reports indicate that the
German thrust against the Slavs has
been checked.
II seems to be generally accepted
conclusion that Bulgaria will enter the
war Oct. Is.
Samuel F Ferguson. called "the
father of the Imperial valley" was
buried in San Francisco.
The German war office announces
in an official bulletin that the allies
have taken hill No. 191.
British forces now in France, mum.
bering about a round million, will be
augmented by half million more.
London reports tell of gains at the
Dardanelles and claim a sweeping vic
tory for British arms in Mesopotamia.
General Kuropatkin, the Russian
commander in the Japanese war, will
take the field with the Russian army
as chief of the grenadier corps.
Paris claims considerable gains in
the Champagne region, which enable
the French to make a direct attack
on the German lines of communica-
tion.
The British treasury has received
697 claims for personal injuries in the
German east coast aerial raids previ-
Gus to June L. and 10,297 claims for
property damages.
London advises that the Kaiser has
admitted the allies have gained to the
north OF Mesnil, to the north of Mas
siges and along the road from Vile
sur-Tourbe to Cernay y-en-Dormois.
The British and French inaugur-
ated their offensive movement
against the Germans on the west
front by terrific bombardment, one
of the most important actions having
taken place at Champagne
WESTERN
slight earthquake shock was felt
by several cities on the coast No
damage. ..
Harry Stamas and Mike Koukos.
Greeks, were killed in fall of rock
In the Walsen mine at Walsenburg,
Colo.
The sweepstakes prize of 5000 for
the best bushel of wheat displayed at
the Soil Products Exposition was
taken by Saegler Wheeler Of Rosthern.
Sask.
DIR. Albert Abrams of San Francis
CO announced that he had devised ap-
paratus which had already determined
at long distance the nature of certain
diseases.
The estate OF A. C. Spalding, who
died at Point Iona, Cal, it is learned
after partial appraisement, will
amount to over s1,O0O,0OO and may
reach twice that.
An enthusiastic good roads meeting
was held at Douglas, Wyo., with a
prime object OF developing a perma-
nent automobile highway from Denver
to Yellowstone Park via Cody.
J. W. Jones, foreman of a C. F. & /.
wire mill at Pueblo. was shot in the
back and has slim chance for re-
covery. The shot was fired at night
through a window of Jones home.
Cecil II. Shields, private stationed
at Fort Logan, died in the hospital
on the reservation from injuries sus-
tanned when he collided with the auto
mobile driven by the wife of Lieut.. A.
NJ Graham. Young Shields was rid
ing bicycle.
Eighteen California and Oregon
lawyers have been arrested. charged
with fraudulently inducing persons to
file on alternate sections of land along
the line of the Southern Pacific rail.
road from the southern state line of
Oregon to Eugene.
The Colorado Supreme Court an
nounced it would take original iuris-
diction in the suit brought by state
officers to test the validity of the
wet" amendment to the Denver city
charter. The high court issued a writ
OF certiorari calling upon the city and
state to submit the law in the case.
WASHINGTON
Unconditional recall of DIR. Dumba.
Austrian ambassador, was announced
at the State Department. Safe CON
duct will be provided him.
The Navy Department is consider
ing bids just received for sixteen new
submarines, five seagoing cruisers
and eleven of the coast defense type
\ cable from the Canal Zone says
that further slides viii delay the
opening OF the canal several days vet.
selected Kansas City as the place for
the 1916 encampmeut
Ambassador Morgenthau at Con
stantinople has been instructed to as
certain if nny OF the reported victims
oF tho Turkish outrages against Ar