Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-04
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union views servics.
ABOUT THE WAR

pldie.
Rome reports successful infantry
and artillery movements against
Austrians in Northern Italy.
Germans withdraw troops from Yer
dun front to strengthen resistance to
allies in northern France.
Russians report capture of G,25O
German soldiers in battle at the ex-
treme western point of the Russian
front.
Delville wood again captured by the
British, stroke which is expected
to go far toward facilitating the ad-
vance of the allied armies.
Probability that the war will end
in autumn denied by Russian author
ity, who admits it will be impossible
to overcome the Germans by that
time.
French expert claims that as re-
suit of the occupation of Pozieres.
the British now hold the entire sec
Somme river sector.
All of the Longueval now is in pos
session of the British as the result OF
4 days fighting in the course of
which London reports they improved
their line along the entire Somme
front
Col. Joseph A. CASTOR. commanding
the American border patrol in the
Big Bend district Of Texas. is confi-
dent that his force is SO disposed as
to be ample to cope with any bandit
band which might attempt a raid
scross the border.
3rody, an important strategical
point, has been captured by Russians.
This exploit places the Austrian city
of Lemberg in jeopardy. The Rus
sian advance upon Kovel has been
halted temporarily to permit the prin-
cipal offensive, against Lemberg, to
make more progress.
WESTERN
Charles Darling. a Republican can
didate for governor, is dead at his
home at Rimini. Mont.
Seven grades of crude oils in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois were slashed 10
cents a barrel by the Ohio Oil Com
pany.
Poor and almost forgotten Phillip
Deidesheimer. "a years old. mining
engineer once worth millions died at
San Francisco.
J. |. Boak of Denver was reelected
head council of the Woodmen of the
World of the Pacific jurisdiction at
the convention in Denver.
Two Denver business men are un-
der arrest in Sydney, Neb., charged
with the holdup Friday of the Farmers
State Bank at Sunol, Neb.. which re-
suited in two farmers being killed
after $4,000 had been taken from the
bank vaults.
Workers of America, district 22, con-
vened at Cheyenne to consider the re-
port OF its scale committee. which is
said to recommend demand for an
increase of wages for approximately
5000 miners in Wyoming.
WASHINGTON
Panama canal tolls were $4,2S6,55l
less than expenses in the year which
ended May 81.
Representative Ben c. Hilliard of
Colorado announced that he is a can
didate for a second term in Congress.
Receipts from the national forests
for the fiscal year 1916 reached the
high-water mark of approximately 81
$4,000.
Nearly s7O0,O00,0O0 for national de-
tense in the fiscal year 1917 is the ag-
gregate of proposed appropriations in
the Senate.
Foreign trade of the United States
closed its greatest year in history on
June 80. with balance of s2,l36.0 .00O,-
900 in favor of American exporters.
Yielding to an urgent request from
President Wilson, Democrats of the
Senate, in caucus. determined to pass
the child labor bill at this session
of Congress.
President Wilson signed the rivers
and harbors appropriation bill carry
ing approximately s42,000,000. Most
of the money is to be spent on exist
ing improvement projects.
Ambassador Page in London has
been instructed to inquire of the
British government the cause of de
tention at Liverpool of Eugene
Hughes Kelly of New York. treasurer
of the Irish relief fund; Mrs. Kelly
and Joseph Smith.
Informal assurances that Austria
Hungary is disposed to respond favor.
ably to President Wilson's appeal for
permission for shipment of American
relief supplies to Poles in territory
held by Austrian forces have been
given personally by Foreign Minister
Burian to Ambassador Penfield.