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WESTERN LIBERAL. WESTERN LI PERAL LOIIDSBURO NEW MEXICO FaHs V. Bueh, Editor and Owner. PiiMlRhrrt ITverv Friday. Europa U making tla cheat proteo tora out of ateel tbla year. The fellow who doean't know It all can learn aomethlng every day. When we take to delivering letter by aeroplane love will bav wlnga at last What baa become of the old-fashioned man who did not own an auto mobile T How to get a political office wlthoot aeemlng to want It requires talent that few possess. To tight corsets, cbln-cbin collars, wet feet and winter itch there Is no place like home. One advantage of this season Is that nowadays one does not need to worry about boylng turkey. Almost anything ought to be pos sible when one has strawberries and oysters at the same meal. Judging by what one belligerent says of another there doesn't seem to be much truth left In Europe. Statistics fall under renewed sus picion when a country undertakes to estimate the losses of an enemy. There's no chance that the common people will go back on ragtime muslo ntll some Impresario praises It. "Stick-in-the-mud" sometimes ap plies otherwise than In Its figurative significance to Uncle Sam's U-boats. Every housewife knows that the best egg to be bad tn the world Is the one laid by her oid domlnacker hen. According to a correspondent a gen eral on the firing Une without at least one decoration Is painfully conspicu ous. The giving of shares of steel stock for bridge prizes is not likely to be come so general as to make the prac tice vulgar. The Irony of fate reaches Its climax when the victim of Insomnia reads ac counts of the ravages of the sleeping sickness. What's a little fall like tumbling from the water wagon, compared with dropping 10.000 feet with a warplane and living? In the meantime that aviator who was going to fly across the Atlantic ocean "as soon as the war Is over." continues his policy of watchful wait tag. Why is It that a man who comes borne so tired be can't take bis wife to a theater la alwaya ready to sit In a poker game all night long without yawning? It la said that one farm in every ten in Pennsylvania haa an automo bile. And It might be added that the poor, overworked farm horse isn't kicking. Nine times out of ten, when a fel low tells you he Is a self-made man you can accept his statement as the real reason why be is Buch a down tight mutt Pickles were the chief article of diet of a woman who died at the age ol one hundred and two. There may b some truth in this, as many a germ Is believed to turn pale at the very men tion of pickles. Astronomers announce that there will be Ave eclipses this year. Pos sibly that number Includes the one due next November. fA large part of the function ol diplomacy Is to explain with cour teous deliberation that what cannot De cured must be endured. Another glory of the soldier will d part when the army adopts rubbei beels. which cannot be brought to tether with a click. From an experienced husband comes the expert report that the won en folk Co not wear those chin-cbln collar silencers at borne. Diamonds and other preclom stones to the value of $25,000.000 wer Imported to the United States laal year, showing that the cost of blgb living problem is still with us. Gold to the value of $98.891.100 wat produced in the United States In 1915. This Is slmoRt a dollar each for the whole population. No wonder some of us dldn t notice the difference. Still, the woman who found a dia mond in the hen rather followed the precedent of the yokel who killed the goose that laid golden egga. Those European nations who art stealing our diplomatic code apparent ly are In complete sympathy with our feeling against secret diplomacy. It la getting so now that when a man a wife leavea home and be call! ber darling In hla first letter, she sus pects something and Is tempted U Aake the next train home. NEWS TO DATE Iti PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR 1UY PEOPLE. Weetera Niwmpn Union H ewe Baratea. ABOUT THE WAR French take trenches in Alsace. Russians capture town of Bltlls in Turkish Armenia. Heavy artillery duel in progress in Alsace, region of Seppols. French regain part of ground near Douaumont which Germans captured. Germany's U-boat campaign de stroyed but one small vessel March first German troops assembling behind lines before Verdun vigorously shelled by French. Berlin reports that 10,755 men and 223 officers have been captured so far in the Verdun fighting. , More than 3,000 men drowned when French auxiliary cruiser Provence II was sunk in Mediterranean. Tbo German losses during the first four days of the battle around Ver dun are estimated at 150,000. Fighting to north of Verdun proceed lng with unabated fury, neither aide gaining Important advantage. The British report a victory over