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NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT IVENTI CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOP 2. W-ataro Nf«>i>ip«r t ni"ii n*»• warrle*. ABOUT THE WAR Fit rich cavalry, operating to the northeast of Monastir, in Macedonia have captured the town of Prilep. In an attack against the American out posts south ot Archangel the Ho sh* viki sustained consid-uable losses. In eastern Siberia th* Japan* -• ha**- captured Blagovießtchen-k. < >pital of the province of Amur and also the town of Alexievsk Two thousand Austro •.••Miian troop ndered « ’i;nes* troops n*g**-:.t ? ed the sur re: ii* r of 3,U"" A■; t nll untarianß ' ; a :■ tee of Czechs, n* .1 Kinkhlta, wh* r. t: ted 4c Austro Hungarian who were j fie* irig In both Macedonia and Palestine the • : • nr.- a!! • *.! forces are giving j tt.* bad beat n Bulgarians, C'i. and Turk.-, no rest, while In j F British wild French are co . m.- to draw their net mor** c. • . .ibout St. Quentin and the re 1 nent of the Hlndenburg lb this immediate region, and th • A: an troops repulsed hostile rk.*lr n tlie Vosges. ■■■• r I. a-, overtaken the Teuton arn.y o**r <i! fields. In Palestine the Turks ar* ill but absolutely crushed; In Mm •• lonia the entente forces ar* hanying fhelr fo*s and threatening th* m with similar disaster; Fran' * he Hi : i: and French troops slowly hit sun*!;, are eating their way into the vita s <if the Herman defensive po niHons, collapse of which woul result in imp -Cant changes all along th< western buttle front, and in eas’ • rri Si’ *ria 'he Japanese have mad* addition ii strides forward in the pro ('«'• of reclaiming that territory for the Russians. •'■run north of Jerusalem to the sea | of Halilfte. in the territory lying be tween the River Jordan and the Med iterranean Sea, the Ottoman fore* > have been > tight by the swift drive >t the British armies and virtually an nihilated Fourteen cltleß. including Nazareth have been captured. Added to the heavy casualties suffered by th< Turks, hordes of them were made prisoner and many more are wander ing bewildered, without leaders, in th* hills eventually to he brought in to -well the great total At last ac counts more than 25,000 of the su’ tan’s soldiers and 2'*." guns and large quantities of war stores were in Brit ish hands To add to the demoraliza tion of the Turkish morale, allied avia tors are carrying out successful bomb lug r.-iids against Constantinople. WESTERN Archbishop John Ireland died Wednesday morning at his home in St Paul John S 'Jack) Walters, for thirty one years connected with the South Omaha Union Stockyards and for many years superintendent, died at an Omaha hospital. More than $2,000,000. th*- self-im posed quota of the Homestead works of th*- Carnegie steel Company at Pittsburgh, for the fourth Liberty loan, was subscribed by the 12,200 em ployes of the plant in forty-one hours. The potash reduction plant of the companies at Antioch, near Omaha, was destroyed by fire The plant com prised two complete units, erected at a cost of $300,000. Roy Lancaster, alias “Kansas City Blacklo." alleged member of the Lew is band and sought by federal agents for suspected complicity in the robbesy of a Missouri. Kansas & Texas pas senger train near Koch. Kan , July 10 last, Is dead In a gun fight with a score of policemen at Kansas City two bullets pierced his lungs. War ren Lancaster, his brother, was taken Into custody when he tried to escape from a two-story house where the pair had barricaded themselves. WASHINGTON The government has pledged itself to spend $280,000,000 during the next twelve months in feeding th** 10.00 u . Belgians and French people now vyithin the territory occupied by the Germans Excepting only a roll call on final pas.-ag** and disposal of two minor amendments, the $8,000,000,000 war revenue bill which has been In the making sine*' last May was completed by the House Troops in the United States now are being paid within five days or less after the first of each month, and vol untary allotments are being sent to relatives with only slight delay, Brig adier General Wood, acting quarter master general, reported. American Red Cross expenditures in France for work done among the civilian population since the war be gan. together with appropriations for the supply, transportation, women’s hospital service and other bureaus covering the period to next Jan. 1 now Total more than $7 f >,OOO.fH)9. FOREIGN United Statea Consul General Pool* has arrived at Helsingfors frc*<i Mw cow. The Japanese cabinet, head* 1 by Field Marshal Count Terauchi, which had held office since October, 1916, resigned. Hr Karl von Helfferich, who suc ceed'd the late Count von Mirbach aa German ambassador to Russia, has resigned. As th*- result of a general strike in Salzburg (Austria 1 a state of siege has been proclaimed, according to re ports at Zurich. Thirty-one persons were killed when an express train from Berlin for Vi enna collided with another train at the Dresden station Southwest of Metz, where the French and Americans recently ( chared the S' Mihiel salient, the Ger mans have started further fires. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and ; other mejnhers of th*- labor mission were received by King George in Ix>n don Renewed attempts have been made to assassinat*- members of the soviet government in Russia, and as a result then- will be fresh measures In re prisal, .-ays a Moscow dispatch Solemn ceremonies over the body of Nh ißomanoff, former emperor of R> a v.*i" held at Yekaterinburg by • roops of the “people's army," ac cording to lxv* stia of Moscow. Thre*- officers and twenty-seven of th*- crew of th** American steamer j Buena Vista arrived at Carunna, Spain Thre** boats with sixty-four of the crew are missing. Count von H* rtling, the German im- ! perial chancellor, addressing the main commit!* e of the reichstag declared that the public discontent In Germany was not justified by the military sit uation on the western front, accord ing to a di-patch from Berlin Colonel Tchaplin, leader of the re- 1 cent attempt to overturn the provi sional government headed by M. Tsch aikovsky, in northwestern Russia, has resigned his post as commander of the Russian forces, and has been suc ceeded by Colonel Ivnnoff. The labor disputes in Archangel ate being rap idly settled. American soldiers who I had been operating the -treet car sys- | •tn have he**n transferred to other ( duties. SPORT The talk that the war Is stopping all sorts of sports in England is put to rout by an announc* ment just made ; public regarding the l>oxing chain- ! pious of England. Twenty two cham pionship contests have been decided in England since the start of the war in 1914. To encourage cross country running \ among men in the army and navy j service the championship committee ' of the National A. A. V. at Chicago ; decided to hold a United States serv ice cross country championship in the various ilistrict associations of the A. A. U. on or before Jan. 1 Miss Helen I looker, 13-year old New York girl, upheld the reputation which metropolitan junior lawn tennis play ers have made this year by defeating Miss Lillian Coffin of Johnston. It. 1., 6-2, o !!, in a first-round match in the woman s tournament on the Ixmgwood Cricket Club courts at Boston. GENERAL Gen. Han Lin Chun has been ap pointed Chinese military attache at Washington. The Treasury Department an nounced that the amount of the fourth Liberty loan will be $6,000,000,000. Cardinal John M. Farley, archbishop of New York, was buried beneath the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Two officers and sixteen privates died at Camp Devens. near Ayer, Mass., as a result of influenza and pneumonia. Approximately 4,000 students reg- Istered at Harvard University. A large percentage signified their inten tion of enrolling in the student army training corps. The Rebel yell from many thousand throats was th** outward manifestation at Tulsa, Okla., of a great surge of patriotism which followed the presen* lation to the United Confederate Vet erans and to the Sons of Veterans of a gigantic service flag. The flag, which contains 167,000 stars, each representing a direct descendant of a Confederate soldier, who is now of fering his life for his country in the war for world liberty, was presented by the Colorado delegation. Both imports and exports of mer chandise were greater in value dur ing August than in any previous Au gust in the history of American for eign trade. Figures announced by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce show imports valued at $273,- 000,000, an increase of $5,000,000 over August. 1917, and exports of $529,000,- 000, against $488,000,000. Imports of gold, slightly over $1,500,000, were less during August than in any month for over fifteen years. War calls and the lure of the high wages in the states are almost depop ulating Nome City, once one of th*- livest of the many Alaska gold camps. Announcement that the government will be the largest exhibitor at the national motion picture exposition to be held at Madison Square Garden, Oct. 5 to 13. was made in New York. Passengers arriving at Mobile. Ala., from Progresso. Mexico, report that flour is selling there for $2 per pound, **ggs 24 cents apiece, young chickens $2.50 each and Ice S6O per ton. with $lO added for delivery Tin*; IDAHO SPRINGS SIFTINGS-NEWS. COLORADO STATE NEWS W «ktern N- wupapar L'nlon Nt»» i»«rvlc«. < OMIV* KVKXTB. oct. I—Fourth Red Cruse boms service Inst.line at Denver. Free delivery of meats and groceries has been suspended in Brush. Fourteen women are now employed in the Santa Fe shops at La Junta. The marine corps death list includes John W. T. Nielson of Sanford, killed in action. In the casualty list Anasticio