Tombstone epitaph., 1917-06-03
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN This AND FOR
 EiGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK rHe PROGRESS
 OF THE ACE.
ABOUT THE WAR

American marines have been or dered 10 proceed to France.
 The Germans used burning liquid in futile attack northwest of Rheims.
 Volunteer now in the regular army or national guard service or be draft ed after June 5th.
 Italian line to the south now within ten miles of town of Trieste-most i'm portant objective in Itsly's war
 Our troops successfully raided the enemies trenches east of Vermelles,' says the war office statement from London.
 The British steamship Tela. a yes sel Of about 1000 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine May 2nd off the English coast
 A Swedish ship engaged in the work of the Belgian relief commission was sunk May 18th. notwithstanding it held German permit to sail.
 Italians smash Austrian line on ten mile front. Forts and towns taken from Castagnavizzs to gulf of Trieste. More than 5000 prisoners taken.
 From Soissons eastward intense ar tillery duel is in progress between French and Germans. Since May lst French have taken s.G00 prisoners.
 The British transport Pennsylvania was torpedoed on May 4th with the loss of 4l3 persons The Pennsylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
 The Russian provisional government announced that it unitedly rejects separate peace but aims at a general peace without annerations or indem- mites.
 Germans launched offensive on Russians at MiAu but were stopped by heavy gunfire. Russians also drive back Teuton attacks east of Koyeika iu Rumania.
 With the fall of Bullecourt, the cap ture of the chemical works, the occu- patton of Roeux and the general even ing up of the British line. the first phase in the new British offensive in France is over.
 Al Paris il was officially announced that the French liner Sontay. a vessel of 7,27i tons. bound for Marseilles from Salonika with 344 passengers, was torpedoed on April 10th with a loss of forty-five lives. Captain Mages went down with the ship.
 regiment of veteran United States marines equipped as regular infantry will go to France as part of Maj Gen. John J. Pershing's command. There will be approximately 2.600 men in the regiment, probably the largest numerically that will be engaged on the western front.
 WESTERN
 strike of 2,5OO union miners in the United Verde zone at Jerome. Ariz, called Thursday.
 Twelve persons were killed and twenty or more others were wounded in riot in Monterey.
 The plant of the Norfolk, Neb., Packing Company. with a stock of canned beans valued at more than s100,000, was destroyed by fire.
 In Texas. near Fort Worth, an Amer ican reaper began to hum the first notes of the worlds greatest agricul- tural symphony-the harvest Of the 1917 American wheat crop.
 A United States grand jury at Chey- enne, after listening to evidence for nine days, indicted nineteen men in connection with "highgrading" in the Cripple Greek district. Colo.
 The Treasury Department an nounced the allotments of Liberty bonds and the following Western states are counted upon for the fol lowing amounts: Wyoming, S2,50O,- 900; Arizona. s3,00O, 900; Colorado. s14,0O0,000: New Mexico, sl.500 900: Montana, s9,5O0,000, and South Dako- ta, s9,500,000.
 Colorado and Wyoming recruits for the United States army have passed the ,000 mark since April 1st, total ing I,047 men. Tabulation completed under the direction of Mai c. N Bar ney from April 1st to May 18th, show that in proportion to the assigned euota, Wyoming ranks seventh and Colorado sixteenth of all the states contributing to Uncle Sam's service WASHINGTON
 Literacy test raised to allow Mex jeans to work on farms
 Crop conditions in United States are reported much improved.
 The House passed the war revenue bill raising s1,s0o.O00,s00
 Southern representatives defeated proposed tax on raw cotton.
 Socialists of America are denied passports to Stockholm conference.
 All the big antitrust suits before the Supreme Court were ordered reargued next term.
 The Senate finance committee be gan a radical revision of the House biU levying q 1.soo. .oo0. 900 war taxes.