The Ordway new era., 1917-02-02
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
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

ABOUT THE WAR
Lieutenant Guynemer has bagged ms
twenty-eighth German aeroplane-hls
third in seventy-two hours-the OH
cial war office statement announced IN
Paris.
Renewed fighting has broken out IN
the Riga region on the Russian front
the war office announced in Berlin
The result of the engagements has
been favorable to the Germans.
Capture of further Russian positions
on both sides of the River Aa (Rlsa
'front.', and repulse OF strong hostile
counter attacks on the east bank, has
been announced in official statements
in Berlin.
A small unidentified German vessel
approached the Suffolk coast and fired
a number OF shells, only portion OF
which reached the land. There were
no casualties and only insignificant
damage.
Dispatches from Montevidio re-
ceived at Buenos Aires declared on re-
liable information that the German
raider has been identified as the for
mer Hamburg South American liner
Cap Ortsgal.
Germany has started a sudden often
sive toward verdun-and an offensive
whose first clash with the French de-
tenders has been marked by desperate
hand-to-hand fighting on the slopes Of
Dead Mans hill.
Capture of Russian fort positions Of
more than six miles extent, with four
teen officers, 1,700 rank, and thirteen
machine guns was announced in the
German official statement from Prince
Leopold's front on both sides OF the
River Aa, Riga sector.
More than ss6,o0o,000 in gold was
sold to the Bank Of England by the
Bank of France in 1916. That sum
does not include loans of gold payable
after the war The Bank of France
has advanced the government s1,4s0,'
100000. Its circulation of bank notes
was 1896, 100000.
WESTERN
Adobe houses at the American fiel
headquarters in Colonia Dublan were
being blown down with, dynamite and
the flooring shipped to Columbus
N. NJ.
Filings have been made, within a
period of three weeks, on between l.
coo, 900 and 500 900 acres of govern.
ment land in Colorado under the pro
visions Of the 640acre homestead act
Small Woman, former wife of Sitting
Bull, is dead at the Fort Berthold Il
dian reservation in western North
Dakota from burns sustained when
fire destroyed her shack at Lucky
Mound.
The famous painting of Buffalo Bill
by Papicina, the Italian artist, and
many other rare and costly trophies
owned by the old scout, will be in.
trusted to Denver's care for the
people of the country" according to
plans which have been made by the
colonel's widow.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal.
ers' Association, which held its con,
vention in Denver, elected the follow.
ing officers: W. R. Grier of Cheyenne
president; ]. o. Frebstel of Santa Fee
N. M, first vice president; Fred /
Conine OF Denver, second vice presi,
dent; Henry Larsen of Rawlins, Wyo.,
third vice president; Larry Maroney
of Denver, treasurer.
WASHINGTON
The amount of whisky consumed by
the American people in 1916 apparent.
ly was greater than in any previous
year since 1909, according to tax re,
turns to the Treasury Department com.
piled in Washington.
That oyar 5nn mn raonIo ,sa ~,