Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-02
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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Lieutenant Guynemer has bagged his
twenty-eighth German aeroplane-his
third in s%eventy-two hours-the off
cial wer office statement announced in
Paris.
Renewed fighting has broken out in
the Riga region IN the Russian front,
the var office announced in Berlin.
The result Of the engagements has
been favorable to the Germans.
Capture OF further Russian positions
IN both sides OF the River "A (Riga
'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 a portion Of
which reached the land. There we're
nc 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 OrtegaL.
Germany has started a sudden often
sive toward Verdun-aud 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, LOO 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 500, 1000, 900 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 $1,48O,-
100000. It's circulation of bank notes
was 1886, 10000.
WESTERN
Adobe houses at the American fiel
headquarters in Colonia Dublan were
being blown down with dynamite and
the flooring shipped to Columbus,
N. M.
Filings have been made, within a
period Of three weeks, on between l.
100000 and 1900, 600 acres Of govern
ment land in Colorado under the pro
visions Of the 64O-acre homestead act.
Small Woman, former wife of Sitting
Bull, is dead at the Fort Berthold u
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
c~olonel'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; J.. o. Frebstel of Santa F6,
N. NJ, first vice president; Fred J
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 over $500, 900 people use tn,
national forests as Fairgrounds eacl
year was the statement made
Henry s. Graves, chief Of the Forest
Service, before the annual meeting Of
the American Forestry Association
just closed.
The railway brotherhood leaders a
Washington have laid before Presi
dent Wilson in writing their proposals
for a compromise on his railway leg
1NAN RARhARNh anu h1 ~ NuuHAuEA
ing them. The labor leaders propose
instead Of a law to prevent a strike
or lockout pending an investigation,
that provision be made for investing
ton by a mixed board OF employees
and employers.
The State Department will act i'm.
mediately on the appeal in the inter
est OF George Bacon, newspaper man
supposed to be under arrest In Ireland
II a stated the usual procedure"
would be followed in the Bacon case
which near immediate inquiry will
be made through Ambassador Page
London.
Reports reaching the Treasury De
partment from numerous sources were
that sharpers have been selling at
premium the new designed quarters
and half dollars coined in 1916. repre-.