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Show News Story of a Week A COMPLETE HISTORY OF WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD INTER-MOUNTAIN. The bodies of Charles O. Tucker, a merchant, and a young woman named Elvira M. Bunkleman, formerly clerk In a department store, were found in a room in the McLeod hotel in Seattle, with conclusive evidence that the woman wo-man had killed Tucker and then herself. her-self. For the first time In more than a quarter century. West Point Is confronted con-fronted with the possibility of having soon to admit the negro as a cadet. The negro, Ollis R. Smith, of Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyo., has been named as the alternate for the next Wyoming vacancy, va-cancy, which will occur in a few months. The report of the Nevada state license li-cense and bullion tax agent, covering the first three-quarters of the year 1909, and Including a resume of the conditions existing at the close of last year, has been forwarded to the governor. gov-ernor. It shows that over $168,000 of revenue has been added to the state, an incresae of 100 per cent of that collected col-lected for the corresponding months of 1908. An unknown man attacke'd Miss May Thurst, a Denver school girl, while she was dresing, set her dress on fire and threw acid in her face. She is in a precarious condition. Tusk hunters are reported to be ruthlessly slaughtering elk in the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming. The citizens have appointed a vigilante vigi-lante committee and have Avarned the tusk hunters to leave the state or suffer death. From Denver comes the report that the growing movement to boycott meat has aroused stockmen of the west to a protest that the effect of the boycott will be against the stockmen stock-men rather than against the packers. Tearing down the mountain side at Judge Kenesaw M, Laudis, of the United States district court: in his charge to the federal grand jury assembled as-sembled in Chicago to investigate the methods of the so-called "beef trust," declared it was through information furnished by him that the present proceeding pro-ceeding was started. . Mrs. Juana Corona, said to be the oldest person in Arizona, is dead at Pataconla, Ariz., at the age xf 116 years. Her youngest surviving child is sixty. Mrs. Corona was born In Sonora, Mexico, October 20, 1794. She had been married three times. From her tenth birthday to her death she was a constant user of cigarettes. Legislative activity in the New York assembly has been abrubtly halted by grave accusations by Senator Sen-ator Conger against Senator Allds, Republican Re-publican leader. The senate has decided de-cided to conduct the investigation as a whole and In the open. The possibility of saving the Bight of the right eye of Thomas Taggart, who was hit by a charge of birdshots when hunting near Natchez, Miss., was established Sunday after an X-ray X-ray examination proved there were no shots or wounds In vital portions of the organ. Annie Koch of New York City, was fatally burned when her dress caught fire from the kitchen stove. WASHINGTON. The land grants of the northwest, which, at the instance of Senator Tillman Till-man received so much attention from congress two years ago and figured conspicuously in a sharp controversy between Mr. Tillman and President Roosevelt, have again become the subject sub-ject of discussion in the senate. "I am gathering proof which will show that American farm products are being sold cheaper abroad than they are in this country," declared Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Wilson at the "high cost living" hearing being conducted con-ducted by a sub-committee of the house committee on the District of Columbia. According to a statement Issued by Commissioner Dennett of the general land office, none of the applications! to enter Alaska coal lands has passed to entry. It Is also shown that of tho Alaska coal cases, preliminary adverse ad-verse reports have been received covering cov-ering about 700 entries. Telegrams received in Washington indicate that there has been a great revival of President Madriz of Nicaragua Nicar-agua of the old Zelaya policy of imprisonment im-prisonment of. respectable people for alleged political reasons. Certificates of Indebtedness or bonds in the sum of $30,000,000 to raiso money "to complete and properly extend ex-tend reclamation projects already begun," be-gun," will be authorized in a bill to bo reported from the senate commltteol on ' irrigation. Secretary Knox believes . that' the congestion of population in great cities cit-ies is caused in large part by the lack of good roads in this country. FOREIGN. ( Shamrul Silerua, a police officer, who was prominent In unearthing the Midnapur, Bengal,' bomb conspiracy, was shot dead in the high court a. Calcutta. The murderer,, a young Bengali, Ben-gali, has been captured. The Casa Blanca commission has reduced the claims of the various nationalities na-tionalities against Morocco from $5,-294,672 $5,-294,672 to $2,613,298. .The United States claimed $75,799 and was award-,ed award-,ed $28,115. In official circles at Montevideo it la asserted that severe measures taken by