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Show History of PclSt cCK TKe News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. After a search lasting three weeks, the body of Bert E. Corbin, the Boise, Idaho, banker, was found by two ranchmen at a spot where Corbin's party camped when they first set out to hunt elk. The camp is only twelve miles from Big Springs, Ida. The population of Spokane, Wash., Is 104,402, according to statistics of the thirteenth census. This is an increase in-crease of 67,554, or 183.3 per cent, over 36,848 in 1900. The election of P. N. Bernard as representative; rep-resentative; J. N. Cuffe, for attorney; Samuel Carpenter, county clerk and recorder, all Republicans, is being contested, proceedings being started at Libby, Mont. Six women of Olympia, Wash., all prominent suffragists, have been selected se-lected as jurors in a case to be tried before a justice of the peace. Amelia Folsom Young, , widow of President Brigham Young, and one of the best Known women in the Unitei States, died Sunday at her home in Salt Lake City. She was born August 2,5, 1838, and was married to President Presi-dent Young on January 24, 1863. The census bureau has-announced the population of the state of Wyoming. The count showed for that state 145,-965, 145,-965, an increase of 53,535, or 57.7 per cent over 92,531 in 1900. From 1890 :o 1900 the increase was 29,976, or 47.9 per cent. The census bureau has made public the census figures for Utah. The ;ount shows that Utah has 373,351 in-nabitants, in-nabitants, an increase of 96,602, or S4.9 per cent over 276,749 in 1900. The ncrease from 1890 to 1900 was 65,970, D-r 31.3 per cent. Kumachic Takahaski of Helena, Montana, upon his release from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans., was arrested by a United States immigration im-migration officer for deportation to fapan. DOMESTIC. Since the first census was taken in 1790, the country has grown twenty-Bve twenty-Bve times as large, the population then having been 3,929,214, slightly larger than the present population of Texas. Within its borders on the North American continent, exclusive of Alaska, Alas-ka, the United States has a population of 91,972,266 inhabitants. Four people, Mrs. Emeline Bernhard, 'Ser son George, Thomas Morgan and 31enn Cotter, a farm hand, were mur-lered mur-lered at the Bernhard farm near Kansas Kan-sas City. Robbery evidently was the motive, and a former employe on the farm is under suspicion. "Big Tom" Currier, deputy United States marshal, who bore a striking resemblance to President Taft, died it his home in Chicago on Friday at the age of 64. John Porteous, 27 years old, who won the prize for being the tallest and "skinniest" Elk at the national convention conven-tion in Denver in 1907, is dead of tuberculosis tu-berculosis at PaducaJi, Ky. Porteous was six feet seven inches tall. .With a salute of 100 guns, Augusta, 3a., honored the hundredth birthday mniversary of Jonathan Miller, next !o the oldest person in the city. A passenger train struck a cow near Kirkland,, Ala., the cow being hurled to one side, striking a negro boy who was watching the train go by. The negro was knocked into a puddle of water and killed. In falling, he struck i dog, which was also playing the part Df an innocent bystander, and killed It. ' George Smith, one of the "immortal six hundred" that rode in the charge 5f the light brigade at the battle of Balaklava, is now, at the age of 84, seeking charity from the Oakland au-:horities. au-:horities. A live lizard, six inches in length, ind the head of another lizard, was iiscovered in the stomach of Miss. Lovie Herman, 19 years old, who died Saturday, at Cleveland. It is supposed she swallowed the lizards when they were small, in drinking spring water. Mrs. Jessie McDonald of Tucson, A.riz., was seized by an octopus which she landed while fishing at Los Angeles, An-geles, it being necessary to cut the tentacle of the young sea monster which had fastened to the woman's inkle. The constitutional convention of Arizona adjourned sine die Friday afternoon, af-ternoon, after being in session sixty-cue sixty-cue days and finally adopting a constitution, consti-tution, designed by the majority members mem-bers as the most progressive ever framed and by the minority as the most socialistic. - . Eleven Hindus out of thirteen who arrived at San Francisco on the Manchuria Man-churia are to be deported under orders or-ders issued by Dr. M. W. Glover, medical med-ical inspector, who declares them to bo .ifflicted with hookworm. It is stated that the bulk of teh fortune for-tune of $1,500,000 left by Mrs. Baker 3. Kdriy will go to the Christian Science church. The value of the hay crop for 1910 is about $720,000,000, an amount which has been exceeded but once, and that In .1907; it is 13 per cent above the average of the precedine five vears. Charles Smith, ased 42, a railroad locomotive tester el Marion, O., died Sunday from the effects of swallowing swallow-ing his false teeth three weeks ago. Under agreement to vacate on a day's notice, James Smith, a mill worker, moved his family into the Granite City, 111., pesthouse. Scarcity of houses caused Smith to