The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-09-04


Mexicans raided an American cat
tie ranch near Columbus. New Mex.
Peace and end of worldwide war is
the real object of negotiations be-
tween Germany and the United
States
The total number of Prussian
losses published up to Aug. ~
amounts to 1,74O,s36 killed, wounded
and missing.
Closing in upon the Russian fortress
of Grodno, German forces have cap
tured the city of Aipsk, twenty miles
west of Grodno.
Two Mexican bandits were shot to
death near Kathryn. Tex. They had
been arrested by posse and were
trying to escape.
The British steamer Sir William
Stephenson OF 1910 tons, has been
sunk by German submarine, accord
ing to London reports.
Wounded members of the former
garrison of the fortress of Ossowetz,
recently evacuated by the Russians.
who are in hospitals at Dvinsk, Rus-
sia. declare that the German losses
before that fortress surpass imagina-
tion.
General Won Beseler, conqueror of
Antwerp and Novogeorgiewsk. has
been transferred to the operations in
the Riga district, the Berlin war office
announced His forces have sur
rounded the bridgehead at Friedrich
stadt
Teutonic pressure against the Rus
SLAMS in eastern Galicia has resulted
in the piercing of the Russian lines
ACROSS the Zlota-Lipa river, 1t was Of
ficially announced by German army
headquarters. 1t was also announced
that the town OF Narew. about twenty
miles southeast Of Bialystock. had
been occupied by the Germans.
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 $4,000. and three
fishing vessels, were destroyed by
submarines or mines. The week was
one of the most successful German
underwater craft have had since the
commencement of the war. Fourteen
steamers were sunk by German sub
marines Aug 10 and 20. The largest
of them was the Arabic.
Western
Ten women tainted and a number OF
others were knocked down and
bruised In semi-riot in 10-cent
store on State street in Chicago.
Miss Maria Murdoch, daughter of
former congressman and Mrs. Victor
Murdock, was married at Wichita,
Kan, to Lieut.. Harvey Delano, U.S.N.
Reports of light frosts in northern
were received by the Lincoln weather
bureau Monday morning. Small gar
den truck was injured.
The movement begun in n tentative
way last spring to form a reserve
corps OF engineers to be available in
form, according to an announcement
tmade in Chicago by Bion J. Arnold.
Business activity in Cheyenne. Raw
Inns and other Wyoming towns was
suspended during the funeral services
of Mrs. John j. Pershing and her
three young daughters, who were
burned to death at the Preside at San
Francisco, held in Cheyenne on Tues
day.
The responsibility for the strike of
coal miners in Colorado in 1913 and
1914 and the disorder and suffering
that followed is placed on the shoul-
ders OF operators in a report by Geo.
p. West made public at Chicago by
the commission on industrial rela-
tions.
Washington
The coast artillery force on duty at
uhe Panama canal will be increased at
sonce to full strength of twenty.eight
companies or about 1000 men.
President Wilson and members of
his Cabinet will review the $4,000
G. 4, r. veterans. who will march
down historic Pennsylvania avenue
when the fiftieth anniversary of the
grand review is held in the national
capital.
oyster. the Food that Has Not
Gone Up" is the title Of the govern
ment's latest cook book, issued
through the Bureau of Fisheries.
Secretary Garrison announced that
the department is determined not to
re-establish the divisional army camp
at Texas City. Tex, destroyed by the
recent storm.
The American flag now floats over
more ships in the foreign trade than
at any other time since 1868, and the
United States is pressing close on
France and Norway as marine ma
tion.