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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1918
Page
5
Report that Mrs Alexander Kerensky married during the September crisis is denied by friends here and Russian papers. They say the wedding was not confirmed and newspapers in Russia disputed the claim.
The Tuscania sinking prompts conflicting U S and British figures for missing and dead. War Department lists 210 missing 113 American soldiers while the Admiralty notes 166 missing 147 officers and enlisted men. Earl Reading arrives in Atlantic Port pledging resolve for Allied sacrifice.
Paso, Texas, February 9. Six AliS here have refused to register as German subjects under the order requiring all subjects in occupied countries to register. The men insist they are not subjects but loyal citizens.
German newspapers mock American morale after the Tuscania loss. They claim the sinking will deeply affect U.S. spirits, noting previous sinkings did not deter American troops in France. The Kiel and Cologne papers debate the impact on American resolve and wartime leadership.
An enormous ice avalanche roars toward Pittsburg flooding the Monongahela river with a pack 30 feet high. The Brownsville gorge broke out at 1 am, destroying a four span steel bridge at Point Marion and sending ice toward Bridgeport as the pack advances.
In Zagreb and Croatia anti Austrian demonstrations erupted with scores of agitators arrested. Dispatches from Geneva report unrest in Croatia with Dalmatian deputy Dr. Pavichitch banished along with Hrvatska Drzsava editor Andelanovitch for participating in a Zagreb demonstration.
German crown prince armies near Verdun suffer costly defeats in seven vain raids on French positions along the Meuse since February 2. French forces repel attacks on both banks, maintaining position and inflicting losses.
El Paso ranchers allege German agents are poisoning cattle in northwestern Texas. They report hundreds of deaths from a mysterious toxin and urge state agents to investigate.
In Washington on February weather conditions permitting the Garfield workless Monday order may be lifted after next Monday. Rising east temperatures improve coal and food transport with trains moving promptly. Garfield says if forecasts hold, he sees no reason for the shutdown to continue and will confer with McAdoo next week to decide.
President Wilson will call democratic and Republican senators into conference next week to discuss a pending bill to empower the president to coordinate departments for war prosecution. The administration hopes for passage, in a modified form.
The commission reports progress against labor unrest west of the Mississippi and urges ending profiteering and eight hour day reforms. It recommends a national labor policy that recognizes a collective relationship between capital and labor and surrender of wage restrictions to ensure war production and fair grievance redress. The survey covered copper strikes in Arizona, IWW activity in Pacific Northwest lumber, California oil fields, Pacific coast telephone and Chicago packing house threats, and streetcar tensions in Minneapolis and St Paul.
In a fast, rough basketball game at Laramie University of Wyoming defeated Greeley Teachers College 27 to 24. The contest raged with even teams and was described as one of the fastest caging contests ever played in the city.
William L. Saunders, vice chairman of the navy consulting board, said at a University of Pennsylvania alumni dinner that transports can be made unsinkable by submarines. An commandeered ship now in an Atlantic port cannot be sunk by a torpedo. The claim follows remarks by naval officials signaling renewed drive against U boats as the seas are cleared for U S troop transport.
Clyde Burrows Pearson, condemned for the murder of Frank Roach, sheriff of Laramie county, Wyoming, was denied executive clemency by Governor Gunter of Colorado. The board’s recommendation to commute to life was rejected, though a two week respite extended executions to the week of March 16.
Chicago agents from the department of justice rushed to South Wilmington, Illinois, to prevent a threatened hanging after a man allegedly said the American troops should die and that the Aruppe on the Tuscana ought to be drowned.
Assistant Lane hospital storekeeper Rolf Bartel and electrician William Loeber were seized on presidential warrants in San Francisco for aiding German raiders. Authorities say they aided a plot to supply munitions to raiders off South America, connected to the Cordova seizure at Callao. Four more alleged plotters are named including Ed De Cranmm Austrian engineer William Jankioleka and Ferrer former Mexican company president, with others posing as aviation officers.
A cabinet named committee in Rome will investigate who attended the October feature on the Tsonga front and what role each participant played.
A general railway strike in Argentina sparked anarchist demonstrations across the country. Trains were wrecked, tracks burned, and wheat cars set alight as troops moved to quell clashes. In Buenos Aires property losses reached 1 million pesos on day one, largely from grain fires.
Buenos Aires reports say President Irigoyen will remove Monorio Pueyrredon from agriculture to take sole charge of foreign relations. The move may also replace war and marine ministers with army and navy officers to end dissension and push a tougher stance toward Germany.
The trial of Bolo Pasha on a treason charge progresses rapidly with many witnesses from France. Lawyers are expected to rest their arguments early next week as former premier Joseph Calllaux is anticipated to testify for the defense.
German reconnoitering party north of Toul near Kivray captured American soldiers as U S forces held the line along the St Mihiel salient in Lorraine. The raid occurred amid broader West Front actions and parallel peace efforts in the east involving Russia and Ukraine.
Two telegrams crossing at sea reported a mother and her son both informed of each other’s deaths. Mrs Margaret Field of Chicago and Private Caldwell Field in France were the recipients, with one message notifying the son of his mother's passing and the other the mother of her son's death.
Advices from Haparanda report Tammers fors in White hands since Thursday. White guard sieges Viborg may have succeeded. 1,900 Red guards captured at Ulenborg. Danish syndicalists call mass meeting for a Danish soviet to aid the unemployed if relief bill stalls.
The Industrial Workers of the World faced a ban on opening a hall in the city after city commissioner Carmichael vowed to block the event. Police cleared the headquarters and a list of many alleged members, with fifty five people indicted for alleged conspiracy with IWW members against the United States.
A Roosevelt hospital bulletin says Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has passed the crisis and shows progressive improvement. Pulse and temperature are normal, donor ear inflammation is subsiding, but doctors warn it may be weeks before he can leave the hospital as Walter Martin plans another visit.
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