desert tribesmen In which the broth er of the Turkish minister of war was killed. British casualties in all the war area, a published during the month of February, showed a total of 739 officers and 17,847 men. British claim they are holding the trenches recaptured from Germans near Ypres, but Berlin acserts they were Immediately driven out of moat of the positions. . The kalBer has now 750,000 men In the divUlon that is driving on Ver- dua. Reports Indicate that Ger mans are constantly jmahlng small gains, but at a terrific cost in lives. Revised figures shows that 122 per sone, including fifty-five passengers, are missing and probably lost in the sinking of the Peninsular and Oriental liner Maloja. The bodies of forty seven have been landed at Dover. WESTERN Cheyenne's twentieth annual cele bration of Frontier Days will be held July 20-29. James William Lee, a cousin of ten. Robert E. Lee, died at Dallas Tex., aged 71. Tha Sioux City Hacking house strike has been settled, and the men are returning to work. Many of the Leadville, Colo., strik ers have returned to work, and four of the five furnaces are in operation. Detectives are Investigating the theft at Chicago of jewels valued at between $25,000 and $3l,000 from a Jewelry shop. The complete disappearance of small fortune which he la said to have possessed surrounds with mystery the death of Henry Huber, 60 years old, of Denver, which occurred at Green River, Wyo., Dec. 9. The Standard Oil Company of In diana, in 1915, earned 63.32 per cent on its outstanding $300,000,000 stock as compared with 21.90 per cent in 1914. This was reveale'l at the stock holders' meeting at Whiting, Ind. WASHINGTON By a vote of 68 to 11 the Senate carried out President Wilson's wish and killed Senator Gore's resolution to warn Americans off armed belliger ent ships. ' Orders approved by President Wil son restore to entry 113,348 acres of public land in western Wyoming, 188,358 acres in eastern Utah, and 10,988 acres In west central Mon tana. President Wilson at conferences with Congress leaders Thursday said that following out the notes of the United States government diplomatic relations might be broken off with a nation causing the death of au American in- disregard of interna tlonal law, and that he had been in formed breaking off of diplomatic re lations might precipitate war. Th'j I'rebldf nt declared It was .said that to warn Americans to keep off armed ships of belligerent nations would bo In effect acknowledging justification of Germany's proposal to sink these ships without warning. Paul F. Mueller of Chicago, presl dent of the National Association ol German Publishers .and Editors of the Chicago A bend post told President Wilson he believed most German Americans were loyal to the United SUtes. The President told Mr. Muel ler he felt confident that the German- Americans la common with other Americana , of foreign birth were loyaL Tha War Department asked Con gress to appropriate $40,000 for land FOREIGN Henry James, the novelist, dlod in London. At Tokio, Japan, the diet adjourned after adopting a bill for revision of the tariff. 1 The Danish explorer, Knud Rasmus- sen, baa completed plans for a new expedition In North Greenland. The sinking of the hoHpltal ship Marechiaro near San Giovanni Dl Modua, Albania, Is reported In a dis patch from Rome. It is reported that both Villa and Zapata have accepted amnesty from Diaz, and offered to end their careers aa outlaws to fight under bis banner. A Bucharest dispatch received by Renter's Telegram Company by way of Amsterdam says thr.t the queen mother, Elizabeth of Rumania (Car men Sylva) is dead. More than 1,000 am believed to have been lost In the sinking of the French auxiliary cruiser Province, formerly In service aa a transatlantic liner, in the middle Mediterranean ac cording to a Paris report The story of the three French sappers who were buried alive for hours during the battle of Verdun and who finally dug tliotr way out to safety,' is told in detail by one of them who arrived In Paris on a hospital train. The naval prize fund derived from the sale of contraband goods seized by the British navy and condemned by prize courts now amounts to over $30,000,000. ThiB fund wHl be distrib uted among all men of the navy, after the war. The Anglo-French answer to' the protest of the United States regard ing the seizure of mails In transit be tween America and Europe will be delivered in the Immediate future, ac cording to official announcement from London. That the liner Maloja, sunk ofl Dover with a loss of more than 250 lives, was torpedoed and did not strike a mine, was the sensational testimony offered at the coroner's In quest by Chief Officer Forbes at Dover, England. Mrs. Vlereck, mother of 'the editor of the Fatherland, a New York pro- German publication, was stripped