The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-09-28
FOREIGN

lion and half bushels.
The vatican is optimistic OF ultimate
| success in its peace efforts.
For the week ending Sept. 10 Brit
ish army casualties totaled 27.l64.
The food controller has fixed the
price of bread In London at 20 cents
for four-pound loaf
Baron Napoleon Courtyard of Paris
will take to the altar as his bride
Miss Eva Buckingham Gebhard of
New York and Paris.
Nine persons were killed and much
property damage was caused at Port
Antonio in the hurricane which struck
the island of Jamaica
The Siamese government. according
to dispatch from Bankok to Reu
ter's, has called for volunteers who
may be sent to the western front.
Half score OF Mexico City news
papers We're ordered to cease publica
tion on the ground that their further
issuance was contrary TO public mo:
ality.
Gen Douckonine. chief OF staff to
th' oIl 'HN "tot'ih iioiii'
has been appointed chief of staff to
the commander,in-c chief of the Russian
armies.
The shortage OF print paper in Be-
lin is SO serious that many Of the
citys important newspapers were un-
able to appear Saturday. according to
Berlin advices.
The German military authorities at
Bruges, Belgium, are conscripting
forcibly all the men and boys OF that
district between IA and 60 to work in
munitions factories and shipyards.
Ten thousand Polish-Americans who
Will be part of the United States army,
are to go into training at once at Nj.
agara camp near Niagara on the Lake,
1t was announced at Toronto. Ont.
The American army Young Mems
Christian Association has leased the
Hotel Richmond. just off the main
boulevard in Paris. and 1t will be
opened Oct. as combination Off,
GERS club house and hotel
The British steamship Virginian.
6,S27 tons, formerly an Allan liner in
transatlantic passenger trade, Is said
TO have been one of the victims OF
the massed attack by German subma-
rines on a conveyed fleet of British
merchant vessels off the Irish coast.
SPORTING NEWS
Capt. James Prentice of the balloon
school at Fort Omaha suffered a bro.
ken arm when trying to land at Sol,
diers, Iowa. after a flight with three
students
Pete Herman signed articles for
twenty round bout at New Orleans,
La. Nov. IL with frankie Burns OF
Jersey City. Herman will receive
$4,000, win. lose or draw
Capt. Lauriat, one OF the most uar
ing Italian aviators, who twice has
been decorated with military medals
for valor. accompanied by an OBJ
server. made the first ltaly-to England
flight. repeating the feat in 1910 OF
the late George Chavez in crossing the
Alps. Capt Lauriat covered 700 Eng
lish miles In 722 minutes.
GENERAL
Strike conferees at Frisco reach ten.
tative wage agreement.
At Clarksville, Tex, one bale of long
staple cotton was sold by B. G. Lewis,
farmer. for 40 cents pound.
CASTOR Bullock Means was arrested
at Concord, N. H.. formally charged
with the murder Of Mrs. Maud A.
King
| The price Of silver made another &c
advance Sept. 2l, going to $1.0Sh an
ounce. gain Of SC in week, making
the high mark since 1890.
| Bakers of New York announced tha,
| the price of a fourteen-ounce loaf OF
bread would be cents II the price
of flour is fixed at $1l q barrel.
William A. Holman. premier of New
South Wales. speaking at luncheon
in Boston. urged autonomy for Irelant
as well as for Belgium and Serbia.
Nearly coo Harvard seniors out of g
class of 700 have Joined their coun
try's colors. 1t was learned at Cam
bridge. Mass, when but about l0C
were on hand for enrolment
| Ihe defense IN the case OF Castor
B. Means, charged with the murder Of
Mrs. Maude A. King, consented tc
having Means bound over to the grant
jury at Concord, N II.
Kansas. Arizona and Nebraska wor
sweepstakes in exhibits OF cereals
fruits and vegetables. respectively, a
the International Soil Products Expo
sition at Peoria, III. Saskatchewan
was third In the exhibit of vegetables
In county exhibits Fillmore county
| Nebraska, was first and Des Moines
| county, Iowa, second.
Following the finding of poison ir
one or two water holes in cattle
ranges, cattlemen are having water
holes closely guarded near Ell Paso