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Show History of Fast Week TKc News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Moser L. White, a prominent citi-ben citi-ben of Steamboat Springs, Colo., who was fataaly wounded whik standing in the doorway of his brother's house, declared before he died that he had been shot by Miss Maude Keller of Hahns Peak, a neighboring town. Four women will sit in the eighteenth eigh-teenth general assembly of Colorado as a result of the election. They are Alma Lafferty, Louise U. Jones, Louise M. Kerwin, and Agnes N. Riddle. Rid-dle. The paint factory of the McMurtey company at Denver was partially destroyed de-stroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. Miss Josephine Putnam of Spokane, a school teacher, was murdered by Patrick Holland, a farm hand, near Washtucua, Wash., where Miss Putnam Put-nam had been teaching school, the crime being the result of Miss Putnam declining to receive the attentions of Holland. DOMESTIC. With a bullet hole through the head, the body of Ray Mason," labor "official, residing in Kalamazoo, Mich., was found in a marsh on the outskirts of Warsaw, Ind. The body of Marie Smith, aged 10, has been found at Asbury Park, N. J. The childe had been brutally murdered, murder-ed, and a negro named Williams has been arrested, charged with the crime. Lafayette Young, editor and publisher pub-lisher of the Des Moines Capital, has seen appointed by Governor Carrol of (owa, to be United States senator, succeeding suc-ceeding the late Senator Dolliver. Congressman W. W. Foulkrod, 64 years of age, of the Fifth Pennsylvania Pennsylvan-ia district, died at his home in hila-lelphia hila-lelphia on Sunday without knowing that ho had been defeated for re-election. Three persons were hurt, one seriously, seri-ously, but a baby four years old escaped es-caped injury when an automobile ran into the Blue river at Kansas City. The population of the state of New-Hampshire New-Hampshire is 450,572, according to Alexander Stephens Clay, UnlteJ j States senator from Georgia, died o' heart disease at the Robertson sani-1 sani-1 tarium at Atlanta, Sunday afternoon. ! after a long illness. Senator Clay was 57 years old and was serving his third term in the United States senate. The annual convention of the National Na-tional Woman's Christian Temperance union assembled at Baltimore on Sat i urday with delegates present from al parts of the United States, Canada and British Columbia. The steamer Portland struck a submerged sub-merged rock off Katalla, Alaska, and was badly injured that she had to be beached, the passengers being landed in safety. . Police Chief W. C. Temple of Ana-darko, Ana-darko, Okla., was called to bis door by an unidentified Mexican and iaiuu. shot. He died in fifteen minutes. The shooting came about an hour after six shots were fired at a patrolman on Main street by some person who was not found. Although he is 7S years old, John Spaulding, a veteran Republican, will walk from New York to Poughkeep-sie, Poughkeep-sie, 75 milss, in payment of an. election elec-tion bet. WASHINGTON. A general reciprocity agreement between be-tween the United States and Canada, covering all tariff schedules, as the immediate im-mediate result of the conference which took place last week before special commissioners representing the two countries, is not expected by the officials at Washington. In order to prevent further criticism of the interior department for its handling the Cunningham Alaskan coal claims, which precipitated the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation, Secretary Secre-tary Ballinger will recommend in his annual report that congress authorize the placing of these cases under the jurisdiction of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. As a measure for protection of human hu-man life in cases of accident in submarine sub-marine boats of the United States navy, the navy department has decided decid-ed to designate a board to investigate investi-gate the whole matter. The total revenue of the steam railroads rail-roads in the United States last July was $73,477,590, or $308.51 per mile of line, against $78,139,043, or $335.06 per mile of line in July of last year. The proposed aeroplane flight by Eugene Ely of San Francisco, from the decfo of a naval vessel, will be observed ob-served by the navy department as an unusual test of the value of the heavier heavi-er than air machine for usages of naval na-val warfare. Another contest over the question of the power of the speaker to name committees is expected to develop snnn after the hnnsfi rtf renresenta- ;he thirteenth census. This is an increase in-crease of 18,984 or 4.6 per cent over 411,588 in 1900. Five years in the penitentiary at Columbia, S. C, "without labor" was the sentence passed on John Black, 'ormer member of the state dispensary board, charged with conspiracy to de-Eraud de-Eraud the state. A fortune in contraband opium wi.. be destroyed at El Paso, Texas. Exactly Exact-ly 323 cans, valued at $50 each, will be burned by order of the federal :ourt. The. aggregate value is $16,150. After shooting and instantly killing Ed Jones, Con Kerwin, a pool