The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-23
Foreign

RESOLUTIONS against cOnScrlptioH.
Ben B. Lindsey has left Holland for
Berlin to study the needs of children
in the belligereut countries.
An apparatus which it is claimed
will prevent the destruction of ships
by torpedoes or mines has been in
vented by Frantz Poulsen, engineer at
Copenhagen.
Twenty-eight women, arrested on
charge Of selling liquor at Anchorage,
Alaska, principal construction camp
OF the government railroad, pleaded
guilty and were fined 500 each.
Danish sailing vessel that is l29
years old but is still in sound condi-
ton, put into West Hartlepool to dis
charge cargo. The vessel, named De
Tvende Brodre-"The Two Brothers
was built in 1856.
AS an instance of German thrift and
thoroughness, the Germans remove
the hides from tead army horses, says
the London Daily Mails Balkan cor
respondent. in describing a trip from
Constantinople to Nish.
The province of Kweichow, China.
is in full rebellion. The governor was
forced to flee on Jan. l6, and COM
munications have been interrupted. 1t
is reported that Luchow and Tzeliut-
sing have been captured by the revo-
lutionists.
New York is the largest city in the
world. London, by reason of losses
occasIoned by the war and because of
gigantic mistake in estimating the
population must now admit that the
American metropolis is the bigger by
about 25O,OOO people.
Viscount Bryce, formerly British
ambassador at Washington. asked the
government of the United States to
take steps to send relief to the Ar
menians, who. he states, have been
driven by the Turks into the deserts
of Syria and Mesopotamia.
Gen. Tomas Ornelas, commandant
at Juarez until he fled to Ell Paso to
escape death at the hands of Fran
cisco Villa. was taken from a Mexi-
can Central passenger train at
Laguna, north of Chihuahua City, by
| an armed squad and shot to death.
Sporting News
Jim Coffey of New York. knocked
out Lew Bodie of Montana in the fifth
round of ten-round exhibition bout
at Syracuse. N. Y.
The Tijuana racetrack, near San
Diego. which has been washed away
by flood, was opened last New Year
| Low Q
planned.
Twenty-one thousand dollars fol
| three years work as Yale's football
coach will be the pay of Tad Jones
according to the contract he has
agreed to sign.
Jimmy Dunn. a heavyweight boxer
who won over Kid Cisneros in The
semi-windup to the recent Bob York
Young Jack johnson, is in the Pueblo
country, Colo, Jail in default of S5O'
bond on a charge of bottlegging.
| Battling Nelson. former light
weight champion. filed petition fol
divorce from Mrs. Fay King Nelson, d
cartoonist and special writer for a
DSnver newspaper, on the ground that
she has refused to live with him.
George HORNE, former worlds rec
ord holder and present running high
jump champion of America, has re
tired from athletics, according to 4
letter rereived in New York. Horine
says henceforth he will devote all his
attention to his ranch in Winton
Cal.
Denver court officials have beel
anxiously waiting for James c. McGill
| Denver and indianapolis baseball
owner. who was sued by Mr.. and Mrs
John F.. Coffey. each for $4,000 for al
alleged assault upon Mrs. Coffey, II
file his pleading in the cases. Hi
answer was filed Monday.
General
| Sixty-seven members of the Forc
peace expedition arrived in New Yorf
on the Rotterdam.
Exactly S7,O4S dogs and cats wers
put to humane death by the Morris
Refuge Association in the last year II
Philadelphia.
Railroad and wire service in Utal
and adjoining states was seriously in
terrupted Friday as result of heav.
snowfall and high wind.
Attorneys for the White Star line
announced in New York that agree
ments had been reached with more
than 200 claimants whereby about
100000 will be paid In claims arising
| aut of fhe Titanic disaster