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LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TVELEGRAPHIC REPORTS YTHAY COVER THE WESBK'® GVENTS. XKEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANTY CURRENT TOPICS. Western Newspaper U'nton Wewa Serviee. ) ABOUT THE WAR. Russian army in Armenia captured Gumuskhaneh and now Is forty miles | aorthwest of Baiburt. | Belglan troops reach Lake Victoria | tn German East Africa and disperse | Teutons in seven-hour battle. ‘ Fierce engagements have taken place south of Rlga, and Russian | troops have penetrated the German ¢irst line at several points. A new advance of ‘[urkish forces on the Sinai peninsula to within about thirty miles of the Suez canal has been reported to the British authori ties. According to Rome reports, the violent Russian offensive has been re sumed in the Carpathians, at Kovel, Viadimir-Volynski, and in the Riga eector. The German army headquarters staff in the officlal statement claims that the great umiform Anglo-French attack on the Somme sector in France has been abandoned. One of the most striking episodes of the great Somme offensive was the taking of the field fort at Biaches and the garrison of 113 men by nine French soldiers. The Russians have driven the Teu tonic forces facing them south of the river Lipa, in Volhyna near the Gala cian border beyond the town of Berestechk to the west. Germans stop new British offensive near La Bassee and claim 2,000 Eng lishmen were killed. Berlin admits, however, British have captured first line trenches near Hardecourt on two mile front, J. Beltran, one of Villa's chief lieu wenants and a participant in the mas esacre of eighteen Americans at Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was killed in the engagement at Cerro Blanco July 12, reports to General Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City {ndicated. Berlin reports that the enemy lost seven aeroplanes, four of them south of Bapaume, onec east of Arras, one west of Combles and one near Roye. Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his tenth ard Lieutenant Hoehendorff nis eleventh aeroplanc. The emperor be atowed the Pour le Merite on First Lieutenant von Althaus, who con quered a biplane near Roye. WESTERN. James Whicomb Riley, the Hoosler poet, died at his home in Indianapo iis. Six persons were killed and forty three injured by the explosion at San Francisco of a timed bomb in the midst of a throng viewing a prepar edness parade. The will of Mrs. Hetty Green was admitted to probate at Bellows Falls, Vt., without contest, leaving the en tire estate to her son, Col. Edwari H. R. Green, and daughter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilkes. Impeachment of Pat Daniel, sheriffl of Russell county, Ala., in whose home a quantity of liquor is alleged to have been discovered during the recent Girard raids, has been ordered by the Alabama Supreme Court. The two-year wage increases for the 35,000 coal miners of Mlnsourl.‘ Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, agreed upon by a subcommittee of the } conference of miners and operators, was accepted at Kansas City by the €ull conference and will hecome oper ative Aug. 1. WASHINGTON. | Chicago has been selected for the campaign headquarters of the Wo man’s party. The McGillicuddy-Kern workmen’s compensation bill was passed by the House by a vote of 286 to 3. The Senate passed the House bill appropriating $135,000 to finance the public health service campaign against infantile paralysis. A joint resolution to extend leaves of absence with credit to homestead ers on public lands who are with the rational guard in federal service was adopted by the House of Represen tatives, The American schooner Prince Valdemar was captured by a German warship while on its way from Phil adelphia to Sweden with a cargo of oil. Speaking on business conditions in the United States, Senator Shafroth, addressing the Sena'e, emphasized the present prosperity of the coun try. Denouncing the British blacklist as an “outrageous assault on citizens of this country,” Senator Thomas of Colorado, in a Senate speech, advo cated reprisala of a severe nature. . FOREIGN. s Prof. Eli Metchnickoff, the famous bacteriologist, died in Paris. At Madrid the government revoked its declaration of wmartial law Ten thousand Canadian soldiers are to proceed