The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-12
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

The British steamer Argo has been
sunk One member of the crew was
lost
London reports indicate that Earl
Kitchener will take command of the
British army in Egypt.
Four hundred and seventy Bulgars
killed and 900 wounded by French
French and British artillery demol-
ish portions of German trenches on
west front. British advance repulsed
near Melville.
Furious artillery duels are in prog
r1ss along the Franco Belgian front.
The Italians and Austrians are hav-
ing similar engagements
About 14,900 German troops from
West African colony crossed the
border into Spanish territory and
were disarmed and interned.
Apparently authoritative reports in
Washington are that the United
State will accept Germany's latest
suggestion for settlement of the Lusi-
tania case.
Austrian troops are sweeping
through Albania, while the Montene-
grin troops and the Serbs have ef-
fected junction at Durazzo, the chief
Albanian seaport.
Earl Kitchener probably will quit
the British Cabinet to take active COM
mand in the field. A civilian will sue
coed him as secretary of state, but the
war part of his office will be filled by
an officer
Germanys plan of shifting troops
from one point to another was frus-
trated by a united attack by the. al
lies on all fronts. Some ground was
gained by th4 allies, but according to
Berlin the Germans recaptured most
of it.
WESTERN
Nineteen die and twenty towns
swept by Arkansas floods.
Mrs. Pauline Randle was divorced
at San Francisco from her husband,
Jules, who, she swore, has been drunk
for thirteen years.
Two persons were killed and a
third injured in a snow and mud slide
which wrecked two cottages at Mag
nolia Bluff in the extreme northwest
ern part of Seattle, Wash.
Despite a contrary ruling by Attor-
ney General Lucey, the Cook county,
Iu., election board accepted the deci-
sion of their counsel that women may
be allowed to vote for delegates and
alternates to the national conventions.
The Metropolitan Street Railway
Company, under a settlement reached
in the Circuit Court ut Kansas City,
agreed to ray Miss Evelyn Whiting
ton, 16 years old, $500 for kiss ad-
ministered by one of the company's
conductors.
The federation of state medical
boards elected the following officers
at Chicago: President. DR.. David A
Stickler, Denver; vice president, DR..
Walter p. Bowers, Boston; secretary
and treasurer, DIR. Walter L. Bierring,
Des Moines, Iowa.
c. w. Keggale, aged 40, prominent
Baptist minister of Sherman, Tex,
was shot and probably fatally
wounded by Mrs. Finest Faust, who
lives near Denison. The woman fired
five shots. When arrested few
minutes later she said the minister
had insulted her.
WASHINGTON
Public lands committee heard west
ern men on 640-acre grazing home
stead bill.
The House passed the bill to pro-
vide for coinage of 100000 Mckinley
souvenir dollars.
Big gunsites wanted by the United
States at the approaches of the Pana-
ma canal probably will be ceded to
this country by Panama.
The House adopted resolution MAX
ing Immediately available 100000 for
the Mare Island navy yard and $780,
300 for the New York navy yard for
oattleship construction equipment
The annual Indian appropriation
bill. including provision for paying
Choctaw and Chickasaw tribesmen
$7,500,000 in accrued profits on their
lands, was passed in the House. 1t
carries appropriations aggregating
about s10,705,000.
Speaker Clark and Republican Leaf
er Mann fought side by side in the
House for adequate national defense.
With party lines obliterated, most OF
the members followed their leaders
and two navy measures passed with.
out dissenting vote.
Great Britain promised the United
States to permit the prompt trans
portatfon from Rotterdam of a large
eIantity OF sugar beet seed bought in
Austria for sugar beet farms in Utah.
which are exnected to maka the Init