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Show NEWS OF A WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Line. INTER-MOUNTAIN. The Boise-Payette Water Users' association as-sociation has branded as false the declarations of former Secretary of the Interior Garfield made to the Bal-linger-Pinchot investigating committee commit-tee at Washington, that the government govern-ment had warned settlers against going upon public lands under iriga-tion iriga-tion projects before the delivery of water. Indictments have been ' returned against David Eccles, the Utah millionaire, mil-lionaire, and ofticers and employes of the Oregon Lumber company and the Sumpter Valley Railroad company, charging that defendants undertook to secure a large body of valuable lands in Oregon for the use and benefit of two corporations, which are really owned by the same man, Eccles. The announcement comes from Pueblo, Colo., that the Co'-orado Southern South-ern Irrigation company has let contracts con-tracts aggregating $12,987,000 for the construction of its irrigation system which is expected to reclaim about 300,000 acres of land in the Arkansas valley. A sharp earthquake was experienced at San Francisco, early Thursday morning, but no damage was done. At Modesto and Watsonville the people ran into the streets, fearing a heavy shock was due. After weeks of indecision, it is announced an-nounced that "Tex" Rickard has decided de-cided to hold the Jeffries-Johnson fight at Emeryville, Alameda county, California, just across the bay from Dan Blackwell, aged in, white, narrowly nar-rowly escaped violence at the hands of a crowd of infuriated negroes at Memphis, Tenn., following an attack made by Blackwell on Eugenia Davis, an aged negress, when she found him robbing the chicken house. The Rock Island has just sold $11.-000,000 $11.-000,000 worth of bonds, the proceeds to be used for new construction, ac-quitions ac-quitions and improvements. William Youngberg, who was brought to Joplin, Mo., from Webb City, after he had attempted to commit com-mit suicide by taking poison, confessed con-fessed that he had murdered Mrs. Dora Nelson, whose body was found there Wednesday. Youngberg said ne killed Mrs. Nelson because she refused re-fused to marry him. Ten persons were killed and seventeen seven-teen injured, many of them probably fatal'iy, in a terrific explosion of the American Maire 'Products .company at Roby, Ind. Starch in an overhead kiln is supposed to have been the cause. WASHINGTON. Because millionaires retire from active ac-tive business and come to the national capital to live, or rather die, and are enabled to escape various forms ot taxation in the District of Columbia. Representative Miller of Minnesota has introduced a bill providing for an Inheritance tax in the district. Denials that John D. Rockefeller, by the establishment of the Rockefellet foundation, is seeking to avoid taxation taxa-tion of his fortune is mads by Stan J, Murphy, his personal counsel, who claims that the government would have direct supervision of tile foundation. founda-tion. Former Secretary of the Interioi James A. Garfield, on the witness stand in the Ballinger-Pinchot case, declared that Mr. Ballinger had submitted sub-mitted to him a statement by Clarence Clar-ence Cunningham that the Guggen heims had no interest in the Cunningham Cunning-ham coal claims in Alaska, when at the same time the Guggenheims had options on a half interest in all the claims. The department of justice has filed with the federal supreme court of the United States a thousand-page brief in support of its petition that "Standard "Stand-ard Oil"! be dissolved as in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Dr. William M. Morrik Gray, pathologist path-ologist at the army medical museum, and an authority on X-ray treatment, dropped dead from heart disease in his laboratory in Washington while engaged in X-ray experimentation. FOREIGN. American tourists soon will come to regard an airship tour as one of their regular features of a program of summer sum-mer travel in Europe if the expectations expecta-tions of the founders of the new Hamburg Ham-burg Airship line are realized. The strike of the northern coal miners, which has been in progress since early in November, was declared de-clared off on Friday, thus ending the difficulties in the New South Wales coal fields. An Austrian school boy named Ca-milio Ca-milio Socki, 18 years of age, shot himself him-self dead in a box during the performance perform-ance of an opera at the Vienna opera house because he had failed in Greek and Latin in a recent examination. Rev. John Solomon of Toronto, an aged missionary, returning from China, arrived at Victoria, B. C, on the steamer Monteagle, ill with smallpox. small-pox. He was taken sick a week ago. The steamer is in quarantine, and the passengers and crew will be held for two weeks. At the sitting of the Russian duma on March 12 a new bill was Intro- San Francisco. DOMESTIC. Official announcement is made that the 1910 Glidden automobile tour will start from Cincinnati about the midd.e of June. As the result of a