hall proprietor pro-prietor at Gross, Neb., barricaded himself him-self in his pool hall and stood off a sheriff's posse for several hours, finally final-ly surrendering. Kerwin killed Jones in an argument over an election bet. Rudolph Monk of Connellsville, Pa., :apta:n and left halfback of the West Virginia university football team, died n the hospital at Wheeling, W. Va., of soncussion of the brain, received in the game with a Wheeling eleven. The trouble between the Pueblo Indians In-dians at Santa Clara, N. M., and settlers set-tlers who were, grazing stock on the Santa Clara reservation, under permits per-mits from the forest service, which has been acute, has been settled by the Indians surrendering the cattle they had seized. The New Mexico constitutional convention con-vention placed county officers on a straight salary basis, doing away with the fee system. It also adopted a clausa which gives county officials a four-years' term. ; The world crop of oats is nearly 3,700,000 000 bushels annually, according accord-ing to a bulletin issued by the department depart-ment of agriculture. The United States crop for 190S was about 900,000,000 bushels. Five persons were shot, two of them probably fatally, in an attempt, to rob the saloon of Louis Belmont in the town of Cicero, 111. The wife of Charles J. Guiteau. the assassin of President James A. Garfield, Gar-field, has just died at her home in Omaha, where she had lived in close retirement for a number of years. John T. Wayman, who was elected to the city council of Trenton, N. J., on the Democratic ticket, committed suicide by hanging in the barn in the rear of his home. Four miners were killed and ten were injured in an explosion in the Shoal Creek Coal company's mine at Panama, 111. Charles Armour, head of the Armour Ar-mour interests in Kansas City, said on Friday that he believed tht food prices had reached their climax and were now on the down grade. Six prisoners, after setting lire to the Rowan county jail at Morehead, Ky., escaped. The jail was destroyed. This is the third jail delivery within a year. John A. Lynch, said to be the last survivor of the Great Eastern, which laid the first Atlantic cable, and a .narine in the civil war, died in Omaha Oma-ha on Friday. fives convenes next time. FOREIGN. While defending his home at Guadalajara, Guada-lajara, Mexico, from the attacks of a mob, Charles B. Carothers, born in Mexico, but whose parents are Americans, Ameri-cans, shot and kill a boy and wounded an officer. John E. Edmond, chairman of the Irish parliamentary, on returning from a tour of the United States, declared that the chances of home rule for Ireland Ire-land were greater than ever. Friends of Count Tolstoi, the famous Russian writer and social reformer, fear the aged count has been imprisoned impris-oned in some monastry by order of the heads of the Russian church, and that he will never come out alive. Investigation by the royal northwest mounted police shows there is no truth -in the story circulated from Alix, Alberta, Al-berta, that Belle Elmore, wife of Dr. Harvey H. Cripp'en, was there. The foreign warships at Amapala, Honduras, have landed forces at, that port to protect foreign citizens in anticipation of an uprising against General Jose Valladares. Catholics ad Socialists came into collision at Modena, Italy. A serious fight ensued and police detachments had difficulty in restoring order. Several Sev-eral persons were badly inured. Prince Henry of Prussia made several sev-eral flights alone in a military aeroplane aero-plane at Darmstadt, Germany on Sunday. Sun-day. His flights indicate he has made rapid progress in acquiring control. ' General Jose Villadares, who has been opposing the government at Amapala, has sent a telegram to President Presi-dent Davila, acknowledging defeat snd saying he was ready to surrender the town. The conference organized shortly after the death of King Edward in an endeavor to secure a settlement of the controversy over the veto powers of the house of lords a controversy aggravated ag-gravated by the refusal of the upper house to pass the budget has dissolved dis-solved without reaching an agreement. Count Leo Tolstci of Russia has disappeared dis-appeared and a search is being made for him. Tolstoi says, in a letter to his wife, he has decided to spend his remaining days in solitary retirement. Diplomatic representatives of the United States. Germany, Russia. Swe-jdpn Swe-jdpn and Norway on Friday notified ; the foregin office that they were au-j au-j thorized to resume negotiations with the Portuguese government cn current cur-rent affairs. The drastic action of the authorities authori-ties in rustling Lon ion police and militia mil-itia to the mining districts in Wales, j where strike riots occurred, awed the strikers, and the situation is said to j be well under control. It is officially stated that sixty-one i persons were killed in Lisbon at the ;time of the revolution. ! The London Daily Graphic, commenting com-menting on American elections, says: '"Insurgency clearly has gripped the country. The old party system is perilously per-ilously near the melting pot, if not actually in it ", ... . ' .', 7 |