Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FoR-
 EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News servica
ABOUT THE WAR

Berlin admits loss of two destroy CTS in raid on Dover.
 Argentina demands full satisfaction from Germany for ship lost
 Forty German airplanes reported brought down in days aerial actions.
 Since April 1st, 65.O0O shells have been fired by the Germans into Rheims.
 United States steamer Mongolia sinks German U-boat in British waters.
 Berlin official war statement Thurs day says: There Is nothing of i'm portance to report"
 German torpedo boat destroyers fired 100 shells in the region of Cal ais. Some civilians were killed. Twelve persons were slightly wounded.
 The British hospital ships Donegal and Lanfranc, with many wounded aboard. were torpedoed without warn ing They were sunk on April l7.
 Many thousands of German dead strew the battlefields over which the British and Germans have been en- gagged in titanic struggles for mas tery.
 British. by quick forward move ment, take important positions in the region of Lake Doiran in Macedonia. Four counter attacks by Bulgars checked
 Bonar Laws son reported captured by the Turks. Allies continue drive in Mesopotamia, consolidating posi- tions along the Tigris in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
 Only infantry clash Thursday re- ported southeast of Ypres, where German raiding party was repulsed German thrusts in the Avocourt wood Verdun sector. beaten back with con siderable losses.
 Official adyices 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.
 Barring British attacks at various points along the line, a pause settled upon the great battlefield east Of Ar ras Thursday-apparentIy a pause of utter exhaustion on the part of the Germans, who are obliged to rest without reconquest 10 show for their appalling sacrifices of five days, while the British methodically refor:ified the objectives won in the thrust be- gun on Monday.
 WESTERN
 Governor Lindsey called the New Mexico Legislature 10 convene May 1st.
 At Onalaska, Wis, the council has decided to allow blowing up of the city's back streets for the cultivation of potatoes. The highways will be cultivated by high school boys
 Members of the International Bible Students Association are not under obligations, either oral or written, to refuse to accept military service, ac- cording to c. W. Gerber, San Fran cisco elder of the organization.
 The estate of the late James J. Hill, subject to probate in Minnesota, is valued at s51,l79,8S9.5S, according to report of the appraisers filed at St Paul Of this s1.373,77s53 is real estate. The inheritance tax will be approximately s1.is9,37O.
 Travelling the same route followed by Clyde Armour on his ill-fated trip 10 California, his body, used as evi- dence in the trial at Santa Fe, N NJ, which resulted in the conviction of E. W. Blancett for his murder. was sent to Homer, Neb., for burial. ac- companied by the mother, Mrs. Mary E. A. Armour, and two sisters, Miss Agnes Armour and Mrs. H. E. Bran son.
 WASHINGTON
 \ Food, ships and money-these are the pressing wants Of the allies as stated to the administration in the order of their importance by the Brit ish commission headed by Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour.
 Reports to the State Department through official channels tell of strike of 250,000 laborers in Berlin. The department says the incident shows the growth of desire for peace on Int part Oi NHt "OIhlb it IS reported also that bread rations have been reduced. from sixty to fifty ounces per week.
 To aid the farmers of the nation in meeting the food situation the gov ernment took steps to throw resources approximating sl00,000,000 into the breach The action was announced by the Treasury Department that all postal savings deposits will be made immediately available for loans to farmers.
 Americas commission to the new democratic government of Russia will be headed by Eiihu Root, secretary of war under President Mckinley, secre- tary of state under Roosevelt, and for six years a senator from New York