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Show History of Past Veek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. The constitutionality of the stale banking law of Nevada is to be tested by Oscar .1. Smith, president of the defunct Eureka county bank, who is under arrest on a criminal charge under the state banking law. At the good roads convention at j Billings, Mont., a resolution was adopted favoring employment of convict con-vict labor in the construction of public pub-lic highways and the use of county prisoners on roads outside corporate limits of towns and cities. Glyko Mitsunaga, the .Japanese housccleaner suspected of the murder mur-der in Denver of Mrs. Catherine Wilcox, Wil-cox, has been captured by fellow countrymen in McCook, Neb., where he was working as a cook, and turned turn-ed over to the Denver officials. A. C. Oowney and R. C. Soper, assistant as-sistant engineers; Don Calkin and a laborer named Soul Wall, connected with the reclamation service, were drowned at Shoshone, Mont., as the result of a pleasure boat capsizing. In a fit of temporary insanity, John F. Maiar, a farmer living near Billings, Bil-lings, Mont., set fire to his house and barn, attempted to kill one of his children and cut his throat when an officer appeared on the scene, inflicting inflict-ing fatal injuries. Throe men are dead at Hay-den, Hay-den, Colo., as a result of drinking a mixture containing alcohol which was used as a hair tonic while they were on a drunken spree. Ike Harrold, who shot and killed Herbert and Walter Newell, two young sheepmen, near Lakeview, Ore., has been captured after a stern chase and not. until he had fired his last cartridge. cart-ridge. The official call for the eightenth national Irrigation congress, to be hold in Pueblo, Colo., September 26-30, 1910, has been issued. DOMESTIC. The "Roosevelt Good Luck" held to the last on the occasion of the home-coming of the distinguished hunter. Though hot and sultry, the weather held fair until the marine parade, the exercises at the battery, and the march up Broadway and Fifth avenue to Central park had been carried car-ried through with punctuality and precision, pre-cision, and then it rained great guns. J. J. Campbell, aged 75 years, and his son, J. J. Campbell, Jr., aged 28, were killed when the roof on an old sod house on their ranch in Thomas county, Kansas, collapsed. Carrying a bountiful supply of trinkets trin-kets and gumdrops for the Igloo dwellers of the frozen north, the steamship Boethic, chartered by Harry Whitney of New Haven, Conn., and by Paul J. Rainey of Cleveland for a hunting expediton in the Arctic, sailed sail-ed from South Boston on Sunday. Robert Vanover and Rev. Isaac Perry, mountain preachers who had been holding rival meetings, fought a duel with knives in the Rock Creek Baptist church, Whitley county, Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Vanover's throat was cut from ear to ear. He died in a short time. Two petitions seeking to oust five meat packing companies from Missouri Mis-souri were filed in the supreme court by Attorney General Major Monday. James A. Patten of Chicago and seven lesser figures in the speculation field have been indicted, charged with conspiracy in restrain of trade under the Sherman anti-trust law. The indictment in-dictment was returned by a special grand jury. While making a practice flight in an aeroplane glider at San Francisco, Eugene Speyer. 17-year-old boy, fell to the ground from a height of fifty feet. sustaining injuries which resulted result-ed in his death a short time after. John Peyton of Chicago, after driving driv-ing - his seven, children from home, shot, and killed his wife.. Peyton is a railroad employe, and had become insane from worry. Hal E. Hardy, who shot and killed a keeper of a tamale stand in Los Angeles, because the latter refused to give him a tamale, has been convicted of manslaughter. Hardy comes from a prominent Indiana family. Walking in his sleep, P. T. Brudder, a retired business man, 70 years old, fell through an open' window in his sixth-floor apartment in New York City and was instantly killed. Oliver Pugh, aged 60, died at Zion City, Ills., from-the effects of a rattlesnake rattle-snake bite, after refusing to take medicine med-icine of any kind, relying upon the prayers of his fellow religionists to cure him. A conference in New York to put the finishing touches upon a proposed uniform bill for regulation of over eight billions of fraternal insurance throughout the United States has been called by the fraternal committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. A concerted movement looking to the entry of William J. Bryan in the Nebraska senatorial race was begun on June 11, when Democratic leaders of the state prepared for the circulation circula-tion of petitions in every county asking ask-ing Mr. Bryan to enter the contest. It is announced that Jonathan Bourne, United Stales senator from Oregon, and Winston Churchill of New Hampshire will address the legislative leg-islative conference to be held at Peoria. Pe-oria. 111., June 27 and 2S. James J. Hill, in au address before the Brotherhood of Locomotive F. re-men re-men