The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-29
FOREIGN

success in its peace efforts.
For the week ending Sept. 10 Brit
ish army casualties totaled 27,164.
The food controller has fixed the
price Of bread in London at 20 cents
for four-pound loaf.
Baron Napoleon Courtyard of Paris
will take to the altar as his bride
Miss Eva Buckingham Gebhard of
New York and Paris.
Nine persons were killed and much
property damage was caused at Port
Antonio in the hurricane which struck
the island Of Jamaica.
The Siamese government, according
to a dispatch from Bankok to Reu-
ter's, has called for volunteers who
may be sent to the western front.
Half a score of Mexico City news
papers were ordered to cease publica-
ton on the ground that their further
issuance was contrary to public mu-.
ality.
Gen. Douckonine, chief of staff to
the commander on the western front,
has been appointed chief of staff to
the commander-in-ch chief of the Russian
armies.
The shortage of print paper in Be-
lin is SO serious that many of the
city's important newspapers were un-
able to appear Saturday, according to
Berlin advices.
The German military authorities at
Bruges, Belgium, are conscripting
forcibly all the men and boys of that
district between Ia and 60 to work in
munitions factories and shipyards.
Ten thousand Polish-Americans who
will be part of the United States army,
are to go into training at once at Nj
agara camp near Niagara-on-the-L Lake,
1t was announced at Toronto, Ont.
The American army Young Mems
Christian Association has leased the
Hotel Richmond, just off the main
boulevard in Paris, and it will be
opened Oct. 1 as a combination Off
GERS club house and hotel.
The British steamship Virginian,
6,S27 tons, formerly an Allan liner in
transatlantic passenger trade, is said
to have been one of the victims of
the massed attack by German subma-
rines on a conveyed fleet of British
merchant vessels off the Irish coast.
SPORTING NEWS
Capt. James Prentice of the balloon
school at Fort Omaha suffered bro
ken arm when trying to land at Sol
diers, Iowa, after flight with three
students.
Pete Herman signed articles for a
twenty-round bout at New Orleans,
La, Nov. IL with frankie Burns of
Jersey City. Herman will receive
$4,000, win, lose or draw.
Capt. Lauriat, one of the most dar.
ing italian aviators, who twice has
been decorated with military medals
for valor, accompanied by an OBJ
server, made the first Italy-to England
flight, repeating the feat in 1910 of
the late George Chavez in crossing the
Alps. Capt. Lauriat covered 700 Eng.
lish miles in 722 minutes.
GENERAL
Strike conferees at Frisco reach ten.
tative wage agreement.
At Clarksville, Tex, one bale of long
staple cotton was sold by B. G. Lewis,
farmer, for 40 cents a pound.
CASTOR Bullock Means was arrested
at Concord, N. H, formally charged
with the murder of Mrs. Maud A.
King.
The price of silver made another &c
advance Sept. 81, going to $10Sh an
ounce, gain of &c in a week, making
the high mark since 1890.
Bakers of New York announced that
the price of a fourteen-ounce loaf of
bread would be cents if the price
of flour is fixed at s11 barrel.
William A. Holman, premier of New
South Wales. speaking at luncheon
in Boston, urged autonomy for Ireland
as we'll as for Belgium and Serbia.
Nearly GOO Harvard seniors out Of a
class of 700 have Joined their coun-
try's colors, it was learned at Cam
bridge, Mass, when but about 100
were on hand for enrolment.
The defense in the case of CASTOR
B. Means, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Maude A. King, consented to
having Means bound over to the grand
jury at Concord, N. H.
Kansas, Arizona and Nebraska won
sweepstakes in exhibits of cereals,
fruits and vegetables. respectively, at
the International Soil Products Expo
sition at Peoria, Ill. Saskatchewan
was third in the exhibit of vegetables.
In county exhibits Fillmore county,
Nebraska, was first and Des Moines
county, Iowa, second.
Following the finding of poison in
one or two water holes in cattle
ranges, cattlemen are having water
holes closely guarded near Ell Paso,
Tex. 1t is believed the poison found
,rnr tho ran1lt of Garrnan ralot tn