overseas soon, it was an | nounced at the militia department at Ottawa Nearly 2000 cases ol alcohol, con taining twenty gallons ¢ a case, were destroyced by a warchouse fire in Juarez Sergius Sazonoff, minister of tor eign affairs, at Petrograd, has re signed He is succeeded by Boris Vladimirovitch Sturmer, the premier, who has taken over the office Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador, expressed himself to the Associateq Press as fully alive to the possibility of trouble arising from the publication of the staiutory blacklist l of American firms. i The latest son of the heir o the Austro-Hungarian throne was formal ly christened with great pomp at Schoenbrunn near Vienna and given the modest total of fifteen names (0 carry. Food riots which broke out in Bel gium and northern France have been suppressed by the German military authorities, The rioting was especial ly severe at Liege, Verviers, Roubaix, Renaix, St. Nicholas, Lokern and Ter monde, An imposing celebration presidel over by the first chief, who was ac companied by the members of his cab inet, was held at Mexico City in hon or of the anniversary of ihe aeuih of Biento Juarez, the national hero of Mexico. Closer and closer are the cordon of Carranzista troops being drawn about Villa, and the remnant of his maim band, beaten and scattered in the re cent engagement along the Nazas river, in northern Durango, according to private dispatches at Kl Paso. Anticipating acceptance by the Unit ed States of its suggestion for dis cussion of the border question by a commission, it was informally indi cated at Mexico City that the three commissioners who will represent Mexico will be Roberto Pesqulera, formerly the first chief's representa tive in Washington; Luis Cabrera, minister of finance, and Alberto Panl, director of raflways. SPORT. Standing of Western League Clubs. Clubs— Won. Lost, Pet, Omaha .....c000000u... 58 29 659 LLets RA e bk L1) 38 .HBl Des Moines ..., .. ... 44 40 R} S Oy e e ete eoA 2 45 483 Denver ...c...c00...... 41 16 471 dlopeka RN L L anE 88 46 452 Wichita ............... 3% 47 447 Bt. Joseph ............ 33 51 393 Frank Kramer, national cycling champion, holds a world’s record foe every branch of the sport. Heinrich Schmidt of the Claremont Golf and Country Club of Oakland, won the Western golf championship at Del Monte, Cal. Before a throng of spectators on the beach at Washington park in Denver the first A. A. U. swimming meet to be held in the West was marked throughout by scores of thrills. Corroboration of the reports that Francisco Villa is personally directing a campalgn that has for its immediate object the capture of Torreon was contained in a report from Gen. Pershing to Gen. Funston, according to a San Francisco report. The 100-mile motor derby, dedicat ing the new dirt speedway at Kansas City, was won by Ralph de Palma. Hig time was 1 hour 42 minutes and 58 seconds, an average of 58.48 miles ‘ an hour, almost eight miles an hour ibelow the world's dirt track record.! ' O'Donnell was second. Buozane was third. | GENERAL. Sixty thousand garment workers of New York locked out or on strike for more than three months, will return to work. One guardsman wes killed and an other badly injured by lightning at the state mobilization camp at Macon, Ga., during a severe electrical storm. Basil B. Elmer and Willlam P. Phillips, reprerenting New York bondholders, purchased the St. Louls & San Francisco railroad at auction at St. Louis for $45,700,200. The Prohibition national conven tion, after a three-day session at St. Paul, Minn,, adjourned sine die after nominating J. Frank Hanly, former governor of Indiana, for president of the United States, and Dr. Ira D. Landrith of Nashville, Tenn., for vice president, A searching investigation into every department of the Unitad States government is to be made by the in stitute for government research. It was revealed in New York that this new bureau for federal inquiry was formed and is backed by the Rocke feller interests. The national convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians was brought to a close at Boston with the re-clection of the officers of the past administration and the selection ot San Francisco as the place of the next convention. An order amounting to the prac tical repudiation of Carranza cur rency in Sonora was issued by Gen. P. Elias Calles, military commander of the state, when he announced that no merchant would hereafter oe forced to accept it in exchange for goods. THE JULESBURG GRIT-ADVOCATE. COLORADO SRATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Se . ] DATES FOR COM.NG EVENTS. | Auz. 1 —Celebration Colorado's Fortl- | 7:«.