Show News Story of a Week A COMPLETE HISTORY OF WHAT HAS liAS BEEN HAPPENING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD INTER INTERMOUNTAIN The supreme court of the United States has upheld the finding of the supreme court of Idaho In a case caso Involving involving In In- the question as to whether a city has the right to lay layout out streets so as to encroach upon private property property prop prop- erty the lower court holding it had hadnot hadnot hadnot not the right Traveling on the same train with seventy of a detective agency who will act as guards at the Homestake mine where a strike Isnow is isnow isnow now In progress Charles H H. Moyer president of the Western Vestern Federation of at miners went from Denver to Lead S. S D. D the first of the week Following fifteen days of negotiations negotiations negotiations between the Switchmen's Union of North America and the joint committee committee com com- of railroad managers representing representing representing thirteen railroads of at the northwest northwest north north- west a strike involving 2300 switchmen switchmen switchmen switch switch- men Is now on Twenty Japanese were killed and fifteen Injured sever or of them fatally fatally fa fa- fatally fa- fa tally In a wreck of a a. worK train on the Great Northern railway between Vancouver and New Westminster B B. B CA C C. A second Telluride Is promised for Idaho as the result of a gold strike in the B Bruneau country in a somewhat somewhat some some- what isolated district The ore are carrIes carries carries car car- ries sensational values running from 86 SG to a ton George Clepper charged with robbing robbing rob rob- bing bang the malls mails at Ogden made a clever getaway from the officers when he heard them ahem inquiring for him at Cheyenne While In a skating skating skatIng ing rink he heard the officers Inquiring inquiring ing for him and jumped through a window and e escaped DOMESTIC After murdering his mother and a deputy deput sheriff who had attempted to arrest him and probably fatally InjurIng Injuring injuring ing another woman and her husband Cloide Weaver 34 years old committed commit commit- ted suicide at Greenville O. O Weaver was undoubtedly Insane Frank Duval a railroad switchman shot and seriously wounded Leona L-eona Edmunds Edmunds Ed Ed- munds a waitress at Porta Costa Cal and then shot himself through the heart Jealousy was the cause The girl ma may recover Abe R Reuf the former political boss of San Francisco Is endeavoring to secure his release from jail jan alleging that his health Is being greatly im Im- paired The California courts have held that thata a child can not be held for debt In a case where a family claimed 50 for the care of at a child and refused to give it up until the bill was paid A price within 1000 of the record was paid a few days ago for a seat on the New York stock exchange It brought as the record figure of paid for a seat several several several sev sev- eral years ears ago An anchored balloon sent up off ofT Sandy Hook at at ata a continuation of the army's first test of aerial warfare pas passed ed unscathed through a fire from tram froma trama a gun especially designed for the pur pur- pose Twenty shots In all were fired tired but none hit the bag An accident causing interruption of or telegraphic and telephone communication communication communication cation with San Franciso gave rise to a rumor that another terrible earthquake had visited that city The residence portion of Davenport Iowa owa was for three hours imperiled by fire which destroyed ten residences John C. C Calhoun a former slave of the famous statesman Calhoun Is dead at Pensacola Fla at the age ol of Calhoun lived In Pensacola for forty years ears and until fourteen years ago made his by daily dally labor In a sawmill Roy Royalston a negro was lynched at Anniston Ala for assault assault- lug ing the wife of a white farmer His body was riddled with bullets and then burned When rheu a posse tried to put puta a stop to the noisy revelry at a negro frolic at Union S. S C. C the negroes opened fire with shotguns wounding nine members of at the tho posse All the the- wounded are expected to recover A Arace Arace Arace race riot was narrowly averted Edward Backman In jail at Galion Gallon 0 O. has confessed that he killed Policeman Arnada and a bystander at Miss 1 In October 1908 1905 while resisting arrest and asked that his mother be given the reward foh fo h hs s arrest The propos proposed d copper combine has been held up temporarily ly Iy at least according to Wall street reports until lawyers for interests concerned can figure out the effect that the Standard Oil decision will have upon the m merger When a sheriffs sheriff's posse attempted to arrest Jim and Charles Daniels near Devon Ky for the shooting of George Christian as the result of or a feud Mrs Charles Daniels and her 16 year-old year daughter opened fire on the officers who returned the fire with the result that both women fell dead In the doorway The two men es es- es- es Dr Frederick A. A Cook has sent to the University of Copenhagen the data and reports of his discovery of the north pole The records were taken taken tak talc en to Copenhagen by Walter Valter Lonsdale private secretary of the tho explorer W Walter alter Wellman the explorer line haa Issued a statement in which ho analyzes analyzes analyzes ana ana- the narratives of or the two explorers ex ox- explorers declaring that of Peary precise precise precise pre cise workmanlike consistent credible