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Show I History of Past Week The News Happenings of Sevea Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN. A revolver and a shoe, protruding from an old hay stack whicii had been set on fj re; by William Martin, a ranchman living near Longniont, Colo., led to tin; discovery of a skeleton, skele-ton, believed to lie that of A. It. Barker, Bar-ker, -Martin's lli-year-old stepson, who disappeared in December, 1H06. It is believed that the boy burrowed into the hay stack and committed suicide. Rosie Huser, the seven-year-old daughter of a rachman on tne outskirts out-skirts of Denver, was accidently shot and killed at her parent's home by Kurt Oertel, 19 years old, a boarder. The "American" part of Utah has placed a state ticket in the field. A tripple alliance of Democrats, insurgent in-surgent Republicans and Citizens' party members has been formed at Denver, and support will be given by these three organizations to a county ticket. Mrs. Charles M. Freehouse, of Ta-coma, Ta-coma, who suicided by taking strychnine strych-nine in a hotel in Seattle, had entered into a suicide pact with Ruel Custer, a soldier, with whom she had eloped. Custer's nerve evidently failed him, and he is still alive. The Seattle Chronicle says that an Investigation of suspected land frauds in Alaska, which may exceed in scope and startling developments the famous fam-ous Cunningham cases, is believed to be in progress, guided by federal officials of-ficials in the northwest, and that Secretary Ballinger is taking a hand in the investigation. DOMESTIC. All four occupants of a large touring tour-ing car returning from a lake shore resort to New Orleans were drowned when their car, taking a curve at a high rate of speed, shot straight ahead and plunged into the new basin canal. Republican candidates to the legislature legisla-ture from Cleveland, O., have passed resolutions pledging themselves to vote against Senator Charles Dick's re-election. Senator Dick was the only person who complied with the primary law regulations and therefore is the sole senatorial candidate, but his opponents declare they will ignore ig-nore the primary. Fines and costs aggregating ?242 were assessed against Dr. H. K. Snyder Sny-der and his wife of Pittsburg, Pa., who conducted an incubator show at the state fair at Louisville, Ky., in which three babies died. Eight persons were injured, two perhaps fatally, in an early morning fire, which ' destroyed $200,000 worth of automobiles in New York City. Charges of incompetency and misconduct mis-conduct have been preferred against the Baltimore board of police commissioners commis-sioners by Governor Crothers. Mrs. Frances Victoria Sankey, widow wi-dow of Ira D. Sankey. the singing evangelist, . died early Sunday morning morn-ing at her home in Brooklyn. She was 71 years old. She was married to Mr. Sankey in 1863. Dr. Morris D. Stepp of Cleveland, drove his automobile directly before a speeding electric freight car. The machine ma-chine was hurled high into the air and Mrs. Stepp and her two small children were killed. Archibald J. McKillop, an official of the Illinios Central railroad, leaped from a second-story window of his home in Chicago and wras dashed to death on the pavement below. Mr. Killop had been ill for some time. General Charles R. Braytou, the blind leader of the Rhode Island Republicans Re-publicans and the Rhode Island member mem-ber of the national Republican committee, com-mittee, died at Providence, September Septem-ber 22. The steamer Victoria, from Nome, brings news that a three-days' storm, beginning September 6, did great damage to small vessels, lighters and dredgers at Nome. Speaker Cannon, addressing the Republican Re-publican state convention at Springfield, Spring-field, Ills., declared the insurgents were trying to put a halo on their heads at his expense. Lightweight Champion Ad Woigast and Abe Attell have been matched to fight in November belore the club offering of-fering the best purse..; - Because Miss Cl'a'ea De Witt of South Norwalk. Coniif.. tried to play tennis in a hobble skirt, she is in a hospital with a broken leg While making a leap for a fust volley on the opposite side she stumbled and fell. While going through the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, Mrs. Helen Day fell from a ledge and was killed. Extensive smuggling of Asiatics into the United States via Tia Juana, Mexico, was revealed in the deportation deporta-tion from San Diago, Cal., on Saturday Satur-day of ten Chinese, three Japanese and one Hindu, caught in an attempt to cross the international boundary line. Lee O'Neill Browne, recently ac quitted of bribery in connection with the election of United States Senator Lorimer, was refused recognition on the floor of the Illinois Democratic state convention at East St. Louis, Ills.. A head-on collision on the Indianapolis Indianap-olis and Peru division of the Indiana Union Traction company's lines between be-tween a limited passenger car and a freight c--.tr near Tipton, Ind., resulted in the d'-a'h o: six persons and seriously seri-ously injury to twelve more. Referring to Colonel Hoosevelt's utterance