War Prisoners and Gains Reported by Forces Abroad
Bulletin notes French capture of Ablaincourt with 1,100 Germans and British seizure of German trenches yielding 300 prisoners. Italians and Austrians claim gains near Trentino and Gorizia. Vienna cites Italian advances and 2,700 prisoners. Fresh fighting reported along the Somme, Malassise ridge, Kronstadt area, and Rumanians facing pressure.
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Ablaincourt
Thiepval
Trentino
Vienna
Novovas
Gorizia
Ancre
Somme
Berlin
Paris
Malassise
Carpathians
Kronstadt
London
Foreign News From War Fronts and World Events
The bulletin reports Romanian suc cesses against Teutons on the Transylvanian front. Berlin notes a population drop to 1,790,821 in the fiscal year ending July 1916. Japan and Russia protest railway and canal concessions in China granted to Americans. The Greek chamber of deputies’ meeting is postponed by royal decree. The Danish submarine Dykkeren sinks after collision. crew believed saved. Canada’s wheat crop forecast drops sharply from 1915. Empress Sadako of Japan plans to aid wounded in Kiao-Chow. Rumors of separate peace between Russia and Germany deemed unfounded by a Berlin telegram. The first Philippine congress convenes in Manila. Hipolito Irigoyen becomes Argentina’s president, Pelagio Luna vice president. Mrs. Francisco Villa and party aboard the Atenas sail Havana to New Orleans to join Hipolite Villa in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Berlin
Japan
Russia
China
Chamber of Deputies
Constantine
Canada
Sadako
Kiao-Chow
Cologne
Germany
Philippine Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Manila
Hipolito Irigoyen
Buenos Aires
Victoriano de la Plaza
Pelagio Luna
Francisco Villa
Havana
New Orleans
San Antonio
Tex
Hipolite Villa
Western Colonel Graves to resign due to illness
Col A Graves of the Highth Massachusetts Infantry will tender his resignation because of illness. Army headquarters received reliable information that an attack upon Juarez has been planned with a date agreed upon. Four hundred red heads from Indiana Ohio Kentucky Michigan and Illinois held their first annual reunion at Indianapolis forming the Red Head League of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Graves
Highth
Massachusetts Infantry
United States Steel Company
Canton
Ohio
Hornblower & Weeks
New York Bankers
Army
Juarez
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Illinois
Indianapolis
Ind
Red Head League of America
Government and international notices from Washington
Aimaro Sato is presented to Secretary Lansing at the State Department. Brig. Gen. Montgomery Meigs Mabcomb retires at 64. Burleson revokes Hupp Automatic Mail Exchange permit. Farm loan board brands fraudulent any advance payment schemes. Los Angeles to host next world conference of Seventh Day Adventists in April. U S automobile exports total 144,626,719 for year to June 30. Secretary Lane cites 84,000 acres designated under enlarged homestead act in Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimaro Sato
Lansing
State Department
Montgomery Meigs Macomb
Army War College
Burleson
Hupp Automatic Mail Exchange Company
Farm Loan Board
Los Angeles
World Conference of
Seventh Day Adventists
Lane
Colorado
Bent
Prowers
Various early 20th century sports results from the West
Denver University topped Wyoming 19 to 10 at Laramie after Wyoming briefly led. Colorado Agriculture College crushed Utah Agriculture 53 to 0 at Logan. Dario Resta won the Chicago $15,000 purse and led the season standings for the $13,500 American championship. Colorado beat New Mexico 23 to 0 in Albuquerque. Boston Americans won the World Series opener over Brooklyn and shared $3,826.25 with 22 players. rest of the funds went to substitutes and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver University
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Wyoming “Cowboys
Colorado Agriculture College
Utah Agriculture School
Logan
Utah
Dario Resta
Chicago
Colorado
New Mexico
University of New Mexico
School of Mines
Golden
University Field
Albuquerque
Boston Americans
Brooklyn Nationals
Boston
Arizona State News and Events of 1915
