Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-04
FOREIGN

resolutions against conscr1ption.
The British military service bill is
meeting with favor in the House OF
Lords.
The United States note to England
is a strong protest against interfer-
ence with mails.
The British government has or
dered formal investigation of the
sinking of the Persia.
Gen. Viktor Won Podbielski. former
postmaster general and a close friend
of Emperor William, is dead in Berlin
at the age of II years.
Rome that the condition Of Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria, who has
been Ill for several days. is rapidly
growing worse.
According to the Amsterdam Tag
lische Rundschau, DR.. Karl Helfferish,
secretary of the imperial treasury, has
| prepared a scheme for additional taxa
tion to yield s125.00O.000.
German newspapers which have
just reached London lay great EN-.
phasis on the Importance of the mis-
sion of Col. Edward NJ. House. Presi-
dent Wilson's personal representative
to Europe.
Parliament was prorogued until
Feb. Is. In the prorogation King
George said: I'VE shall not lay down
our arms until we have vindicated the
cause which carries with 1t the future
of civilization"
Con Volar;ono yyoyIar uou, TT uoorr
old. has been appointed president Of
central general staff of the Spanish
army, which has Just been created by
royal decree. according to dis
patch from Madrid.
The electoral court at Athens has
seated in Parliament sixteen deputies
from northern Epirus-that portion OF
southern Albania as far south as Ko-
ritsa, which was occupied by Greece
without authorization after the Lon
don conference.
Since the outbreak OF the war to the
end Of last October, 254 British merch-
ant steamers. aggregating 542,64S tons
| were lost through enemy action" ac-
| cording to white paper issued in
London. OF these I'll were sunk by
submarines; 46 by warships and 81 by
mines.
The British government has spent
s60.000.000 in America since the be-
ginning OF the war in the purchase CT
horses for military purposes. This
fact is revealed in report issued by
a special committee appointed to con-
slider steps to be taken in England
and Wales with the object of securing
an adequate supply of horses suitable
for cavalry and artillery work at the
front.
SPORTING NEWS
The tennis team of Leland Stanford
University will play the University OF
Colorado team in Boulder, Colo, in
May.
Herman B. Duryea, for many years
a prominent figure in American rae
ing and yachting circles. died at Sar.
anac Lake, N. Y.
Jim Coffey of New York. knocked
out Lew Bodie of Montana in the fifth
round of a ten-round exhibition bout
at Syracuse. N. Y.
| Fred Fulton was awarded a referees
decision in the scheduled twenty
round bout with "Porky' Flynn at a
New Orleans arena.
The Denver team No. 2 took first
place in the five-men team competi.
ton at the State Bowling tournament
at Pueblo, Colo, by rolling 2,72O.
Standing toe to toe with the Den.
yer man and beating him at his own
game. Milburn Saylor won a newspa.
rer verdict over Stanley Yoakum in
ten rounds at Kansas City.
A furious stand on a game leg in
the last round won Joe Rivers of Los
Angeles, Cal, the popular verdict
over Ritchie Mitchell of Milwaukee in
their ten-round no-decision bout at
Cincinnati.
GENERAL
The United States Steel corporation
declared n quarterly dividend of IA
per cent on its common stock.
At Yuma, Ariz. Thursday. 900 In.
dians and scores of families wero
homeless as a result OF the flood.
Railroad and wire service in Utah
and adjoining states was seriously in
terrupted Friday as & result of heavy
snowfall and high wind.
Eight men. the crew of the steam
schooner Aberdeen, were given up for
lost at San Francisco when wreckage
from the boat began coming ashore
two miles and half below the harbor
entrance.
AT least fifty persons were known
to have been killed late Thursday
when the lower dam of the San Diego