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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-12-25
ZION SENIOR RESTORATION HOST

|. Mrs. Carrie E. Peck
2. Mrs Margaret McDuffie
5. Mrs w. ]. Barton
4. Mrs M. J. Mintern
5. Miss Laura Falk
6. Mrs Hattie Barton
7. Arthur Mole
8. Herbert Mole
9. Frank Mole
TO- Clement Mole
COMPANY C-Deacon Joseph H. Paxton:
COMPANY E-Deacon L. A. Hill:
L. Mrs ]. Maltby
2. Mrs. Mary Studebaker
3. Mrs. Blanche Gellinger
f. Mrs. Addaline Brownbridge
5. Mrs. Amelia Miller
6. Miss Olive McNeal
7. Mrs. May P. Lewis
8. Mrs. Mary Neave
9. Mrs. Ida Neal
10. Lansom Neal
COMPANY deacon A. w. Mabbett:
l. Mrs. Margaret Flanagan
2. Mrs. Jennie Mill
8. Mrs Mary Scharff
f. Miss Alta Mckinley
5. Mrs S. H. Brown
6. Mrs. Marietta Baker
7. Mrs Ida Uhlik
s. Miss Nora Turner
9. Miss Edith Allis
10. Mrs Hansina Stocker
COMPANY c.
Deacon Thomas III. Ferguson:
|. Miss Elizabeth Wood
2. Miss Charlotte Evans
5. Miss Mamie Owens
4. Mrs. Elizabeth Lush
5. Mrs. Blanche Hammond
6. Mrs. Marion Moulton
Z. Mrs. Harriet c. Corder
8. Miss Florence Corder
9. Mrs. Alice Tippin
10. Mrs. Martha Boil
VISION NOS
In Charge Deacon w. E. schmalfuss
COMPANY A
Deacon Andrew Gellinger:
|. Mrs. Fannie Gillespie
z. Mrs. Sarah Dahlman
g. Mrs. Arvilla Hall
f. Mrs. Ella Nelson
5. Mrs. L. Paxton
6. Miss Janet Malcolm
7. Gunder Casperson
8. Mrs Hanna Casperson
9. James Paulger
10. Mrs. Catherine Paulger
COMPANY B-Deacon E. J. Hammer:
l. Mrs. Bertha M. Myhre
2. John Myhre
3. Mr.. A. G. McCulloch
4. Mrs. F. H. McCulloch
5. D. Arthur Biddle
6. w. Homer Taylor
7. Mrs. Mary L. Taylor
8. Mrs. Melvina Quint
9. Mrs. Pamela Shelley
10. Mrs. Florence McCulloch
COMPANY &c. A. Foster:
l. w. D. Ray
2. E. w. Croft
3. Mr.. August Swanson
4. Mrs. August Swanson
S. Miss Florence Hansen
COMPANY D-Deacon N. T. Kesler:
|. Don Kesler
2. Howard Bishop
5. Samuel Farrar
4. John McElroy
5. Harold Lee
6. Leonard Bishop
7. Herbert Phil
g. Paul Short
9. James Leech
10. Ivan Beall Y
II. Simon Burkey
IL. Charles Davis
Is. Paul Kesler
II. Albert Noren
CHOIR SION NO.
In Charge-Deacon John d. Thomas
COMPANY A-Deacon G. A. Bruno:
1. Miss Goldie Mapes
2. Miss Carrie Greer
5. Miss Martha Ruchti
4. Miss Erma Reynolds
5. Miss Harriet Underwood
6. Mrs. Carrie Miller
7. Clarence NJ Berger
8. Henry E. Kratz
9. VIM. E. Colwell
10. Ralph Scharff
COMPANY Beacon Luke Ball:
l. Miss Ethel Nicholson
2. Mrs. ]. G. Nicholson
3. Miss Rila Mapes
4. Mrs. S. G. Farrar
5. Miss Maud Mckinley
6. Mrs. Harold Clough
7. William v Ba1legooyen
8. Mrs. William V. Ballegooyen
