The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-02-19
Foreign

| men have enlisted in Clnada for ser.
vice overseas.
The British steamship Elswick
Manor has been beached off Var
mouth. Her crew was saved.
The first proclamation calling upon
unmarried men eligible for military
| service under the conscription act was
posted at Wallasey, near Liverpool.
Track-laying on the governments
Alaska railroad from Anchorage to the
Matanuska coal fields was stopped by
a strike of the steel gang working at
| Peters creek
| A suggestion of the possibility of
the conclusion of peace in the near
future is made by Baron Won Zedlitz
of the Prussian diet, according to the
Vossische Zeitung.
| A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from Amsterdam says
that Emperor William has announced
his decision that the marriage of
Prince Joachim is to take place at
Potsdam on March IL.
1t is expected the next vote of credit
ment reassembles. The statement is
made unofficially that the vote will
be for e250. 100000. bringing up the
total of war credits to E1.912 900, 900.
The London Board OF Trade has an.
nounced a pension plan whereby wi
dows of fishermen killed in the war
will receive $500 in addition to e2G
while the wife of any fisherman who
is interned will receive e1 weekly.
A dispatch to the London Post from
its Berne correspondent states that
Germany is making strenuous efforts
to induce the Poles to agree to accept
autonomy under the suzerainty of
Germany. III which event Germany
viii form an additional army of 900,-
900 Poles.
An official statement issued at
Rome, according to the Rome corre-
spondent of the Havas agency, says
that the French and Italian ministers
have come to an agreement on the
necessity for closer coordination of
the efforts of the allies. so as to as
sure more perfect unity of action.
Sporting News
Ad Wolgast will clash with Freddy
| Welsh in ten-round bout at Milwau.
kee March G.
The Swedish Football Association
has invited the American Football AS.
sociation to play a match in Sweden
next summer
Charley White. well-known New
York scrap umpire. was picked to ref
cree the Willard Moran heavyweight
bout in New York March 8.
George Bauer of Goldfield was given
the decision over frankie Murphy OF
Denver at the end of fifteen rounds OF
fighting at Cripple Creek. Colo.
Henry Webb. champion rough rider
in 1913 at the Cheyenne Frontier
Days celebration, died at his home in
Wheatland. Wyo., from injuries re-
ceived when the horse he was riding
slipped on the ice and fell upon him.
Stoughton Fletcher, an indianapolis
banker and race horse breeder. an
nounced that he had purchased Peter
the Great, 2:07A, the noted sire. from
w. Il. ID. Stokes of New York The
price is reported to have been $4,000.
Ragnar omtvedt of Chicago was
awarded first prize in the professional
division of the annual sli tournament
of the Norge Ski Club of Chicago at
Cary, ILL., Omtvedt scored 2S5 points
| Henry Hall of Steamboat Springs,
Colo, was second with 27S l-3 points
Carl Hall. also of Steamboat Springs,
made l9S.
| General
The New York city Board of Health
announced the Inauguration of a ten.
perance crusade.
John Townsend Trowbridge, poet
and author of stories for boys. died
at Arlington, Mass.
Mrs. X. Grant. co, OF Rochester,
| n. Y, died when piece of toast she
was eating lodged in her throat and
strangled her.
Eight persons died in New York
| Monday as result of the cold wave
which sent the mercury down to 2
degrees above zero.
The list of victims of the mine ex-
plosion at Ernest. Pa, reached twen-
| ty-six, with the death OF stephen Fer
ris, 80 years old, miner.
President Wilson visited Fortress
Monroe at Newport News, Va, and in
spected the great guns that guard the
entrance to Chesapeake bay.
The bell in Kings chapel. cast by
Paul Revere, which has long been un-
der repair, was rung for the first time
in ten years in memory of Lincoln $
birthday.