The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-03-09
FOREIGN


de Arriaga. ex-president Of Portugal.
The Reichstag has adjourned until
March 20, according to a Berlin dis
patch to Reuters by way Of Amster-
dam
Major Elvin r. Heiberg. American
military attache at Rome. was killed
in fall from his horse while visiting
the Austro- Italian front.
Eight lives were lost when the
Coquahalla hotel at Hope. B. c., eighty
miles east OF Vancouver, burned. The
building was an old frame structure.
The French government has sum-
moned Germany to reply without de-
lay to the propositions for reciprocal
treatment of prisoners of war made
by France.
Kaiser Wilhelm has issued a procla-
nation to the German empire an
nouncing that the railway systems are
now under military control, according
to adyices from Berlin.
President Menocal sent a message
to Congress requesting authority to
suspend the constitutional guarantees
and asking for appropriations neces-
sary to quell the rebellion.
Bulgaria considers she must adopt
in whole the attitude of her ally, Ger
| many, and break with America, ac-
cording to dispatches reaching Lon
don from semi-official Bulgarian press
! agencies.
The trial of the four persons
charged with conspiring to murder
Premier David Lloyd George and
Arthur Henderson, labor member OF
the war council, began in London at
the Old Bailey before Justice Law.
1t is reported from Madrid by the
Havas agency that Wilhelm Boelke.
brother of Capt. Boelke who was
killed on the western front after de-
stroying forty French and British air
planes. has just been appointed Ger
man consul at. Cartagena, Spain.
The German governments plan for
involving Mexico and Japan in war
with the United States, in event OF
hostilities between Germany and
America, was defended in an address
before the Reichstag by the foreign
secretary, DR.. Alfred zimmerman, as
quoted in Reuter- dispatch from
| Amsterdam
That part of Belgium in Germany's
hands has been divided into three
provinces. with the cities OF Brussels.
Namur and St. Apus, designated as
capitals, according to Berlin advices
German governors have been ap-
pointed for each of these districts, the
scheme OF government being the
same as that in German occupied Po-
land
SPORTING NEWS
Bryan Downey won from Jack Brit
ton OF Chicago in slow twelve-round
bout at Columbus, Ohio.
The Kansas Agricultural College
team defeated the University OF Mis-
souri, at basketball at Columbia, Mo-.
&c to %, in a Missouri Valley confer
ence game.
At the end of the twenty-third hour
of the six-day bike race at San Fran,
cisco, eight teams had covered 420.5
miles, which is AZ miles better than
the worlds record.
Jack Dillon has accepted an offer
from Denver to fight Les Darcy in
that city within thirty days. The
purse amounts to $4,000, according
to word received from Jack Kanner
promoter of the National Athletic
Club of Denver.
Denver has been designated ma
tional tennis center, and in the fu
ture will have an important part in
the nationwide campaign undertaken
Tennis Association to further the de
velopment of young tennis players.
Earl Cooper won the George
Washington sweepstakes" automobile
race at Ascot speedway at Los An
geles, covering the 100 miles in
hour, 81 minutes and 46 seconds, an
average speed of 6S,35 miles an hour
class B speedway.
GENERAL
Four men were reported missing
following an explosion which wrecked
the enameling department of the
branch plant of the Ford Motor Cal
Company in Cincinnati.
Theodore Roosevelt has declined ar
invitation of representatives of the
Congress of Forums to debate the sub
ject of preparedness in New Yorl
with William Jennings Bryan.
An appeal Ito the rich and well-to
do Of New York city to buy carefully
to eat moderately and not to waste
any food" was issued by Mayor Nit
chefs food supply committee in the
hope it was announced, of reducing
} prices to consumers generally.