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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1917
Page
1
Paris reports air raids last night on Frankfort on the Main Stuttgart Treves and Coblenz carried out by French planes in retaliation for German raids on French targets.
Lincoln Oct 2 Governor Keith Neville is appointed colonel of the Seventh regiment Nebraska National Guard reserve. He will resign as governor once the regiment is called for service. Petrograd dispatches report a serious Turkestan revolt with troops in control and the public in panic.
Associated Press reports official announcement that British forces captured Ramadie in Mesopotamia. It states forty thousand prisoners were taken, marking a significant advance. The strangely inserted line about a cleaner is omitted as non-factual.
Associated Press report from Chicago notes indictments target IWW leaders and probe efforts to stir disloyalty among registered men. Federal grand jury continues hunting men in national service and checks all registrants for disloyalty. McAdoo warns that a failed government loan would be a greater disaster than a great battle loss.
Artesia New Mexico October 2 During the week ending Tuesday fifteen cars of apples were shipped from this station six cars in one day estimated shipments will total at least 200 cars about 150 from Hope twenty two miles away The C A P ranch near here will ship about twenty carloads due to scarcity of Hioxes most aisles shipped in baskets or bulk Some cars billed to Albuquerque The 1 0 b price is from 1 25 to 1 75 per hundred pounds.
Will James F. Burns a Colorado Springs capitalist dies in October leaving an estate valued at about two million dollars to his widow, son James P. Burns aged sixteen and daughter Gladys Helen aged thirteen as primary heirs.
German forces withdraw a large number of Austrian troops from France Galicia and Bukowina and rush them to the Italian front as Rome reports the second phase of a major battle is about to begin.
London reports ten killed and thirty-eight injured in last night's air raid. In the Craonne sector two German attacks were repulsed by French forces, according to official statements issued today.
Official report says Russian detachments have pierced the German lines in the Riga area and advanced about one mile, signaling a breakthrough in the sector.
Berlin reports that German forces captured a five hundred metre stretch of front at Polygon Wood from British troops and retained all ground won. The advance is described as a winning effort by German units on the Flanders front.
At Fort Bliss Texas the Twenty fourth infantry board of inquiry began reviewing testimony from 156 negro prisoners tied to the Houston rioting. Charges will be filed against those named. trial venue and date remain undecided, with possible court martial at Fort Sam Houston or here in October.
Body of Lieut. Vosse, the famed German aviator, found among the dead inside British lines after a battle where German reports say 42 airplanes were shot down by British airmen.
Associated Press reports a revolutionary movement in Turkestan with General Cherkes attacked and beaten temporarily. Parts of two regiments joined in a counter revolutionary bid to seize power as authorities scramble to respond.
London reports that German assaults along the Ypres Menin road near Polycon Wood ended in a complete failure. The statement, issued today, confirms the unsuccessful attacks and British defenses.
German airmen dropped bombs on two hospitals behind British lines in France. Three British nurses and several wounded soldiers were killed. The attack, reported by Associated Press from British headquarters in France, occurred on October 2.
Representatives of the miners in the central competitive district today rejected proposals from operators for a partial wage increase being demanded by the miners.
Bank touts membership in the Federal Reserve System to reassure depositors and customers that it can meet all requirements and provide modern banking services with or without a savings account. The message stresses stability and reliable service for both small and large depositors.
The report notes a Copenhagen October demonstration for annexation and a cotton harvest update. Mrs Shultz and two daughters picked 710 pounds earning food money at one dollar per hundred. The Bitch Cattle Company shipped eleven carloads from Tularosa to Amarillo Texas with A C Tanner buying. Cauthen in Valmont reports cattle heads, while Tr outhweat at Alamogordo mentions winter shipments.
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