Show t OF ft RECORD OP THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happenings that are making bistor informal on gathered from all quarters of the globe and given in a few lines INTER MOUNTAIN about 2 delegates attended the opening session at ogden of the forty irth annual convention of the na dional Wool growers association fred W gooding of shoshone idaho pre siding the address of welcome being made by governor spry of utah hughes of seattle counsel for the claimants of the cunnningham group of alaska coal entries will go to paris this month to take the test mony of campbell of spokane and billett also of spokane who are original entry men the midwinter sheep show at og den is unequivocally declared to be the greatest affair of its kind ever held anywhere there were seven hundred of the finest sheep in all the world they were the pick of prize pens chown it different fairs and ex positions the suffering caused by the coal ta mine in balse idaho has been re lieveld to some extent by ane rise in the temperature the city Is practically without fuel and it the cold continues the situation will be come critical miss eva haines of denver aged 19 wrote a note to a friend declaring her intention to commit suicide and dis patched the note by a messenger boy the boy read the note and hastened to the police station police surgeon mudd was dispatched to the girl s room and found her in great agony gave relief and an hour later the girl was pronounced out of danger one of the most disastrous floods in the history of the town has visited caliente nevada many buildings were wrecked some of them floated off down stream like house boats and the water at times poured into the houses over the window sills every house in the place that remains standing has fully one toot 0 mud on its ground floor DOMESTIC gillord pinchot chief forester and friend of theodore roose velt has been dismissed from the ser vice of the united states by dent taft for insubordination As forester overton W price and assistant law officer alexander shaw pinchot s immediate assist ants in the forestry bureau followed their chief out of government em ploy another paper as ocia tion formed by john H parks who pleaded guilty and paid a fine of 4 tor his con with the so called fiber and manila pool haa been indicted by the federal grand jury in new york charged with being an illegal corn b nation in restraint of trade president tafts special message to congress recommending amendments to the interstate commerce and anti trust laws was laid before the house of representatives on friday the president suggests no changes in the sherman anti trust laws at this time the village of in arizona located in a canyon has been de strayed by a wall of water twenty feet high that s dept down the can yon presumably the result of the bursting of a dam several indiana aie ng and are supposed to have been drowned the n er can fedaration Fed ration of labor through a committee headed by sam i el gompers james 0 connell and other union leaders has carried its fight against the united stales steel corporation to president taft deputy sheriff mcadams lies mor tally wounded in the hospital at ala N M as the result of an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a man earned trapp at corona trapp barri caled himself in his house d a when mcadams attempted to force his way in shot him jose lopez was hanged in the ter rit orial prison at florence ariz janu ary 5 for the murder of maria Es twenty seven cases of ptomaine poi boning all but one traceable to ane eating of cream puffs or chocolate have been discovered in byra cuse N Y mrs josephine dud ey a sister of prof frederick A cooks wife ing in new york has made a state ment declaring that te elpio er is a nervous wreck unable to tl ml con and that the reason he re in hid ng is that ie could not stand the strain of further controversy james M giggs of the second georgia district died janu ary 5 of apoplexy at dawson ga mr griggs formerly was chairman of the democratic national congressional committee charles a farmer of mendon mich tripped on a stone in his back yard recently and fell across a pumpkin in such a manner that his neck was instantly broken mrs walter ellis and one child last their lives and another child was per haps fatally burned in a fire that de strayed the ell Is home at lyons kan A gas stove exploded by stipulation at cal a threatened content over the vast es tate left by john Q packard was dropped the estate is estimated at from to pack ard was pioneer of this place later going to salt lake city where he ad ded to his already large fortune nine members of the Pre caldo tarn lly are dead at sawtelle cal and two are not expected to recover as a re suit of ptomaine poisoning caused by eating canned peas the peas were canned by mrs Pre caldo several months ago in a daring attempt to hold ip and rob a private bank in the green point section of brooklyn four men at tacked the clerks shot one of them perhaps fatally and then gave battle to a crowd in the street two rob ers escaped but two men