Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1918-02-17
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
a brief RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EicN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Wssssrn Newspaper Union re~s -srx,eA
ABOUT THE WAR
American gunners defeat Germans
in fierce artillery duel.
Norway announced she will con
tinue TO remain neutral.
Venice and other Italian towns sub
jected 10 enemy airplane raids.
Allies are still stronger than cen
trail powers on western front.
Labor troubles in Germany and Aus
tria seem momentarily suppressed
British casualties reported during
the month OF January totaled 1901,
The British casualties reported dur
ing the week ended Feb. 4 totaled
6.354.
General Bliss considers starting
flow of United States troops to
Europe.
Heavy artillery fighting on the
Aisne and verdun fronts and in
Alsace is reported in the Paris Off
cial communication.
Two French steamers of more than
1900 tons and one under that tonnage
were sunk during the week ending
Feb. 2 by mine or submarine.
The Italian shipping losses by mine
or submarine in the week ending Feb.
2 were very light. only one steamer
under 1900 tons being sunk.
Liverpool troops carried out sue
f.,l r-oiA Of
turing several prisoners and machine
guns says Londons war office re-
port
The admiralty reports fifteen Brit
fish merchantmen sunk by mine or
submarine in the past week. OF these
ten were 1000 tons or over, and five
were under 1000 tons. Four fishing
vessels were also sunk
A cable dispatch to the Norwegian
legation from Christiania says that
during January twelve Norwegian YES
sells. aggregating 1885 gross tons.
were lost by the war" and eight Nor
wegian seamen lost their lives.
The Tuscania. torpedoed and sunk
off the north coast of Ireland by Ger
man submarine Feb ). carried a total
of 1897. The saved number 1926. as
follows: Troops, 2.10e: crew. 1870:
total lost, 10l. Among the American
survivors are seventy-six officers.
There are eighty-one American troops
in hospital The bodies of forty-four
Of the missing 10I victims OF the
Tuscania disaster were washed UP
Thursday on the rocks fifteen miles
from the scene of the torpedoing.
WESTERN
Aviator burned to death in accident
at Houston, Tex.
c. F. Adams of Chillicothe. Mo. was
reelected president of the Pixies Peak
Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association
at the closing session OF the organiza-
lions annual meeting at ST Joseph.
Mo. A. w. Henderson of Colorado
Springs, Colo, WAS reelected secre-
tary-treasurer
By q decision Of Federal Judge VOL
yerton at Spokane the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan Mining and Concentrat-
ing Company is prohibited from
smelling Its own ores for a period of
thirteen yeaSs despite the fact that
the company has recently completed
Q 81 .000. 900 smelter at Kellogg, Idaho.
Last increments Of first draft called
for service on Feb. %.
Ralph C. Ely, federal food admins
traitor for New Mexico. has returned
from Q trip to Washington, where he
had . conference with Herbert C.
Hoover, national food administrator.
concerning marketing Of pinto beans
produced 20 abundantly in Colorado
and New Mexico. Under the plan
proposed the government will pur.
chase all the pinto beans grown in
Colorado and New Mexico at III cents
per pound. Colorado has approximate
ly $4,000. 900 pounds Of the product I'M
cold.
WA6HINGT0N
President Wilson by proclamation
included under the term enemy" in
the trading with the enemy act all
alien enemies who have been per
maneutly interned by the War Depart.
ment.
The soldiers and sailors civil rights
bill, providing . moratorium for men
in the military establishment. was
unanimously passed by the Senate.