The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-06-01
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIE
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War

Germans ridicule report of U-boats
In American waters.
Simple American invention is deal
ing death to German submarines.
A new Teuton army of 100000
men is reported nearly ready to strike
France.
The first American combatant
corps went to the front under Capt.
E. l. Tinkham and Lieutenant Scully
OF Princeton.
On eastern front Russian artillery
fire against Austrians increases In in
tensity. presaging approach OF hostili-
ties on great scale.
Swedish ship engaged in the work
OF the Belgian relief commission was
sunk May 18th. notwithstanding 1t
held German permit to sail.
From scissors eastward intense ar
tiliery duel is in progress between
French and Germans. Since May 1st.
French have taken 5000 prisoners.
The British transport Transylvania
was torpedoed on May 4th with the
loss Of 4l3 persons. The Transylvania
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Austrian war office says Italian cas-
ualties have been very heavy More
than 1900 unwounded Italians has
been captured up to Sunday, says the
statement.
Artillery duels continue between
French and Germans in Champagne
region. Along front held by British
operations are being carried out main
ly by small raiding parties.
Seventy-six persons were killed and
ia injured in Dover or Folkestone,
England, in the most ambitious raid
upon England yet made by German
aircraft. or the killed, 81 were women
and % children.
On Carso plateau above Gulf of
Trieste. Italians smash across Timavo
River and capture village of San Gi-
ovanni, two miles northwest OF Dunno
To the north. in vicinity of Jamiano
Italians capture fortified Austrian
trenches and along Julian front make
further gains and consolidate posi-
tions previously taken.
Western
Whale meat may soon be put on
market in cans.
A gunnysack containing United
States army instructions and regula-
tions was found under a viaduct and
turned over to the police by a boy at
San Francisco.
William II. H. Miller, United States
attorney general when Benjamin Har
rison was President, died at Indian
apolis. aged 76. Death followed an ill
ness Of several weeks.
Tornadoes in three days In seven
states killed approximately $50 per-
sons. The injured will total more
than 1,200. With the property loss
running into millions, the stricken
communities are preparing to rebuild.
Several shots were fired from the
direction OF men going to work at the
United Verde mine. after stones were
thrown at them by men In a crowd
OF strike sympathizers at Jerome,
Ariz. The shots went wild All the
workers were disarmed when they
reached the mine.
Washington
Seven cardinal points regarding reg
istration presented by War Depart
ment
The United States position against
granting passports for attendance up
on the Stockholm Socialist conference
Is unchanged.
The War Department announces the
selection Of Amityville, L. l., and
Greenville, s. c., as concentration
camps for the national army
With dreams OF wealth unrealixed,
homesick American negroes have pc
titioned the acting governor of the
gold coast colony in Africa to send
them back to Texas. which they left
In 1914. led by Chief Sam, who pic
tured lives OF ease.
Treasury officials closed the inter-
national ledger for May with another
debit to ths British government of
$75,000,000, bringing the total thus far
lent Great Britain up to $4OO, 200, ,OOO |
A payment Of $75.0O0,OOO also was
made to Italy on her credit of $IvO,-
100000 previously announced.
The administrations food survey
bill, first Of the food control meas
ures, was passed by the House Mon
day without record vote 1t appro-
priated $14,770,0oo for an immediate
investigation of the countrys food re-
sources and for measures to stimulate
production
A bill by Senator Poindexter of
Washington to punish malicious stor.
ing of foodstuffs and other necessar-
les, under penalties of from six I
ronths to three years Imprisonment
was favorably reported by the Senate
judiciary committee.