Tru jillo of Walsenburg is reported killed in action. Strong domestic and export demand is responsible for a scarcity of aniline dye stuffs Herbert V Howe of Pueblo, re ported as missing in the casualty list, is a prisoner William O. M< Connell, son of Mrs. M. B. McConnell of Colorado Springs, is dead in France. Several new residences for miners ar*. under construction at Mount liar ris, near Steamboat. A movement is on foot among Ar vada business men to put all b - mss transactions *m a cash basis Construction is well under way on the road from Leadville to Summit county b> aay of Climax and Fremont pass. Over 900,000 acres of land have b eliminated from the Itouit National Forest by proclamation of the Pi* - dent. At a recent meeting of citizens * Castle Rock a $5,000 bond issue a voted in order to increase the w c supply. A new sawmill has commenced ope. a»ion four miles west of Ward It cut the Mitchell tract of 1,000 acres •: heavy timber. A mes age to M. L. Wilson of M m rose informed him that his son. R Wilson, had died in the training camp at Kustis, Va. The Btate fair opened at the expo.-*, tion grounds at Pueblo with the la; *4 est attendance that was ever reco: l* . for a first day Montrose trainmen reported S**pL 2 4 that a blizzard was raging on Mar shall Pass, and that the Sau Juan re gion was covered with snow. A rural mail route has been estab lished from Castle Rock to Franktown Irving and Cherry, returning to Cas tls Rock byway of Lake Gulch. Among those rolssiug in action «re Alva D. Evans of Colorado Springs. George B. Lance of Thatcher an 1 Claude L. McCoy of Olney Springs. A new road to the sulphur beds on Trout creek in the Creede section will be constructed to replace the on** which was washed out some years ago. A party of Hungarian investors spent several days at Telluride recent ly looking at various ranches with a view* to purchasing improved proper ties. The food administration has forbid den quartering the pound piece of butter in packing as wasteful of labor and material. The order is effective Jan. 1. Two more carloads of workers left Denver to work In the government ex plosives plant at Nitro. W. Ya.. mak ing more than 250 men recruited for this purpose. Nominees on the Republican and Democratic State and Congressional tickets met in Denver to formulate their respective platforms for the cam paign leading to the November elec tion. Joe Mahlen, a Russian, was placed under arrest by Deputy United States Marshal Gibbons in Denver charged with manufacturing liquor contrary to law and without a federal license. The silver anniversary of South Den ver Lodge No. 93, A. F. and A. M., was celebrated with a basket picnic and games at Washington Park, and a reception at El Jebel Temple for Master Masons. Edwin D. Waltman of Arapahoe, in Cheyenne county, was killed in action in France, according to the casualty list. John W. T. Neilson of Sanford, in Conejos county, also is reported killed in action. Charles Ashby Collier. Denver, is reported killed In action in the casu alty lists made public by the war de partment. Corporal John Michie, Fort Collins, is listed among the died of wounds received in action. Joseph Kossowski, a German alien who has been working in the coal mines near Walsenburg, has been ar rested by the authorities of El Paso county for making disloyal and sedi tious remarks and for failing to reg ister Sept. 12. On the recommendation of Gov. Julius C. Gunter. Miles G. Saunders, Pueblo attorney and head of the Board of Appeals for Southern Colorado, has been appointed provost marshal by the War Department to succeed Capt. John Evans, who has been called to Wash ington by the War Department on busi ness of a confidential nature. Seventy-five cases of influenza have been reported among the men taking army training at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The doctors in charge state that no is serious, though some of the men are ill. COLORADO NEWS NOTES. The election of officers for the Most Excellent Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Colorado wu held at the Denver meeting with results as follows: Her bert 8 Sands, Denver, grand high priest; Marshall H. Van Fleet, Alamo sa, deputy grand high priest; Mark B GUI, Fort Morgan, grand king; Thomas E. Shears, Denver, grand scribe; Robert M. Simons, Denver, grand treasurer; Charles H. Jacobson, grand secretary; the Rev. Henry ▲. O'Malley. Denver, grand chaplain; George B. Clark, Denver, grand leetur er. Samuel J. Sweet. Denver, grand captain of the host; Will D. Grlsard. Pueblo, grand principal sojourner; Reuben W. Hersey, Denver, grand royal arch commander; Harry V. Wil liamson. Delta, grand master of the third veil; Walter R. Lewis, Trinidad, grand master of the second veil; Robert A. Steen. La Junta, grand mas ter of the first veil, and Allen J. Read. Denver, grand sentinel. The announcement of the death of Roy alias Kansas