credible credible credi credi- ble in ever every particular and denouncIng denouncing denouncing de de- de- de that of Dr Cook as a self self- evident and even deliberate imposture ture More than pounds of 01 ot gar tobacco and nd nearly four times that quantity of the other types type of ot tobacco was grown in the United States In 1908 according to a a. bulletin bulletin bulletin bulle bulle- tin issued by the department of at agri agri- culture Mrs Nellie Moore the second cousin cousin cousin cou cou- sin of Abraham Lincoln and one atthe of at the tho best known woman In Ayer Mass is dead at that place Mrs Moore was born In Missouri J July ly 20 1846 WASHINGTON Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports reports reports re re- re- re ports that the value of farm products Is so Incomprehensibly large that it has become merely a row of figures For this year it Is a gain of over 1908 The v value luc of the products has nearly doubled Inton in inton inton ton years Secretary Meyer le l er is to inaugurate the most sweeping changes In the navy department since the establishment of the bureau system in 1842 He hopes to put the department on a business basis beyond the dreams of his The news comes from tram Washington that the administration will exert all its influence toward securing a comprehensive comprehensive com com- revision of the the Interstate commerce law law- by the Incoming con con- gress The most striking fact In the worlds world's agriculture ure Is the value of the corn crop for 1909 which Is about 1720 It nearly equals the value of the clot clothing and personal adornments of people according to the census of 1900 The court of appeals of the District of at Columbia has granted the petition of Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation Federation Fed Fed- of Labor In th the contempt case against them for stay of execution of the he mandate of the court sending them to jail jall The personnel of Uncle Sams Sam's establishment establishment es es- tal Is Increasing byi byl leaps and b bounds the grand total of or all federal being approximately approximate approximate- I ly y against In 1907 an Increase in the two years of or 20 per cent FOREIGN It is reported that when President Zelaya of Nicaragua learned of the Intention of of- the United States to seek reparation he vainly appealed to MexIco Mexico Mex- Mex Ico co for help even offering to place the presidency In its hands thus practically practically practically cally abdicating Gossip In Paris now m mentions a Russian nobleman nobleman- who subsequently as the murderer of Jacques whose wife was recently acquitted acquitted acquitted ac ac- ac- ac quitted of the crime Leon Goldsmith alleged to be an American doctor has been arrested In Paris accused of defrauding a peasant peasant peas peas- ant by selling g him an interest in a project ct to obtain gold from river fiver sand after having placed in the river bed gold dust which he afterward ered The British house of lords has refused reused re reo re- re fused used its formal assent absent a sent to the budget thereby hereby making It Illegal megal for the kings Icings agents to collect taxes with with- which to carry carryon on the government The budget will now go so before the country for its approval or rejection A liberal victor vie vic tor tory ory may mean an trouble for the lords With more than agricultural agricultural tural ural and Industrial workers IncludIng including Ing ng men women and children in Porto Rico ruco described as being In an economical and socially deplorable condition representatives of or organIzed organized organ- organ zed labor in that island have appealed appeal appeal- ed to President Taft for the amelioration amelioration atlon of the of the tho laboring people there The in incessant downpour of rain since November 10 has caused heavy damage to property throughout the Island of Porto Rico The rivers livers are are raging torrents overflowing the coun- coun I try ry The fhe rain however was accompanied pan led by only a light wind Cattle rustlers are getting so bold In northern Mexico that Governor Governor Gov Gov- Creel of has been appealed to for tor Droves of rom forty lorty to head of cattle are being driven off orf almost dally daily from some of the big ranches the cattle thieves having ha become so bold that they hey operate In to daylight During a bull fight tight In Mexico City Manuel Martinez was gored b by an infuriated bull and may die A man believed to be Insane attempted attempted at- at tempted empted to assassinate General Ve Ve- rand in Paris V When arrested ho ho declared he had mistaken General for General Brun minister of or war var No tidings have reached Havana of the he missing steamer Mario Marlo Herrera which left Havana October 20 for lor Porto orto RIcan ports Smallpox Is epidemic In the Santa Sauta Barbara Mexico mining camp nearly neary near- near ly Iy y every family having one or more victims Several Americans are In the he number The Spanish cabinet has decided gradually to recall the troops from Morocco and aud to send the reservists horns horns- Immediately Premier Prendergast Prendergast Pren declares that Spain having attained Its end will n not t continue the tho campaign Admiral de la Ia minister ol ot marine maline o of France has recommended the tho construction In 1910 of or an Improved ed of tons and speed sp of or 21 knots and the building of two battleships annually until the number shall total nineteen Of six will wUl be of the type I |