The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-03-11
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ABOUT THE WAR


Turkish war minister, Enver Pasba,
reported wounded in attempt to as
sassinate him.
Russians drive wedge between flee
ing Turkish armies, Bagdad's fall re-
ported imminent.
Paris semi-official estimates place
the number of German dead lying on
the field before Verdun at $4,000.
Twelve persons were killed and
thirty-three injured in a raid by Yep
pelins over the northeast coast OF
England.
The French after setting back the
Germans driving on the front west of
the Mouse, have occupied the heights
of Cote de rOie
By driving against the French lines
northwest and southeast of Verdun
the Germans have made gains toward
Verdun. They have taken the towns
of Fresnes and Woevre.
Supported by fire from their fleet
tho Russians landed on the shore of
the Black sea east of Trebizond, cap
turing the towns of Atina and Ma
prava, routed the Turks and took
about 300 prisoners.
Although the report persists that a
German battle fleet of at least twenty
dreadnoughts is in the North sea,
there was nothing up to Wednesday
to indicate they are seeking the Brit
ish fleet or are bent on battle.
Winston Churchill, former first lord
of the British admiralty. now a col
onel in the line in France, came from
the trenches to take issue with A. J..
Balfour, the present sirst lord, who
recently praised the high standard of
British sea power. Col Churchill in
timated that Germany was rapidly
augmenting her naval forces, while
England was at standstill.
WESTERN
A prairie fire starting west of Mar
avisa, New Mex, swept twenty-five
miles eastward and threatened the
town.
Robbers blew open the safe and
wrecked the bank at Mounds, Okla,
and escaped with between $1,000 and
$4,000.
Twenty persons are dead and about
thirty seriously burned as the result
OF an explosion in the disinfecting
baths in the jail at Ell Paso, Tex.
Will H. Orpet, a University of Wis
consin student, was indicted by Lake
county, ILL.,, grand jury on charge of
numbering his former sweetheart,
Marian Lambert.
Wedding fees to the minister have
been abolished by the official board
of the St Paul Episcopal church at
Chicago because they are polite tips
it was announced. The action was
taken upon the recommendation of the
Rev. Roy L. Smith, the pastor.
Forty thousand Chicago women
launched a campaign to unite the
strength of women voters in the
United states on the side of the pres
fdential candidates who will come out
openly for the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the constitution.
WASHINGTON
The army bill has been reported to
the Senate
President Wilson nominated David
r. Francis of st. Louis to be ambas-
sador to Russia
Newton C. Baker, former mayor of
Cleveland, has been selected by Presi-
dent Wilson for Secretary of War.
The cost of living in Constantinople
has increased 1876 per cent since the
beginning of the war, according to
confidential advices to the State De.
partment
Both tales are lies, plain lies. -
vehemently declared Speaker Clark,
discussing charges emanating from
New York that German.American
lobby is at work to defeat President
Wilson in his submarine fight and in.
cidentally, trying to control the Demo
cratic national convention for Clark.
Louis ID. Brandeis was described by
witnesses in his behalf in the Senate
investigation of his fitness, to be n
Supreme Court justice, as "a public.
spirited man of high character, who
lad incurred the enmity of powerful
financial interests by advocating
movements to which those interests
were opposed.
Col. e. M. House returned from
London. Paris and Berlin and told
President Wilson that the German
government believed itself justified
in its new submarine policy, and that
there is no prospect for immediate
peace.
BY holding that the states have the
power TO impose taxes, large or small,
on trade coupons, redeemable in pre-
miums, the Supreme Court put the lie.
gality of premium advertising, by