City Biackie Roscoe. one of the leaders of the Lewis gang of bandits and out laws, who left a trail of terror thru out Colorado two weeks ago and the •übsequent capture of his brother, Warren by Kansas City police, after a pitched battle between •,h*- outlaws and police reserves was ’■ecefved gladly by the Denver police d* partrnent. That Turkey must be entirely elim nated from the map of the world as & state and government was the em phatic statement of the Rev B. S. L'arje. a native of Armenia and a grad uate of Roberts coll* ge of Constanti lople and Chicago seminary, in an ad dress at the Centra! Presbyterian rhurch in Denver. Walter W Esteep, son of Mr and Mrs. W M Esteep of Trinidad, has intered the radio department of the lavy's electrical school at Mart Is and. and Is learning to be a wireless operator there He is at present a ie< ond class petty officer Prior to •niisting he operated a large ranch near Trinidad. Fifty students of Denver University will be permitted to enroll in the •tudeuts’ army training corps of the aavy, and gixty students of the Uni versity of Colorado will be accorded the same privilege, according to in ’ormation received by Lieut Stanley Mitchell of the Denver naval recruit ng office. < M. Garden, field manager of an Insurance company arrived in Denver tnd as a result of breaking the sugar •uling by carrying sugar into a restaii •ant with him. was assessed $lO to be paid to the Red Cross. Mr. Garden • aid he would remember his initial visit to Denver and he paid the fine gladly. The state war council of defense la naking an active campaign in the In terests of the more extensive use of Colorado grown and manufactured products, believing that this will solve nuch cf the congestion in transporta lion and that It will create more work for Colorado men at home. Colorado boys continue to receive commissions at officers’ training camps throughout the country. Three men from Denver and three from ether parts of the state have been commissioned lieutenants at Camp Pike, Little Rock. Ark. If Colorado’s and Denver's quotas of the Fourth Liberty Loan are made double those of the Third loan, the lame as the $2(10,000.000 quota an oounced for the entire Tenth federal reserve district, they will be $40,625,- 800 and respectively. A minimum of $545,000 has been set is Denver's share of the $1,270." Colorado quota for the consolidated war aid campaign by seven organisa tions Nov. 11 to 18, and plans are now being worked out to raise both the city and state funds. The school year at the State Agri cultural college opened at Fort Col lins with 337 registered, against 166 at the same time last year. Of these 167 are freshmen, who will be enrolled In the student training corps. MaJ. Charles B. Haoiin. U. S. A., retired, has been place* on the active list and Is In charge of the men as command ant. Captain Shreve, who has been commandant, has departed for Chicago where he will have charge of another camp. William Lopes of Longmont is the first of the young men from that town to perish in the war. A telegram was received from the War Department by his father, Michael Lopez, announc ing the death of the young man in ac tion Aug. 28. A. U. Mayfield, Supreme Boss of the National Order of Cowboy Rangers, has been appointed publicity represen tative for the State Council of Defense and is now actively engaged in the work. Six penitentiary prisoners, five of whom are serving terms for murder, were denied commutation of sentenoe by the Colorado pardons board. Two uf the convicts are life prisoners. Sarah A. Champion, wife of Judge Lee Champion, died at her home, 1396 Josephine street, Denver. Her death was the result of a prolonged illness, which began with overwork and ner vous strain resulting from her labor In the coal fields during the miners’ strike in 1916. Education of the children of Colo rado as one of the important war considerations is called to the atten lion of parents and teachers by Gov. Julius C. Gunter in a proclamation. The executive designates the week be ginning Nov. 3 as educational week. ARMY EPIDEMIC HITS 26 STATES OFFICERS OF ARMY, NAVY AND **ED CROSS CONFER IN FIGHT TO HALT INFLUENZA. FEWERCASESATDEVENS TIN PATIENTS AT BOULDER HAVE BEEN DISMISSED AS CURED. Western Newspaper Union News Sei • Washington. Sept. 26. —Spanish in fluenza has spread over the country so rapidly that officials of the public health service. War and Navy Depart ments and Red Cross conferred on measures to help local communities In combating the disease Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the Public Health Service said that latest rej>orts showed that the malady had made its appearance in twenty-six states, from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. The disease is epidemic in New England, where it first made its ap pearance Influenza has appeared on the Pa cific coast in Washington and Cali fornia. but