rent the pesthouse. Fatal hunting accidents in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania already equal the number ot deaths in football ,u all forty-six states of the country this fall. The Brunswick hotel at Minneapolis has been destroyed by fire, the loss being $40,000. The hotel was filled with guests, but all got out safely. The Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Macon, 111., failed to open following a run. The institution, a private bank, has been operated for forty years. The Rpot-Moran team won the six-day six-day bicycle race in New York City, the Rutt-Clark team being second. WASHINGTON. Secretary Knox has granted the re quest of Italy for the surrender of Porter Por-ter Charlton, charged with the murder of his wife at Lake Como. There are -101,100,000 people in the United States and its possesions, according ac-cording to the report of the census bureau, bu-reau, made public on Saturday. This includes not only the States, but the Philippines, Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the Panama canal zone. In the Philippines are 7,635,426 people. The Republican congressional committee com-mittee received $77,461 and disbursed $74,373, while the Democratic congressional congres-sional committee received $27,790 and disbursed $27,771 during the recent campaign, according to reports filed with the clerk of the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. Representative Macon of Arkansas threatens trouble when the quest-of quest-of honoring Captain R. E. Peary comes up on the floor of the house. Macon contends there is no more proof that Peary discoveerd the pole than Dr. Cook had, and if the committee commit-tee reports the measure he will fight it to the last ditch. A total of $21,894,861 in cash for 1912 appropriations, and $9,514,363 for contracts authorized for the years subsequent sub-sequent to 1912, is carried in the rivers and harbors bill, reported to the house by the committee. Secretary Dickinson comes out in his annual report with a strong indorsement in-dorsement of the flying machine, and with a recommendation to congress for an appropriation to provide the signal corps with a reasonable number num-ber of the better type of machines for instruction purposes and field work. FOREIGN. Bedouins have massacred the Turkish Turk-ish garrison at Kerak, a town in the Turkish vilayet of Spria, and killed more than one hundred Christian inhabitants in-habitants of that place in revenge for the execution of a Bedouin chief. Accurate reports direct from Santo Tomas, eighteen miles north of Guerrero, Guer-rero, Mexico, state that the rebel forces operating in that district now number more than 5,000 men, all equipped and mounted. Spain has been visited by a second cyclone, more severe than that which swept the western portion of the country coun-try a fews days ago. Many person have been killed or injured and the low lying districts are flooded. There are heavy floods in northern Portugal. The South Sea river, normally nor-mally a modest stream, is a raging torrent thirty-six feet deep. Western Spain has been swept by a cyclone that razed everything in its path. Several small vessels sank in the harbor of Corunna and ft number of persons were drowned. One hundred and fifty persons were injured in riots in Calcutta. The trouble trou-ble grew out of the strong feeling between be-tween Hindus and Mohammedans brought about by the intention of the latter to sacrifice cows at the coming Mohammedan festival. The visitation of cholera, comparatively compara-tively slight as it has been and is, has checked travel by foreigners and paralyzed par-alyzed for a time the commerce of Naples. Serious fighting between rival religious relig-ious factions at Calcutta resulted in several of the combatants being killed and many others injured. Machine guns were turned upon the mob, causing caus-ing a fearful loss of life. If the latest imperial decree is carried car-ried out as expected, China will have a vastly improved coinage system, with coins comparing with the American dollar, half, quarter, dime, nickel and cent. After an artillery engagement which lasted throughout the day, mutinous naval battalions on Cobra island, Brazil, Bra-zil, surrendered Saturday night. The rebels were almost annihilated, losing more than 200 killed and wounded. With 504 members of the new British Brit-ish house of commons returned the numerical strength of the parties is proportionately the same as when parliament par-liament was dissolved. Sixty miners have been entombed in the Blue Bird colliery at Frank, Alberta, Al-berta, as a result of an explosion. Two bodies have been found by rescue par ties. . - John William Hays, a sailor on the American cruiser New York, who killed a Japanese child and injured another Japanese while he was running run-ning amuck in the lower quarter of Hongkong on September 1, has been sentenced to three years' penal servitude. servi-tude. Jose Sanchez Alvarez, former prominent promi-nent mine and land owner at Farral, Mexico, now a lieutenant colonel in the insurrectionary army in Mexico, says the revolutionists have about i S.000 men under arms who are deter- mined to win or die. |