The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G 3, ACHIEVE
MENrs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News servics.
About the War

German raider and armed British
merchantmen sunk in North sea bat
tie.
The cars troops are still chasing
the Turks out of the Black sea coast
region.
British capture small Turkish fort
in Mesopotamia by surprise attack.
Turks lombard Kut-el-Amara.
The entente allies have promised
Belgium she will be invited to partici
pate in the peace negotiations.
The Germans are making stubborn
resistance to the Russians between
Dvinsk and wilma. but have lost two
lines of trenches near Postavy.
Intense cannonading reported to
the north of Verdun. Both sides are
using their big guns and the infantry
is idle while the artillery duel RACES
The Germans, after a period OF
comparative quiet, have again begun
sheiling Bethincourt, lie Mort
Homme and Cumieres, west of the
Meuse.
A French biplane, whose observer,
n Greek volunteer, Albert Mi"vachi, a
native of Saloniki, was shot down at
a height of 5000 feet, falling into
Lake Doiran.
The British expeditionary force
campaigning against German East
Africa is making further progress in
its aggressive operations. according
to an official statement at London.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from Copenhagen
says the German armed trawlers sunk
by the British outside Sylt harbor
were named Braunschweig and OTTO
Rudolf.
The British have blown up about
100 yards of German trench in the
region of st. Eloi. They have also
captured 600 yards of first and sec
ond line German trenches in bayo-
net charge.
Western
Cole Younger, the famous bandit,
died at his home at Lees Summit.
Mo.
Progressives in Kansas will hold
their state convention at Topeka on
May 25.
Five men. four OF whom are Off
GERS or members OF the Butte. Mont.
BARRIERS union, were arrested in con-
nection with the dynamiting of
cut-rate barber shop.
The Republican state committee
has selected Cheyenne as the place
for holding the Wyoming convention
to elect delegates to the national con-
vention, and designated May s. rs
the date.
Mrs. Alice Ruiz. who was among
the passengers OF the steamship Sus.
sex when the vessel was struck by
torpedo or mine in the English
channel, is daughter of Mrs. Frank
Webb OF Denver. Her mother was
visiting in Boulder when notified
that the young woman was safe in
Paris.
A meeting at the Denver Uniol
Station between a 200-pound Wyom-
ing rancher and a Colorado Springs
nurse, which, the nurse says, was 10
result in a wedding. weeks honey
moon and then happy days on big
Wyoming ranch, is still IA dream of
the future, as the rancher failed to
appear.
Returning American refugees and
cattlemen at Ell Paso. who know the
country where Villa has taken refuge.
are unanimous in their expression
that villa will never be taken. The
nature of the country and the fat
that villa is among his own people,
hn he
capture unlikely, they declare.
Washington
A total of 1888 recruits have been
added to the army in the last ten
days, the War Department announced.
Thomas j. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic national committee, who
has been i'll for several months as
result of pneumonia, died at his
home in Washington.
Army officials are satisfied tina,
the end of the pursuit of Villa is near.
There are $4,000 Carranza troops III
the state of Sonora, shutting off ali
escape for Villa to the west.
The literacy test was kept in the
immigration bill by the House WORK
ing in committee of the whole by \
vote of 225 to 50, which defeated
motion by Representative Sabbath oil
illinois to strike it out.
Threatened complications in the
Mexican situation disappeared when
he Senate Republicans decided to
accept administration assurances
hat sufficient troops were on the
border for protection of American in
erests, and determined not to carry
he agitation for more troops further
It this time.