-:1\:-‘:1““““" of Statehood. aßt Aug. 2—National Convemtion of Rep- } l‘:-rt-ul‘\n.. of Negro Itace at Den- : Al;lll 8 —Democratic State Assembly i AUI; "9“r.\l~'-~lnu: Colorado Editoricl As- ‘ Bociation at Denver. | A.fi.»n.x".-. Republican State Assembly at } Aug. 11 Progressive State Convention at Denver. | Aug. 10-12 -Woman's Party Conference at Colorado Springs | Aug. 14 -Grand Lake Yacht Races | Aug. 14—Colorado Federation of Labor meeting at Colorado Springs | Aug. 18.19—Pickle Day anu iair at | Plattesilie Aug. 21 Celebration of the opening of | the new Stute Highway betwern Del Norte and Pagosa Springs, at Du- | rango. | Aug. 22-25— Annual Convention, Grand | Lodge K. of I, at Greeley. | :\ll')(cin.?bb'r;-l. I—Apple Ple Days -|‘ r:e’fl, 5-%—Boulder County Fair at songmont, ‘ Sept. 5-B—Frontler Days' celebratlon | at Fort Morgan, o .\‘cf-l. 11-—Meeting Midland Trall Assn n Denver, Sept. 15-16—harvest Festival at Nunn Sept. 27-29-—State Convention B.1". 0. K ut Trinldad. Several stores at Pueblo were dam aged by a midnight blaze. Mrs. Marion Shaw was fined S3O and costs for deserting her baby in Denver. A thief snatched the purse of Miss leia Gillum while she was walking alone on the streets of Denver. Fred T. Newtun, miner and veteran newspaper man of Denver, died at the University of Colorado hospital in Boulder. Miss Sarah Owens, from Derby shire, North Wales, arrived in Grand Junction and was married to William Jones, a miner, ‘The (olorado state convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will be held at Pueblo in St. Patricka hull, on Sept. 1 and 2. Although he fell from the fourth floor of a Denver creamery com pany’s plant, Albert Benson, 20 years old, a negro hodcarrier, escaped un injured. Genuine enthusiasm is indicated throughout the state in the first an nual convention of the grain men of Colorado to be held in Denver Aug. 1 and 2. The Progressive party will hold its convention for nomination of candi dates for state offices at the primary election Tuesday, Sept. 12, in Denver, Frigay, Aug. 11. A romance beginning at a Wood man picaic in Fort Lupton six weeks ago, culminated in the marriage of N. Frank Gorman of that city and Miss Muriel Reaser of Denver. Mesa Verde National park is the Mecca this year for a great- many automobilists, home and foreign, who, for the first time, are touring the San Juan section of Colorado. Thomas M. Patterson, formerly -United States senator from Colorado, editor and lawyer of national reputa tion, died suddenly of apoplexy while asleep in bed at his home in Denver. Because he learned that his di vorced wife remarried, Royal Smith, 28 years old, a salesman for a dairy company, shot himself through the left breast and died at St. Anthony's hospital. A military mass, the first of its kind to be held in the West, with elaborate ceremonies attending, will occupy the attention of the soldiers at the mobllization grounds mnear Golden on July 30. | Henry Denver, veteran fireman of Springfield, Mass.,, and a cousin of General Denver, after whom Denver was named, arrived to see the staw house and view the picture of his illustrous relative there. Twenty thousand dollars in dam ages is demanded by Miss Ida Winn, of I. C. Howard, a Boulder business man, also a married man, for alleged breach of promise to wed. She filed suit in the District Court in Denver. Checks were received in Denver for the regular quarterly dividend of the Portland Gold Mining Company. This foots up $90,000, or 3 per cent on the capital stock of $3,000,000, Total dividends to date are $10,357,080. Colorado convicts working on the highway to Nederland have struck it rich in tungsten. About twenty men are in on the bonanza, found while building the roads and at the present time about $2,000 is in the commun ity ore store, sacked and ready for shipment, - “Friends of Howard J. Gilmour of Boulder and Sioux City, lowa, bride groom of a day, who committed sui cide in Denver, say the young man had the romantic notion that he should prove his love for his bride by killing himself