The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-17
FOREIGN

al exposition at Sacramento. Cal.
Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
whose death had been expected for
several days, passed away Sunday
morning.
In the American casualties with the
Canadian forces in France reported al
Ottawa was the name OF w. A. Miller
of Cheyenne, Wyo.
Premier Kerensky, at the head of
100000 loyal troops, is marching on
Petrograd, where the Maximalists rap
idly are losing power.
National guard troops of Hawaii
have taken charge of the body of
former Queen Liliuokalani because of
a threatened will contest
American soldiers are rapidly be-
coming expert at patrol work and
their officers say they carry it on in
No-Man's Land as if they had been at
it for years.
The London Morning Post pays a
tribute to President Wilson, saying:
I'VE wish some of our own ministers
| would acquire President Wilson's
knack of saying the right thing at the
right time
With reports in from only one-half
of the districts and only a few of the
large subscriptions that are to come
reported pledges to the victory loan,
the first day aggregate S10,000,000, of
which Toronto's contribution was
| $2,057000.
London is stirred as a result of
speech made in Paris by Premier Da-
vid Lloyd George at a luncheon given
in his honor The premier criticised
the allies unbelievable fault" in not
adequately assisting Serbia to hold
her lines and thus complete the block
ade of Germany.
"a single front, a single army,
single nation-that is the program
requisite for future victory" said
Premier Painleve at luncheon in
Paris in honor of David Lloyd George.
the British prime minister, who has
| just returned from the Italian war
zone, and Signor Barenini, Italian min
lister of education.
The splendor of the days when Ha.
| wall was Iultu ny QuSGH Will De re-
vived at Honolulu when the body of
Lydie Kamakacha Liliuokalani, last
queen Of Hawaii, is laid in the tomb.
The former queens long fight for life
ended Sunday morning at-the palace
where she held court in state during
the days she was ruler of the Sand
wich Islands.
SPORTING NEWS
Thomas Ryan, 16, of Alvarado, died
in a hospital at Dallas, Tex. of in
juries received while playing football.
Michigan's powerful football ma
chine, with Quarterback Weston as
its superground gamer, rolled up
42-to-O score on Cornell at Ann Arbor,
Mich.
The University of Nebraska football
team at Lincoln won its first game in
the Missouri Valley Conference 1917
race by defeating the University of
Missouri team, 80 to o.
Emil C. Jahnsen of Santa Clara was
the first American air pilot to bring
down a hostile raiding airplane over
London, according to letters received
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. II.
Jahnsen at San Jose, Cal.
The Army had an easy time with
the Carlisle Indians at West Point.
N Y, winning by 2S to in a game
which was marked by long runs by
Right End Oliphant and Center Walk
er and Left Halfback Herman.
GENERAL
movement to abolish the practice
of wearing mourning, particularly dur.
ing the war, was discussed by Chicago
| women.
With every county in Ohio reported
officially, prohibition was defeated by
majority of 1,723, on the face of the
returns.
Dr. James C. Monaghan, 60 years
old, United States consul at Kingston,
Jamaica, lecturer and student, died at
his home in New York from a stroke
of apopleXy.
Demands for wage increases aver
aging 40 per cent are involved in
secret vote being taken by conductors
and brakemen on all railroads in the
United States.
Gus Vollrath, former foreman at
the Olympic Steel works, was ar
rested at Seattle, Wash, charged with
causing two explosions at the Olym-
pic plant and one explosion at the
Aurora Foundry Company's works.
Second Lieut.. L. r. Johnson, Can
adian royal flying corps, and Sergeant
Malloy, United States aviation sec
tion, were killed when an airplane in
which they were making a practice
flight fell about seven miles from Fort
Worth, Tex.