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Show " NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlstor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Captain H. S. Stark, one of the best inown mining engineers in the county, coun-ty, and a captain in the Royal en-;ineers en-;ineers during the Boer war, died at i Denver hospital on Friday. Accusation of sweatbox methods were made by Attorney Tannahill against the government counsel n the trial at Boise of William F. Ket-jnbach, Ket-jnbach, George Kester and William Dwyer, on a charge of conspiracy to lefraud the government out of "qho timber lands. By signing a pledge never to drink intoxicating liquors or to smoke tobacco to-bacco or to use "any other narcotic," tny young man who lives in Idaho or North Dakota will shortly be able to secure free a college education. The ate Charles B. Botsford of Boston is ;he man who made all this possible. Another attempt to identify a wo-nan wo-nan as Mrs. Belle Gunness, owner of :he La Porte, Indiana, "murder farm," .ailed when Sheriff Antiss telegraphed :rom Everett, Wash., "Not Mrs. Gun-less." Gun-less." Mrs. Sophia Hopkins, who is iving on a ranch near Belllngham, Wash., is the woman who Sheriff An-.iss An-.iss was called upon to identify. Senator Smoot has presented an imendinent tn the Arizona statehood The territory of Alaska, bought from Russia for $7,000,000 In 1S67, has to the present time paid $160,000,000 in gold alone since 1S80, when placer mining there began, and what the resources re-sources of its copper, coal and other minerals will be is beyond the limitation limi-tation of man. One man is dead, five are badly burned, one of whom may not survive, and two are painfully scalded about the face and hands as a result of a hoiler tube blowing out in the forward battery of the torpedo destroyer Hopkins, Hop-kins, at San Diego, Cal. Edwarc Bowman, aged 11, was shot to death at Montgomery, Ala., when he ran up to put a valentine on a porch and was mistaken by Mrs. W. H. Pierson for a burglar. Robbers, who traveled in an automobile, auto-mobile, stole $3,575 from the State Bank of Ford, Kansas. Four charges of nitroglycerine were used in blowing blow-ing the safe. WASHINGTON. Senator Perkins of California was in his seat in the senate on Friday for the first time in more than six weeks. His absence had been due to an injury in-jury to the spine, received by falling on the ice, soon after the Christmas holidays. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas delivered de-livered a speech in the senate on Friday, Fri-day, in which he charged Senator Owen of Oklahoma with being interested inter-ested in the Standard Oil company, and said that he would like to see John D. Rockefeller "wrapped in the tlames of hell." President Taft's decision in the liquor controversy that "Whiskey is whiskey" whether it be blended or straight, has been formulated in a set of regulations prepared by the board of food and drugs inspection of the department de-partment of agriculture. President Taft has had a conference with a number of senators, expressing his disappointment at the dilatory tactics of the senate in acting upon administration measures, and it is understood un-derstood the chief executive has been given the promise of senate leaders that everything possible will be done to expedite business in the future. The United States census bureau is making extraordinary preparations to ascertain the approximately exact number and value of livestock on the ranges in the United States on April 15 next, the date of the livestock inventory. in-ventory. FOREIGN. Swenden has had the unique distinction dis-tinction of having had both her king and queen under the surgeon's knife within a month. Authorization to increase its capital by 20,000,000 has .been granted to the Japanese South Manchurian railway rail-way for the development of the An-tung-Mukden line and the improvement improve-ment of Port Arthur. Quietly old Palestine is being filled up with Jewish colonists and it is not impossible that the next generation will see the Zionist movement successful suc-cessful to the extent at least that the great maorijty of the inhabitants of Palestine will be Jews. Investigations are to be made Into alleged army scandals in Japan, according ac-cording to news received by the steamer empress of China. The Hochi Shimbun charges gross irregularities, irregu-larities, and two other Tokio papers allege scandals. The disappearance of the wife or M. Parat, a Paris druggist, has been cleared up. It develops that her husband, hus-band, who is insanely jealous of her, has kept the unfortunate woman chained up in their home for the past two years. Policemen rescued her a few days ago. Baron Otto Orban, an aged Hungarian Hungar-ian nobleman, was torn to pieces by wolves in a forest in Transylvania re-' cently. The baron, who was 70 years of age, was riding in the forest near his county seat at Lengyelfalva, when a pock of wolves gave chase. They frightened Baron Orban's horse, which threw the rider. Greece needs money and it is possible pos-sible