The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-22
FOREIGN

readiness, although protestingY. to
sign peace compact under the hard
terms imposed by Germany.
According to the Petrograd news
papers the Bolsheviki government
action in simplifying divorce proceed
ings has resulted in $4,000 applica-
tions being made for divorce in the
capital alone.
The Amsterdam Nieuw Rotter
damsche Courant reports from the
frontier that 10000 Turks and Bull
garians are understood to have ar
rived at Verviers, Belgium. II miles
east of Liege.
The Belgian government has Issued
a statement concerning the course OF
Belgian parliamentarians in protest
ing against the action of Chancellor
Won Hertl!ng of Germany in attempt
ing to establish a separate state III
Flanders.
Sixty-three Europeans are missing
and great number OF Indians and
natives probably have been lost in con
sequence OF a flood in the Umyolosi
sugar district of Zululand. A terrific
storm flooded the Umyolosi river,
The policy adopted by the Supreme
War Council. Premier Lloyd Georg"
declared in a speech in the Commons.
was not the policy of the British gov
eminent alone, but of all the great
allied governments in concert There
is absolutely no difference between
our policy and the policy OF France,
Italy and America in this respect he
said
The German conditions OF peace
made by Leon Trotzky and the Bolshe-
vik delegates at Brest-Litovsk, accord
ing to a statement by the Bolshevik
foreign minister, included the cession
OF Courland, Lithuania and the Baltic
provinces. the retention OF Poland,
Riga and Moon island, and the pay
meat OF 1000 900 900 d indemnity to
Germany
The Russian Council OF Commssar-
les, according to a dispatch from Pet
rograd to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, has instructed Maxim Lit
vinoff. the Bolshevik representative IN
London. to lodge a protest with Great
Britain against closing of the Man
churian border and the prohibition on
into Russia
SPORT
Arrangements are being perfected
for a great indoor athletic track and
f;~Il l. h.1I to- hx
gymnasium in Salt Lake, Utah, on
March Is.
Victor l.. Dennis of Detroit, Mich.
cadet aviator, who was burned at Love
field, near Dallas, Tex, when his ms
chine fell 100 feet. died in the field
hospital
A Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch says
Franchises in the Western league for
the 1918 season will be definitely
placed and a schedule drawn up at
meeting of league magnates within
the next ten days
Honors befitting hero were &C
corded at the funeral services in New
York of Capt Vernon Castle. famous
as the originator and interpreter OF
modern dances, a member of the Brit
ish Royal Flying corps, who was
killed at Fort Worth. Tex, when his
airplane crashed to the ground
GENERAL
John d. Rockefeller came to the aid
OF the people of Pocantico Hills and
Ossinging, N Y, in the coal shortage,
and with his own motor trucks saw to
1t that 1873 families received a supply
of fuel
Brig. Gen. Frederick w. Sibley, for
many years brilliant cavalry officer.
who took part in Indian campaigns
under General Crook, and served in
the Spanish.American war. is dead al
the base hospital at Camp Grant, Rock
ford. III.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon,
chairman of the Senate military at
fairs committee was operated upon in
Washington for appendicitis. The OPP
Grafton was reported to be successful,
and the senator resting easily.
Capt. James Fenimore Cooper, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs Fenimore Cooper,
of Albany and Cooperstown, and n
great grandson of the author, died at
Camp Dix. Wrightstown, N. j., after
a nine days illness Of pneumonia.
Col Theodore Roosevelt, who is con-
valescing in a hospital in New York,
said he was perfectly delighted"
when long distance telephone mes
sage from Boston brought word of the
birth in that city of his eighth grand
child.
Thomas A. Morrison, a witness In
the Felix r. Jones murder trial in
rested on a charge Of conspiracy to
murder The complaint alleged that he
was a party to conspiracy to
murder W. G. Clark on the night OF