The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-01
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o NG 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS. SUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
About the War

turcd Dy AustTlanS.
More than 1.5OO.OO Christmas pack
ages were sent 20 soldiers on the con
tinent
Germans retake summit of Hart
manIs-Weille-kopf on western front,
capturing 800 prisoners.
Kaiser loses 5000 men in an at
tempt to break through British lines
in Belgium and France.
Japanese liner Yasaka Maru, with
one American on board, sunk without
warning by submarine. No lives were
lost
David Lloyd-George has threatened
to quit the cabinet unless Asquith
keeps pledge to force 'slackers" into
army.
British clergy declare nation will
be in poverty at end of war. London
press demands Lloyd-George be made
premier.
Germany informs Greece the Teu-
ton armies hope to reach Saloniki by
Jan. Is. and promises to evacuate
Greek territory ''as soon as the task
is finished"
Replying to written question by
p A. Moltens, member of the House
of Commons. Premier Asquith gave
the total British casualties up to Dec.
8. as J2S.227.
The British parliament has voted
to increase England's army to 4.c00,-
900. An appeal for financial aid from
the people, and a snakeup in the Brit
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London.
No changes have come in the Greek
cabinet as the result of the recent
e.ection. None will be made, accord
ing to Athens reports. The policy of
Greece in regard to the activities of
Teutonic and allied troops within her
borders remains unchanged
The sinking of a French liner by a
Teutonic submarine has brought the
relations OF the United States and
Austria to the breaking-point. No
warning was given the vessel and
eighty persons lost their lives. Four
other ships of the allies have been
sent to the bottom.
Western
Gen Crenville NJ. Dodge is reported
critically i'll ut his home at Council
Bluffs. Ia. He is S4 years old.
Salary increases aggregating $780,
600 for the year 1916 will be a New
Year gift of the Pullman Company to
certain of its employees.
The remaining 4S3 saloons and six
teen breweries in Iowa will close Dec
81 because of the repeal of the mulct
law by the Legislature year ago and
Iowa will be legally dry.
Col. Edward Jay Allen, aged 50,
friend of President Lincoln, member
of the staff of Gen. Fremont during
the civil war and one of the first
settlers of Seattle, Wash, died at his
home at Pittsburg. Pa
Micnsel Kneiss. resident of
Ravenna. Neb., is 100 years of age,
yet he declares that he never spent a
dollar for medical attendance in his
life. He has all of his teeth except
two. which he extracted himself with
pair of pincers several years ago.
Until after he was so years of age
his eycsight was unimpaired.
Washington
Nearly 1000 bills were introduced
in Congress before the holiday recess
Charges that American Consul Ed
wards at Juarez. Mexico, had given an
interview calling Carranza bull
headed old fool" were under investi-
cation.
The death rate in the United
States among babies of mothers who
work outside their homes far exceeds
the infant mortality where the mother
is not so employed.
Unless unexpected developments
interfere. all American consular Off
GERS withdrawn from territory in
northern Mexico controlled by villa
upon the recognition of the Carranza
government sosn will resume their
stations. Surrender of Villas army
in Chihuahua and the successful op-
erations of Carranza forces in other
sections have about satisfied State
Department officials that the consul
ates can be reopened with safety.
Unprecedented problems with which
the Federal Bureau of Immigration
has had to deal as the result of the
war in Europe are pictured in the an
nual report of Commissioner General
Anthony ,Caminetti. made public by
the secretary of labor.
Permission was given for 5000
more CarranZa troops to pass
through, the United States on their
way from Aqua Prieta to Juarez.
Secretary of the Interior franklin
X Lane has issued an order releas.
ing, $1,000 acres OF land for settle
ment in Socorro county, New Mexico