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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. INTER-MOUNTAIN. Assistant City Engineer Henry C. Parker, 40 years old, fell into a chamber cham-ber of the Los Angeles outfall sewer and was drowned. The body was swept out into the ocean and was recovered re-covered shortly afterward by two fishermen. Arthur E. Welby, formerly general superintendent of the Rio Grande Western railroad and located at Salt Lake City, died in Denver, August 7, from diabetes. Five persons were injured near Salt Lake City in a tivin wreck, caused by a broken axle, none being fatally hurt. The prosperity of the western farmer has depleted the stocks bf diamonds dia-monds in Maiden Lane and the importing im-porting houses there have hurried their buyers across the ocean to purchase pur-chase new supplies. The body of the young man drowned drown-ed in the suyf at Ocean Park, Cal., August 14, has been identified by two persons as that of Charles . Swift, son of wealthy parents of Dublin, Ire-lanl, Ire-lanl, who are now motoring through Germany. Swift was to have left Los Angeles next week to join his parents par-ents in Germany. Francis J. Heney, the San Francisco Fran-cisco prosecutor, has arrived in Seattle Se-attle from his Alaska trip. If he is not Immediately needed in San Francisco Fran-cisco he will go to Oregon and hunt in the mountains. In Alaska he did no hunting, but caught many fish. Otto C. Heinze, and his brother, Arthur P. Heinze, won a legal victory vic-tory in New York when Judge Hand directed the dismissal of an involuntary involun-tary petition in bankruptcy against the brokerage firm of Otto C. Heinze & Co. Filibusters have been smuggling arms into the Philippines for use by rebellious natives. WASHINGTON. The president has made public a tentative outline of his trip through the west and south this fall. It will embrace a journey of approximately 13,000 miles, and will be one of the most notable ever made by a president. presi-dent. There has been but little trouble in putting the new tariff schedule in operation, this being accounted for by the fact that the new law was constructed con-structed on the general lines of the Dingley act. The tariff has finally been revised, the new measure having passed the senate and been signed by the president presi-dent on Thursday, August 15. Both houses of congress adjourned without date at 6 p. m. on Thursday. In the senate 47 members voted for the tariff tar-iff bill and 31 against it. President Taft has given out a statement embodying his views on the new tariff act. He supports it as a sincere effort for downward revision, but declares that, of course, it is not a perfect measure by any means. Another shake-up has occurred In the department of commerce and labor la-bor as the result of a probing into the efficiency record of its employes. The official ax fell heavily upon employes in the immigration service, where considerable inefficiency was shown to have existed. M. J. O'Farrell, said to be- a member mem-ber of a stock brokerage firm in Gold-field, Gold-field, Nev., shot and seriously wounded wound-ed himself at Los Angeles in an at-; tempt to commit suicide. The bullet passed through his body just above the heart. Prof. David Starr Jordan, who has returned to Vancouver, B. C, from the north, says that the International fishery regulations will not go into effect until 1911. DOMESTIC. H. Miles Moore, one of the founders foun-ders of Leavenworth, Kans., and widely known throughout the southwest south-west from his connection with border troubles before and after the civil war, was struck by a runaway horse and instantly killed. Mr. Moore was S3 years old. Two men and a woman were drowned at Toledo, O., when their launch capsized while on a Sunday outing. Seven other passengers were rescued with difficulty. Charles Foster Willard, a young New Yorker, made five successful flights in an aeroplane belonging to the New York Aeronatuic society, on Sunday. Despite the decrease from the normal nor-mal traffic level suffered by both the Union and Southern Pacifies early in the last fiscal year, Union Pacific closed a banner year with the estab- Secretary Ballinger declares the government will not interfere with private irrigation projects, but will 'give all aid possible. FOREIGN. Japan has officially . ' notified the powers of her intention to proceed immediately im-mediately with the reconstruction and improvement of the Antung-Mukden railroad, without the consent of China, entirely ignoring the Chinese government. govern-ment. It is understood that Don Jaime, the Spanish pretender, will issue a proclamation pro-clamation declaring that he had no intention to profit by the misfortunes of his country, but if the present king is not able to control his subjects, sub-jects, the pretender will make an effort ef-fort