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Show W.LJATKISOK DEAD AT HIS ME Chief Train Dispatcher for the Rip Grande Is Suddenly Sud-denly Stricken. W. L. Watkins, chief dispatcher of the Denver & Rio Crande railroad, dropped dead in his home, 1408 South Seventh East street, from heart failure, as ho was preparing to go to work yesterday yes-terday morning. Mr. Watkins liad stepped into tho kitchen to get a drink of water when he was stricken. A coincidence is that a nephew of Mr. Watkins, George Gilmore, of Og-den, Og-den, died suddenly Wednesday under similar circumstances. Mr. Watkins was born in Ogden for- driven back the enemv towards the frontier. At Tulghus there have been violent vio-lent artillery actions. Our troops completely surrounded an enemy detachment which had occupied Mount Sisphes. and put them to the sword, taking 500 prisoners pris-oners and capturing two guns, rive machine guns and some war material. ma-terial. Fighting continues in the Trotus , valley. We took prisoner here one officer and 104 men, and captured two machine guns. In the TJsnl valley the enemv was repulsed with heavy losses. Our troops are maintaining main-taining -their positions. In the Oitsu valley he made his attacks, which were of great violence, chiefly chief-ly at Oituz and Slanio, but was repulsed re-pulsed as, far as the frontier. In the Buzeu valley our trops have been compelled to withdraw in the direction of Gurasiritilui. Here we captured some prisoners aud three machine guns. |