in order that she might benefit from his insurance policy. James Whitcomb Riley, who died in Indianapolis, visited Denver several times, giving readings and denvering lectures. His last visit was fifteen years ago, according to Dr. J. M. Perkins, a great friend of the Hoosler poet. Separated for sixteen years, D. F. Hallett of McCool Junction, Neb., and his son, John, sergeant major of the Second battalion of infantry at the state mobilization camp near Golden, were reunited through pictures of camp scenes appearing in Denver newspapers GENERAL PROSPERITY IIN DENVER ANG COLORADO TO | STAY, SAY BANKERS. | B Reports to Denver Convention tell of Increased Farm Crops and Activity | in Mining and Other Industries. i : | Western Newspaper Union News Service. | Denver. - Expanding prosperity was | the keynote of the first session of the | fifteenth annual convention of the | Colorado State Bankers' Association |in this city. Bankers from every sec :lmn of the stute and from outside of | the state taiked of ihe development | of agriculture here, the general re vival in mining, the increased output | from coal fields and the rapid in crease in population throughout the ifilut». The feature of the opening session was the address of Mayor ! Speer, who urged the bankers to put | more human interest in their transac “!i(mu and learn to intermingle “hand | money” and “heart money.” ‘ Encouraging reports were made by ‘ the five group chairmen, including W. [ E. Hickman, Windsor; O. T. Christen | sen, Castle Rock; D, T. Stone, Grand Junction; K. A. Gagg, Durango, and Benjamin L. Lusk of La Jara. All told of good crop conditions, of in creased population and of expanding business. The reports of Paul Hardey of Den ver, secretary, and of A. M. Rex of Kiowa, treasurer, showed the organ ization to be im a prosperous condi tion. The building of a uniform system of state roads, co-operation in the use of the land farm loan law and the se curing of a loan bank in Denver and a review of the prosperous conditions throughout the state were dominating features in a series of resolutions adopted by bankers representing ev ery section of Colorado at the closing session of the fifteenth convention of the Colorado State Bankers’ Aswocia tion. The following officers were chosen: J. M. B. Petriken, Greeley, president; D. T. Stone, Grand Junction, vice president; Paul Hardey, Denver, sec: retary, and W. F. Boyd, Saguache, treasurer. Boak Re-Elected Head of W. O. W. Denver.—l. 1. Boak of Denver was re-elected head consul of the Wood men of the World by acclamation. Mr. Boak was nominated by Frank M. Smith of Oakland, Cai., and when he had finished the whole delegation arose and joined in three cheers for the veteran chief of the order. There was little opposition in the election of the other officers. They follow: C. V. Benson of Denver, head clerk, re: elected; A. E. Sunderland of Fresno, Cal., head banker, re-elected; F. P. Bertschy of Denver, head auditor, re elected; Judge E. E. Goodman, Town send, Mont.,, head watchman; Henry Rhone, Grand Junction, Colo., fead sentry; John Pattison, Spokane, Wash.; Willis C. Hawley, Salem, Ore.; Thomas M. Robinson, Oakland, Cal.; John H. Alton, Denver; Frank P. Hawke, Pueblo, Colo., board of man agers, re-elected, Two Injured When Train Hits Auto. Denver.—Racing into Denver from Holyoke in a big touring car, T. E. Moon, 34 years old, and Herman Wehrs, 30, were seriously injured when Rock Island limited train No. 7 from Kansas City, running on the Union Pacific tracks, struck their ma chine at York street and Forty-third avenue, They were thrown to an ad jacent track twenty feet away. The car was demolished. Both men are residents of Holyoke. They were taken to the county hospital, where it was found Wehrs was suffering with concussion of the brain and two scalp wounds. Moon escaped with two badly bruised arms. Mine Chiefs House Dynamited. Trinidad.—An attempt to destroy the residence of Charles O’Neil, mine superintendent at Starkville coal camp, was made. It is estimated that | twenty pounds of dynamite was e~ | ploded under a window. No rrLe was seriously hurt. The injured persons were Mrs. Willlam Stevenson, who vas badly bruised and cut about the limb and ankle by falling glass and | wreckage, and Mrs. Isabelle Steven son, mother of Mrs. O'Neil, who was cut and bruised about the arms, Dies After Month of Strange Stupor. v Denver.