United States Geological Survey credits Wyoming Montana and Colorado with gas production totaling 347 397 000 cubic feet in 1915. Obituary notes Henry Miller cattle king of the West dies in San Francisco. Idaho Seattle and Washington raids seize 40 000 gallons of liquor valued at 100 000. Reports cover Pullman earnings and a Western Maryland train collision injuring sixteen. Arizona items include fairs dates mining advances court actions and a list of local developments across Prescott Tucson Phoenix and Nogales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Geological Survey
Wyoming
Montana
Colorado
Henry Miller
California
Butcher’s Boy
Cattle King of the West
Miller & Lux Properties
San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Washington
William G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad
Cleveland
Ohio
G. K. Wason
Georgia House of Representatives
Thomas B. Felder
Atlanta
Pullman Company
Chicago
Maryland
Hagerstown
Knob Mount
Villa Isolation Foreseen As Carranza Forces Rally
Gen Trevino reports Villa near Temosachic with about 800 armed men and 1,000 recruits lacking arms and mounts. He says Villa pays no wages, rules through terror, and plans to seize cached supplies. Arredondo and Cabrera brief Americans on a campaign that could isolate or destroy Villa in the mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chihuahua City
Mex
Villa
Temosachic
Trevino
Sierras
el Paso
Mexico Northwestern
San Antonio
Cusihuirachic
Carranza
Santa Ysabel
Tex
San Andras
Chihuahua
Atlantic City
N. J
Luis Cabrera
Mexican Commission
Joint Commission
Designate Arredondo
Durango
Independent committee backs unrestricted submarine war
Berlin meeting of the independent committee for German peace urged immediate unrestricted submarine warfare. Deputy Fuhrmann, a national Liberal leader in the Prussian diet, chaired the gathering as it pressed for ruthless war tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Independent Committee For German Peace
Fuhrmann
Tageblatt
Hard fighting near Lutsk on Transylvanian front
Allied and German Austrian forces clash as Romanian troops claim gains in the Alt river region. Bucharest says attacks elsewhere were repulsed, with a retreat in the Burzen valley. Stalemate persists through Volhynia and into Galicia toward the Carpathians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vienna
Berlin
Alt River
Ferdinand
Bucharest
Burzen
Lutsk
Galicia
Carpathian Mountains
Volhynia
Lynching of Two Men Reported in Paducah
In Paducah Kentucky a mob lynched two Black men and burned their bodies, prompting outrage and headlines as authorities investigate the incident and assess vigilante violence in the era.
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Paducah
Colorado Tax Levy Fixed at 2.07 Mills
The Board of Equalization set the state levy at 2.07 mills a slight decrease from last year and an increase over 1914 Under this levy a total of 2409187 dollars will be raised for general state revenue and institutions.
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Colorado
Denver
Board of Equalization
Embassy Secretary Returning Here From Rome
Paris secretary Gay of the American embassy in Rome and Mrs Gay have left Paris on their way back to the United States.
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Paris
Gay
Rome
Mrs. Gay
United States
Mining and Metal Prices Update
Metal Market Quotations show Spelter at $9.19 per 100 lbs in St. Louis and Lead at $7.00 in New York. Bar silver at 675 cents per ounce, copper casting at $26.37. Tungsten concentrates in Boulder listed at 60 percent $18.20 per unit, crude ores at 60 percent $17.50 with other percent tiers.
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Spelter
St. Louis
Lead
New York
Boulder
Copper output and new mills mark Arizona mining activity
The Calumet & Arizona Smelter produced 7,600,000 pounds of copper in September. A flotation mill is being installed at the First Home mine in the Big Bug district to operate with the Chilean mill. The Elephant group of six copper claims near Patagonia shows potential with mill and smelter sites. The Big Pine Consolidated Mining Company will begin operation of a 100-ton reduction plant twelve miles south of Prescott. Green Monster leads Verde district prospects. A four-foot copper sulphide ore body was found in the Missouri shaft and a strike was reported at the Amazon claim.
