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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK W 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. Lan Shang and Lang Tong, two San Francisco Chinamen, who have been under arrest since the murder of Bow Kum, a Chinese girl, who was killed on August 15, have been indicted on charges of murder in the first degree. The local optionists lost in the election elec-tion in Ada county, Idaho, the city of Boise casting a heavy majority for the "wets." Two men were killed, three injured and two engines and a box car were wrecked as a result of a head-on collision col-lision of a passenger train and switch engine at Missoula, Mont. One man was killed, five seriously hurt and thirty-nine passengers more or less injured when two Salt Lake Route trains collided near Boulten, 80 miles west of Salt Lake, on September Sep-tember 9. John Clayborn, the negro porter arrested at Missoula, Mont., on suspicion suspi-cion of killing Pearl Anderson, a ne-gress ne-gress of the restricted district, has confessed his guilt of the murder to the sheriff's officers. Jealousy is given giv-en as the cause. The advocates of local option lost their fight in Ada county, Idaho, the vote in the city of Boise being heavy enough to make possible a victory for the "wets." John F. Stevens, the engineer formerly for-merly in charge of the Panama canal construction has been chosen president presi-dent of the Oregon Trunk line, a Hill road to be built from the Columbia river to Central Oregon and to San Francisco. George W. Dally, Rufus Ireland, Wilberfore Sully and Frank T. Wells have been arrested in New York City by United States Marshal Henkel, charged with conspiracy in defrauding defraud-ing the government out of 1,760 acres of coal lands in Lander, Wyo. DOMESTIC. Edward H. Harriman, the railroad king, died at his two-million dollar home at Arden, N. Y., on Thursday, September 9, from cancer. Mr. Harriman Har-riman was born at Hempstead, L. I., February 25, 1848, the son of a rector, rec-tor, and started life without a dollar, working hard for the little education he received. He made his debut as a railroad man in 1883. Running at a high speed, seven miles east of El Paso, Texas, an automobile auto-mobile came into collision with a wagon. Fivi? occupants of the automobile auto-mobile were injured, three of them fatally. Wall Street's response to E. H. Harriman's death was a buoyantly strong market, in which securites made strong gains. Two beliefs concerning the death of Edward H. Harriman have been accepted ac-cepted as facts. First, that his great railroad organization will not he disturbed; dis-turbed; second, that he was a victim of cancer. The Tennessee, Admrial Sebree's flagship, has broken all records from San Francisco to Honolulu, making the trip in four days and seventeen hours. President Barber of the Diamond Match company, intimates in an interview in-terview that now is a good time to inaugurate a merger of all the railroads rail-roads under government control. Railroads of the United States paid approximately $56,700,000 for "loss and damage" and "injuries to persons" per-sons" during the year ending June 30, 190S, according to a renort math; public by the bureau of railway news and statistics. This is an increase of $6,441,000 9 -.vr the prc-cediig year Three of the eleven children of Robert A. Walsh were burned to death in a fire which destroyed his summer cottage at Whit-? Lear lake, Minnesota. Other members of the family were severely injured in the blaze, which followed an explosion of a gasoline stove. By a decision of the postoffiee department, de-partment, mail carriers need not attempt at-tempt to deliver mail at residences where vicious dogs are kept. Jacob H. Schiff and Judge R. S. Lovelt will divide between them the running of the complex organization of railways built up by Mr. Harriman. Jack Johnson; the world's heavyweight heavy-weight champion, was accredited with a "newspaper" decision over Al Kaufman Kauf-man at the end of ten rounds of fighting fight-ing at the Colfroth arena in San Francisco. Thirty-two persons were injured in a head-on collision between two inter-urban inter-urban cars on the Elgin & 13elvidere electric railroad near Hutnley, III. Wine grapes are being shipped from Fresno to Chicago, where tney are made into wine. During the last ten days several carloads have gone east. Mrs. Mabel Gerrin, wifa of Edward S. Gerrin, owner of a large plantation near Augusta, Ga.. and said to be wealthy, han asked the local police to find her husband, who disappeared from his hotel in San Francisco a week ago. The coast and geodetic survey will undertake to arbitrate the Peary-Cook Peary-Cook north pole controversy, providing provid-ing Dr. Cook requests that it should do so. Mrs. Stella Barclay. Frank H. Tll-lotson Tll-lotson and J. N. Gentry, arraigned before be-fore Judge Simon in the city court at Topeka, Kans., on the charge of kidnaping Marian Blea'ftiey, the incubator