to secure the tnrone, and that he has at least 100,000 men at his call. Lord Kitchener, commander of the British forces in India, i has been appointed ap-pointed inspector general of the Mediterranean forces, having command com-mand at Gibraltar and Malta, and all the British troops in Egypt, the Soudan Sou-dan and Cyprus. The Turkish government has communicated com-municated to Greece an urgent note asking that she express her disapproval disap-proval of the annexation agitation in Crete and formally declare that Greece has no ambitions regarding the island. Otherwise, the note adds, diplomatic representations will be lishment of a new record both in gross and net earnings. In a quarrel over a fence at Pasadena, Pasa-dena, Cal., C. Burris shot and killed Irving Hobart. Burris sajs he shot in self-defense. Following a bold holdup of the First State bank of White Bear, Minn., Henry Paul, the robber, and Fred Larkens, one of the pursuing citizens, were shot and killed, and William Butler, of the posse, mortally wounded. Cleveland, Ohio, has refused to grant to Herman Schmidt a franchise insuring three-cent fares on a part of the city street car lines, Mayor Tom L. Johnson favoring the franchise. During a quarrel over money matters mat-ters at the iron works of John Baise-ly Baise-ly at Philadelphia, Rudolph Baisely, aged 59 years, a member of the firm, shot and probably fatally injured his nephew, Edward D. Baisely, 33 years old. J. E. Alcord, secretary and treasurer treas-urer of the Continental Trust and Savings Sav-ings Bank company, of Toledo, O., has announced that $4,000 of the bank's cash is gone, and also gave out the information that a trusted bookkeeper of the bank has been missing miss-ing since July 28. Eulalia Tores, a comely Spanish woman 30 years old, is held by the police of San Francisco as a witness against Pedro Mendorza, a countryman country-man several years her senior, who is charged with having held the woman prisoner for a period of forty days, during which time, according to her story, Miss Tores was daily tortured by her captor. It is announced that a plague infested in-fested rat may conceal itself in a cargo from the Orient and cause an outbreak of plague in the United States. Thirty-five persons were injured and a motorman killed when an electric elec-tric car was struck by a Pennsylvania suburban train at a grade crossing in Chicago. A large touring car, carrying the unlucky number "2313 Illinois," instantly in-stantly killed a 7-year-old farmer boy named Trieker on the Ridge road near Highland, Ind. Judge Watts Parker, in the circuit court at Lexington, Ky., declared the election for city officials held in 1907 trail and void on the ground ot fraud and corruption. severed. Circuit Judge John T. Debolt of Honolulu has received an annony-mous annony-mous communication threatening that if any of the Japanese implicated in the strike conspiracy are convicted in the trials now in progress before him, he will be assassinated. Joseph H. Leute, American vice-consul vice-consul general at Zurich, Switzerland, died in the arms of his bride on the steamer Marquette, just as the vessel was entering port at Antwerp. Mr. Leute was married in Philadelphia July 25. Plans for the entertainment of President Taft and President Diaz of Mexico, when the two chief executives meet in El Paso, Texas, next October, are being pushed push-ed to completion and will be on an elaborate scale. Gonzales Valencia has been elected president of Colombia, succeeding Gen. Rafael Reyes, resigned. The Spanish government declares the crisis in Spain is now at an end, and that permanent peace is in sight. A man named Duchemin, aged 23, a butcher, who in 1908 stabbed his mother, and this not resulting in her death quick enough, finished her by strangulation, was guillotined in Paris on Thursday. Every effort will be made to secure the Jeffries-Johnson fight for Sydney, N. S. W. Hugh Mcintosh is the busybody busy-body there and says that he wili bid $10,000 more for the fight than any club in the world. in the belief that the millennium may be ushered in any moment, over 2,000 "Cooneyites" are holding continuous con-tinuous prayer meetings at Ballina-mallard. Ballina-mallard. County Fermanagh, Ireland The pilgrims have arrived from all parts of the country and remarkable scenes are being witnessed. The British steamer Maori foundered foun-dered off Slang bay. Nine member? of her crew were landed and sis bodies have been washed up on the beach. The first official visit of Emperoi Nicholas to England, on Monday August 2, was one of the most im pressive and spectacular events thai Cowes, accustomed to naval page antry, ever witnessed. Count Zeppelin on Saturday" sailec from Friederichshafen to Frankfort Germany, a distance of 220 miles, al an average speed of twenty-one mile; an hour, in his dirigible balloon |