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Show CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hletorj Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Charles M. Hobbs, organizer and general manager of the Nevada-California Power company, is dead at Danville, N. Y. For a number of years and up to 1900 Mr. Hobbs was purchasing agent of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He was one of the corps of signal men that established estab-lished the first signal station on Pike's peak. John E. Ballaine ' of Seattle has made an oiler to the senate committee commit-tee on territories of a royalty of 50 cents a ton on coal mined for the lease of 5,000 acres of some of the choicest coal lands in Alaska. His offer has caused a decided sensation, coming as it does on the eve of the Ballinger-Pinchot 'investigation. Sweeping reductions in the cost of transportation out of Goldfield will go Into effect. February S, and will afford great savings to mining men who are shipping ore to the Utah smelters. Utah Copper gained a decisive victory vic-tory on Tuesday when two judges of the United States district court at Trenton, N. J., dissolved the injunction injunc-tion obtained by. Colonel E. A. Wall and W. C. Graham, against the merger mer-ger of the llinghum, Utah, properties. About 250 delegates from Utah, Idaho Ida-ho and Wyoming attended the opening open-ing session of the second annual Good Roads convention in Salt Lake City on January 20, Governor Spry being present to welcome the delegates. dele-gates. The good roads movement in the west is given a great boost by the convention. DOMESTIC. Plunging 100 feet to the bottom of Blanco canyon, and then burned to a crisp amid the debris of a wagon, was the fate of Mrs. S. R. Break, a widow, and her one-year-old child, near the little plains town of Floydada, Texas. The horses became scared and plunged over the cliff. Albert T. Patrick, who has been a prisoner for nearly ten years and who is now serving a life sentence in Sing Sing for the murder of William Marsh Rich, has been formally disbarred as a practicing lawyer by the appellate division of the supreme court. In the future. Patrick will have to have a lawyer represent him. George W. Wight of New Jersey, state commissioner of charities, believes be-lieves that state control of cold storage stor-age plants can be made an effective weapon for regulating prices of foodstuffs. food-stuffs. The state board of health, in I lie judgment of the comissioner, should have supervision over all cold storage products brought into the S'"p':,i n Coleridge will endeavor to conl' -r v. iih Mr. Rockefeller to induce the latter to lend his in!!u'iice to check the tortures of animals inflicted inflict-ed by v'visectors, especially at the Knckeieil-.r institute. In a ;u' between the "Teddies" and the "Gorillas, " two rival gangs of New York City boys, eight-year-old Joseph Yeager, a 'Gorilla," was tied to a lamp post, gagged, his pockets stuffed with excelsior and set afire. Three "Teddies" fled after dropping lighted matches in his pockets. He owes his life to pasesrsby, who smothered the flames. Mrs. Emma Le Doux has pleaded guilty at Stockton, Cal., to the murder mur-der of A. N. McVicker, and has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Mrs. Le Doux murdered McVicker in a hotel ho-tel in Stockton on March 24, 1906, and placed his body in a trunk, intending to take it to San Francisco, but the presence of the body was discovered at the railroad station. The Virginia legislature has reelected re-elected John W. Daniel for the sixth time to the United States senate. WASHINGTON. A favorable report has been made on the Mondell bill admitting to entry the surface of coal lands in the United States. The measure affects about 30,000,000 acres of lands in Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Falsification by any census employe or official of any papers relating to the census is made a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of $1,000 under a bill introduced by Representative Robinson of Arkansas. Major W. P. Robinson of the army, who has been accused by James Wicket-sham, congressional delegate from Alaska, of being too deeply interested in legislation affecting Alaska and of being in Washington as a member of an Alaskan lobby, will be defended by Secretary of War Dickinson. The house has passed a bill to create cre-ate a bureau of mines in the department depart-ment of tne interior. The measure will not go into effect before July 1, 1910. Appeals from chambers of commerce com-merce and boards of trades of several cities have been received in Washington, Washing-ton, recommending that the state department de-partment recede from its position that American beef and cattle must be admitted ad-mitted into Germany, it being maintained main-tained that no advantage can accrue from the position maintained. The Mann "white slave" bill was passed hy the house by a viva voice vote. FOREIGN. Eighty thousand Armenian Christians Chris-tians are facing starvation in Cicilia, according to an appeal just issued by Bishop David