incu-bator baby, were bound over to the district court. Commander Robert E. Peary has sent a series of messages to his backers, friends and relatives, declaring de-claring that he has discovered the North pole, and is oa his way home. He claims to have reached the pole on April 6, 1909, almost a year after Dr. Frederick A. Cook alleges that he planted the stars and stripes at the northermost point of the world. The all-night drug store, the cut rate drug store and the suggestive post card will be done away with if the National Association of Retail Druggists, in convention in Louisville, Ky., can effect it. George Gould contemplates a west-enr west-enr trip within the next thirty days, wnen he will drive tne golden spike which will mark the completion of the great Western Pacific railroad between be-tween Salt Lake and San Francisco. The Good Citizenship League of Altantic City, N. J., has begun a crusade crus-ade against liquor dealers for violating violat-ing the Sunday closing law. WASHINGTON. The seventeen Japanese poachers recently taken prisoners in Alaskan waters will be tried at Valdez on October Oc-tober 4, according to a dispatch to the revenue cutter service ofhee received re-ceived in Washington. "Good progress is being made on the Panama canal and four sections of it have been finished," said ColoneJ Goethals, chief engineer in charge of the construction of the canal, upon his arrival in Washington from the isthmus. Lieutenant General Henry C. Cor-bin, Cor-bin, V. S. A., retired, died in a hospital hos-pital in New York City, September 8, after an operation for a renal disorder. disor-der. General Corbin would have been 67 years old in a few days. During his western trip President Tsft will take the people into his confidence con-fidence regarding the recent tariff fight in congress, according to a statement state-ment made at Beverly, Mass. He will frankly tell of the troubles that beset him in dealing with the tariff situation. situa-tion. The resignation of Governor Post of Porto Rico has reached the bureau of insular affairs and was forwarded to the president. General H. C. Corbin died in a hospital hos-pital in Washington on September 8, following an operation. General Corbin Cor-bin had been sick for the past two years. Thomas Sammons, American consul general to Korea, was the guest of honor at a banuet given by Prince Ito just prior to his sailing from Tokio. Eighty-four sail and steam vessels, with a total gross tonnage of 1,361, were built within the boundaries ol the United States and officially numbered num-bered during August, according to a report by the bureau of navigation of the department of commerce and labor. la-bor. FOREIGN. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, discoverer ol the north pole, sailed from Copenhagen Copen-hagen on September 10 for New York City, expecting to arrive home September Sep-tember 21. Orville Wright, flying over the Templehof parade grounds at Berlin, traveled at the estimated speed ot forty miles an hour and remained in the air 62 minutes. The first drawing of the national lottery was held in Havana, Cuba;' September 10. A dense crowd thronged the building all day. Hundreds Hun-dreds of negro runners were employed em-ployed to carry the prize numbers to the various newspapers and the lottery lot-tery offices in all parts of the city. The official statistics of Berlin for the second quarter of 1909 show that 1,051 dogs have been slaughtered for food, under government inspection, and 9,87.5 horses. E. Iefebvre, the French aviator.', was killed from a fall from his aeroplane, aero-plane, with which he was practicing, over the aviation field in France. M. Lefebvre sustained mortal injuries when the machine crashed to the ground. ,' i Viscount Lascelles, aide-de-camp tc Earl Grey, governor general of Can ada, who shot a mountain goat and deer out of season during the governor gov-ernor general's visit to northern British Brit-ish Columbia, has been fined $275 by the British Columbia game wardens. A number of Americans who have been marooned in the Hood districts of Mexico have arrived at Mexico City and report a terrible toll of death and suffering as a result of the unexpected h:gh waters. El Roghi, the rebellious subject of the sultan of Morocco, whp was recently re-cently carried into Fez a prisoner in an iron cage, is ill and the sultan has given orders that he bo no longer exposed to the public gaze. Dispatches received at The Hague report an eruption ot the volcano Smeru Java, causing great havoc, and a terrible earthquake, with hundreds of fatalities, in the Besouki district. Arrangements are being made for Commander Peary's ship, the Roosevelt Roose-velt In take pari in the Hudson-Fulton naval parade. x Mrs. Merriman Colbert Harris, wife of Bishop Harris ol' the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead at her homo in Tokio. Japan. Bishop Harris went to Jap?.:; for the first time in 1873, and lias spent much time in the Orient since then. |