and searched by British authorities at Falmouth and also at the Downs when the Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam stopped at those ports according to reports from The Hague. An El Paso dispatch says: Car ranza's power in Mexico Is tottering, as Felix Diaz, with a constantly in creasing force. Is sweeping through the state of Vera Cruz. Carranza forces opposing Diaz have been forced to retreat with heavy losses. Many of the troops sent to check the advance of Diaz have gone over to his standard. Meanwhile Carranza, by wholesale executions, is attempt ing to terrorize the populace Into sub mission to his government Recently, after the capture of El Oro, Carranza troops executed 200 Zapata soldiers. SPORTING NEWS Ever Hammer defeated Joe Wlllinj at Kenosha, Wis., in a tame ten-round bout. Another player has boen added to the list of 191G Grizzlies who have signed contracts. He Is Johnny Relle ne r of siiortstop fame. Edmund Many Deeds, an Indian re siding near Little Oak Creek, S. D, will be given a tryout with the Sioux City baseball club of the Western League. Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, and his wife left London for Corunna, Spain. Johnson was ordered to leave England. It was stated at the time that he would sail for South America. Word was received in Denver from Japan to the effect that the crack University of Waseda baseball nini will not leave Tokio for its tour of the United States until March 23. GENERAL Henry Ford said at Detroit that be was not to' be seriously con sidered as a Republican candidate for the presidency. General Felix Diaz has won tha first skirmish with the forces of Pro visional President Carranza In the state of Vera Cruz, according to In formation in a code mcsuage which reached the staff and fumily of Gen eral Diaz at New Orleans. . Noah Lundy, a farmer living neat Areoia, 111., is mourning the loss ol $,G5U in crisp United States cur rency. Lundy had secreted the bills in a mail order company's catalog, and while away from home hlB wife, while cleaning house, burned the book along with other waste papers In keynote speech and platform, Democrats of New York state, assem bled In informal convention at Syra cuse, ratified the administration of President Wilson and took steps to bring about his re-election. Harmony marked the convention's delibera tions, every proposal being unani mously adopted. A donation of $1,000 from President Wilson to the Ellen Wilson memorial. a fund being raised at Atlanta, Ga., for awarding scholarships to children In mountain sections of the South, was received by officers of the memorial. Bake ovens filled with the bodies of roasted babies was ene of the verbal pictures of alleged Turkish atrocities drawn by the Rev. E. A. Yarrow, an American missionary at Van, Turkey, during an appeal for financial aid for Armenians and 50,000 GEÍ1ÜAÍÍS DEAD AT VERDUIJ BATTLEFIELDS COVERED WITH BOD1E8 OF MEN SLAIN IN DESPERATE CHARGE8. 1 DOUAUMOIITLIHESIIOLD KAI8ER SENDS 50,000 MORE MEN TO AID CROWN PRINCE IN EFFORT TO TAKE CITY. Western Newnpaper Union News Service. Paris, March 7. Fighting of great violence continues at Douaumont in the Verdun region, the war office an nounced Sunday afternoon. The Ger nuns made a heavy attack against the French front along the line from the Haudreinont wood to Douaumont fort This assault, the statement says, was repulsed. . Reports from semi-official sources estimate that 50,000 German corpses are ' lying be fore the French trenches. The Ger man war office asserts that there has been no further Infantry fighting of Importance at Verdun, but declares that the French artillery is keeping up a heavy fire, especially near Dou aumont. Evacuation of trenches cap tured from the French near the forest of Thlonvllle in Lorraine is admitted by the Germano. The only progress marie by the Ger rnans was during the first two days of the second attack. Reinforcements brought up by the Germans olnce the inauguration of the second phase of the battle on Wednes day are eotlmatod here at 250,000 men. ruining the totr.l forces utilized by the assailants to more than half a million. Estimates of losses show wide variance. Details of local actions and the size of the reserves brought up cause French observers to make the deduction that the Germans have paid a very heavy price for the six square miles of ground they have gained. In front of the village of Vaux alone, 4,000 German corpses were counted after the eighth unsuccessful l.ttack. This part of the battle, though overshadowed by the fight for Douaumont, is regarded In Paris aa o ierlous check for the attackers. The German carried on the assault with great courage until the dead lay thick on the field. Thea the officers, it is said, were compelled to urge on the troops as they clambered over the corpses