9. Alvin Marshall
10. Harold Zweizig
NnNrn A 1rx7 ~ mr. -,
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5. Mrs Annie Sluttz
o. Mrs. Letitia d. Pugh
]. Mrs M. G. Mehaffey
8. Mrs. L. w. Mein
9. John Mason
10. ]. B. Kendall
COMPANY C-Deacon A. E. Sach:
l. Miss Maggie Vollmann
2. Mrs. Henrietta Christensen
3. Mrs. E. D. H. Arndt
4. Mrs Minerva Sutton
5. Mrs. Frances |. Brison
6. Mrs. Maggie NJ Robinson
I. Ole Tolefson
s. NJ Ellison
9. A. w. Robbins
10. O. V. Hanon
COMPANY D-Deacon G. w. wedehnd
l. Miss Flora Brink
2. Mrs. D. NJ Kresge
3. Mrs. Sarah F. Leitch
4. Mrs. Mary B. Owen
5. Mrs. J. w. Baughman
6. Mrs. G. w. Wedekind
7. w. A. Ingold
8. ]. w. Howder
9. Alvin C.. Bark
10. Fred C. Davis
COMPANY E-Deacon Theodore Forby:
1. Miss Nina Stark
2. Miss Ida r. Emanueson
3. Mrs Christina R. Reid
4. Miss Kate R. Reid
5. Mrs. A. Hammer
6. Mrs. L. B. Crum
7. Lewis Erickson
8. c. L. Hendricks
9. Hugh Mill
TO- w. B. Mccormack
COMPANY deacon I. e. Mill:
1. Miss Nancy Orr
2. Miss Anna Bark
g. Miss F. ]. Dean
4. Mrs. Martha S. Holngsworth
S. Miss Katherine Johns
g. Mrs. Caroline Johns
7. c. A. Suite
s. D. E. Moughmer
9. S. w. Osburn ;
10. A. J. Turner
COMPANY G-Deacon james Brister:
1. Mrs. Leona Bruno
2. Mrs. Ada R. Kesler
3. Mrs. Edna Schleter
T. Mrs. Henrietta Stow
S. Miss Julia E. Jackson
6. Miss Mary Mories
I. ]. c. Dean
8. o. F. Peterson
9. Thomas c. Barclay
TO- Benjamin J. MCGEE
DIVISION NO.
In Charge Deacon H. G. Peterson
COMPANY A
Deacon Benjamin Sweeney
l. Mrs Andrew Hall
g. Mrs. VIM. Bennewate
3. Mrs. Johanna Cramer
4. Mrs. D. E. Moughmer
5. Miss Bernice Brady
6. Miss Gertrude Steffen
7. Mrs. E. G.. Nelson
s. E. c. Nelson
9. Dustin Thorpe
10. George Beall
COMPANY B-Deacon Gustave Schewe:
l. Mrs Lena Becker
2. Mrs Frank Robinson
3. Mrs Catherine Caldwell
a. Mrs Jane A. Robson
S. Mrs T. K. Schuesser
g. Mrs C. Schewe
7. Mrs w. o. Ruby
8. w. w. KuDy
9. ]. w. Baughman
10. c. w. Brockway
COMPANY c.
Deacon Jacob Gamerdinger:
|. Mrs. Jane Butler
2. Mrs. E. McClaskey
3. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
4. Mrs. Nellie Reed
S. Miss Bertha Read
6. Mrs Anna Stockstill
7. John Betz
8. L. P. Stow
9. w. B. Brown
10. H. G. Reed
COMPANY deacon A. J. Paul:
/. Mrs. Ida Paul
2. Mrs M. A. Boyd
3. Mrs NJ E. Bush
T. Mrs William Johnson
S. Mrs. Matte Howell
6. Mrs. Martha Howder
7. Denver Cook
8. George Wise
9. Joseph Brownell
10. John c. Just
COMPANY E-Deacon Robert Stewart:
1. Miss Barbara Barta
q. Mrs. Nancy Baker
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-12-25