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Forest Service
Arizona
New Mexico
State House
Jim Keene
Globe Mining
Miami Consolidated Mines Company
la Paz
United States
Vanadium Development Company of
Ray
Prescott
R. W. Kramer
Arizona Butte Company
Mohave County
Calumet & Arizona
Home
Big Bug
Elephant
Patagonia
Big Pine Consolidated Mining Company
Green Monster
Verde
Missouri
Amazon
Mining Notes From Colorado Camps With Varied Activity
Reports show a resurgence in Eagle county Fulford camp and new ore from Idaho Springs Cincinnati lease. Copper-iron vein in Incidental mine at Central City valued over $100 per ton. Last Dollar mine Cripple Creek to get electric hoisting plant. Queen mine Gilson gulch ships first tungsten ton. Summit county camps report rising ore outputs and more miners. Gold Eagle bond lease near Caribou for $25 000. Breckenridge district yields higher lead and zinc. Cripple Creek dividends total $330 000 in October. Portland Gold Mining reports rich ore on nineteenth level higher than famed mines above.
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Princess
Boulder County
Eagle County
Fulford
Idaho Springs
Oscar Johnson
Cincinnati
Central City
Dollar
Cripple Creek
Summit County
B. A. McGee
John Carlson
R. C. Null
Gold Eagle
Caribou
Breckenridge
Colorado Springs
Portland Gold Mining Company
Portland
Copper and Oil Ventures Rise in New Mexico
The Mogollon district ships over three tons of gold and silver bullion in September as production tops 15 million dollars. Toltec Oil Company of Chicago reorganizes New Mexico Petroleum and Gas Develop ment and plans Santa Fe headquarters while holding leases on 500 000 acres of state land and the San Cristobal ranch for oil. Two copper firms form with 2.1 million dollars in authorized capital: Red Peaks Copper Company of San Jon starts with 3 000 dollars funded and Garnet Copper Company of Oro Grande begins with 10 000 dollars, both in Quay and Otero counties respectively.
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Mogollon
Toltec Oil Company of
Chicago
New Mexico Petroleum & Gas Development Company
San Cristobal
B. F. Pankey
Santa Fé
State Corporation Committee
Red Peaks Copper Company
San Jon
Quay County
Garnet Copper Company
Oro Grande
Otero County
Oil companies report oil finds and earnings in Wyoming
The Hoyt outfit near Cody recovers its lost tools and resumes drilling at Dry Creek. Midwest Oil Company earns about 50 000 dollars monthly, six hundred thousand dollars yearly. Laramie Oil Development Company strikes oil and gas in large quantities at its seventh well eight miles west of Laramie.
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Hoyt
Dry Creek
Cody
Midwest Oil Company
Laramie Oil Development Company
Laramie
Reading for a Boy Inspires Noble Living Through Books
The Ohio State Journal urges fathers and educators to send boys toward volumes like In Tune With the Infinite and Astronomy With an Opera Glass. Reading strengthens a boy's spirit, fosters diligence, duty, and self reliance, and aligns youth with higher ideals, even if some works are challenging.
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Ohio State Journal
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Union News Service
Tepuacan
Felix Diaz
Laredo
Dykkeren
Burlington
Elwood
Neb
Company A
Colorado Signal Corps
Nogales
Ariz
SPORT
Arizona State News
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Tucson
Phoenix
Col. B. Hattich
Apache County
Chandler
New Cornelia Company
Ajo
University of Arizona
Oatman
John Ellis
Jess Willard
Miami
Oracle Road
Keystone
Kingman
Civil Service Commission
Venture Hill
Sasco
Lim Goon
Nitsie
Segia
Malcolm Cummings
The
State University
Supreme Court
Yuma County
Maricopa County
Maricopa
McNeal Fair Association
Sulphur Springs
McNeal
George A. Thayer
New Villa
Bandit
Arredondo
Western Newspaper
George D. Mieres
Coahuila
Mexico
James Shelton
Mieres
Ask
Kaiser
Rumania
River Alt
Clear Creek County
Queen
Gilson Gulch
Polly Brothers and
Hayes
Icesee
Ee Stephens
Iman Stephens
E. A. Stephens & CO
Stephens
Colo
Vaid
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