free-for-all fight it a dance near Tipton, Tenn., four young men were seriously wounded, pistols and knives being freely used. The supreme court of Kansas has iecided that a saloon keeper in Kansas Kan-sas cannot recover more than nominal iamages in the event that he is mobbed and his property Is destroyed. Sympathetic strikes are unlawful, according to a decision handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals Saturday in Chicago, in which it sustained a recent judgment of Judge Dayton of West Virginia. Barney Oldfield, driving his 200-aorsepower 200-aorsepower Benz in practice at Day-tona, Day-tona, Fla., covered a mile in 28 seconds, sec-onds, being one-fifth of a second -faster than the world's record, made by Marriott In a steam car at Daytona, lanuary 25, 1906. A run was made on the Bank for the Society of Savings at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday, but the bank appears to have weathered weath-ered the storm. Ninety per cent of the depositors who withdrew their money were women, and nearly all were foreigners. In the circuit court at St. Louis fudge Dyer issued a sweeping injunction injunc-tion against individual members of the striking bricklayers and stone masons' unions, who formerly worked an the new Catholic cathedral. The union men are restrained from inter- duced, based on certain regulations in force in western Europe, under which every privately owned sea or river vessel is liable in time of war to be Impressed for naval service. Summers visitors to Lucerne this year will be able to view the lake and mountains from an airship, the i Lucerne Lu-cerne authorities having made arrangements ar-rangements with the Astra company of Paris to establish an aerial' service there on June1 1. The dawn of a prosperity greater than any that Australia has yet experienced ex-perienced marked the year 1909. The commonwealth achieved a world's record rec-ord in rearing for the first time 1G0,-000,000 1G0,-000,000 sheep, tha wool clip from which was the heaviest ever produced in a season in any country. The aboriginal tribes in Baster, a feudatory state in the central provinces provin-ces of India, have risen in revolt and have looted bazars and burnt down police posts and school houses. One state official has been severely wound ed. The rebels are armed with bows and arrows. A mutton bone carelessly thrown out of a railway dining car near Vienna Vien-na injured a little girl named Bohni so badly that she died. The parents have been awarded $1,000 damages against the railway company, and the attendant who threw the boue has been set to prison. The Bri'lsb navy estimates for 1910, issued by the admiralty, provide for an expenditure of $203,010,500. art -v crease of SiT.OO.j.OOO over 1909. The increase is almost wholly taken up by shipbuilding authorized by parliament parlia-ment before dissolution. Martin Gauthier, until three years azo confidential clerk to M. Duez. the embezzling liquidator- of church properties, prop-erties, has been arrested at Xevers. The house which Gauthier had occupied occu-pied in Taris had been searched ami twenty sets of important papers which were said to reveal Duez' modus oper audi seized. A duel between two girl students took place recently at Presterlitz. s small village cose to the Austria;' frontier, one of the girls being sho' through the shoulder. They vvero both in love with the same man. ering with the workmen in any way tnd are prohibited from visiting them lit their homes. The strike of paper makers and sulphite sul-phite workers has spread to five mills nf the International Paper company, I len being out at Glens Falls. South i.lei.s Falls, Niagara Falls, Fort Ed-i.'ard Ed-i.'ard and Coriiilti. Three companies j t f militia have been ordered on active iuty. Posey, the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Warren, attempted to avenge the 1 Peatn of his father and took four 'hots with a pistol at J. .1. Cline at llammoth Springs, Ark. Cline had tilled the boy's father, had stood trial ind was acquitted. After the boy had nnptied his gun, Cline could have Lilled him, but instead he quietly trove homeward. Prominent society women of Burlington, Bur-lington, X. J., members of the St. Ilarnabas Episcopal church, have im-iertaken im-iertaken the job of painting the exterior exter-ior of their church, in order that tther improvements may not be halt-id halt-id by lack of funds. Cnited States senator John W. Haniel of Virginia was stricken with aralysis at Dayton. Fla.. on Wednes- i i"ay. He is at a local hospital and his physicians say he will recover. As a result of several serious fights between negroes and street car crews, deputy sheriffs have been placed upon all cars at Muskogee. Okla. One negro woman drew a knife upon a conductor and attempted to stab him. ! Other negroes joined the fight and the conductor was badly beaten. ; Determined to avenge an attempted i assault upon Miss Cera Downs, 17 ! years old. by an unidentified negro : in Kansas City, Kas., fifty high school ; students, classmates of the girl, have , joined a sheriff's posse in a search ' for the fugitive. 1 |