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Show Davit! I,. Burn one of the f.vt men who founded t'ae Knuhts o! Pythias, died s:iuden!y in Washington Monday night of heart disease, as.ij ; 73 years. Dr. George W. Bradley, an aged pliy-i pliy-i sician of Waverly. 111., was arrested I Sunday and taken lo the Morgan county jail accused of attempting lc kill Frank Wyle, a jeweler of Waverly, Waver-ly, whom he accused of alienting his wife's affections. Col. K. J. Cochrane, governor ol the Sawtelle (California) soldiers1 home, has forwarded his resignation ; to the board of managers of the Xa-iional Xa-iional Soldiers' home. Announcement of the engagement of Miss Helen Miller Gould of New York, daughter of the late Jay Gould: lo Finley J. Shepard. a prominent railroad man of St. Louis, is made public. Millions of dead fish have been cast up from the gulf of Mexico at Tarn-pico, Tarn-pico, Mexico, and vicinit during the past ten days, the result, it is believed, of submarine volcanic disturbances. WASHINGTON President Taft has directed Secretary Secre-tary Wilson to appoint Dr. Carl Als-b'urg, Als-b'urg, a chemist in the agricultural department, de-partment, chief of the bureau of chemistry, chem-istry, to succeed Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. I OIF REVIEW Or j A VVEEjTS EVENTS I RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT I HAPPENINGS IN 1TEM- IZED FORM. Homo and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Propped for Buy Man. INTERMOUNTAIN Utah's total assessed valuation for 1912 is $200,262,873, showing a gain of $6,838,768 over the valuation of 1911, and a gain of $82,215,657 in the last ten years, according to the report of the state board of equalization. The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company, with $10,000,000 capital stock,' was incorporated Monday at Denver with power to acquire the property of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific railroad, commonly known as the "Moffat road." President Taft has announced through Secretary Hilles that the post of ambassador to Great Britain, made vacant by the death of Whitelaw Reid, will not be filled by him. Record crops of corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, hay and rice were harvested this year, according accord-ing to the final estimates of the department de-partment of agriculture, announce Monday. With a total "value of $3,-911,449.000. $3,-911,449.000. the eleven principal cropa estimated exceeded the value of the same crops last year by $50,531,000. A plan to enable the. judiciary committee com-mittee of the senate to take the testimony tes-timony in any impeachment trial not involving the president, vice-president, members of the cabinet or justices oi! the supreme court is proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Sutherland. The chair of the presiding officer of the senate was filled for the rest of the sesison by the adoption of a plan on Monday through which Sen-1 ator.s Gallinger and Bacon will alternate alter-nate in terms of two weeks each as president ipro tern, until March 4. Business , in general, as reflected in the condition of the banks of the United Unit-ed States, has shared in the country's prosperity, according to Comptroller Lawrence O. Murray in his annual report. re-port. FOREIGN i Conditions in Paris and reports received re-ceived from the provinces show that the fourth attempt of the general federation fed-eration of labor to bring about a general gen-eral strike for the purpose of demonstrating demon-strating their power to paralyze the resources of the government has .been as ineffective as on previous occasions. occa-sions. The preliminaries of the peace conference con-ference at London were completed Monday and apparently the Greek difficulty dif-ficulty regarding the signing of the armistice has been surmounted. Whitelaw Reid, the American ambassador am-bassador to Great Britain since 1905, died at his London residence, Dorchester Dor-chester house, shortly after noon Sunday Sun-day from pulmonary oedema. White-law White-law Reid was In his seventy-sixth year, having been born October 27, 1S37, in Xenia, O. Arms furnished by the United States government for the protection of Americans Am-ericans at Cananea, Mexico, are in the hands of some 1,000 Mexicans, who threaten a strike based on an anti-American movement. The report current that the Russian government was withdrawing its deposits de-posits from the German banks is officially of-ficially denied. Bulgara is declared to be about to enter the triple ailliance, thus joining forces wth Austrc-Hungary, Germany and Italy, according to information given from a diplomatic source to the Figaro. A Turksh destroyer attempted to pass into the Aegean sea from the Dardanelles on Saturday, but was driven back by shells fired by two Greek destroyers patrolling the straits. Walter Mumm, of Paris, a well known sportsman and member of a prominent family connected with the wine trade was shot and seriously wounded toy an American woman. The Antarctic steamer, Terra Xova, sailed from Christchurch, New Zealand, Zea-land, to the relief of Captain