Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-03
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News servics.
ABOUT THE WAR


Cruz to Mexico City.
Mexicans raided an American cat
lie ranch near Columbus. New Mex.
Aviators of the allies are especially
,ctive in destroying supply depots of
the Teutons.
President Wilson is the man chosen
by the neutral nations to make peace
in the European war.
The Austrian official report states
hat Archduke Joseph Ferdinand
.ound the town of Kamieniez-Litovsk
IN flames when he arrived.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Petrograd says: 1.-The President of the
Duma has announced that the Ger
mans lost the battleship Moltke. three
cruisers and seven torpedo boats in
the Riga battle
The Germans. in full possession of
The entire Brest-Litovsk line, have re-
,umed the offensive in the Baltic
provinces and are pressing the Rus
slams both in the districts southeast
Of Mitau and to the east of Kovno, in
An effort to reach the main line Of
railway which passes through wilma
and Dvinsk to Petrograd.
The British steamer Palm Grove
has been sunk Her crew was saved.
During the week ending Aug. 25 nine
teen British merchant vessels. with
total tonnage of 10000, and three
fishing vessels. were destroyed by
submarines or mines. The week was
q. Pal
underwater craft have had since the
commencement of the war. Fourteen
steamers we're sunk by German sub
marines Aug. 10 and 20. The largest
Of them was the Arabic.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson appointed vannoy
Fl. Manning of Holly Springs. Miss,
director of the bureau Of mines in the
Interior Department. He succeeds
DIR. J. A. Holmes, who died In Denver
recently. Mr.. Manning was assistant
director of the bureau.
The Suez canal passed three and
two-fifths times as many ships as
used the Panama canal last year. and
the receivers tolls were four and five
Panama canal during the first years
operations of the latter.
Reinsurance to cotton shippers that
their cargoes for neutrals will not be
confiscated II they come within the
normal consumption under the recent
decree OF the allies that cotton is con-
traband, was given in statement is
sued at the British embassy.
Facing a charge OF violating the
federal law for the protection of the
national defenses by making pictures
OF military reservations, Gustav
Kopsch. a German, aged "a and an in
strument maker in the Carnegie insti-
tuition at Washington. was held in s5,-
900 bail to await trial in the Federal
District Court at Norfolk
Secretary Garrison made public
Major General Woods reply to the
secretary's telegram directing that no
repetition be permitted of the incident
at the Plattsburg camp precipitated
by former President Roosevelt's
speech to the men in training there.
"Your telegram received and policy
laid down will be rigidly adhered to-"
General Wood telegraphed.
Secretary Garrison telegraphed Mai.
Gen Leonard Wood, deprecating that
opportunity was given at the citizens
soldiery camp at Plattsburg. n V, for
Col. Roosevelt's sensational speech
and directing nothing similar should
be permitted at any of the other
camps. Secretary Garrison referred
to Col Roosevelt's remarks on the
military unpreparededness of the coun-
try and the attitude of the administra-
tion.
WESTERN
Harry X. Thaw and his party ar
rived at Salt Lake on their way to
San Francisco.
Flood.swept sections of Arkansas
appealed for aid to care for thousands
of persons made homeless and desti-
tute by the rising waters.
Charles Mclean, an American, was
arrested by federal authorities at Gal
weston. Tex. on a charge of counter
feiting Carranza currency. II is al
legged that SOL 900 was found in his
possession.
The Atchson. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad offices Thursday received
word that washouts in the vicinity of
Gallup. N. NJ, had delayed overland
trains twelve hours. One washout de-
stroyed tracks for a distance OF 300
feet.
Religion was proclaimed an essen