The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-07
FOREIGN


date estimated at 100000 men.
Count Okuma, the prime minister
of Japan, resigned owing to his ad-
vanced age.
The London foreign office stated
that the reply to the American note
regarding the censorship of mails is
on its way to Washington.
The British schooners William
George, 151 tons, and Pearl of Truro,
144 tons, and the Norwegian schooner
Manuel of Tonsberg, have been sunk.
A young English girl has written
to DR.. Rochon Duvigneaud of Paris,
offering to give one of her eyes to
a soldier who has lost his sight serv-
ing France.
A Zurich dispatch asserted that the
kaiser had personally appealed to
President Wilson to end the war, but
that the president had refused to in
tervene ut this time.
Twenty-Five workmen were killed
through the collapse of a portion of
the railway tunnel Of the Vise-AiX-La-
Chapelle line, according to the Am
sterdam Echo Beige.
Gen. Carlos Ozuna arrived in Chi
huahua City with 1900 infantry and
cavalry from Saltillo by way of Tor
reon to take the field in Western
Chihuahua against the bandits, led by
Villa and Jose Ynez Salazar.
In a fight which broke out at Man
aqua, Nicaragua, during the election
OF G. Chamorro as president of the
republic, Salvador Zelaya, a nephew
of former President Zelaya, attacked
a group of conservatives, shooting and
killing four of them.
No alien of a nationality at present
hostile to Great Britain may form
business connections in the island of
Jamaica for a period of twenty years
after the termination of the war, ac-
cording to the terms of a resolution
adopted by the Colonial Legislature at
Kingston, Jamaica.
DEGREES issues at Mexico City by
Gen. CarranZa provide for the COM
plete re-establishment of tribunals of
justice throughout the republic. Gov
ernors are ordered to carry out the
laws of each state according to the
constitution and to appoint magis-
trates and judges for the regular
term. All the courts must be in opera
tion by November 1.
SPORTING NEWS
Abe Attell, of New York, was given
the decision over Stanley Yoakum in
his fight at Denver.
Kid Williams, the bantamweight
champion of the wo,l1, outclassed
Benny Kaufman. Pnila6elphia's best
bantamweight, in six rounds at Phila-
delphia.
Brooklyn clinched the National
league pennant Tuesday by defeating
New York 8 to @, while Philadelphia,
the runner-up, was losing two games
to Boston.
Mrs. j. V. Hurd. of Pittsburg, who,
as Miss Dorothy Campbell, was cham
pion woman golfer of this country,
Great Britain and Canada, was medal
ist in the qualifying round of the wom-
ems national golf championship at
Belmont Spring Country Club at Bos-
ton.
Two worlds records were made by
The Real Lady in winning the two
year-old division of the Kentucky fu.
turity, the principal event of the open
ing day of the fcrty-fourth annual
meeting of the Kentucky Trotting
Horse Breeders association at Lex
ington.
GENERAL
City Marshal Starr of Braggs, Okla,
and Dart Dazzler were killed in a
revolver fight in which John MARROW,
a policeman, was wounded seriously.
The tentative tax list of New York
city on real estate for 1917, shows a
total assessed valuation of nearly $s,-
600, 100000. The tentative assessment
on personal property is placed at
$500, 100000.
The body of a well-dressed and ap-
parenuy wealthy woman about GO
years old, who had been shot twice
in the head and robbed. was found
in clump of bushes Just outside
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Clarence Meyers, 23 years old, con-
fessed that he murdered William
Travis, 43 years old. a well-to-do farm
er, living near Fremont, Mich, last
October, to make clear the way for
his marriage to Travis wife, AZ years
old.
Germany will be ready for any trade
war her enemies may wage against
her after the end OF hostilities in the
field, says Gen. Henry H. Morgan,
United States consul general at Ham,
burg, who has just returned to New