COMPANY D-Deacon Samuel Schad
l. Mrs L. A. Zweizig
2. Mrs A. c. Anderson
3. Miss Elizabeth Harshman
4. Miss Ethel Allen
5. Mrs Mamie Patmor
6. Mrs. J. B. Kendall
7. Miss Edna Mckinley
8. Miss Clara Lawrence
9. Mrs. H. w. Potter
10. H. w. Potter
COMPANY E-Mr. E. r. Congdon:
l. Mrs Mabel Kyrk
2. Miss Lucy Orr
8. Miss Clara Jackson
4. Miss Mary Basinger
5. Miss Della Woelke
6. Miss Jane Turner
7. Thos. Hollingshead
s. Harold Billiard
9. Miss Olah Osburn
TO- Mrs. J. H. Jackson
COMPANY F.
Deacon w. H. valkenaar:
l. Miss Mathilda Peterson
2. Miss Martha Foster
3. Mrs. E. A. Foster
f. Mrs O. l.. Tindall
S. Mrs Mary Werner
O. Miss Elsie Daymude
7. Mrs. A. Marshall
s. Mrs Florence Zediker
9. George NJ Gallagher
TO- Thos. M. Gallagher
COMPANY G-Mr. Percy Robinson:
l. Miss Bertha Potter
2. Miss Violet Hough
3. Mrs. E. c. Mischief
4. Miss Ethel Howell
5. Benjamin Mccormack
6. Mrs. Benjamin Mccormack
7. Miss Athol Myhre
8. Miss Twila BEEN
9. Thomas Parry
| 10. Bert Peterson
| CHOIR DIvIsION NO.
In Charge -Deacon Otis scripter
COMPANY A-Deacon Glen w. Carsley:
|. Miss Lucille Martin
2. Miss Verlinda Anderson
3. Miss Eva Baker
4. Miss Virginia Umbarger
5. Miss Maud Buchanan
6. Miss Ruth Boal
7. Miss Mabel Bereiter
8. Miss Muriel Bagg
9. R. w. Burgess
10. w. E. Neave
COMPANY B-Deacon A. E. Johnson:
l.. Miss Grace Kendall
2. Miss Beulah Springer
3. Miss Hattie Greer
A. Miss Jennie Swanson
S. Miss Clara Brooks
g. Miss Esther Swanson
7. David Norton
g. William Schmalfuss
9. Mrs. c. NJ. Berger
10. Mrs. w. H. Valkenaar
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
Broken Windpipe Cause of Death

Idaho Springs.-A broken windpipe
produced suffocation. which caused the
death of Walter Hedberg of George
town on a Colorado &, Southern train
few miles above here as he was be-
ing rushed to Denver for an operation
The body was taken from the train
here. The death is the second one
from accident in the Hedberg family
within a year-a brother, Archie, be
ing killed by 700-foot fall in the Cap
itol mine at Georgetown last summer
Hedberg was hauling ore from Argen
tine to Georgetown, when the goose
neck on the wagon-tongue broke. He'd
berg was thrown and sustained q
broken leg in addition to the peculiar
injury to his windpipe.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
w E TERN.

