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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. About 2,000 delegates attended the opening session at Ogden of the forty-sixth forty-sixth annual convention of the National Na-tional Woolgrowers' association, Fred W. Gooding of Shoshone. Idaho, presiding, pre-siding, the address of welcome being made by Governor Spry of Utah. E. C. Hughes of Seattle, counsel for the claimants of the Cunnningham group of Alaska coal entries, will go to Paris this month to take the testimony testi-mony of A. B. Campbell of Spokane and B. C. Biblett, also of Spokane, who are original entrymen. The Midwinter Sheep show at Ogden 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 shown at different fairs and expositions. ex-positions. The suffering caused by the coal famine fa-mine in Boise, Idaho, has been relieved re-lieved to some ' extent by tne rise in the temperature. The city is practically without fuel, and if the cold continues the situation will become be-come critical. Miss Eva Haines of Denver, aged 19, wrote a note to a friend declaring her intention to commit suicide, and dispatched 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. Emitics 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 foot of mud on its ground floor. DOMESTIC. . Gifford Pinchot, chief forester and intimate friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, has been dismissed from the service ser-vice of the United States by President Presi-dent Taft for insubordination. Associate As-sociate Forester Overton W. Price and , Assistant Law Officer Alexander C. Shaw, Pinchot's immediate assistants assist-ants in the forestry bureau, followed their chief out of government employ. em-ploy. ' Another paper association formed by John H. Parks, who pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $4,000 for his connection con-nection w'ith the so-called fiber and manila pool, has been indicted by the federal grand jury in New York, charged with being an illegal combination com-bination in restraint of trade. President Taft's special message to congress recommending amendments to the interstate commerce and antitrust 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 Suplas, in Arizona, located in a canyon, has been destroyed de-stroyed by a ' wall of water twenty feet high that swept down the canyon, can-yon, presumably the result of the bursting of a dam. Several Indians are missing and are supposed to have been drowned. The American Federation of Labor, through a committee headed by Samuel Sam-uel Gompers, James O'Connell and other union leaders, has carried its fight against the United States Steel corporation to President Taft. Deputy Sheriff McAdams lies mortally mor-tally wounded in the hospital at Ala-mogordo, Ala-mogordo, N. M., as the result of an unsuccessful attempt to arrest a man named Trapp at Corona. Trapp barri-caicd barri-caicd himself in his house, aua when McAdams attempted to force his way in Trapp shot him. Jose Lopez was hanged in the territorial ter-ritorial prison at Florence. Ariz.. January Janu-ary 5. for the murder of Maria Es-pincsa. Es-pincsa. Twenty-seven cases of ptomaine poisoning, poi-soning, all but on'e traceable to trie eating of cream puffs or chocolate fc'aires, have been discovered m Syracuse, Syra-cuse, X. Y. Mrs. Josephine Dudley, a sister of Prof. Frederick A. Cook's wife, residing resid-ing in New York, has made a statement state-ment declaring ilrat r.e explorer is a nervous wreck, unable to think consecutively, con-secutively, and that the reason he remains re-mains in hliUnst is that he could not stand the strain of further con trovers tro-vers v. Representative James M. Griggs of the Second Georgia district died January Janu-ary 5 of apoplexy at Dawson. Ga. Mr. Griggs formerly was chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee. Charles Suddlowauser. 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 lost their lives and another child was perhaps per-haps fatally burned in a fire that destroyed de-stroyed the Ellis home at Lyons, Kan. A gas stove exploded. j In a daring attempt to hold up and rub a private bank in the Green Point secflou of Brooklyn, four men at' tacked the clerks, shot one of them perhaps fatally, and then gave '.ialtlo to a crowd in the street. Two rob-ers rob-ers escaped but two men were arrested. ar-rested. Albert Griffiths, a miner employed at Grass Valley. Cal., has been sentenced sen-tenced to serve 150 days in the county jail, after pleading guilty to a charge of stealing high-grade ore from the mine. Our forests contributed $90,000,000 to the exports of the United States during the fiscal year 19PS a twenty-fold increase since 1S51. The imports im-ports of forest products chiefly India In-dia rubber and other gums, from the tropics, and lumber from Canada-have Canada-have grown to even larger proportions. propor-tions. The coroner's jury, which investigated investi-gated the death of eleven members of the Marque, family, who succumbed suc-cumbed as the result of eating tainted preserved pears at a family reunion, at Sawtelle. Cal., returned a verdict that death was due to ptomaine poisoning. pois-oning. WASHINGTON. The house of1 representatives, after af-ter a parliamentary battle in which a combination of insurgent Republicans and Democrats defeated the Republican Repub-lican organization, adopted a joint resolution res-olution providing for 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 superanuated government govern-ment employes and providing pensions pen-sions for such employes. Albert F. Potter, assistant forester, who has been designated to succeed Mr. Pinchot temporarily as chief of the United Stales forestry bureau, was in attendance at the National Woolgrowers' association at Ogden. The Washington police arrested Albert Al-bert Ringe of Two Rivers, Wis., wnen he was attempting to see Vice-President 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-president and has made threats against both. Rear Admiral Kimball, now m command com-mand 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 retained re-tained in his present position until American Am-erican ships are withdrawn from Nicaragua. Nic-aragua. There is no attempt in administration administra-tion circles to deny that President Taft is withholding certain customary congressional patronage from those "insurgent" senators and representatives, representa-tives, who, adherents of the president say, show no disposition to support, administration measures. ' .'! As a possible new tack in the prosecution prose-cution of the American Sugar Refining Refin-ing company and others, the government govern-ment may ask for a federal receivership 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 of the - government growing out of the 'so-called Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, is provided for in a joint resolution which was introduced in the two houses of congress on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. FOREIGN. Edniond Thiery, the French eeoli-omist, eeoli-omist, figures that the wealth of France increased during 1909 by ?1,-200,000,000. ?1,-200,000,000. French foreign investments invest-ments at the end of the year totaled $7,600,000,000. That plans for the refinancing of Guatemala will soon be put into execution exe-cution is the infcirmation received in New Orleans by parties with Central American interests. It is stated that the Guatemalan government successfully success-fully concluded negotiations begun some months ago for a loan of $20,-OdO.OOO $20,-OdO.OOO by a New York financial institutions in-stitutions The recent storm in Manitoba along the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie railroad has resulted in seven deaths, including Sheriff Whitehead of Weyburn and a homesteader named Hil'born, living south of Roleau. The Russian foreign office has received re-ceived a memorandum from the United States government proposing, as a solution for the Manchurian problem, prob-lem, the neutralization of railroads in Manchuria by their sale to China, financed by an international syndicate. syndi-cate. The imprint of a bloody finger on a military ticket taken up on the train on which Maie. Gouin, widow of Julis Edouard Gouin, a former governor of the Bank of France, was traveling on December 16, has cleared the mystery mys-tery of her death. Two French soldiers sol-diers have confessed to her murder. The air-chambered "ttusinkable" target, tar-get, which cost S 1 5,000 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 Charl-aston, according to advices just received. A new animal has been discovered by the Roosevelt parly in Africa. The animal is a hitherto unknown species of otocyon, to which officials of the scientific organiza'iua have given the specific name ef verpalus. It is a small carnivorous mammal, closely resembling re-sembling a fox. 4 Jose Santos Zelaya was on Thursday Thurs-day warned by officials that the police po-lice are In receipt of secret information informa-tion that two Salvadoreans and an American are in Mexico City and are awaiting a favorable opportunity to .take his life. |