Taiban Valley news., 1918-03-01
FOREIGN

brought to light, according 10 the Far
is Matin.
The Portuguese cabinet has decided
to hold an election for president of the
republic of Portugal soon, Havas
dispatch from Lisbon says. Voting will
be by direct suffrage.
An important center of German
espionage has been discovered, the
Paris Figaro reports, at st. Etienne,
capital of the department of Loire, In
the heart of the Industrial district of
France.
The British government has in
structed It's agent at Kiev to make the
declaration that Great Britain will not
recognize any peace in the east which
involves Poland, without a previous
consultation with Poland.
The London Daily Mails Petrograd
correspondent says the latest develop
ments there have made impossible
measures of assistance which the al
lies were preparing to give Russia in
her fight against the enemy.
Russia is now forced to sign peace
upon the conditions proposed by Ger
many, says an official Russian state
ment received in London. The official
statement was signed by Premier Le-
nine and Leon Trotzky, the foreign
minister.
British merchantmen sunk by mine
or submarines in the week ending
Feb. 20 numbered fifteen, according to
the admiralty statement issued at Lon
don. OF these, twelve were of 1,600
tons or over and three were under
that tonnage. One fishing craft was
also sunk.
A Russian courier with the peace
proposals of the Russian government
arrived in Berlin, according to advices
received at Amsterdam. The Nord-
deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the Ger
man semi-official organ, says the re-
opening of the negotiations with the
Russians cannot be expected for some
time.
Viscount Miner, member of the War
Cabinet, speaking at Plymouth, Eng
land. deprecated too much talk about
war aims. Until peace negotiations
are reached" he said, 1--WE are fight
ing for our lives and the very exis-
tence of the free nations of western
Europe. AS result of the collapse of
Russia, the military party of Germany
is again firmly in the saddle"
SPORT
The fifth annual winter sports car
nival opened at Steamboat Springs
with fully 1000 visitors.
Beginning Tuesday, the Estes Park
Outdoor Club of snow shoe and ski
runners will conduct a three-day
series of winter sports.
The third annual Rocky Mountain
National park winter sports carnival
at Fern lake, in Estes park, was
launched on Washington's birthday.
BILLY" Madden, sporting man and
manager of the late John L. Sullivan
when he won the heavyweight pugi-
listic championship, died suddenly in
White Plains, N. Y, hospital from
acute Indigestion. He was 65 years
old.
The news that Ogden Werner and
Bob Burlingame, the only two letter
men left on the baseball team, would
probably enlist for service seems to
spell the downfall of all baseball ac-
tivity at the Colorado Springs College
during the coming season.
GENERAL
| Urging permanent policy of uni
versal military training and a definite
financial program for this war, Gov.
Frank o. Lowden of Illinois opened
the Congress of National Service at
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has enlisted the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea in thrift stamp and savings GER
tificate drive throughout the country
by means of which it is believed at
least 100000 of the stamps and Ger.
tificates will be sold.
Gov. ]. C. Gunter of Colorado or
dered an investigation of the sanity
of Clyde B. Pearson, the youth who
killed Sheriff Frank B. Roach of Wyo-
ming in Larimer county, May l, 1916
With farmers holding their wheat
for hoped-for increase in the govern
ment price, government requisition OF
one-third of their output and an un
limited demand, Minneapolis millers
are expectant of marked scarcity oi
white flour in the near future.
Don Van Dusen, formerly a hotel
owner of Oatman, Ariz., turned upon
his 20-year-old wife in the shopping
district in Los Angeles, Cal, fired
five shots into her body and killed
himself when cornered by a crowd ol
men after chase of three blocks.
An alleged countrywide plot, in
volving illegal profiteering in army
cloths at the expense Of the govern
ment, was disclosed in New York with
the indictment by the federal grand
| jury of eleven men, one clerk in