The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-29
Foreign

ernment troop and are moving north
ward.
The Swiss government is preparing
to issue a fourth loan of 1OO,OOO,OOO
francs 1t will offer for subscriptions
bonds bearing Az per cent interest.
Richardson, sixty miles from Fair
banks, Alaska, reported so degrees be-
low zero Saturday. Other points re-
ported from to 60 degrees below.
The site has been chosen for the
statue that is to be erected in com
memoration of Edith Cavell, the Brit.
ish nurse who was executed in Bel
GUM.
The Neue Zuricher Zeitung Luxem-
burg correspondent announces that
the marriage of Grand Duchess Marie
of Luxembourg probably will take place
shortly.
Gov l.. B. Hanna of North Dakota,
who went to Copenhagen with the
Ford peace party, departed for Eng
land and later plans to go to the south
of France
Restoration of the Manchu dynasty,
which ruled China before the estab-
lishment of the republic, has been pro-
claimed by the leaders of an uprising
in eastern Mongolia.
Press dispatches from Rome say
that considerable anxiety is felt in
Vienna in consequence of the illness
of Emperor Francis Joseph. whose
chronic bronchitis has assumed an
acute form.
An Anglo French corporation with
capital of 4S0,000,000 leu (about $780,
0O0,000) has been formed to buy up
all available grain, so that the ceD-
trail powers will be unable to import
needed supplies.
Germany has submitted to the Unit
ed States through Ambassador Won
Bernstorff, another written proposal
designated to bring about settlement
of the controversy over the sinking
of the steamship Lusitania, with loss
of more than 100 American lives.
Sporting News
The baseball season will openaApril
22nd.
Vic Hanson of California won a de-
cision in ten rounds over Dick Gilbert
of Denver at Kansas City.
Word to the effect that Jimmy Nc
Gill, who is in indianapolis, has pur-
chased Third Baseman Dyer from the
New York Giants reached Denver.
Fred Toney will pitch for the Reds
this year for $4,000 salary. or not
pitch at ALL" This was the statement
of President August Hermann of the
Reds at Cincinnati, answering Toney's
demand for $4,000 salary or his un-
conditional release.
Full details of the dog sled race
from Anchorage to Old Knik and re-.
turn, which was won by Frank Dixon.
who was forced to take the place in
harness of his leading Malamute to
help drag his sled across the finish
line, were made public at Anchorage,
Alaska.
The National Western Horse and
Stock Show closed in Denver before
the largest matinee crowd ever as
sembled in the big stadium. Miss
Loula Long. with stable of eighteen
horses, took eleven blue ribbons, seven
second ribbons, four third pennants
and was fourth only twice. Mr..
| Thompson's horses won six firsts.
seven second ribbons, three thirds
and was fourth only once.
General
Oscar Hammerstein. former grand
opera impresario, was adjudged
bankrupt at New York.
Brig. Gen. Isaac Swarthwood Catlin.
U. S. A.. retired, eighty-one years old.
died after a stroke of apoplexy, at his
home in Brooklyn.
General Felix Diaz issued a state
ment in New York denying that he
had planned or is planning another
revolution in Mexico.
Travel by land and sea and com.
munication of all sorts were out OF
| joint Monday in the western one-third
of the United States, because of rain,
snow and wind.
Preliminary arrangements wre made
at a mass meeting to have citizen
military training camp for the inter,
mountain region at Salt Lake City in
| August, September and October of this
year.
Mrs Eliza d. Lathrop, 1O2 years old.
died at Binghampton, N, Y. In an in
terview given out on her last birth
day, she said her chief article of diet
was pickles and said their use kept
| her well.
William J. Bryan issued a statement
saying he had no intention of follow
| ing President Wilson on his trip
through the middle West to make
speeches in answer tc the President
on preparedness.
| Cant A Vladimir Seferoyitch Mon-