The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-03-03
TIE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
8HOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEiITS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS
Western Newspaper unien New. Ser,
ABOUT THE WAR


against the Turks in Asia Minor.
The German submarine policy went
into effect at midnight on Feb. 20.
Berlin reports that 1876 men and
12s officers have been captured so
far in the Verdun fighting
In the Dyinsk region of Russia the
Siavs have driven the kaisers forces
back and advanced their line.
The German losses during the first
four days OF the battle around Yer
dun are estimated at 100000.
French artillery, massed to cover
sections where the Germans are most
active, is tearing great holes in the
Teuton ranks.
The British report a victory over
desert tribesmen in which the broth
sr OF the Turkish minister of war
vas killed.
British casualties il all the war
area. as published during the month
at February, showed a total OF 739
officers and 1881 men
Germany has directed a sharp note
to Portugal protesting against the
seizure of German steamers In the
Tagus river and at ST. Vincent
President Wilson has written to
the House Rules Committee urg-
Ing prompt action on the resolutions
In connection with the U-boat policy
Of the United States
The kaiser has now 10000 men in
the division that is driving on Yer
dun Reports indicate that Ger
mans are constantly making small
gains. but at terrific cost in lives
The British steamer Westburn has
been captured by German commerce.
raider. When taken into port the yes
sci had aboard 206 prisoners taken
from various vessels sunk by the
raiders.
More than 800 900 German soldiers
are plunging against Nerdun with or
ders to take the fortress or die trying
The German commanders seem to be
willing to make any sacrifice in lie
10 win the position
Revised figures shows that l22 per
sons. including fiftytive passengers,
are missing and probably lost in the
sinking of the Peuinsular and Oriental
liner Maloja. The bodies of forty
seven have been landed at Dover.
WESTERN
At Castle Rock, Colo, the four
miners charged with he murder of
Major p p Lester in t9ti. were ac-
quilted by a jury
Concerted action throughout the
West for the development of perma
nent federal highways linking all the
National parks is the purpose of
proposed conference to be held in
Yellowstone Park this summer
"A. E. Minimum. former president of
the International Asbestos Mills and
Power Company OF Wyoming was
tined $3.50 in Denver by Federal
Judge Robert T. Lewis on his plea
ot guilty to the use of the mails to
defraud shareholders
Three hundred or more guests were
made ill, probably by ice cream, at a
Methodist banquet Feb. q, it became
known at San Francisco, following
an official report of the incident to
the Methodist Ministers Association
nv the Rev Samuel Quickmire
The desire of Mrs Laura Hilton.
II, to testify against her husband
Robert T Hilton, at his trial for muir
der for the killing of her friend. VIII
bur Gatlin, in Cheyenne Wyo, prob
ably will be defeated At the pre-
iminary hearing Hiltons counsel OBJ
jected under the law which forbids
the admission of a wife's testimony
against her husband
WASHINGTON
Confirmation OF reports that Gen
Felix Diaz had left the United States
for Mexico to start a new revolution
was received at the Department of
Justice from several different quar-.
ters
A favorable report of the admins
tration's bill to repeal the free sugar |
clause OF the tariff law. which would |
become operative May l. was author. |
ixed by unanimous vote OF the House
ways and means committee
Maj Gen. Hugh l.. Scott. Secretary |
Of War ad interim, attended Tues |
days Cabinent meeting and the |
White House historians said it was |
the first time since the Civil War that |
an army officer had sat at the cabi- |
net table.
The Senate unanimously ratified |
the treaty with Hayti under which |
the United States assumes a protec- |
torate over the turbulent island re |
public taking over control of its ii. |
aances and police, guaranteeing its
territorial integrity and undertaking
20 develop its resources.