Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-04
NEWS To DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
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 News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
Italians reoccupy heights to the
west Of Gorizia.
Montenegrin generals surrender
forces to Austrians.
Russians claim further successes
over Turks at Caucasus.
Monastir and Gievgeli have been
again raided by allied airmen.
Artillery bombardments occurred
Friday all along Russian line from
Riga to Bukowina.
Berlin reports that Arabs and Turks
have killed $4,000 British and wound
I'd 10000 to date in southern Arabia.
Convention representing more than
100000 British workingmen decides
TO support the military compulsion
bill
Tho United States sent note to all
beIligerents proposing new rules to
govern submarines and merchant ves-
sells.
A new agreement, that probably
VII be satisfactory to the United
States. has been offered by Germany
In the Lusitania case.
Germany is continuing her efforts
10 conclude a separate peace win
Serbia, according to the Athens cor
respondent of the London Daily Mail.
British forces attempting to relieve
the town of Kut-el-Amara were re-
pulsed by the Turks in six-hour bat
ua They lost 5000 killed and
wounded.
England has announced that the
policy Of blocking all shipments to
Germany will be continued by the
combined French and British navies.
Sir Edward Grey said neutrals would
suffer, but that they must bow to the
needs Of war.
WESTERN
George Quinn, slayer of William
Robertson. was hanged in the state
penitentiary at Canon City, Colo.
One man was drowned Friday in
floods again menacing millions of
acres In Arkansas and Arizona.
Near the Dalles, Wash, freight
train ran into a work train in a blind
ing snowstorm and killed six men.
Three daughters of T.. r. Vallandig-
ham. editor of the Deming Headlight,
were killed in an auto accident near
Deming. N. NJ.
The third annual convention of the
Pixies Peak-Ocean-to-O Ocean Highway
Association will be held at St. Joseph.
No.. on Feb. 2.
Cheyenne. Wyo., was unanimously
selected as the convention city for
1917 OF the American National Live
stock Association at the Ell Paso meet
ing.
Five hundred families at and near
Watson. Desha county. Arkansas. were
driven from their homes by floods, ac-
eording to message received by Gov.
George w. Hays at Little Rock.
Alarming reports from Phoenix,
Ariz, Friday regarding another rise
In the Salt and Gila rivers in that Sec
tion has thrown Yuma into excitement
almost equaling that when the levee
broke and flooded the city.
Raymond Dodds, the mulatto chauf-
feur who eloped from San Diego, Cal,
with Mrs. Van Lee Hood, was dis
charged from custody by the police
at Salt Lake after the federal author
ities announced that they did not de-
sire to prosecute him.
WASHINGTON
Senator Hitchcock proposed an
amendment to Philippine bill granting
independence in from two to four
years.
President Wilson left Washington
Friday night for speaking tour in
the Middle West in advocacy of his
preparedness program.
Secretary Garrison urged the House
Interstate commerce committee to re-
wise the general dam act in the inter.
est of water power development.
Petitions bearing 100000 names.
protesting against war munitions
shipments were presented in the Sen.
ate. and resulted in vigorous debate
Congressman Timberlake has intro
duced bill to convert into forest re-
serves 100000 to 100000 acres of land
In Boulder and Larimer counties in
Colorado for the protection of water
sheds.
Louis d. Brandeis OF Boston was
nominated by President Wilson for
the place on the Supreme Court bench
made vacant by the death of Associ-
ate Justice Lamar.
In the House. Republican Leader
Mann dofauded praaident Wilson's