The Arizona Legislature was forced
To adjourn because of smallpox cases
developing in the lower House.
Motor buses are beginning to ap-
pear on the streets at Kansas City,
charging scent fare, provided the
route is not over two miles long
because they were out Of work and
also tired of life, Walter T. Scott, an
old soldier, and his wife, Jennie, ended
Ebeir lives in suicide pact by drink
tng poison at Lincoln, Neb.
b. b. Oldham, former mayor. presi-
dent OF the Commercial Club ana
banker of Clovis. \. NJ. Will be placed
on trial on charge of embe 2zlement
and obtaining signatures under false
pretenses.
War demand for navy beans has in
creased the price about s1o0 bushel
.Huhin the last few weeks, it was an
noQnced in Chicago. The price of
crackers, following the rise i'll wheat.
advanced from &C to &c a pound in
many OF the large grocery establish
ments
Joseph Armstrong. president OF the
Bowie, Ariz, Bank and Trus- Com
pany, who disappeared several days
ago, is under arrest at Omaha on a
charge of embezzlement, according to
a telegram received at Bowie.
warrant for the arrest of George Arm
strong, a son OF the bank president. on
a charge of mbezzlement, has been
issued. w. d. Armstrong. a brother
was arrested near Bowie on a similar
charge
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
GENE RAJ,

flhes aggregating sl25.UO0 were
levied by the Missouri Supreme Court
on five large packing firms.
Norman b. Ream, financier and di-
rector in many railroads, banks and
industrial corporation. died in hos
pital in New York.
According to notice, all first.class
mail from the United States to Ger.
many will have to bear scent stamp
until further orders from the Postal
Department.
BY vote OF l30 TO Il, the House OF
Representatives passed the resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the
constitution of Pennsylvania to give
women the ballot.
The National Twilight Sleep Associ-
alton, just organized, with offices in
New YORK, is the latest move to ex-
tend the easy child birth propaganda
all over the nation.
An estate of S3,l5U,e0o is disposed
OF i'll the will OF Edward Tilden,
packer and banker, which was pro
bated in Chicago. His widow is to
receive most of it. Each of his two
sons will receive 100000 eleven years
from now, when the younger is TWEEN
ty-fiye years old
Convicted of drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace, two women were
sentenced by Judge Brady of Kansas
City to wash dishes for ten days at
the free soup kitchens
Coal operators and representatives
of $4,000 striking miners in the East
ern Ohio field broke off negotiations
for settlement which has been in
progress since Jan. %.
The Rev. Joseph Zebris, pastor of
ST. Andrews Lithuanian Catholic
church, and his housekeeper, Miss
Eva Gilman. were found dead in the
rectory at New Britain. Conn.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
FORE EIGN.

General Carranza, in teirsrssl-l
from Vera Cruz, denied that he had
issued any orders for the execution o.
four American officials OF the South
ern Pacific railway of Mexico IN So
nora.
The hamburg council has appropri-
ated 100000 marks (s3.000.o0ol Win
which to purchase supply OF food.
stuffs. fodder and other articles SO
that the city may be prepared for
eventualities
1t was learned that the historic
monastery OF Monte Casino, near
Naples, where St Benedict In 529 A.
ID. founded the religious order bearing
his name, was damaged badly by the
recent earthquake.
Princess Zita OF Parma, wife Of
Archduke Charles Francis, heir ap-
parent to the Austrian throne. gave
birth to a son. They were married IL
1911 and have two other children, a
son and a daughter.
Military orders have been issued
prohibiting speculation in food OF
other necessaries of life under penalty
OF court-martial. since this regulation
went into effect artificially advanced
prices have fallen % per cent
Neil Primrose parliamentary under
secretary OF the foreign office, reply
ing TO questions in the House of Com
mons. said the British government had
not recognized nybody as president
OF Mexico since the retirement OF Gen.
Nictoriano Huerta.
Seventeen members OF the crew OF a
salvage vessel are known to have
pershed when the vessel was wrecked
near Peterhead. Scotland, The vessel
was wrecked in terrific gale. and is
said to have been turned completely
over by huge wave.
\ second consignment OF bonds,
stocks and scrip sent to Geneva from
Paris for safekeepiag soon after the
Germans invaded France, was shipped
back TO the French capital in strong
ly guarded car. The value of the ship
ment was estimated at between $780,
ouU 600 and $500, 900, 900.
\ Rome dispatch says Red Cross
workers III the earthquake ruins al
Patcrno heard faint means and on
delvng into the debris excagated a
man named Calrolo, who had been i'm
prisoned for twenty five days. The
man. who is 80 years old had had
nothing but some water during this
time. He was uninjured and when
taken i'll an automobile to the nearest
town was able TO alight from the ma
chine without assistance.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK o.
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
accord OF IMPORTANT GvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR.

