Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-25
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

SOHSLantlnOple reports o,uVu NUS
SLAMS killed in three days of fighting.
Infantry attack of Italians against
Monte San Michele repulsed by Aus
trians.
vaya, Albania, eight miles south of
the capital.
Premier Asquith will ask. in few
days, a new British credit of about
$4,000. 100000.
Sinking of French cruiser Admiral
Charner by submarine confirmed.
Four hundred men killed.
French airmen raid Bulgar camp
in Macedonia, dropping many bombs
and causing considerable damage.
Indications in diplomatic circles are
that Germany will insist on her policy
of sinking all armed ships without
warning.
The allied powers have agreed to
make no peace until Belgium's politi-
cal and economic freedom and integ-
rity is assured.
Petrograd is jubilant over the sue
cess of Grand Duke Nicholas in the
Caucasus. Russian military experts
say the power of the Sultan in this
region Is broken.
Erzerum. the Turks greatest strong
hold on the Caucasus front, is in Rus
sian hands and with It were captured
,vp.yvv turks, the German Field Mar.
shall Won der Goltz and more than 1000
guns.
Rumania, encouraged by the cap
ture of Erzerum by the Slays, is re-
ported as ready to join the allies and
strike at the Kaiser as soon as n
Russian force to screen the mobiliza-
tion can be massed.
At the opening of the British Par.
lament, Premier Asquith announced
the war was costing s24,0O0.000 day.
He added that a credit of about ST.
50O,000,000 would soon be asked. Lord
Kitchener spoke on the urgent need of
more soldiers.
WESTERN
From 100000 to 100000 wild
ducks are dead or dying on the Chey-
enne bottoms near Hoisington, Kans..
according to w. C. Tegmeier, state
fish and game warden.
The Japanese cruisers Chltose and
rokIwa, on board of which is said to
be S51 100000 in gold specie for the
purchase of war supplies for Russia,
arrived from Japan at Victoria, b. c.
The nationwide search for Jean
Crones. supposed poisoner of the
banqueters who partook of soup
served at the recent dinner in honor
of Archbishop Mundelin. was contin-
ued in Chicago
New equipment. mostly rolling
stock, to cost S2,vOO,OOO to $4,000. 900,
has been ordered by the Southern
Pacific Company, according to an
nouncement made at San Francisco
by company officials.
Five indictments charging white
slavery were returned by the federal
grand jury at Lincoln. Nebr The
men indicted are John w. Campbell,
James McCavlan, Harry T. Howell,
Edward Hegg and ]. ]. Ramsey.
WASdlNGION
More than 100 communities thru
out the country are preparing to OBJ
serve baby week. March to IL, ii
was announced by the Federal Chill
dren's Bureau.
President Wilson signed the first of
the national defense bills. One in
creases the entrance class at the ma
val academy by 300 cadets and the
other makes Immediately availa BILE
100000 for facilities for building war
ships at the Mare Island navy yard
and 100000 for like improvements at
the New York navy yard.
Secretary Lansing accepted the Lu-
sitania agreement as acceptable to
the United States insofar as 1t relates
10 that case, but asked Count Won
Bernstorff. the German ambassador,
for assurances that Germany will not
carry out its policy of sinking mer.
chant ships without warning to liners
even if they carry defensive arma-
ment
The Senate, So to is, ratified the
iouE-pending and persistently-opposed
Nicaraguan treaty whereby the Unit
ed states would acquire a 99-year op-
tion on the Nicaraguan canal route
and n naval base in the Gulf of Fon-
SEGA for s3.oUO.0OO.
Tie Democratic caucus OF the
House of Representatives went on rec
ord in favor of abolishing the free
sugar clause of the Underwood tariff
Tho vote was 81 to 20 This action
prvCipitated bolt of ten Democratic
representatives, among whom were
Heating and Hilliard of Colorado.