the great American financier, J. P. Morgan, will be asked to float a loan of $30,000,000. For political reasons rea-sons intimately connected with a desire de-sire to remain on good terms with Turkey, Great Britain and Germany seem anxious to place every obstacle in the way of the loan. Fighting continues in Nicaragua both the government forces and the revolutionists claiming victories Vrhile details have not been received it is the general opinion that the gov eminent has geen getting a little th( best -of the contest. Because of a shortage of wheat ir Mexico, the rate of duty has been re duced by ths Mexican governmem from 3 cents to 1 cent a kilometer. Following new evidences of seditioi in India as a result of the muzzllnj cf the Indian press the past week, th; war office has begun to mass BritisI troops about Calcutta. M. Laird, vice rector of the Univ?r sity of Paris, has been officially ad vised that Theodore Roosevelt wil reach Paris about April 14, and tha the length of his stay probably will no exceed three or four days. The Marquis and Marquise De Cas tellane have instituted suit in Pari; against the Princess De Sagan foi ! $13, GOO back annuities which they al 1 lege the count and countess in tin j marriage settlement of 1908 engagei I themselves to pay at the rate of $5,t0( a year. i Demonstrations by Socialist: ! ihivuishout Germany on Sunday, afte i ma.-o meetings held to protest agains j I ihr; suffrage bill, resulted in scniin: I affrays between the demonstrators anc the police in many places, seven policemen as well as a number of So, ; c:H'.ists being injured. j Dill, providing for the annexation to Utah of that part of Arizona lying aorth and west of the Colorado river. The request of this change has been Bade before, hut always without success. suc-cess. DOMESTIC. B. P. Green, a Rock Island brake-man, brake-man, was frozen to death near Ama-rillo, Ama-rillo, Texas. He had started to walk to the station, and his body was found in a snow drift. The meat trust is to be placed on trial in New Jersey, the Hudson county coun-ty grand jury having instructed Prosecutor Prose-cutor Garvan to draw up the form of an indictment against the National Packing company and its directors. A movement calculated to solve the ;ost of living has been inaugurated at New Orleans. Citizens have formed a 150,000 combination and will raise vegetables, chickens, etc., for the use of stockholders. A mistake in the delivery of two barrels of oil nearly caused several fatalities at Laurel, Md. Citizens had een eating doughnuts prepared in machine oil, instead of oil used for cooking, the mistake having been caused by the mixing of the two barrels. bar-rels. The Alaskan steamer Yucatan, bound for Seattle from Valdez, with sixty-five passengers, struck an iceberg ice-berg in Icy strait and sank. All on board were saved and have beeu taken to Juneau uy the steamer Geordia, which went to the rescue. In a pitched battle at Cairo, Ills., between a mob that sought to lynch a negro arrested for snatching a purse from a woman and the deputy sheriffs guarding the jail, several members of the mob were shot down, but it is not believed any were fatally injured. Tom Hanson, the Arizona ex-convict, who after his release from prison carried car-ried out his threat and killed two men whose testimony had convicted him, has been captured in the mountains near Globe, Ariz. Four bandits blew the safe of the Citizens' hank at Chatsworth, Ills., .got $10,000 and escaped. An engineer was killed and fifty people injured, seven seriously, in a head-on collision between a Hocking Valley passenger train and a pay train near Nelsonville, O. Because he had been reprimanded by his mother for keeping late hours, John Plaskett, aged IS, suicided at Chicago, shooting himself in the mouth with a target rifle. The village of Lakeland, Fla., has been wrecked by a hurricane, twenty-five twenty-five persons bein?; injured and a number num-ber of houses demolished. Reform, which has many times gone down to defeat only to come up again lor another fight, received its hardest blow in the municipal election in Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Tuesday, when the Republican Republi-can organization swept the city and won everything it started out to get. Drawing a revolver from a table drawer in his real estate office Tuesday Tues-day night, .In cob Pzdek of Chicago shot and in.-tcn!ly killed Bruce Morgan Mor-gan alter the lr. iter had threatened to shoot him unless he turned over $1500 which was in the safe. The "wets" won a pronounced victory vic-tory in the senate at Columbus, O., when, by a vote of IS to 14, the Bean bill, amending the Rose county local option law so as to exempt cities from its operation, was sent, to the committee commit-tee on municipal affairs, an avowedly "wet" committee. More than a million persons among New York tenement house poor are "strangers to the bath tub," says Lawrence Veiller, director of the tenement house committee of the Charity Organization society, in a re-' re-' port on sanitary problems just sub- mil ted to the society. |