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Newspaper
Elko Independent
Location
Elko, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
1
London reports 41 dead and 101 wounded from a Zeppelin raid last night bringing total killed to 167 and wounded to 436. Mass meetings push for reprisal raids on German towns under the banner Raid for Raid as anger at government defense delays grows.
The president and Chairman Hay of the house military affairs committee met in Washington to discuss the army's role in the national program. Financial considerations dominated the talks as the key issue.
United Press dispatch from Nish reports the Servians still containment Bulgars and Austro-Germans. North of Pojarevatz two attacks were repulsed with heavy losses Sunday night. Servians recaptured a village in the Semerevo district as two night assaults on Semerevo fortress were repulsed.
The Zenther family of Acme Oregon celebrates Welda a three year old girl scoring one hundred percent in a local eugenics baby exhibition in Eugene Mrs Zenther known as Miss Lula Hough niece of Miss Lizzie Hough has ties to this area and Carlin Her friends here share in the news and joy over the milestone marked by a paper clip announcement
The Supreme Court hears five cases challenging the constitutionality of the income tax. Eighty two million dollars in annual federal revenue hangs on the ruling as attorneys argue the standards that define the tax.
In the house of commons British Foreign Secretary Grey pledged Russian government troops would cooperate with the Allies in the Balkans at the moment they become available. Observers believe he meant as soon as English forces can reach the fighting zone.
The keel of the electric driven battleship California was laid at the Brooklyn navy yard. Secretary Daniels said electric propulsion marks a new epoch in navigation, expected to boost cruising radius by about fifty percent, underscoring the shift from sail to steam and now to electricity.
United Press dispatch from Santa Rosa reports three dead and about forty thousand dollars in property loss after a Cloverdale fire this morning thirty miles north. Bodies of Mrs J L Harrison Lodi an unidentified Black man and an unidentified white person recovered from ruins.
Paris dispatch reports Premier Viviani told the senate that Italy will participate fully in the allies plans. He noted on good authority that Italy will aid the allies in the Balkans, signaling coordinated action within the Allied war effort.
London report states Consul General Skinner informed Washington that last night's Zeppelin raid caused no American casualties.
Under the county board and Engineer De Armond a survey for a new road to the summit toward Lamoille is prepared. The plan keeps overall length close to the old route and reduces the steep climb. The maximum grade is seven percent for 150 feet, elsewhere not over three and a half percent, with a nearly uniform ascent to the summit crossing near the current point.
Rotterdam dispatch reports a tremendous battle raging from the North Sea to Arras as forces clash in France with heavy fighting and shifting fronts.
Stockholm reports only ten of twenty seven German ore steamers reached port while fears grow that the others were sunk by submarines. In San Francisco the International Peace congress discussed peace structure preparedness duty and Pan American relations across three sessions with future meetings planned.
Mr DeArmond announced that a better road can be built along the new survey with a gentler uniform grade. The soil type improves the route and much of the road traverses cement formation, making it one of the more used roads in the county and commissioners vow to put it in good condition.
I R Sans of the interior department plans to place a half dozen trappers in the northern county to exterminate rabid coyotes and other predators. About twenty experienced men will be assigned later, paid 75 to 90 dollars monthly, to shoot poison and trap with government waste of heads. Headquarters will be Winnemucca, Nevada, amid rising rabies reports from Humboldt and Washoe counties. Winter may boost activity as plans proceed.
Bulgarian cavalry and Austrian troops have concentrated at Vidin on the Danube opposite Roumania. They appear ready to take either offensive or defensive action amid tensions on the frontier.
Washington October 14 The vocal speculation over Colonel House the president's close friend being best man at the wedding grows hotter. The colonel is expected to help arrange the details of the ceremony and his involvement is widely anticipated among officials and reporters.
Berlin reports the English assault from Ypres to Loos completely failed as Austrian forces capture defensive works before Pozarevatz, south of Belgrade, in the same broadcast.
Germans exultant at Zeppelin raids claim Zeppelins raided London last night damaging the city and vicinity with attacks on London City important establishments and Ipswich batteries. Zeppelins returned safely according to the admiralty.
United States dispatches report Bulgarian invasion repulsed near Nish while city braces for defense. In California, duck hunting opens October 15 with bag limits set for various birds and rabbits. rail, wood duck, and wild pigeons remain prohibited year round.
Premier Salandra, after meeting with the king, said the Balkan policy will be decided at today's cabinet session. Elsewhere, ranchers near Fallon, Stillwater, and Fernley report a prosperous year with good hay and wheat crops. Prices: cream at 27 cents a quart, hay and stock movements strong, land clearing up. Journal notes F. H. Van Valkenberg left for Tracy, California following a telegram about his father’s illness.
The speaker claims the United States can issue a record ten billion dollar check in the year, aided by over one billion bushels of wheat and more than three billion bushels of corn plus other crops. He asserts foreign trade, bank reserves, and progress will create unprecedented prosperity, while warning against a hollow foundation.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture asked the University of Nevada's Agricultural Experiment Station for plans to build a thermograph like Mount Rose's. The Mount Rose instrument, created by Dr. J. E. Church and S. P. Ferguson, records temperature, pressure, moisture and velocity on one sheet for six weeks without attention. This second observatory device follows a snowfall measuring machine previously recognized from the same designers.
Paris dispatch says a Bucharest report states that Russian forces are concentrating at Odessa as the war effort intensifies.
In St Helens Oregon on October 14 W E Stout aged 46 shot and killed his divorced wife and her sister Mrs S M Todd then set fire to their home. He fired at the city marshal who accompanied them and killed himself. The tragedy followed a dispute over property division.
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