—Mrs. Fay Harvey, youuu | ful wife of an employé of the Union Pacific shops, is dead; dead after |lving since the 18th of June in a strange stupor, diagnosis of which | baffled the best medical skill in Den ver—a stupor wherein the young wom | an lay for weeks, apparently in a deep | sleep, insensible to the efforts of phy siclans to awaken her and unable to ‘| accept nourishment of any kind. t Alde to Denver's City Attorney Dies. | Denver—Charles L. Avery, appoint ; ed assistant city attorney a week ago, died in St. Joseph's hospital, less .| than two months after his marriage to his boyhood sweetheart of Lake City, at Alma, Neb. E Young Girl Shoots Herself. : Denver—Despondent because of a ‘| suvarrel with her sweectheart, Miss E {Carrie Bomard, 20 years old, shot her _|self in the left breast in an attempt | to end her life. T. M. PATTERSON DEAD FORMER U. S. SENATOR FROM ~ COLORADO DIES SUDDENLY FROM HEART FAILURE. i Noted Editor, Lawyer and Politic.l: Leader Succumbg After Week's | llingss at His Home in | Denver. ] Westein Newspaper Unlon News Sorvice l THOMAS M. PATTERSON. ‘ Born in Irelund November 4, 1839, | Came to America in 1549, | Moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana. Enlisted in the Civil War in 1561, In 1562-1863 a student in Asbury, now Delauw Unlversity, at Green castle, Ind. In 1863 entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind. In 1564 began the study of law. Admitted 1o the bar In 1867, Moved to Denver in 1872, Served as City Attorney of Den ver 1873-1874. Elected Territorial Delegate to Congress in 1874, While in Congress helped secure passage of the act admitting Colo rado to the Union In 1875-187% served the State of Colorado in the 45th Congress. In 1888 ran for Governor and was defeated. $ In 1592 elected a delegate to the National Democratic Convention® left party on account of its failure to accept a free silver plank. In same year purchased the Rocky Mountain News; later acquired the Denver Times. In 1896 was delegate to the Na tional Populist Convention, In 1900 served as chairman of the Natfonal PPopulist Convention, Elected United States Senator in 1901, Ran for Governor in 1914 and was defeated. l Denver.—Thomas M. Patterson, for merly United States senator from Colorado, editor and lawyer of na tional reputation, died suddenly of apoplexy while asleep in bed at his home, 1075 Pennsylvania stret, short ly after 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, July 23. With him at the time was his daughter, Mrs. Richard Crawford Campbell, other members of his fam ily having gone to Grand Lake, where former Senator Patterson expected to Thomas M. Patterson. l join them. His death ended a week's illness, from which his near relatives believed that he would recover, al though they knew that apoplexy at any time might end his notable life. ~ His wife, Mrs. Katherine Grafton ‘Patterson, died July 16, 1902. A num ber of years before his wife’'s death his only son, James Patterson, a young attorney, died. A daughter, Mary G. Patterson, and an infant child also died a number of years ago. Thomas MacDonald Patterson was born in the county ct Carlow, Irelaand, on Nov. 4, 1839. He was a son of James and Margaret (Mountjoy) Pat terson. His ancestors were a numer ous and prominent family in the north ern part of Ireland. Mr. Patterson is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Richard Crawford Campbell; his son-dn-law, Richard Crawford Campbell; two grandsons, ‘Richard Crawford Campbell, Jr., who is a student at Dartmouth College, and Thomas Patterson Campbell, a stu ‘dent at Exeter Academy; a grand daughter, Katherine Campbell, and a sister, Mrs. Malin V. Jolinson of 2145 Willlams street. Two nephews and two pieces also survive him, They are Fred P. Johnson, Arthur C. John son, Mrs. P. M. Pease of Rye, N. Y. and Mrs. Frances Porter, formerly a resident of Denver but now living near Byers, Colo. A brother-in-law, Samuel Grafton, also lives in Denver. The Rev. I'r. John H. Houghton of St. Mark’s officlated at the funeral, and interment was in Fairmount cemetery. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY DEAD. Indianapolis, Ind.—James Whitcomb Riley, 68, died while only Mr. Riley’s aurse, Miss “lementia Prough, was awake in the pcet's hcme. 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