Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-09
FOREIGN

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 The revo!utionists have been de- feated in battle at Babahoyo, the capi- tai of the province of los Rios.
 Sir Leander Starr Jameson. leader Of the Jameson raid on the Transvaal in 1895. shortly before the Boer war. died in London.
 Germany has again attempted 10 de- tach Japan from the allies and again been refused. according to word reach ing Amsterdam.
 Lady Mackenzie. wife of Sir VII liam Mackenzie. president of the Can adian Northern railway. died at her home in Toronto.
 All goods for Russia have been stopped at Haparanda. Sweden. op- posite Tornea. Finland, and are being returned to Narvik.
 A substantial vanguard of the great army of American aviators, which eventually will operate in France. has arrived near the front.
 A redeclaration of the allies war aims can confidently be expected to follow the Paris conference of the in terallied war councils.
 American soldiers stationed in Par is and the suburbs, as well as those at various training camps and bases. sat down to an old-fashioned Thanks giving dinner
 A bill has been submitted to the German Reichstag authorizing the chancellor to dispose of a credit of l5.0o0. 100000 marks for extraordinary expenses. says a Berlin dispatch.
 Teuton attacks against the Italian positions in Albania at & point ten miles northeast of the Adriatic sea port of Avlona were repulsed with heavy losses. the Italian war office announced at Rome.
 A conference of Russian political leaders assembled at army headquar- ters for the purpose of forming a gov ernment representing all parties, ac. cording to a Petrograd dispatch to the London Times.
 NVuht tLtifI, lIe AuSt1o-ffuNRdE- ian foreign minister, in discussion with the delegates of the upper house. said. according to a Vienna dispatch. that Austria was ready to enter into negotiations with Russia for an hon orable and acceptable peace
 That 50o.00O Kirghise Tartars were massacred in the summer of 1916 be- cause they revolted against the ex- czar's transference of their best graz ing lands to his iavorites is stated in the Manchester Guardian by NJ Phil lips Price. special correspondent just returned to London from a visit 10 the remote region on the borders of Rus sia and China.
 SPORTING NEWS
 A Thanksgiving Day shoot was held by the Denver Trap Club.
 Earl Puryear. who meets Joe King Leopold at the Lakeside A. C. on the night of Dec. 5th in fifteen-round bout, started training in Denver.
 The Wyoming University defeated the Teachers College at Greeley, Colo. by a score of s to Q. The Cow boys scored safety in the first pc riod
 Clarence Shockley Of Casper, Wyo.. made a new Western track record at the local fair grounds. covering the mile circle track in minute II 2-5 seconds.
 Displaying the same faultless form which has enabled them 10 win from all of their other antagonists this year. the University of Denver football elev- en closed their season with a 2s-to-7 victory over Colorado college at Union park in Denver
 Pennsylvania defeated her old rival. Cornell, g to 0. in their twenty-fifth annual game in Philadelphia In the quarter of century of football be- tween the two universities Pennsyl- vania has won twenty games, lost four and one was tied.
 A flash of gloves guided by the nim- ble brain and responsive sinews of the worlds lightweight champion, a stum- bling. bewildered opponent gropine blindly against a storm of blows, and Benny Leonard was standing over the prostrate form of Sailor Frankie Kirk just one minute and twenty seconds after the opening gong of their bout at the Stockyards stadium in Denver GENERAL
 War taxes can be paid in quarterly periods.
 Secretary McAdoo authorized anoth- CT credit to Belgium of $7,50Q, 900, making the total credits to Belgium 65.900,0 900 and the total 10 all the allies s3.s33 .900.0
 Miss Marion Cleveland, daughter of former President Cleveland, was mar ried at Princeton. N. J.. to William Stanley Dell of Morristown, N J.. a graduate of Princeton in the class of 1916.
 Oliver H. Payne, the tobacco mil lionaire. who died June 27th last, left an estate exceeding $32 900. 900, ac- cording to the report of the deputy state comptroller filed in the surro- gates court in New York.
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