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Show j BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEJTC EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Homo and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTER MOUNTAIN. Governor Hunt of Arizona has denied de-nied the requisition for the extradition extradi-tion of C. W. French, Pacific Development Devel-opment company promoter, to Utah on a charge of passing: bogus drafts on the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City. M. K. Lee, a Korean who shot to death a fellow countryman by the name of Coo at Garland, Utah, has surrendered and is in jail. The shooting shoot-ing followed a quarrel over a card game. Mrs. Stella Maries, a widow, lost her life at Spokane, when she attempted attempt-ed unsuccessfully to save the lives of her two daughters, Helena, 4, and ale, 7 years old, when the home was burned. Four distinct earthquakes were felt In Reno, Nevada and vicinity on March 1. No damage resulted. John A. MacMaster, a pioneer of Montana, is dead at Anaconda, having hav-ing answered the final summons on the seventieth anniversary of his birthday. He was a close friend of the late Marcus Daly, the copper king, and for years they prospected together togeth-er throughout California, Utah and Colorado. Mrs. Sado McDaniels, Japanese wife of an American physician living in the orient, who arrived at Tocoma, unattended from Yokohama on the Japan steamer Chicago Maru, has been ordered deported by the United States immigration authorities. Secretary Lane has called a conference con-ference on the general subject of the Irrigation of the arid west to meet in Denver on April 9, and has requested the governors of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, N,ew Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming to send representatives. DOMESTIC. ! Wesley ("Red") Simon, on trial at St. Louis for murder, was shot and killed during. a recess of the court before which he was being tried. Simon Si-mon was shot while in a saloon by the principal witness for the prosecution. prosecu-tion. Ella Sweeney, 22 years old, was found frozen to death near Hazelton, Pa., where her companion, James Bar-tholdl, Bar-tholdl, had left her in the storm while he went for help. Louis W. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern North-ern railroad, will become president of the road, to succeed Carl R. Gray, resigned. Physicians testifying for the defense de-fense in the trial of W. C. Ellis, a wealthy Cincinnati merchant, charged charg-ed with killing his wife in a hotel in Chicago, said that Ellis was insane when he committed the crime. Thirty-three members of the Democratic Dem-ocratic state committee of New York, most of whom were Tammany men, and Charles F. Murphy himself, unanimously voted to put into effect Governor Glynn's - t reorganization plans for the committee. In his opening statement for mine operators, Attorney Allen F Rees told the congressional 'investigating committee he believed that if Charles H. Moyer had joined hands with citizens cit-izens in recognizing the distress of sufferers from the Calumet disaster, the strike would have been settled that day. Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester for-ester of the United States, has announced an-nounced his candidacy for United States senator to succeed Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot Pin-chot was the unanimous choice of the Progressive leaders at a recent conference con-ference at Harrisburg. John Sebastian, aged 63, formerly ! vice-president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, died Sunday at his home in Evanston. He had been in poor health for several months. Relics worth $7,000, including a Bible more than 650 years old, were' destroyed at Joliet, 111, by fire which burned the residence of Mrs. G. L. Vance, widow of a collector. Frederick W. Mennerich was killed at Sullivan, 111., by an infernal machine ma-chine which had been sent him by mail from Decatur, 111. The Tennessee supreme court has hold invalid the section of the recently recent-ly enacted state liquor shipping ship-ping law limiting the interstate shipments ship-ments to one gallon for personal or family use. Mrs. Mary Manusch was fatally burned in a fire that partly destroyed her home at Aurora, 111. She had poured kerosene into a cook stove. Mrs. Dora Elizabeth Doxey-Whitney was released from the St. Loui, county coun-ty jail at Clayton, Mo., on Satuiiiay, having completed a three months' term for bigamy. Mrs. Cynthia Buffum was found guilty at Little Valley, N. Y. of murder mur-der in the first degree in having poisoned pois-oned her husband Willis Buffum. The jury deliberated five hours and twenty minutes. . Anthony Pclras. accused of t.n :rurder of Theresa Hollander, v. was clubbed to death in a cemetery at Aurora, Ills., has been released from the county jail under $Ui,0U'J bonds. John Worthington, former head of the