Tombstone epitaph., 1918-01-06
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

SAAS W kAAb
compromise has been effected be
tween the Bolshevik and the Social
Revolutionists and a coalition govern
ment is being formed. the telegraph
agency announced at Petrograd
Col. del Rosso and Monte Val Bella
on the Asiagc plateau were recap
tured by Italian forces in a counter
attack Dec. &c. but it was found i'm
possible TO hold them, the Rome war
office announced
The British armed steamer Stephen
Furness has been torpedoed and sunk
by German submarine in the Irish
channel, it was officially announced
at London. Six officers and ninety
five men were lost.
A British air squadron dropped a
ton OF bombs on the great commercial
city Of Mannheim. on the Rhine, in
Germany. Numbers of fires were
started. One British plane was
forced TO descend.
The War Department al Washing
ton has made public fifteen more
deaths in the expeditionary forces
abroad. OF these two were killed in
action, one the result Of wounds re-
ceived in action and another in an
airplane accident.
The losses TO British shipping show
a material decrease for the past week
According 10 the admiralty report
n1 priffSh ho r-r ~
tons or over were sunk by mine or
submarine, as well as one merchant
man under that tonnage and one fish
ing vessel
Increased cannonading near Yer
dun, especially around Douamont, the
Chaume wood and the Caurieres wood
which a year ago were the scenes of
some OF the fiercest fighting of the
war, indicates apparently the inten-
ton OF the Germans to attempt TO
break the line there. The allies are
making every preparation to meet the
attack
While their guns lombard the west
ern front, the Germans are taking
troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere, despite the provision OF
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
ing such action. The artillery activi-
ty N France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank of the Meuse. north
east OF Verdun, the scene OF the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
The Government, through mediat-
or, now controls all labor conditions
in every packing plant in America.
Fred Green and Miss Jessie Whar-
ton we're killed almost instantly near
Butte. Mont, when a train struck
their automobile.
The Great Western Sugar Company
paid out $4,000 to a hundred farm
ers in Bitter Root valley. At Billings
the company distributed s560,000.
The Mountain States division Of the
Red Cross has enrolled 100000 new
members in the weeks campaign ac-
cording to estimates at headquarters
in Denver.
Six thousand acres OF beets have
been signed up to insure erection OF
a sugar refinery at Blaine. Idaho. New
refinery of Utah-Idaho company at
Boise completed.
The annual fees for grazing per
mits in the national forest will not be
raised for the coming season. accord
ing to information received from
headquarters by the Denver forestry
office.
Arrival Of vlhjalmur Stefansson at
Fort Yukon apparently ends a voyage
of Arctic exploration that began when
he left Victoria, B. c., June II, 1913
at the head Of q Canadian government
expedition aboard the steamer Kar
LUX.
WASHINGTON
Secretaries Baker and Daniels sent
Christmas greetings to American
fighting forces.
President Wilson Joined with his
grandchildren in celebrating Christ
mas at the White House.
The new draft machinery was in
voked for the first time when Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder made
public instructions to all governors
calling for the mobilization Of 1.0ot
brickiayers, urgently needed by Gen
Pershing At once.
Federal officials found packages ol
ammunition, several hundred rifles
and q number of bags filled with re
volvers buried under tn cargo o.
hides in the Shilka, . Russian freight
er. which arrived at . Pacific por'
under control Of Its Bolsheviki crew
Expenditure Of more thA $5s.0oo.
900 for land and buildings for housing
al the governments activities IN
Washington with an outline Of q gen
eral building plan has been recon-
mended to Congress By the publi'
bufldines eemmissSoa b Ne flrst re