Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-02-18
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD or IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news Services.
ABOUT THE WAR

The French have captured addition
al German forces in West Africa.
Zeppelin sinks in North Sea with all
It's crew after being fired on by
Dutch.
Fighting In East Gallcla confined
principally 10 aeroplane attacks by
both sides.
Berlin claims the defeat OF a strong
Russian force In East Galicia. While
the British say they are sweeping the
Germans from Africa.
II Is asserted by Petrograd newspa-
pers that the Turks have evacuated
Erzerum, n OF their principal strong
holds In the Caucasus front.
Germany refuses to use word I'll.
legal" In apology for sinking Lust
tanla and situation between that ia.
ton and United States is grave.
The Russians have placed the Turks
In a precarlous position at Erzerum.
Eighty thousand men are tied up In
the city with only two weeks pro
visions.
Austrian troops are sweeping
through Albania, while the Montene.
grin troops and the Serbs have o..
fected a junction at Durazzo, the chief
Albanian seaport.
England's is demoralized
by the activity of German raiders.
that, according to reports, slipped past
the British fleet guarding the outlets
Of the Kiel Canal.
Fifty.four persons we're killed AMI
sixty-seven injured In Monday night'c
Zeppelin raid. The figures. were OH.
tained In an official statement is.
sued at London.
Two Greek soldiers, five refugees
and seven workmen were killed and
fifty civilians were injured by the in.
flammable bombs dropped from the
Zeppelin In the Salonikl raid.
British warships are comblng the
seas for the raiders while the diplo'
matte branch OF the government 10
crying "piracy" and demanding that
the United States restore the Appam,
the Teuton's prize, to Britain.
WESTERN
John NJ. Parker was nominated for
governor at q Progressive party con.
ventlon at New Orleans, La.
Relief for the 1000 flood sufferers
in the lower Arkansas river bottoms
was sent from Little Rock.
The Methodist church paid I 300
900 In pensions TO retired ministers
and widows and orphans OF ministers
during 1915.
At st. Louis President Wilson told
an audience Of $4,000, cheering tumul-
tuously below him, that the United
States should have the greatest navy
In the world.
Cicero, ILL.,, citizens provided a
trained nurse and n baby's wardrobe
In trlplicate when triplets. all girls,
were born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Foyel OF that village.
The name OF Charles w. Bryan,
brother OF former Secretary OF State
Bryan, was filed as a candidate for
the nomination Of governor OF Ne.
braskn, subject to the Democratic pri
mary.
The convictions OF Dom NJ. Rob
erts. former mayor OF Terre Haute.
Ind, and ten others found guilty with
him OF election frauds. were sustained
by the United States District Court Of
Appeals at Chicago.
WASHINGTON
The House passed the Heating child
labor bill.
Governor Goethals OF the canal
zone asked appropriations OF s19,3O0,.
600 for completing the Panama canal
and $s,230.OOO for further fortified.
tions.
midas cotton crop this year, accord.
Ing TO the third forecast, is estimated
at 3.6s7,OO0 bales OF 400 pounds, a de.
crease Of &c per cent from last years.
crop.
President Wilson was attacked as q
lingo" and his campaign for pre-.
%paredness as an "unwise attempt to
scare the people into 4 program they
do not want" by Senator Works be-
fore the Senate military affairs com
mittee.