William Redmond NJ. p. for Clare,
and brother OF John Redmond, the
Irish leader in parliament, has been
commissioned au officer in the Royal
Irish regiment.
The German commander at Bruges.
Belgium. has ordered all the consulates
there 10 haul down their flags and re-
move the coats of arms, according to
dispatches received at London.
Business is paralyzed in Mexico City
because of the decrees OF Carranza
which have "nullified' the currency
Issued by the recent Zapata and Villa
administration of the government.
The Introduction OF the largest mill
taIy budget in the history OF Great
Britain shared the stage in the House
ai Commons with d discussion OF the
activities OF the official press bureau.
IN the east the Germans having
been checked in their efforts to break
the Russian lines before Warsaw, have
transferred many OF their troops to
Fast Prussia to meet the Russian of
tHnsiye in that region,
The engagements are growing in in
tensity at the two eXtremities of the
eastern battle front in East Prussia, as
veil AS ia the Carpathiaus. according
TO information reaching Petrograd.
The same news sets forth that on the
Warsaw front the battle has subsided
Kaiser Wilhelm sacrificed almost
the entire First division OF his army
in futile attempt to reach WARSAW,
according to dispatches from the bat
lIe front in Poland This organization
was sent in massed formation against
one OF the strongest lines Of Russian
eutrenchments and its losses in dead
we're I5-uuU men. The Division OF
Death" was the name the Germans
gave to brigades which were ordered
to make this desperate attack, because
the men realized that few would be
left alive The repulse is regarded as
the turning point in the latest advance
on Warsaw.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
UNITED STATES RANKS HIGH
Percentage Of ilIlteracy Compares
Well With Those Of Other coun-
tries Of the World.

In the United States the percentage
of illiteracy Is ~ for the total popula-
ton lover ten years of age) and 3 for
the native white population. In Den
mark. Germany. the Netherlands. Swe-
den, Switzerland and the United King.
dom the percentage Of illiteracy is
lower than that for the native white
population of che United States. Doubt:
less the list should also include Nor.
way. although no figures are available
for that country: but in the other Eu-
ropean countries the percentage of
illiteracy Is higher than 1t Is in the
United States. and usually very much
higher. In Bulgaria 1t is 65 peT cent;
in Greece 70. in Hungary 80. in Italy
81, In Portugal 50. In Roumania 81.
in Russia SO, in Servia 70. and in Spain
IS. There Is less illiteracy in Aus
tralia than in the United States. but in
all other non European countries the
percentage of illiteracy is in general
very high. >,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
SPOR r..

Iue Azevedo beat Bobby Waugh a.
Memphis in a fast eightround bout.
Ad Wolgast, former lightweight
champion, and Cy Smith of Hoboken
N. j., boxed a twelve-round no-decis
ion match at Columbus, Ohio
Adoption OF schedule for 1915 by
the Western league has been post
poned pending the outcome OF the
negotiations concerning the Topeka
franchise.
The Federal league schedule meet
ing will be held in Buffalo, Feb. 26
and u, President Gilmore said in Chi
cago. Managers and umpires will at.
tend the meeting as well as club
owners.
Joe (loungJ Shugrue, the Jersey
City lightweight, again proved too
much for Freddie Welsh, worlds cham.
plon OF that class In ten-round, no.
decision bout at Madison Square Gar.
den, New York, in the opinion of press
experts.
The bout between Harry Easle
bfamer and Earl Puryear was not de
clared Off, as announced, but will take
place as scheduled on the night OF Feb
%, Washington birthday, for fifteen
rounds, at catch weights, at the Colo
rado Athletic Club, under the aus
plces OF the l-arimer Street Business
Mems Club OF Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
BREAK ENDS SENATE SESSION
Progressive Republicans Vote WIZ
FiIibusters and Force Adjournment.

