Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-10-06
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union rsws ssrvics.
ABOUT THE WAR

sunk by submarine in the Mediter-
ranean, says Berlin admiralty report.
Athens diplomatic circles report
that the Austrians are about to evac-
uate Triest, the chief port of the Teu-
tonic powers on the Adriatic.
British troops on Somme advance
mile, capturing German trenches.
Other allied successes reported by
French and British war offices.
Berlin estimates that the entente
allied armies on the Somme have lost
100000 men in killed, wounded and
prisoners as a result of the recent
offensive over the long front.
Ninety thousand Germans under the
personal command of Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg cut to pieces by the
French on the Somme. according to a
report to n Paris newspaper, La
Liberte.
Two British subjects and thirty-six
out of thirty-eight Carranza soldiers
were killed when Villistas raided an
oil camp near Tuxpam Sept. 16, ac-
cording to officers of the tank steam
er Topila, which arrived at Calves
ton, Tex.
The tide in the great battle for pos
session of Dobrudja has turned in ia
lin, claiming that the flank of the
Russo-Rumanian army has been
turned and that the enemy beat
hasty retreat in disorder
Important Teutonic successes re
ported from Sofia, which declares Ser
bian troops have been routed. Allied
war statements forwarded to Paris
and London via Saloniki dispute the
official reports issued by war offices
of the central powers.
WESTERN
Butte, Mont, was selected as the
1918 meeting place for the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Storming the jail. fifty armed men
lynched Bert Dudley. avenging the
brutal murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Muller, for which he was convicted at
olathe, Kan.
Hipolito Villa, brother of Francisco
villa. and his financial agent in the
days when Juarez was a wide open
town, was released from federal GUS
tody and set at liberty.
Prospectors. spectators and. in one
instance. a Denver oil company, have
been turned back recently from the
Lost Soldier and Mahoney Dome oil
lands in Wyoming by the withdrawal
of the land from entry.
IL.
funeral of his lifelong friend, Nicho-
las Entringer, at st. Cloud, Daniel
Kempf, 92 years old, Fond Du Lac
county, Wis, pioneer, was struck and
instantly killed by freight train.
Military funeral services for Col.
John II. Beacon, Sixth United States
infantry, who died recently while
commanding this regiment at Colonia
Dublan, Mex, were held at FL Paso.
Tex. The body was sent to Wells
Vile. Ohio, his former home, for
burial.
WASHINGTON
An interest rate of 31s per cent for
fifteen-day notes at the Dallas Fed
eral Reserve Bank was approved by
the reserve board.
Miss Phyllis Julia Neilson-Terry,
the English actress, and Cecil Frank
King Ogden, her manager. were mar
ried in the British consulate at New
Orleans, La.
Austria-Hungary has decided to
grant permission for re-establishment
OF American Red Cross units in the
dual monarchy, withdrawn several
months ago because of lack of funds.
Two Wyoming National guard in
fantry battalions. Troop A of the Kan
sas cavalry and Troop b of the Wis
eonsin cavalry were ordered to the
Mexican border by the War Depart
uent.
The Department of Justice clamped
down the lid on the pending black
mail prosecutions. Hereafter. Off
cials of the department say, the
cases will be prosecuted in the
courts and not in the newspapers"
Brig. Gen. j. ]. Pershing, COM
mander of the American punitive ex-
pedition in Mexico and ranking
brigadier of the army, probably will
be made a major general, vacancy
in that grade having been created by
the death of Major General Mills.
Consul General Skinner at London
cabied the State Department that two
American sailors, William Wootton of
Harrison, n. j., and Bernard Sweeney
OF Bayonne, N. j.. were saved from
the British steamer Strathtay, torpe.
dood by a submarine Sept. in the
English channel.