were ar rested albert griffiths a miner employed at grass valley cal has been sen merced to serve davs in the county jail after pleading gu ity to a charge of stealing high grade ore from the mine our forests contributed 90 to the exports of the united states during the fiscal year 1908 a awn increase since 1851 the am ports of forest products chiefly n d a rubber and other gums from the tropics and lumber from canada have grown to even larger proper eions the coroners jury which invests gated the death of eleven members of the marquez family who succumbed as the result of eating tainted preserved pears at a family reunion at sawtelle cal returned a verdict that death was due to ptomaine pois aning washington the house of representatives at ter a parliamentary battle in which a combination ot insurgent republicans and democrats defeated the alcan organization adopted a joint res providing tor an investigation of the interior department and the forestry bureau efforts are to be made at the present session of congress for the passage of a law providing for the compulsory retirement of govern ment employed emp loyes and p hviding pen slona for such employee albert F potter assistant forester who has been designated to succeed mr temporarily as chief of the united states forestry bureau was in atten dirce at the national Wool growers at ogden the washington police arrested al bert ringe of two rivers WIs anen ie was attempting to see vice dent sherman at his office ringe has been in washington for more than a year seeking to obtain imagined rights through senator la follette and the vice tent and has made threats against both rear admiral kimball now in corn maud of the american vessels on the pacific coast of nicaragua will be placed on the retired list january 29 on account of age he will be re tamed in his present position until am bencan ships are withdrawn from NIC aragua there Is no attempt in tion circles to deny that president tatt Is withholding certain customary congressional patronage from those insurgent senators and alves who adherents of the president say show no disposition to support administration measures As a possible new tack m the prose cution of ane american sugar drefin ing company and others the govern ment may ask tor a federal receiver ship similar to the action taken in the tobacco case according to the new york tribune A congressional investigation of the general land office and the forestry service ot the government growing out of the so called ballinger controversy is provided tor in a joint resol atlon which was introduced in the two houses of congress on wed FOREIGN edmond thiery the french econ odist figures that ane wealth 0 france increased during 1909 by 1 french foreign invest ments at the end of the year totaled that plans for the refinancing of guatemala will soon be put into exe cution Is the information received in isea orleans by parties with cent al american interests it is stated that the guatemalan government successfully concluded negotiations begun ome months ago for a loan of 20 occo b a new ii ork financial in ution the recent in manitoba aang the minneapolis st paul sault ste mane railroad has resulted in seven deaths including sheriff whitehead of weyburn and a homesteader named hellborn Hlll born living south of the russian foreign office has re a memorandum tr m the united states government proposing as a solution tor the Manc hunan proa em the ne of railroads in ban chuna b their ale to china financed bv in intel national kyndl cate ahe imprint ot a bloody finger on a military ticket taken up on the train on which mme gouin widow of julis fa douard in a doimer governor of he barl of france was traveling on december 16 has cleared the u te of hei death two french sol diers have confessed to her murder the air chambered tar get which cost 15 to build and which was shipped from the brooklyn navy yard to the philippines to be used in the winter target practice of the pacific fleet went to the bottom after receiving two broadsides from the char ston according to advices just received A new animal ha den discovered by the poosevelt part in africa the animal is a hitherto ur known species of to of the scientific organization have given the specific name cf ver gatus it is a small s mammal closely re dembling sem bling a fox jose santos zelaya was on thurs day warned by officials that the po lice are in receipt of secret informs alon that two and an american are in mexico city and are awaiting a favorable favor atle opportunity to ake his life january 10 when the writs will issue for the election the peers 0 england will be debarred from tak ing further part in the campaign they are showing feverish anxiety to util ize the remaining week to the best advantage they will address conservative meetings eastern roumelia has been swept by the most disastrous flood in fifty years the whole plain resembles a vast lake many are reported drowned and the losses in crops and livestock will be very heavy soldiers in pon are rescuing the people cut off by the rising waters |