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DAVID R. FRANCIS 17 V fl ?2$S .a! B pi David R. Francis, former governor f Mlaaourl, arlectrd to auccecd Oaorge T. Mary aa Ambaaaador to Rossis BRIEF WAR NEWS The situation remalna unchanged on the Russian and Auttro Italian froata. Advices from diplomatic source In Constantinople say that an attempt Thas been made to aaaaaalnate Enver Pasha, the war minister, who was wounded. The Germans admit that In the re gion of Ypres the British recaptured the positions the Oermans took from them February 14. but say the British were Immediately driven out of most of them. The British, however, de clare that tbey have held these posi tions. The Rusalan occupation of llltlla. In Turk lh Armenia, la retarded In Pstro rad as a development of first Impor tance, opening farther the way to lien dad for the Kuaalan armies. The Turks now will lie greatly hampered In bringing up reinforcements for their army that met defeat at Erxerum and Is retreating westwsrd, while the southward thrust by the ftuaalana has driven a wedgo between the Turkish forrea west of Lake Van, In Armenia. and Hume operating to the east In Persia Tin' Hermans have reaumed their heavy offensive In the region of Ver dun, with tin- French everywhere strongly optioning It. The German armies at the gates of Verdun are hammering Ilium hard with heavy artillery. In the laal fight ing reported Hie Initiative waa on the aide of the French, who desperately drove back at the Oermans In a coun ter attack wlili'h gained them ground The Qeriuau thrusts In the new phase of Ibu titanic struggle are being delhcred with heaviest force at pres ent on the saliont to the northeast of the fortress In which Ilea the Dotiau moot plal i. Here the Freuoh last week were driven out of Fort Douau moot village to the weal. In and uroimd the tillage the battle has been raging with violence and With heavy losses on both sides. SHORT NEWS NUGGETS Iowa's ami tipping law was declared tiucnnatllutlouiil. The ijiic. ii mother, KlUtthcth of Hon mania (Cannon Sylvia), Is dead. William f Kdh, the American consul ul RogMb was found dead in a chair. Death was probably due to heart l incase, list (here are i cars, loaded to the roofs, backed up on storage tracks between Chicago at .1 c en l Former Tinted States Senator Theo dore Hui inn ut Ohio asked that his name be withdrawn as a candidal the republican presidential nomination In Nebraska Word has nod from Petro- grad (list D It Francis of Mtseouri Will U ucceptublc to the Russian gov- eniinciiL Mv UI jurtasU George T. mu1 e, wlio resigned. I i liiiihctt. of Lincoln, Neb., X-at-nator, filed with the Iowa secretary of state his affidavit of candidacy for the republican nomination for vlce prc.s, dint el the ('lilted States. p The Standard oil company of Indla- fia Tn Tt15 earned" uXk per rent "oh is outstanding $30,000,000 stock, as compared with II H per cent in 1814 This was revealed at the stockholders' meeting held at Whiting Ind,, ' Q. A. R Encampment Arranged. Kansas t'lty, Mo. The national en Cttiupmeni of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Kansas City from August 29 to September 1, next, It was announced after a meeting of O. A. It national officers. Sweden Warns Travelers. Stockholm The Swedish foreign Office issu ii u warning against Swd lsh nationals traveling: on armed bel ligerent ships. ATTACK BY FRENCH STOPS FOE'S DRIVE Battle of Verdun Continues Desperately. With Germans Holding Douaumont. wwr1n. The driving German as sault on Verdun haa halted for the sernnd time in the Douaumont sector northeast of Verdun, on this occasion in the face of a formidable counter attack l)j tin" French in an effort to : take Doiiamnont vlllege. The clash . of the opposing armies at this point ' was desperate. i nrii now hold the summit of the knoll which dominates the tillage from the south. Carta of the town had been taken and retaken repeatedly, and each time that the fortune of bat tle has changed more dead from the thick masses of Herman assailants have been added to the piles behind which their surviving comrades have sought brief protection. Reinforcements brought up by the nermann since the Inauguration of the second phase of the battle on Wednes day of last week are estimated here at 2Kn.(iiii men. raising the total forces utilised by the assailants to more than half a million. Kstlmatcs of lossos show wide variance. Details of local actions and the size of the reserves brought up cause French observers to make the deduction that the Oermans have paid a heavy price for the six square miles of ground tbey have gained. In front of the village of Vans alone 4000 German corpses were counted after tit eighth unsuccessful attack, j This part of the battle, though over shadowed by the fight for Douaumont. li regarded In Carls as a serious check for the attackers. The Germans car rled on the assault with great courage I until the dead lay thick on the field CRUISER MOEWE RETURNS TO PORT Berlin. The German cruises Moewe arrived In a German port (said to be Wllhelmshuveiii. according to an of- ' flcial announcement mad hare. She had on board 191) prisoners and 1,000, 001) marks In gold bare. The Moewe, previously made fa mous by her exploits, has performed one of the most spectacular features of the war on the seas by reaching a home port lu safety. The great Ger man naval port of Willielmshavnii Is on the North Sea. which Is patrolled with ceaseless vigilance by British warships It is through these waters, which have been blocked off III dis tricts for patrol h tin- different llrlt Ish unit:., li' the Mocwe must have d 1. 1 ay to home and safety. 