K. Geer, in behalf of the Armenian Relief association. Clearing out his coal scuttle, M. Boudet, who lives in Paris, was surprised, sur-prised, not to say delighted, to find a gold nugget, weighing 250 grammes, among the coal. The man took it to the police station. It was claimed by the woman who sold him the coal, and who had, in fear of "apaches," hidden hid-den it in a sack of coal. General Booth of the Salvation Army has shown his characteristic humanity hu-manity by refusing to prosecute a man who recently robbed him of a hag, with contents valued at ' $150, during a service at the Crouch End opera 6tate. Dr. W. A. Gordon, -who during the Civil war was general medical inspector inspect-or of the department of the Cumberland, Cumber-land, is dead in San Jose, Cal. Rafaelo Pisano, leader of the Black Hand society of Brooklyn, was sentenced sen-tenced to twenty-five years in Sing-Sing Sing-Sing for atempted murder. Mrs. Josie Pettis, owning a farm near Dalhart, Texas, declares a bolt of lightning struck the ground on the mountainside near her home recently and uncovered a spring of crude oil, which is now producing 200 barrels daily. It is claimed that she has been offered i.10,000 for the small tract of land. Clara Kill, a 5-year-old girl of Chicago, Chi-cago, is missing and it is feared she has been kidnaped. Geo. L. Grimm and Herman Blue, miners at the Cuba shaft near Lin-colnville, Lin-colnville, Ills., were killed by falling 22.) feet. The pushed a coal car into an open shaft and fell with the car to the bottom. A balloon trip across the Atlantic will be attempted some time in May. New York and Berlin capitalists are behind the scheme. The course will be from Berlin to Vancouver, B. C. A six-foot policeman told a girl shirtwaist striker who was doing picket duty in i hiladelphia to "move on," and she surprised him hy slapping slap-ping him in the face. This started a disturbance, and before it was over six girl strikers were on their way to a police station charged with creating cre-ating disorder. Clubs and blackjacks figured in a riot i-a-i ic:!';'t( -I in 1-y more than U"i pi -.-sons iu r.roiikiyu. following an en-j en-j ciHinki- h"tween striking girl shirtwaist shirt-waist workers and non-union giris. More than a score were injured and four young women were arrested. Death from black dan;;) and natural gas was the fate of two workmen who hail been lowered ninety feci in a bucket to the bottom of a caisson, where a large building is in course of construction in Chicago. In a fu-. fu-. tile effort to save the men two firemen fire-men were overcome, hut revived. After having given more than $4,-000,000 $4,-000,000 to struggling colleges in many parl.s if the country, Dr. D. K. Pearson, Pear-son, of Chicago, almost 90 years old, litis announced that he intends to give awav every cent he possesses before h dies. nouse. -m y mission is to fciave owners, ow-ners, not to punish them," he said. "I would rather try rescue the man from vice than to send him to prison." The foreign trade of Japan in 1909 was as follows: Exports, 412,000,000 yen (about $210,000,000) ; imports, 393,000,000 yen (about $200,000,000). The corresponding figures last year were 377,000,000 and 436,000,000 yen. Negotiations begun recently between be-tween the United States, Great Britain, Brit-ain, Japan and Russia for a treaty to protect fur seals of the North Pacific are being delayed by Canada's claim for compensation for Canadian pelagic seals. ; The French Academy of Science has announced a method of curing and preventing chilblains. Hold your hand in the air for a few minutes and wriggle the fingers. Do this about ten times a day. A special dispatch rom Lisbon says that the Chinese have invaded Maceo and that a cruiser has been ordered there. The failure of the Chinese and Portuguese government to come to an agreement on this disputed territory has led to the anticipation of some definite action on the part of the Chinese Chi-nese at an early date. Harvard observatory announces that a message has been received from Kiel, Germany, in which it was stated that Professor Kobold had completed the computation of the orbit of the new comet and that it showed that the comet was nearest the sun on January 27, when it was 4,000,000 miles away. Paris is practically cut off south and wort l-y high waters, end, if present pres-ent conditions continue", the question j : of food will become menacing. The j senate has appropriated $400,000 for national relief. The public aid fund i for this purpose is swelling, i j In official circles at Montevideo it is asserted that severe measures taken by the government have effectively : checked attempts to organize a revolution revolu-tion in Argentine territory, where the revolutionary group are dispersing. The situation in Uruguay is greatly improved. Native reports estimate that a thousand thou-sand deaths from smallpox have oc-i oc-i cured ct Cluing Chow, one of the larg-jest larg-jest cities in China, in the last week, principally among children. The bubonic bu-bonic plague also is reported to have broken out again at that place. |
