Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-09
FOREIGN

Nine men, all said to have been
Mexicans. we're executed in Aqua
Prieta.
The sale Of all spirits and other
alcoholic liquors has been prohibited
In Denmark. .
It was unofflcialIy reported at Of
tawa that the government has virtual
ly decided to prohibit the expectation
Of potatoes from Canada.
Pablo Dreher, a German citizen and
a friend OF Jose Miguel Gomez, the
rebel leader, was arrested at Havana
by detectives. charged with com
plicity IN the revolution.
The idea that Japan might desert
the entente and join Germany in wa
ging war on the United States was
characterized as utterly preposter-
BUS" by a high government official at
Toxic.
The British Prize Court at London
refused to postpone the confiscation
in the cases of the steamers Kanka-
kee. Hooking and Genesee. all flying
the American flag and alleged to be
German-owned.
The steamer Frederick VIII, with
Count Won Bernstorff, former Ger
man ambassador to the United States.
and his party on board, sailed from
Halifax for Copenhagen.
News dispatches from Holland to
the London newspapers emphasize
the continued indignation aroused
among the Dutch by the recent des-
truction of the Dutch ships by the
German submarines.
"Vive IAmerique" and "vive WI
son!" were shouted by thousands
when Capt. Allen Tucker and the crew
Of the American steamer Orleans
stepped off the gangplank of the
steamer at Bordeaux.
The war may easily extend over
another winter, so far as purely mill
tary factors are concerned, according
to a statement by Gen. Frederick b.
Maurice, director Of military opera
tions for the imperial general staff, in
London.
The recent reports that the Austro-
Hungarian government has deter
mined to make every effort to main
tain diplomatic relations with the
United States is corroborated by in
formation reaching Berne from
Vienna.
The prominence which Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg v in his
address to the Reichstag to discus
sion Of relations with the United
States is regarded at Berlin as indi-
eating his purpose to prepare the Ger
man public for the eventuality which
is looked forward to in many quar-
tiers.
I'VE want 1000 American tractor
plows for the use of a civilian army
Of night blowers which we are about
to enlist throughout the British Isles"
said Sir Arthur Lee, director general
of food production in London. This
new department, which is the out
growth OF Germany's submarine cam
paign, aims at the enlistment of sey-
eral hundred thousand civilians to
cultivate every available bit of soil.
SPORTING NEWS
Jack Britton and Tommy Robson
fought a twelve-round draw at Law
renee, Mass.
A bill passed recently by both
Houses of the Montana Legislature to
permit boxing in Butte was vetoed by
Gov. Samuel Stewart.
Henry Hall of Steamboat Springs
captured the ski long distance cham
pionship at Steamboat Springs by a
jump of 203 feet. This beats. the
worlds record made a year ago by
Ragnar Omvedt of the Norge Ski Club
Of Chicago.
Miss Hattie M. is the latest off
spring of Peter the Great to add glory
to her sire, money for her owner
and a championship for herself. I'm
heralded, almost unnoticed, she was
entered in the Grand circuit duelling
of 1916 to emerge as champion of the
4-year-old PAGERS.
GENERAL
approximately 3d. 900 was ex-
pended in the campaign to re-elect
President Wilson, it was announced
at headquarters of the Democratic
national committee.
Numerous applications have been
made fol- passage on the first armed
steamship of the American line to
sail from the New York port, officials
Of the company announced.
James w. Gerard, former American
ambassador at Berlin, sailed Feb. q
on the steamship Infanta Isabel from
COruna, Spain, for Havana. The
steamer is expected to reach that port
March s or g..
John Wallace, better known as Capt.
Jack Crawford, a noted Indian fighter