Robert F. Scott's Antarctic expedition. Leon Bourgeois, a former premier and minister of labor in the present French cab'net. has told his friends definitely that the condition of iiis health forbade him entertaining a;y idea of standing as a candidate l'o: the presidency of France al the ccm-ing ccm-ing election. Coincident with tiie arrival of the Greek peace commissioners in Lon-dan. Lon-dan. news came from Athens of a re-tiumpton re-tiumpton of hostilities between the Greeks and Turks on an imposing scale. An incipient revolution In Honduras was quelled immediat3ly by the killing of its leader, General Jose Maria Valle-dares, Valle-dares, while urging his followers to start the outbreak. On account of the deatli of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria Emperor William has ordered general mourning for three weeks, and the imperial parliament par-liament has been adjourned over Christmas. J. T. Little and Fred T. Bailey, reported re-ported killed in Sonora. Mexico, by Yaxjui Indians, have returned safely to Cananea. i Crazad and distracted by the death at Taiooma of her son, L. G. Fliggle, ie mother, Mrs. Georgia Fliggle-Hart half an hour later retired to a rear , room and shot herself through the I hea.d, death bein.g instantaneous. Fruitgrowers of the northwest In conference at Spokane, took steps to form a co-operative fruit selling association asso-ciation to market the'fr-uit of Montana, Idaho, Washington ' and Oregon. A committee of nine growers was appointed ap-pointed to organize the selling agency. Two earthquake shocks were felt at 7 o'clock Monday night at the Marys-ville, Marys-ville, Bald Butte, Bald Mountain and Jay Gould mining camps, twenty-five miles from Helena. Railways of Oregon attacked in the federal court, on Monday, the recently enacted initiative bill in which the people undertook to declare the relationship rela-tionship of freight classes and the peroentage relationship carloads should bear to the rate on less than carload lots. Paul Pattison, aged 29, prosecuting attorney of Whitman county, Washington, Wash-ington, and son of John Pattison of Spokane, Democratic national committeeman com-mitteeman for Washington, has been convicted of a charge of grand lar-cny lar-cny and given an indeterminate n-tenoe n-tenoe In the state reformatory. William Davidson, Utah pioneer, who freighted between Corinne, Utah, and Helena in the early days, but for the last twenty-eight years engaged in horse raising and ranching near Belt and Armington, Mont., Is dead. DOMESTIC The first government wireless station sta-tion to be opened for the regular receipt re-ceipt of commercial messages is that at Key West, Fla., which by order of the navy department began Monday to handle such business. Packey McPaxland of Chicago earned a decisive victory over Eddie Murphy of Boston in their ten-round fight at Kenosha. Wis. Horace Kearny, the young Kansas City aviator who tried to master land and sea in a hydroaeroplane flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco, lost his fight with the elements, and with his passenger, Chester Lawrence, a Los Angeles newspaperman, was drowned in the ocean. Two men and a boy who were in the basket of a captive balloon that was parted from its cable at Venice, Ca., a seashore resort, by a thirty-mile thirty-mile gale, were rescued four miles at sea. Mrs. Austin Baker, while dressing a chicken at her home at Albert Lea, Minn., for the family Sunday dinner, found a half-karat diamond in the gizzard. Mrs. Baker showed it to, a jeweler, who pronounced it genuine. Loss estimated at $500,000 was caused at Patterson, in. J., by fire in the business district. The flames raged for three hours and reduced to ruins several important stores and office of-fice buildings. The "egg crusade" has reached New York. The Housewives' league, which olaims to have the backing of 50,000 women, has fixed 26c a dozen as a "fair and reasonable" price for cold 6torage eggs. One man is believed to be dying and seven others are in a critical condition con-dition as a result of being beaten up by highwaymen in South Lima, Ohio, early Sunday. Patrolman Bert Barrett shot and killed Deputy Policeman John Baird at police headquarters at Riverside, Cal., and after being taken to the county jail tried to commit suicide. The two officers had quarreled over Baird's advancement in the service. With the arrival of twenty-six prisoners pris-oners from Washington, on Saturday, the number of prisoners in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth was increased in-creased to 1,206, the most ever confined con-fined in the institution at one time. S. R. Esterday, a farmer lving near Marengo, la., was beaten and robbed of ?4,490 at the union station in Burlington. Bur-lington. He will recover. Following the lead set by the women of Philadelphia, the Women's Clean Food league of Chicago is preparing pre-paring a war for lower prices for eggs. Marvin W. Hamby, the 22-year-old express messenger whose car on the Santa Fe was robbed of $20,145 in gold near Bakersfield, Cal., last week, has confessed he robbed the safe with the aid of his 16-year-old brother, Mel-vin. |