is not yet epidemic there. It also has been reported in Minne sota and lowa, but with few cases. East of the Mississippi, however, there are few states where it has not been found. The total reported from the camps Wednesday was the largest In any one da’, and brought the total for all camps to 29.002 cases The number o' pneumonia cases reported among H soldiers since the outbreak of the j nza epidemic Sept. 13 is 2,313, and the number of deaths since that date is 530, with 155 reported Wednes day For the first time since the out break the number of new cases re ported from Camp Devens. Mass., was lower than the number reported from another camp. The new cases at Camp Devens numbered 399. making the total 11,715. Hoboken reported the greatest number, 1,025. This, how ever, included several camps and depots Boulder. Colo , Sept. 26.—Ten of the cases of Spanish influenza among the men at th«* students' training camp h"re are reported cured. The men are out of the hospital, but will re main under observation for several days There are now ninety-five cases here, including the ten reported cured. BRITISH TAKE SELENCY Huns' Allies in Rout Along 130-Mile Front as Anglo Greeks Sweep For ward in Smashing Advance. London. Sept. 26. —On the French front the British have taken the vil lage of Selency, a scant two miles from the western environs of St. Quentin, and both the British and French troops north and south of this line have driven further wedges into the German front. More than 1,000 pris oners and many machine guns have been taken by the British in these op erations. Numerous 9trong counter at tacks were delivered by the enemy, both at Selency and at Gricourt, but Haig’s men put all of them down with heavy losses to the Germans. Aerial and artillery activity has in creased markedly on the American sector southwest of Metz. Both the American and German airmen and gunners are busy. The Teutonic allied forces in Mace donia and Turkey still are in flight be fore the armies of the entente, while on the highly important St. Quentin sector in France the British and French armies after hard fighting have drawn more closely their lines in the investment of the town on tha northwest, west and south. The stub born resistance of the Germans, in de fense and in counter attacks, has been unavailing except to impede the pro gress of the men of the armies of Field Marshal Haig and General De beney. In Macedonia the Bulgarian and German troops are still faced with disaster; in Palestine the remaining Turks seem to have scarcely a chance to escape from the British forces, and friendly tribesmen who are closing in upon them east of the River Jordan. More than 4<\ooo prisoners and 265 guns have been taken by the British. The Bulgarians are now retreating on a total front estimated at about 180 miles, the second Bulgarian army, tinder General Feodoroff, being in re peat before the British and Greeks on a front extending from the Vardar to the Struma. Albuquerque as Home Service Center. Albuquerque, N. M. —This city is to become a home service training cen ter for New Mexico and southern Colorado, according-to an announce ment made by Miss Sarah Gober, as sistant director in charge of education work of the Bureau of Civilian Re lief. of the mountain division. The ! first institute, of six weeks, is to be ! held here in conjunction with the j *tate university after Christmas. Oth ers are to follow as rapidly as local I aonditions permit. IN MISERY FOR YEARS ifafcCumlaey TdhHowShu Wu Cured by Lydia £. Pinkham’a Vegetable " Compound. flihhMi Iowa.—*' For yoan I warf Umpty la misery from a weakness and awful peine—and I nothing seamed to (do m* any good. A I friend advised cm I to taka Lydia K. 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One Sure Thing. “Who is back of this show?" "I don’t know who to back of tt, bat I know the sheriff Is in front." ASTHMA IH3TANTLY REUIVED WITH WlltOSO juniNPtD ASK twSSSff Mlero have been patented by an nU nola Inventor to apUt Insulation and re move it from wire* neatly. Lemon Juice For Freckles Qlrlal Make baauty lotion M hem* for a faw cant*. Try Itl Squeese tbe Juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and complex ion whltener, at very, very small cost Tour grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands and see how freckles, sunbnrn and tan disappear and how clear, toft and white the skin becomes. Teal It la harmless. —Adv. Australia’s manufacture of motorcar bodies has received enormous Impetus from the war. Tm unil** for a nickel. Always boy Bad Close Bag Blue; have beautiful, ele*. white clothes. Adv. Massachusetts has 300,000 voters nn able to read or write English. Yaiim OniilaM Eyelids, | Hill Eyes inflamed by expo _ sure toSsB, Roaf and wlad Eyesi&Sft&sc „ just Eys Comfort. lE Your Druggists or by mail 60c per Bottle. For Beekel Ike Eye free write m *•■▼*»• Eye Earned* Ca. Cbtc—a.