of their fallen comrades fot the last assaults. ASSAS3IN WOUNDS ENVER PASHA. "Send Us Help at Oncel" Plea of Con stantinople to Kalaer. London. Tho fall of Bagdad Is considered Imminent, according to an Athens dispatch to Reuter's Tele gram Company. Advices from a diplomatic sourc3 In Constantinople, adds the dispatch, are that an attempt has been made to as sassinate Enver Pasha, the war min ister, who was wounded. The Duke of Mecklenburg "In view of the gravity of the situation" has telegraphed the German Emperor, urging him to send reinforcements to Constantinople. The Sleva powiur magazine at Constantinople has blown up in consequence of a fire. A message to the Exchange Tele graph Company from Zurlsh says: "German newspapers published wira less messages from Washington em phasizing the gravity of the German American situation. The Frankfort Bourse, which Invariably reflects news affecting German high finance, ended in a condition of panic." MAKE NAVY FIRST IN WORLD. Mayors' Conference Resolutions Sent to Congress. St Louis. The two-day conference of mayors on national defense closed with a banquet at which the princi pal speakers were George W. Wicker sham, former attorney general of tho United States; Mayor William Hall Thompson of Chicago, and Miss Anno Morgan of New Yoi k. The conference adopted resolutions declaring for universal military train ing; for a navy that will make this country the first sea power In the world; for locating arsenals and mu nition plants at places distant from either coast and from the Mexican or Canadian borders; for mobilization of physical resources of the count-y; for the ctandardlzation of transporta tion of all materials used In war; for the organization of transportation service for Immediate use. The resolutions urge Congress to pasj laws making the principles set forth In the resolutions effective, Mr. Gompers said organized labor would support a proper program for military preparedness. Woman Kills Catholic Priest. St. Paul, Minn. Tho Rev. Henry Jajkeski, pastor of St Caslmlr's Pol ish Catholic church here, was- shot and killed at the church by a woman In the presence of several membara of his congregation. Stirling Farmer Killed In Auto Wreck. Sterling. 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CAUSE FOR REAL REGRET Mistreated Father Thought He 8av How the Situation Might Havo Been Different. They were traveling peacefully home In their lumbering market cart, when from the shadowy bedge Caere leapt two unkempt forma No time was wasted in useless talking, tn businesslike manner they rifled the pockets of Farmer Jones and his daughter, turned them out of tho cart, and drove off in It themselves. "Dear, oh, dear!" wailed the poor old man. "here's a nice to-day! Horse and cart and money all gone!" "Not the money, father," broke In the daughter. "I bad the purse In my mouth." "In your mouth, iassT" replied the old man, feebly. "Good for you! But what a pity your mother wasn't there, then we might have saved the horse and cart!" STRAIN ON THE IMAGINATION Company Was Willing to Believe a Lot, but Longbow's 8tay Was Too Much for Them. Mr. Stretcher Tes, it's cold, but nothing like what It was at Chrletmas three years ago, when the steam from the engines froze hard and fell on the line tn sheets. Mr. .Cuffer And yet that wasn't so cold as in '87, when It froze the elec tricity in the telephone wires, and when the thaw came all the machine were talking as hard as they could for upwards of five hours "Well, gentlemen." said Mr. Long bow, "the coldest year that I can re member was tn the Christmas week in '84. when the very policemen bad to run to keep themselves warm." But that was too much, and with silent looks of indignation the other two left to hla own reflections the man who treated the truth so slightly. TH(E FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When Boy. If parents realized the fact that cof fee contains a drug caffeine which la especially harmful to children, they would doubtless hesitate before giving them coffee to drink. "When I was a child In my mother's arms and first began to nibble things at the table, mother used to give me sips of coffee. And so I contrasted the coffee habit early. "I continued to use coffee until I was 27, and when I got Into office work I began to have nervous spells. Espe cially after breakfast I was so nerv ous I could scarcely attend to toy cor respondence. "At night, after having bad coffee for supper, I could hardly sleep, and on rising tn the morning would aeei weak and nervous. "A friend persuaded me to try Pos tura. "I can now get good sleep, am tree from nervousness and headaches. I recommend Postum to ail coffee drink ers." Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes In two forms: Postum Cereal the original form must be well boiled, 15c and 25c pack ages. Instant Postum a soluble powder dissolves quickly In a cup of hot wa ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage Instantly. 80c and 60c tins. Both forms are equally delicious and oost about the same per cup. There's a Reason" for Postum. sold by Grocer. defenses In Hawaii. Svrians at Chicago \n\n NOTICIAS DEL ESTADO Da Interés para toda la gent da Nuevo Mexico. Western Newspaper Union Newa Servio. COLORADO. Los Maccabees están recibiendo su logia en Frederick. Se ha formado un "Club Rotante'" en. Colorado Springs. El dfa extra del año. se concedi eron siete divorcios en Denver. Cinco licencias de matrimonio de ano bisiesto se dieron el 29 de feb rero en Denver. Desde el medio de febrero el precio del cinc en los campa mentos de Colo rado ha avanzado de $32 la tonelada. Los dlas de Agricultores en Hotch- klnB han tenido tan buen éxito que se está preparando un dfa de lecherías para junio. En Victor, el alguacil cogió la suma de $12,000 de mineral precioso en una caballeriza, el producto de un robo de "high graders." Charles Hazen fué constituido de fensor en una información acusándole de esclavitud de las blancas presen tada por la Señorita Ora De Lee de Denver. La Seflora Mariel Stmonson, esposa de un muy bien conocido ganadero de Hugo, murió en Denver en el hos pital de St. Anthony de los electos Ue una operación suirida hace dos se manas. La calda de una cuchara en la casa de A. M. JohnBon, en Denver, causó una inveslogacmn de parte de su hija la Señorita Gertrude, que tuvo por resultado directo desnacer los planes de un laarón. Excapto en dos casos, las estadís ticas compiladas en Denver ae los libros de la oficina del procurador de distrito no indican una gran reducción en crímenes aesae quo fué vigente la ley de prohibición. Las entradas en la oficina de cor reos de Denver durante el mes de febrero fueron de $14,206.00, que represonta úna aumentación de $17. 398.71 sobre las recetas durante el mismo mes el año p. passado. Kl caso de Riensl Dickens,' acusado del asesinato de su padre, W. 1L Dickens de Longmont, la noche del 30 noviembre, fué pospuesto basta la sesión de abril de la corte de distrito en Boulder. Frank Peterson, quien fué conden ado por asalto con intención de matar & su mujer, Stella Peterson, fué sen tenciado por el juez Wright en Den- ver a sufrir un ano en la cárcel da condado, pena que es el limite maxi mum de la ley. Denver tuvo un "sin precedente" al 29 de febrero con una cosecha de niños de ano bisiesto que hacen una docena exactamente. Estos niños darán á sus madres el goce de ofrecer tertulias de cumpleafio solo una vez cada cuatro años. Muchos de los extranjeros en huel ga en la fundición de la American Smelting y Refining Company en Leadville sacaron su cuenta con la compañía con la intención expresada de salir de Leadville. Denver sera designada como centro de provisiones . necesarias para el gobierno en su servicio do oponerse a la extensión de los incendios de selvas que puedan declr.-arse en un territorio abarcando 21,000,003 acres de Belvas de reserva de los Estados Unidos. ' Según noticias recibidas por amigos en Colorado Springs, Eleanor Painter de esa ciudad, que ha sido "estrella1 en la Princess Pat" en Nueva York, está padeciendo de neurastenia y esta al presente en un sanatorio en White Plains, N. Y. El Obispo Francia J. McDonnell de Denver, fué elegido presidente de la Asociación de Educación Religiosa en la convención anual en Chicago. Un total de 872 personas fueron ar restadas durante el mes de febrero por la policía de Denver. De estos 759 eran hombrea y mujeres. Como de costumbre el numero de solteros arrestados fué más grande que el da los casados. Los Primeros dan un total de 549 y los segundos 323. Las operaciones de construcción de casas en Denver fueron muy active en febrero y las permisos de erección concedidos en el ayuntamiento exced ieron en total el número de cualquier otro mes en 1915. El gran total, com prendiendo las casas de negocio y las de habitación, representa la suma de $472,380. Castle Rock. Un veredicto de no culpable fué presentado por un Jura do en ed caso de cuatro antiguo) huelguistas, acusados de asesinato en conexión con la muerte, el 29 de Abril, 1914, del Comandante P. P. Lester, durante los desórdenes de la huelga de mineros de carbón cerca da Walsemburg. Un hombre fué. probalemente ar rastrado i. la muerte y su cuerpo sep ultado debajo de toneladas de nieve, hielo y escombros por un desliz da nieve, que se precipitó abajo de un flanco de montaña en el Black Cañón, cortó en dos un tren del D. & R. Q. llevando el coche de fumadores, los del correo y del equipaje al fondo del rio de Gunnison. Eu Frederick se tendrá una elec ción el 27 de marzo, con el fin de de terminar si laa varias escuelas del distrito deberían ser combinadas bajo, una organización única.