Washington, Feb. Il.-RepublicaI
and Democratic senators who oppose
the government ship purchase bill
aided by Senators Norris and Kenyon
Progressive Republicans. who have
stood by the bill. forced an adjourn
ment last night of the longest continu
Gus session in the history of the Sen
ate
Upon the adjournment, after fifty
four hours and eleven minutes OF
continuous debate, leading members
of both houses of Congress conceded
that an extra session to be called soon
after March ] seemed inevitable.
There were some, however. who
still hoped that there yet might be
time to dispose of appropriation bills
and the ship purchase measure in
some form before adjournment.
Adjournment came on a motion
made by Senator O'Gorman. which pre-
vailed by As to AS, after Senator Nor
ris, deploring the fatiguing filibuster,
had proclaimed his conclusion that op-
ponents of the ship purchase bill
could filibuster it to its death.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
WASHINGTON.

Representative Mondell. Republican
in the House on Secretary Bryan's
speaking trips.
General Villas announcement of his
assumption of the executive power"
in Mexico was confirmed in official re
ports to the State Department from
George c. Carothers, American agent
with Villa, and by Enrique C. Lorente.
Loans under the S135 900. 900 cotton
loan funds plan were closed with an
announcement from the central com
mittee-the federal reserve board
members acting as fndivduals-of the
procedure for the future. Applica
tions for loans from cotton producers
in the South amounted to s2S,000.
Representatives Dixon of Indiana
and Claypool of Ohio celebrated birth
day anniversaries. Dixon is fifty-five
and C1aypool fiftysix
Carrauza's army has forced the
Villistas out of Queretaro and expects
to control Monterey. according to
Constitutionalist dispatch.
Hearings on the proposals of West
ern railroads to increase freight rates
which were to begin in Chicago bt.ore
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Feb. Is, have been postponed until
March by agreement.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
$4,000 BAIL IS FIXED
FOR TWO LABOR LEADERS AND
5000 FOR OTHERS
Second Report of Grand Jury Sitting
At WsisenburS Returns More
Murder indictments.

WsSS-rH Nes>Ysp~t nlsn >s~s Service
Waisenhurs. Colo,-The second and
final report Of the special Huerfano
county grand jury. called to investi-
gate violence growing out OF the
strike in the southern coal fields was
returned The return Was made by
Judge Watson NeHcuarie at the first
regular meeting of the February term
oi the District Court.
Ii is said that a large number of in
dlctmenls have been found ranging
from simple a>sSul, 10 murder The
report WAS not made public,
The firs; report Of the special grand
jury was returned Ian, - As re-
suit thirteen mea. inclGdius Eli Gross.
vice president. and Charles Hickey,
secretary OF the Colorado Federation
OF Labor, We're taken INFO custody on
indictments charging the murder OF
Maj. P. =. Lester. 1t was said that $50
strikers and sympathizers were in
| dicted in this first report
Application for the release OF the
fifteen prisoners was made at opening
of the February term OF the District
| Court by attorneys for the prisoners.
Deputy Attorney General Frank c.
West declared he had no objections to
the men being admitted to bail
Judge McfIendrie accordingly fixed
the following bail for the fifteen men
| held under indictments and issued a
scale for the issuance OF bail on all
! men arrested under the indictments in
the sheriff's hands
Eli Gross. William Hickey and
Charles Haines. bail fived at $4,000.
John Burke. Philemeno Marquis, ].
c. Curtis. Jeff Graham, Tom Wilson.
Enoch Muir, C. NJ. Hulsey. Leonard
Collins, Villa Wootton, Arthur Woot-
ton. Tom Westbrook and George Con
der s. .00G each.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
Senate pa.... prohibition Penalty.

