The Ordway new era., 1917-05-04
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

first day OF the battle OF Vimy ridge
Forty German airplanes reported
brought down in days aerial actions.
Austria aircraft make raids on Tren-
tino front and engage Italian scout
flyers.
French gain near Cerny despite
desperate efforts OF Germans to make
stand.
Since April LIST, 5000 shells have
been fired by the Germans into
Rheims.
United States steamer Mongolia
sinks German U-boat in British
waters.
British capture quarries in night
attack near Hargicourt. German at
tack near San Quentin fails.
Bulgarian war office announces vic
tory In battle between the Vardar and
Lake Doiran. British retake old posi-
ton near DoldzeIli
The expenditure of gun ammunition
in the second week Of the Arras bat
tie was the greatest in the history OF
the world, It is stated
German torpedo boat destroyers
fired 100 shells in the region OF Cal
ais. Some civilians were killed. Twelve
persons we're slightly wounded
The British hospital ships Donegal
and Lanfranc, with many wounded
aboard, were torpedoed without warn
ing. They were sunk on april II.
Many thousands OF German dead
strew the battlehelds over which the
British and Germans have been en-
gagged in titanic struggles for mas
terry.
Bonar Laws son reported captured
by the Turks. Allies continue drive
in Mesopotamia, consolidating posi-
tions along the Tigris in the vicinity
of Jerusalem.
Active artillery fighting along the
Riga front, particularly in that sector
where Russia started her December
offensive. was reported in Petrograd
official statement.
Official advices to the State Depart
ment said the Mexican government
had warned Germans in Mexico that
any concentration of Germans near
the American border will be followed
Immediately by their arrest.
WESTERN
Colorado and Wyoming, with 20l
naval recruits for the week, stood third
among the stations of the western
division.
Francis X. Bret Harte, last suryiv-
ing son of the California author and
poet, died at Monte Carlo. according
to word received al San Francisco.
AT Onalaska, Wis, the council has
decided to allow plowing up of the
city's back streets for the cultivation
OF potatoes. The highways will be
cultivated by high school boys
A car of No red wheat was sold
in the sample department OF the Chi
cago Board of Trade Friday at 1904,
and at st. Louis car OF the same
grade brought s3.lO. These prices far
outstrip all previous records.
Reports that 119 men had been i'm
prisoned in the Victor-American coal
mine No. 2 at Hastings were received
at the state mine inspectors office In
Denver at noon Friday. State Inspec-
tor Of Mines Dalrymple at once de
parted for Trinidad to investigate.
The estate Of the late James ].
Hill, subject to probate in Minnesota,
is valued at s5f,l79,889 according
to report of the appraisers filed at
st. Paul. or this s1,373. 1888 is real
estate. The inheritance tax will be
approximately s1.4s9,370.
WASHINGTON
Action to prevent even suspicion
OF graft in the disbursement Of 81. .OOO,-
600 army funds has been taken by the
War Department.
President Wilson has approved re.
quests from France and Italy for i'm.
mediate financial aid, and from $780,
100000 to $300.000,00O will be lent
them by the United States.
With enactment of the selectiye
draft army bill the War Department
10 preparing to set machinery in mo-
tion without delay to produce under
the measure within two years a
trained army of 100000 men.
Substantial increases in the war tax
were made by the subcommittee of
the ways and means committee. The
bill is devised to raise about 81 800.
100000 yearly.
The Irish home rule question. 1t be.
came known, has been discussed ut
the conferences between members Of
the British commission and American
government officials.
Joseph Letter, president of the
Army League, mas appealed to Col.
Roosevelt to withdraw his offer to
faige and lead q division of volunteers
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