The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-03-04
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


against the Turks in Asia Minor.
The German submarine policy went
into effect at midnight on Feb. 20.
Berlin reports that 1876 men and
2eS officers have been captured so
far in the Verdun fighting.
In the Dvinsk region of Russia the
Slavs have driven the kaiser's forces
back and advanced th1ir line
The German losses during the first
four days of the battle around Yer
dun are estimated at 10000.
French artillery, massed to cover
sections where the Germans are most
active, is tearing great holes in the
TeuJon ranks.
The British report a victory over
desert tribesmen in which the broth
er of the Turkish minister of war
was killed.
British casualties in all the war
area, as published during the month
of February, showed a total of 739
officers and 17,S47 men.
Germany has directed a sharp note
to Portugal protesting against the
seizure of German steamers in the
Tagus river and at st. Vincent.
President Wilson has written to
the House Rules Committee urg-
ing prompt action on the resolutions
in connection with the U-boat policy
of the United States.
The kaiser has now 10000 men in
the division that is driving on Yer
dun. Reports indicate that Ger
mans are constantly making small
gains, but at terrific cost in lives.
The British steamer Westburn has
been captured by a German commerce
raider. When taken into port the veg
sci had aboard 2O6 prisoners taken
from various vessels sunk by the
raiders.
More than 100000 German soldiers
are plunging against Verdun with Or
ders to take the fortress or die trying.
The German commanders seem to be
willing to make any sacrifice in lie
TO win the position.
Revised figures shows that 122 per-
sons, including fifty-five passengers,
are missing and probably lost in the
sinking of the Peninsular and Oriental
liner Maloja. The bodies of forty
seven have been landed at Dover.
WESTERN
At Castle Rock, Colo the four
miners charged with the murder of
Major p. p. Lester in 1914, were &C
quilted by a jury.
Concerted action throughout the
West for the development of perma.
nent federal highways linking all the
National parks is the purpose of
proposed conference to be held in
Yellowstone Park this summer.
A. e. Minimum, former president of
the International Asbestos Mills and
Power Company of Wyoming, was
fined $3.50 in Denver by Federal
Judge Robert e. Lewis on his plea
of guilty to the use of the mails to
defraud shareholders.
Three hundred or more guests were
made i'll, probably by ice cream, at a
Methodist banquet Feb. 90, it became
known at San Francisco, following
an official report of the incident to
the Methodist Ministers Association
by the Rev. Samuel Qnickmire.
The desire of Mrs. Laura Hilton,
II, to testify against her husband,
Robert T. Hilton, at his trial for muir
der for the killing of her friend, viii
our Gatlin, in Cheyenne. Wyo., prob
ably will be defeated. At the pre-
liminary hearing Hilton's counsel OBJ
jected under the law which forbids
the admission of wifes testimony
against her husband
WASHINGTON
Confirmation OF reports that Gen
Felix Diaz had left the United States
for Mexico to start a new revolution
was received at the Department of
Justice from several different quar-.
tiers.
A favorable report of the admins.
tration's bill to repeal the free sugar
clause OF the tariff law, which would
become operative May /, was author.
lied by unanimous vote of the House
ways and means committee.
Maj Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, Secretary
OF War ad interim, attended Tues.
days Cabinent meeting and the
White House historians said 1t was
the first time since the Civil War that
an army officer had sat at the cabi-
net table.
The Senate unanimously ratified
the treaty with Hayti under which
the United States assumes a protec.
torate over the turbulent island re
public. taking over control of its fl
nances and police. guaranteeing its
territorial integrity and undertaking
to develop its resources.