the government have effectively checked attempts to organize a revolution revolu-tion in Argentine territory, where tho revolutionary group are dispersing. The situation in Uruguay is greatly improved. It was stated by a high authority in Paris on Sunday that no settlement settle-ment has yet been reached regarding the Hankow-Szechuen railroad loan of $30,000,000. Earth shocks were felt at Martinique Martin-ique and St. Vincent, Sunday afternoon after-noon a few minutes before 3 o'clock, The movement was undulatory and lasted one minute. So far as known there was no damage. Lady Contance Lytton, sister ef Lord Lytton, who had served a week of a two week's sentence in the Walton Wal-ton jail for smashing the jail windows was liberated on Sunday. Floods in France have caused a heavy loss of property, while it is reported re-ported several lives have been lost, and hundreds are homeless in Paris and in the outskirts of the city the situation is even worse. ' It , is estimate that nearly 90 per cent of the $22,000,000 to be paid by the Argentine Republic for the building of 'two "Dreadnaughts" in America ship yards will go for labor,- and only about 10 per cent for materials. Negro members of the Cuban congress con-gress have called to the attention of the president that they are caused much annoyance by being refused admission to lodging houses and hotels. ho-tels. Prince Max Egon Furstenberg. tho Kaiser's intimate friend, and Prince ChrisUan Hohenlohe, two of the richest rich-est magnates of royal rank in Europe, Eu-rope, have gone Into business a.s ho-tel ho-tel proprietors. Native reports estimate that a thousand thou-sand deaths from smallpox have oc-cured oc-cured at Chang Chow, one of the larg-est larg-est 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. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres to tho London Times says that the revolutionary revolu-tionary movement in Uruguay is dy ing cut. Roaming bands of insurgents are having unsuccessful skirmishes with government troops, officials in Argentina preventing any mobilization j revolutionists in her territory. the rate of nearly seventy miles an hour, a freight train on the Moffat road jumped the track at a point between be-tween Jenny- Lake and Antelope, Colo., and the entire train plungen down the hill, three men. being killed and two injured. Senator Sutherland of Utah has been selected as one of the six senators sena-tors to sit upon the commission appointed ap-pointed by congress to investigate the Ballinger-Pinchot trouble. DOMESTIC. Katheryn Clemmons Gould, who last June obtained a degree of separation separ-ation from her husband, Howard 3ould, with alimony of $36,980 a year, appeared a few days ago in court in New York City as defendant in a suit to recover $2,980 brought by the Llch-tenstein Llch-tenstein Millinery company. After having given more than $4,-000,000 $4,-000,000 to struggling colleges in many parts of the country, Dr. D. K. Pearson, Pear-son, of Chicago, almost 90 years old, has announced that he intends to give away every cent he possesses before he dies. A Jury has been secured in the Panama Jibel suit brought against the publishers of the New York World by the United States government. The Orange Judd. Farmer says 1909 was the most prosperous year ever known in the livestock industry, according ac-cording to the annual census review of farm stock. "The total value on all classes of livestock in the country on January 1, 1910, was $4,880,068,-000," $4,880,068,-000," says that paper. Mrs. Samuel E. Allender, 52 years old, wife of the chief special agent of the 'Frisco system, was drowned in a bathtub at St. Louis. Physicians say death followed an attack of vertigo. The executive committee of the National Na-tional Education association has announced an-nounced that the 4Slh annual convention con-vention will be held in Boston on July 2 to 8, 1910. Ezra Kendall, the comedian, who was completing his twenty-nlth season, sea-son, died at Martinsville, Ind., January Janu-ary 22 For years he was a monologist of renown. He leaves a wife and six children. Miss Lulu Van Fleet, a school teacher of Cleveland, O., overpowered overpower-ed a footpad who had attacked ' her and threw him into a snowdrift. Upon leaving, however, in her agitation, she left her purse, which had fallen on the ground, and the robber got it after all. A decision has been rendered by Judge Hough in the United States court in New York City, quashing the indictment against F. Augustus Heinze, financier and promoter. Four masked men held up and robbed a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Eureka, Mo., rifling the mail car but not molesting any of the passengers. The movement to combat the high prices of meat is spreading " rapidly and Is assuming a national character. The heads of the leading packing houses of Kansas City and Chicago refused to discuss the effect of the movement upon their business. The decapitated and mutilated.body of a woman, identified as that of Anna Furlong, was lound in a room in a re sort in Chicago. The head was missing miss-ing and the police believe it was carried car-ried away by the murderer in an attempt at-tempt to conceal the woman's identity. |