The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-01
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

| Berlin reports the capture ol fNus-
sian positions near Jacobstadt, be-
tween Riga and Dvinsk.
Five per cent of the drafted men
will be mobilized Sept. 5th, others on
Oct. 3rd, and the balance as soon as
practical.
Results of the heavy fighting on
the Canadian front are reflected in
the casualty lists, totaling over 1000
| for the week end
The Riga campaign seemingly has
halted, indicating the Germans do not
contemplate trying to capture the
great Baltic seaport.
President Wilson cabled the Mos
COW council, backing up the blood
and iron" rule of Kerensky and
pledging new Russia Americas aid.
AS the result of British attack on
the Flanders front the British lines
have been advanced along front of
more than 1000 yards astride the st.
Julien-Poelcapelle road.
On the frontier of Bessarabia, in
Bukowina, the Russians are again
showing disaffection, having deliber-
ately quit their trenches, which were
later occupied by the Germans.
The French gained an advance of
1000 yards and captured 1000 men in
an assault near Verdun Monday. The
German assaults on the Aisne front
also have been blocked by the
| French.
The Italians kept up their valiant
drive Tuesday, winning new positions
on the Bainsizza plateau. AS the ad-
vance continued alarm spread in the
city of Triest and that town was evac-
uated by the civilians.
The cessation of activity in the
French ranks around Verdun leads to
the belief that the Petain forces are
gathering for another big drive in
that section. Reinforcements have
been added to the victorious lines.
Along the front in Flanders and
northern France hard rains have set
in, causing an abatement in the fight
ing. The Germans have ceased their
counter attacks in the Verdun sector,
evidently finding their task useless.
WESTERN
Eugene S. Ives, general counsel tor
the Southern Pacific company of Mex
leo, and for many years a practicing
attorney of Tucson, Ariz., died sud-
denly at Mist, Cal.
Following the disclosure that the
department proposes to commission
| $4,000 men in the first increment of
the selective draft army, it was learn
ed that preparations are in the max
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serve camps during the next year.
Seventeen Mexicans captured by
Gen. Pershing's punitive expedition in
Mexico last year and accused of par
ticipation in the Villa raid on Colum-
bus, N. M, pleaded guilty to second
| degree murder before District Judge
Ryan at Deming and were sentenced
to serve from II to so years in the
New Mexico penitentiary.
One hundred and twenty-five tracts
of oil and gas lands located in the
withdrawn ceded portion of the Sho-
| shone or Wind River Indian reserva-
tion, in Wyoming, will be offered for
lease for oil and gas mining purposes
only to the highest responsible bidder
by the United States government at
Fort Washable, Wyo., on Oct. 10.
WASHINGTON
Copper prices will be fixed by Pres
ident Wilson.
Senator Johnson of California Of
fered an amendment to the war tax
bill to make the war profits tax 80
per cent.
| President Wilson replied to the
pope's peace note. declining the prof
fer of peace along the lines suggested
by the vatican.
President Wilson will lead the pa
rade of capital national army men
when they mobilize for entrainment
for camp Sept. 5.
Americas present War Congress will
be a $30,000,00O,0 session. OF this
colossal sum, $7,147,222,90 has been
1 appropriated since Congress convened
in March. More than $23,000,Oo0, 900
additional, in pending estimates and
others to be made soon, must be cared
/ for before the session quits.
Appropriation of 100000 for build
| ing military roads from the Panama
canal back into the jungles as a pos
sible aid to repelling invaders was re-
quested of the House by the War De-
partment.
Housewives to the number of 10000
have been enlisted in a movement to
tell Uncle Sam what they have in
their pantries on a given day, what
their families need to eat for a week.
and what their monthly ration is.
The United States is supply dicta-
tor for the world.