Denver-The prohibition penalty.
Senate Bill No. 80, by Senator Peter
sen. was passed in the Senate on third
reading, and is now ready for consid-
Grafton in the House. 1t went through
with virtually no opposition. the fight
having been made and settled in COM
mittee of the whole. 1t is considered
a certainty the bill will be enacted in
the House practically as passed by
the Senate It was drawn by the Anti
Saloon League. the WC.T.U. and the
wholesale druggists, and approved by
Governor Carlson.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
ACCIDENTS" TO VESSELS IN WAR
ZONE WILL NOT BE
TOLERATED.
j. S. WARNS GERMANY
rEUTONS ARE RUSHED TO AID
OF AUSTRIA IN EFFORT TO
BLOCK INVADERS.
w~s.-rn Nesapsper L nion News ser.ioe.

" - Il t'f6 npEi''i iiiA'H -N'FtA ti 'A'-'+
Washington. - The United States
government Wednesday sent note to
Great Britain making friendly observa
tions on the use by British ships OF
neutral flags, and at the same time
DISPATCHED Il communication to Ger
many inquiring what steps would be
taken by German naval commanders
to verify the identity OF ships flying
aeutral flags in the recently pro
claimed zones OF war around England
and ireland
The inquiry addressed TO Germany
contains veiled warning that the
| United States will demand the protec
ton OF its ships in the submarine wal
zone under all circumstances.
While the Lusitania incident is no,
mentioned, the representations &c
Great Britain are based on the state
ment of the British foreign office jus
tifying the use of neutral flags by her
merchantmen to escape capture.
The American government points
out how frequent and continued use
OF this stratagem might cast doubt OIL
the character OF vessels really entitled
to fly the American flag. and produce
dangers TO which neutral ships ought
not be subjected on the high seas and
III unblockaded waters.
Siavs and Teutons in Fierce Fight.
London Under midwinter condi
tions, the Russian and Austro-Germar
armies are fighting another series OF
battles for possession of the Carpathi
an passes, which will decide whether
the Russian troops will commence an
other invasion OF Hungary or be
compelled TO evacuate part of Galicia
as they have done Bukowina.
The Russians have issued two OF
ficial reports of the operations. ac
cording 10 which they have thus fan
had all the better of the fighting
Their right wing, at any rate, has
succeeded in crossing the mountains
for it has been engaged i'll a battle
near Bartfeld and Svidnik, which are
on the hungarian side OF the Carpa
thians and on the edge of the plains
| which sweep down to Budapest
This army, too, threatens the real
of the Austro-Germans. who. having
suffered severe losses
The hardest fighting. however, hat
taken place on the Galican side of the
Tukhola pass, where on Sunday the
Austro-Germans captured the heights
in the region of Kosiouwka only. to be
driven from them after a bayonet fight
which the Russian report describes az
being without precedent in history"
Attack followed counter attack until
this Russians had regained their old
positions, leaving the slopes, accord
ing to their report, Uttered with bod
les of dead Germans"
Al the other extreme end OF the line
in Bukowina-the Russians are fall
ing back before superior Austrian
forces. but still hold the greater part
OF that province.
From Rome comes the report thai
the Russians have reached Wloclawek
on the lower Nistula, thirty-fiye miles
southeast of Thorn.
There has been little or no fighting
in Flanders, France or Alsace, al
though the artillery and airmen con
tinue active.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-02-13
Bride Sues for Non-support.

Boulder he was married
only three months ago, X. ID. Durbin
of Longmont is charged by his young
wife. formerly Miss Fern Jones OF this
city. with nonsupport and is being
sought by the sheriff's office. The
couple were married Nov. Z. Durbin
learned that his wife contemplated
prosecuting him a few days ago and
disappeared, it is said.