3130 LOST WITH PROVENCE French Admit That Armsd Transport Carried 4000 Soldiers When Lost. Carls. -That the French auxiliary cruiser I -a Provence, when she waa sunk in the Mediterranean on Febru u St, carried a list of 4000 men, was I the announcement made by the minis ter of marine It Is now estimated that upwards of ' 3130 lives were lost. This em. st Utiles the greatest ocean dlsuiter of modern times. Up to the nt, tin largal number of lives i oa In one wreck, wan when the White Star liner Titanic struck an Ice berg off the Newfoundland bunks on April 14. (MS, and sunk with u death loss of IGSfj. The rescued muni 743. Bittis Is Taken by Russian. 1. .union. The Itusslaus have taken i ii in the fortified clt of Hitlla, In the Armcnlau Taurus. Hulls lies I In miles south of Krzcrmn, the great A I nit man fortress captured by them on February 15. The urmy of Grand Duke Nicholas has thus covered with in a little more than two weeks more than one fourth of the distance from Krrerum to Bagdad, which Is about SOU miles. Railroads Havt Rscord Business. St. Paul. Minn Hutlroads in the northwest are doiiiK the largest bust : ness in their history as the resuU of a revivaT in earnings following the January lull, officials asserted here. Roosevelts at Trinidad. Port of Spain, Trinidad-Colonel Theodore Kooscvelt and Mrs. Hoose velt have arrived here to remain ten days. New Secretary of War Named. Washington. - Nm on 1) Baker, for mer mayor of Cleveluud, Ohio, has been selected by President Wilson for secretary of war. Fall of Bagdad Is Nsar. London .The fall of Bagdad ts con- sidered imminent, according to an Athens dispatch. NEWS NOTES OF IDAHO The senate haa confirmed the nomi nation of H L Pannetl aa postmaster at l.ewlatnn. The Idaho State Audubon society was organised with more than 30 mem bers at Boise. A bold robbery occurred at Welser when the vault of the Hotel Washing ton was robbed of $600. The Soda Springs hotel, one of the beat known hnstelrles In southeastern Idaho, and a landmark, was destroyed by fir. Kx Sheriff William M. Buchanan, a pioneer of the Kittle Cotlatch section, died at Moscow at the age or 6k, fol lowing a sickness of two years. Whitman College defeated the Uni versity of lilnho basketball five at Moscow- for the second time in on week by the score of 26 to 21. Clans for the big Buhl Clnnecr Dny celebration are already well under , way and the Indications are that it will be the biggest event ever pulled , off In liuhl The annual meeting of thp forest rangers and officers of the Selway na tional forest, under the direction of ' Superintendent Charles F. Howell, waa held In Knoskln. Assessor Christopher estimates that there will bo over 200,000 head of sheep to be assessed aa migratory stock In Canyon county this year, he having assessed nearly that number already. A representative exhibit of ore from the various mining properties In Bon ner and Boundary counties will be ex hlhlted at the Northwestern Mining convention, to be held In Spokane March 20 to 26. Idaho progressives are making plan to send a delegation to their national oonventlop at Chicago, and a meeting of the state central committee will lie held Friday. March 10. at Caldwell, to call a state convention to select dele gate. 'Better highway throughout Nes Peres county" I the slogan of the road overseers recently named by tb board of county commissioners and It Is expected material improvement throughout, tha county will be effected during the y. C. D. Cols, representative of the Goodrich It uhber company, assisted by enmity employe", Is now compiling the necessary data for inscribing the road posts of Nes Perce county. The statement 1 made that approximately 126 post will be required. Upoa the request of It. E Shepperd and D. C. Mi Walters of the Twin Kali North Side l.aud Water company. the state land board has modified Hh order of Feb. 4 In which It forbid the company from reselling water right under its pumping segregation. Within the next few days work of oularging the Meridian cheeae factory to a capacity of 20.1100 pounds of milk par day will be commenced. Need for eularr.i mint haa become urgent, and even with the greater production con templated it is hardly thought the fac tory can supply the demand for the Meridian chesas. Or. I-aubaugh, atate bacteriologist. haa received the head 01 tw and one coyote to be tested for rabies. C. C. Baker of Hurley seut In the heada Of one coyote and one dog. The ani mals had acted susplotously, wrote Mr. Baker, and he believed tbey were rabid. Another dog' head waa for- anted by Dr. DIU of Shoshone. The Current Kvents club of Moscow has decided, after months of Investi gation and discussion, to launch a movement for the Introduction of mo tion pictures in Lin- public schools. The investigation shows that the Uni versity of Wisconsin ha ulreaif? in operation such uses of the "movies" aa is to be suggested for the public schools of Iduho. v Lieutenant Paul Frederick Foster of Idaho, a former student of the state unlveriity, lu accordance with aa act of congress approved March 3, 1016, was recently presented by the navy department with a medal of honor as I -nltloii of the distinguished r- vlctd in Hie litii- of his profession ren dered at the selsure of Vera Crut, 1 April 21, 22. 1ST4. An answer has been filed by 160 laud owners In the Nampa Meridian Irrigation district, to the petition of the district for the examination, ap proval and confirmation of the assess meats and distribution of the costs of the drainage works tn the district. The answers deny ths right of the dis trict to assess their land for drainage or that the contract with the Suited States Reclamation aervtce to drain the Tand Is legal. The format call reconvening ths republican state committee to make legal the irregular action of a minor ity of the committee Feb 12 ha been Issued by State Chairman Evan Evan, of C.rangeville. The call convenes the committee in Boise March 11 for ths purpose of naming the time and place for the next state commutes. 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