The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-04
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STORY OF THE week
GLOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEITs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
western Ne" paper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR

at Retimo, Crete.
Austria has concentrated soldiers
on the Danube to check any possible
coup by Rumania.
The British war casualties pub
Hshed in January totaled 1919 Off
GERS and 1854 men.
A Zeppelin raided Saloniki Monday
night A Greek warehouse contain
Ing oil and sugar was destroyed.
Zeppelins again raid Paris. Twenty
four persons were killed and twenty
seven injured ia Saturday nights raid.
Essad Pasha and 10000 Albanians
effect junction with Italian army and
prepare to hold back Austro Hungar
fans
The United States sent note to all
belligerents proposing new rules to
govern submarines and merchant YES
sells.
French troops are still landing on
Greek soil. The allies appear deter
mined to strengthen their position in
Greece until it is practically impres-
nable
hS NbosiauS dNt IIdANi thC III NJ
IN q precarious position at Erzerum.
Eighty thousand men are tied up in
the city with only two weeks pro-
visions.
Fifty-four persons were killed AMI
sixty-seven injured in Monday night'G
Zeppelin raid The figures were con
tained in an official statement is
sued at London.
Rumania is about ready to form an
alliance with Greece against Bulgaria.
according to Russian reports. Ruml-
man troops are under arms and are
massed on the borders of the central
powers.
A German raider, the Moewe, loose
on the seas, with known record OF
seven enemy's ships sunk and another
captured. at a time when the Ger
man naval flag was believed to have
been swept from the ocean, except for
submarines, is the most startling fea-
ture that attracts attention to the
capture of the British liner Appam,
and her daring dash across the At
iantic to a haven at Hampton Roads.
WESTERN
Clovis, N. M, voted dry 337 to
273
Railroads in southern Colorado are
using dynamite in an effort to clear
the tracks of ice and snow.
Grating and extortion were re-
ported at San Diego to have broken
out in connection with the relief
work for flood sufferers in the Otay
valley.
President Wilson, speaking at De5
Moines. la, Tuesday night, dealt with
the futility of messages and words OF
protest to meet breaches OF interna-
tional law.
Churches in Newport, Ark. SUNDAY
night abandoned service and virtual
Iy every able, bodied man joined in
the work on the levees. which are be
ing strengthened against the threat
snine floods.
The Rev. Madison Slaughter, pas
tor of a Chico, Cal, church. who was
indicted at Oroyille for alleged of
lenses against Gertrude Lamson. a
minor, was at liberty on $4,000 bail
following his arrest at Chico
sermon by the Rev DR. Mark A.
Matthews. pastor of the First Presby-
terian church. and formerly moders.-
tor OF the Presbyterian church Of
North America, denouncing the raid
ing OF private residences in search of
ontraband liquor, was a subject of
much comment at Seattle, Wash.
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court recessed until
Feb 81.
The postoffice bill carrying $1,000
900 increase over last year. was re-
ported in the House
By vote OF IS to IA the Senate re-
fused to eliminate from Philippine
bill provision under which naval base
would be retained in islands
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill
IN the United States Senate provid-
ing for a munitions plant at Pueblo
Colo. The bill calls for an appropria-
ton of s10,000,000, and directs the
secretary of war to appoint three of
ficers to select suitable site
Three million bales OF cotton were
consumed in making gunpowder dur
ting the last year, 100000 in Europe
and 100000 in the United States.
Appropriation of 100000 and use OF
army tents and equipment for relief
or flood sufferers in Mississippi val
ley proposed by Representative Rus
sell of Missouri.
The conviction of David Lamar,
sat-
sonating a member of Congress was
sustained by the Supreme Court when
his motion to dismiss the indictment