and Engineers, declared that the men should go slow with their living expenses and save their money for a rainy day. He prophesied that "when the next depression conies, it will not last a few months, as in 1 9 U 7 . but would be here for some time." Mrs. Ruth Smith, a divorcee, aged 2."j, suicided by drowning at St. Louis when she discovered her fiancee making mak-ing love to another woman. Governor Gillett of California has announced that he will not permit the prize fight between Jeffries and Johnson John-son to be held in California. Work has been stopped on the arena, and the promoters are now negotiating with Salt Lake City and Reno and Ely. Nevada, parties for a place to hold the championship contest. The principals are still in training. WASHINGTON. It is doubtful whether congress will select, at this session, the place for holding the interna: ional celebrat'on of the opening of the Panama canal in 1915. San Francisco and New Orleans Or-leans are the cities seeking the prize. It is pointed out by Republican leaders lead-ers that there never has been a congress con-gress where a president has obtained the amount of legislation as has resulted re-sulted from the demands of President Taft. Charges that bribery of members- of the Illinois legislature figured in the election of William Lorimer to Ihe United States senate will be investigated investi-gated by the senate committee on privileges pri-vileges and elections. Republicans, Democrats and "Insurgents" "Insur-gents" united on Friday, and with but. one dissenting vote passed a strongly worded "reform" rule, designed to correct an acknowledged abuse the "smothering" of legislature in. committee. com-mittee. Richard Parr, the customs deputy at New York who materially assisted the government in recovering more than $2,000,000 in the sugar under-weighing under-weighing frauds, is to receive a reward re-ward of $100,000. The senate has passed the "conservation" "conser-vation" bill. A "rider" was put upon the bill, carrying the authorization for the $30,000,000 loan in the form of for the 30,000,000 loan in the form of 3 per cent certificates of indebtedness to complete existing reclamation projects. pro-jects. FOREIGN. Rumors of preparation for a revolution revolu-tion come from Mexico. It is said rifles and ammunition are being smuggled smug-gled across the border by revolutionists, revolution-ists, and an outbreak is liable to occur oc-cur at any time. Mexico has agreed to settle the Chamizar boundary dispute by arbitration. arbi-tration. A convention providing the details, proposed by the United States, is now being arranged by telegraph tele-graph in the hope of getting it before the senate before the adjournment of congress. The Duke of Montpensier, closely-related closely-related to the royal house of Spain and Portugal, who is now traveling in Mexico, 'will become the guest of-General of-General Luis Terrazas of Chihuahua, June 26, and will spend several weeks hunting big game in the Sierra Madre mountains. A bomb was exploded in a squad of gendarmes at the Gordzisik station on the Vienna railroad, thirty miles from Warsaw, Russian Poland. One gendarme was killed outright, four received mortal wounds and their chief. was slightly injured. It has Just been learned that the peasant Glusker, convicted and executed exe-cuted at Buikpovsky, Russia, for the murder of an entire family, was innocent in-nocent of the crime., three men having confessed. -The porte has entered into negotiations negotia-tions with Britsll capitalists to build a railway from Bassorah to the north shore of the Persian gulf, whereby the German Bagdad railway will be permanently per-manently headed off from the gulf. Lord Kitchener, it is understood, received a special invitation to attend the forthcoming maneuvers of the German army as the guest of his majesty, maj-esty, the kaiser. It is not generally known that the king of England has perhaps the most valuable collection of plate in Ihe world. The gold pantry at Windsor Wind-sor consists of two large fireproof storerooms in which is kept plate of an estimated value of -$8,750,000. Heavy rains throughout Belgium have been followed in the lower lying ly-ing districts by flood con.dit'ons, creating creat-ing heavy lossscs. Bridges have been carried away and stock drowned. All foreign professors in the Imperial Im-perial university at Pekin, numbering ten Europeans, three Americans and four Japanese, have signed a round robin declaring that they will refuse to continue their courses unless measures are taken at once to remedy the unsanitary conditions of the dormitories dor-mitories and class rooms. Ihe Passion Play at Oberannnergau is. now in full swing, and the little village vil-lage in the Bavarian highlands which for nine years in each decade differs little from the other little villages in that part of the world, is crowded to its capacity with vistors and will be until the cool days come In September. Septem-ber. A plebiscite was recently held i-the i-the Swedish kingdom on the quesfioi of the prohibition traffic through Sweden. Swe-den. The vote showed 1.700,000 for prohibition and only 12,300 against, almost, al-most, unanimous |