American Hanking association, now in the hands of a receiver, was arrested at Chicago on two warrants charging larceny as bailee. The supreme court has refused to review the decision of the federal courts at New York, holding the Wal-tham Wal-tham Watch company could not fix the resale price of watches by retailers. retail-ers. Holding her 5-months-oId baby in her arms, Mrs. Ralph Dinsmore jump, ed from an overhead bridge in the path of a passenger train at North Batlelboro, Mass. The child was instantly in-stantly killed and the mother suffered suffer-ed probable fatal injuries. While "looping the loop" at Santa Barbara, Cal., Lincoln Beachey, the aviator, lost control of his biplane and fell 1,600 feet, but managed to right himself 400 feet from the ground and escaped with slight injuries. WASHINGTON. Action by the senate within a few days on the proposed woman suffrag? constitutional amendment now seems assured. The usual fight against the assay offices of the west is on in the committee com-mittee on appropriations of the house. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has issued an order granting reparation of 15 cents a hundred pounds on all shipments of lemons in carloads from California to the east between November 15, 1909, and February 14, 1912, aggregating tens of thousands of dollars. Trust legislation and a new law to enhance rural credits before adjournment adjourn-ment of congress are. the only measures meas-ures on the "must" list of the admin-tration admin-tration for the present session of congress. con-gress. George W. Perkins was denounced as a monopolist who had fostered combinations com-binations "in violation of honesty and decency" and who was responsible for the "repulsive, inhuman and hellish" treatment of employees, in an open letter written him Saturday by Senator Sena-tor Borah of Idaho. Haiti's new government, with General Gen-eral Oreste Zamor, successful revolutionist, revolu-tionist, as president, will be recognized recogniz-ed immediately by the United States. According to information officiala at Washington regard as trustworthy William S. Benton the British subject sub-ject killed at Juarez, was unarmed and was shot to death in Villa's office, of-fice, pistol bullets through the stomach stom-ach ending his life. FOREIGN. General Carlos F. Morales, formei president of the Dominican republic, died Monday in Paris. He had lived in Paris for some time as Dominican minister to France. A ministerial crisis is expected to occur during the present week after the Italian cabinet has obtained a vote by parliament approving its appropriation ap-propriation bill for the new colony of Libya, North Africa. Brigadier General John W. Barlow, United States army, retired, died Monday at Jerusalem. General Barlow, Bar-low, accompanied by his wife, was ! making a tour of the holy land. Dr. Frederick Fox, an Australian ; scientist, who devoted his life to the ' treatment of snake bites, died at Cal-! Cal-! cutta as the result of a bite from a I snake which he was using for experimental experi-mental purposes. I Pierre and Gabriel Salvez Bros, were killed at Lyons, France, while making an experimental flight in an all-metal ; monoplane of their own invention. The left wing of the monoplane gave way and the machine capsized. In an election on Sunday of parliamentary parlia-mentary representatives for the city of Constantinople all the government candidates were elected. A similar result was obtained throughout practically prac-tically the entire empire. It is said that strong influence is being brought to bear on the czar to have him issue a proclamation reverting revert-ing to the old Salic law, declaring his oldest daughter, the grand duchess Olga, heir to the throne, owing to the desperate state of health of the czarevitch. Officers at Winnipeg, Man., have arrested a man known -"as John W. Maxwell, alias "Cavalier Kid," whom they declare to be a bandit and is believed be-lieved to be wanted by the police in several western and Pacific coast states. The British house of commons passed pass-ed by 215 votes to 152 the second reading of a bill providing that all parliamentary elections be held on ! the same day. The Haitien government troops recaptured re-captured from the rebels the town ot Trou, south of Liberte. The victorious army continued its march toward Ouanaminthe, where the rebels, under un-der Senator Davilmar Theodor, took refuge when they fled from Cape Hai tien. Assassination by poison is believed to have caused the death of General Chao Ping-Chun, military governor oi the province of Chi-Li and former premier pre-mier under President Yuan Shi Kai, The Chinese statesmen was ill only a few hours. The Spanish government has re ceived information that an iuiportanl revolutionary movement is in progress prog-ress in Portugal. According to an annoucement made by the Spanish undersecretary of state for the inter lor, a condition of anarchy exists throughout Portugal. |