The Monte Vista journal., 1916-07-08
STORY OF THE week
eHoWiNo THE PROGRESS or
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union views Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


Desperate fighting continues on
the Italian front. with the Italians
generally having the advantage.
Hundreds of aeroplanes are acting
In the Somme offensive and numer-
GUS aerial battles are taking place.
The battle OF verdun is proceeding
with undiminished fury. Germans re-
take Thiaumont work for fourth
time. after massed attack.
London reports Substantial prog
ress" by the British troops, although
the Germans recaptured some posi-
tions which they had lost.
Three more villages captured by
French in the great drive in the river
Somme region. Official estimates
place the total prisoners at $4,000.
Gen. Foch's army now is close upon
Peronne, one of the most important
stragetic points along the front.
Trainload after trainload of ma
tional guardsmen pulled into Ell Paso
Sunday, but while many unloaded at
the station in the vicinity of Ell Paso,
the great majority were rushed on TO
points westward to complete con-
centration on the frontier as rapidly
as possible.
The gains OF the British and French
on first day OF great drive were:
Drove Germans from four strongly
fortified towns and captured every
first line trench over front of six
teen miles; hammered wedge five
miles deep through strongest portion
Of German lines. scattering enemy in
headlong flight Captured a large
number OF second line German
trenches; pounded German trenches
as far as the third line into mass
Of debris following u seven-day bom-
bardment; surrounded the formida-
BILE German position in the town of
Fricourt, hemming in the garrison.
French troops recapture Thiaumount
work at Verdun and village of Curlu,
mortars razing German trenches on
the Somme.
WESTERN
Three deaths from heat were re-
ported to the police in st. Louis,
July 3.
George A. Knight, who in 1908 made
the chief speech nominating William
Howard Taft, died at San Francisco.
The Fifth and Seventh regiments,
National Guard of California, left
Sacramento for somewhere on the
border"
Nathaniel Garrett, quartermaster
sergeant, Fourteenth regiment, New
York National Guard, stationed at
Mission, Tex, died suddenly of heart
disease.
Reports from the entire country
show eight deaths and 100 persons in
jured as the toll of the Fourth of July
celebration, as compared with nine
teen killed and 903 injured in 1905.
Howard S. King, 40 years old.
nephew of Mrs. Corinne Wheeler, for
merly OF Carthage, Mo, was charged
with the murder of his aunt in her
home at Seattle, April 5. with an axe.
Louis w. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railroad, was ap-
pointed administrator of the estate of
his father, James ]. Hill Judge
Baseille OF the Probate Court fixed
the administrators bond at 5000, 900.
The value of the estate Is consider.
ably In excess of the slO.35O,000.
WASHINGTON
The bill to establish a national
park service with central system of
supervision passed the national house
Of representatives.
The army appropriation bill. re.
vised by the Senate military commit
tee. carries s32S0Oo,OO 900, an increase
OF $l4G.OO0,OO0 over the bill passed
by the House.
Gen. Carranza's reply to the last
American demands-a temperate
document, which, 1t IL said, will avoid
break-reached the Mexican EN-.
bassy July 4. Those close TO the
Mexican ambassador said the note
was written by Carranza himself and
that 1t averted possibility OF war be
tween the two nations. In brief, the
note is a proffer OF the olive branch,
suggesting either mediation or direct
negotiation for settlement of differ.
ences between the two countries.