ut-terance in regard to English rule in Egypt in his speech in Guild hall, London, William J. Bryan, in a speech at Springfield. Mo., said: "This utterance utter-ance is un-American, and, coming from the ex-president, places the people of the country in a wrong light, as no one stands with him." Because of efforts by her mother to force her to abandon her acquaintanceship acquaintance-ship with Paul MuelVr, a friend of her husband, Mrs. Lawrence Distel of Cleveland, O., shot and instantly killed Mueller and then shot herself, dying shortly afterward. Theodore Roosevet has refused an invitation from Governor Hadly of Missouri Mis-souri to make an aeroplane flight while in St. Louis. Baltimore, which was sixth city in tiie United States in point of population popula-tion in 1900, has lost her position in the country's great cities, according to census statistics, and now becomes seventh city, having been outstripped by Cleveland. WASHINGTON. Petition for the immediate pardon of John R. Walsh, the former Chicago banker, who is serving a five-year sentence sen-tence in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., for misapplication of funds, has been presented to the department de-partment of justice. To date the progressive movement has brought about the defeat or voluntary vol-untary retirement of twenty-eight Republican Re-publican members of the. house who were conspicuous as regulars and stand-patters. An investigation of the federal prisons pri-sons at Atlanta, Ga., and McNeills island, Wash., has been ordered by the department to ascertain if liquors and opium are being sent into the prisons. The death rate in the United States in 1909 was fifteen in each one thousand, thou-sand, according to a bulletin about to be issued by the census bureau, and this is the lowest average ever recorded record-ed for this country. The state department has received confirmatory advices from its representatives repre-sentatives in Nicaragua of the continued con-tinued expulsion of prominent Nicar-aguans Nicar-aguans w:ho have been involved in the factional warfare in that country. A statement published from Washington, Wash-ington, that the Canadian government has appointed a Canadian representative representa-tive at the American capital, is characterized char-acterized at Ottawa as incorrect. Sir Wilfrid Laurier stated at the last session ses-sion of parliament that the time would come when such an appointment would be made, but the matter is not now before the government. FOREIGN. The aviation committee which had supervision of the aerial flight across the Alps, has awarded $10,000, half of the amount of the prize, to George Chavez, the Peruvian aviator who was injured after covering the most dangerous dan-gerous part of the course. That Lord Kitchener will be called to take active part in the reorganization reorganiza-tion of the British army is regarded as certain as a result of the grotesque showing made in the army maneuvers just concluded. It is understood that the English syndicate headed by Sir Ernest Cassel has abandoned the negotiations of a loan of $50,000,000 to Turkey in deference de-ference to the objections of the French and British governments. Calmness prevails in political circles cir-cles at Constantinople, though the violent vio-lent press campaigns against Greece still continues. The reply sent by Italy and Russia to the last Turkish note is very unfavorably commented on. I The French government is said to be considering whether or not it. would be wise to slow down a little in the building of warships until the availability of aeroplanes in warfare is determined by a long series of experiments. ex-periments. ; Unstamped opium valued at $5 000 ; has been seized by officers in a tene-i tene-i ment house in Chinatown in Honolulu. Hono-lulu. ! The great feat of crossing the snowcapped snow-capped Alpine barrier between Swit-izerland Swit-izerland and Italy in a heavier-than-air ! machine was accompanied on Friday by George Chavez, the young Peruvian Peru-vian aviator. In attempting to alight at Domcdcssola, Chavez's machine overturned and he was seriously injured. in-jured. Grafting railroad officials are coming com-ing in for some hard knocks in the ' forum, pivss and business circles in 1 England. The offenders have perfected perfect-ed a system of graft that enables whole families to live off the corporations corpor-ations with which they are connected. The regent of Persia. Azid-ui-Mulk, is dead at Teheran. Tfc? pre-ent ishah (if Peiria. Ahmed Jlirza. is a youth of 13 years, and succeeded to the throne upon the dethronement of ihis father, July 6. IS09. j Eugene Kasse'.l. a Hungarian mil- I lionaire, who died recently, bequeath-I bequeath-I ed the sum of $5.0i;n.ot0 frr the I'oun- ' dation of an institution at Budapest ; to be devoted to the support of assist-! assist-! ance of those members of the middle J classes who. through no fault of their own, have failed in business or nave I become incapacitated from work j through ill heal.h. The premier of New Sou:h Wales ' announces that he proposes as soon as possible to open up for settlement j immense areas of suitable crown .lands in the west and north west. |