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Show NEWS OF AWEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN E P I EFE3T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlstor) Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and f Given in a Few Lines. I I INTER-MOUNTAIN. The first through freight train from Cuicago to the Paciiic coast by way of the Western Pacific arrived at Oak-laud, Oak-laud, December pi, three hours behind be-hind schedule il.ne, beet use of a delay de-lay at Stockton, 'llie train was greeted greet-ed at the local d.-put by Western Pacific Pa-cific officials and the merchants to whom it carried goods. Between 1,500 ami 2,000 teachers were present at the opening session of the State Teachers' association in Salt Lake City. Range and weather conditions in the Buffalo, Wyoming, section are so bad the flockmasters are offering their sheep at $1 a head. Charles Walker, a merchant of Portland, Port-land, Ore., narrowly escaped assassination assassin-ation in Salt Lake City by a man who made his escape. Walker, who was shot in the fleshy part of the arm, declares the shooting was the outcome of a feud inaugurated against him. Her crew reduced almost to spectres spec-tres by slow starvation and with the captain believed to be dying, the schooner Minnie A. Caine was towed into Gray's harbor, Wash., only a few pounds of mouldy hardtack standing between the men and death. Bad weather and adverse winds put the ship out of its course and the food supply had been exhausted. ' DOMESTIC. President Taft has been requested by Mayor Haines of Minneapolis to intervene in-tervene in the Switchmen's strike. Robert Adamson, a newspaper man is to become secretary to Mayor Gay-nor Gay-nor ot New York City, the salary being be-ing $6,000 a year. l ndaunted by threatening weather, San Francisco greeted the dawning of the new year with the informal street festival which custom lias decreed de-creed as the city's method of celebrating celebrat-ing the passing of the old year. Thirty-five hundred conductors and motormen employed by the Boston Elevated Railroad company received a New Year's gift from the company of $20 and $25 in gold as a reward for their good records in 1909. Two men were perhaps fatally injured in-jured by jumping from a third-story window of the Dyer block, Providence, R. I., during a fire. Ten girls were rescued by firemen. A fund of $70,000 to care for favorite favor-ite horses and dogs, and more than $25,000 left to household servants are among the bequests of Mrs. Francis Wright of Boston,' wlxo died December De-cember 27. Because he could not remember part of the address which he was to deliver at a banquet at Georgetown, Ky., Judge John C. Vovis, 32 years old, shot and killed himself. Notice will be served on Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis brewery concerns having an interest in Iowa saloons, that such interest must be withdrawn by March 1 in order to avoid vigorous prosecution. The last Iowa legislature passed a law prohib-i.ing prohib-i.ing brewers freni having any interest inter-est in a retail liquor establishment in this state. Five men were instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler at the new plant of the Metropolitan Electric company in West Reading, Pa. Four shot firers were killed in a dust explosion, caused by a "windy" shot in a mine near Centrnlia, Ills. Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has appealed to Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska to join Oklahoma and Kansas Kan-sas in a legal test of the guaranty of deposits acts of the three states. Three persons are dead and thirteen were injured as the result of the ex p'esion of an engine in the shops ol the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railroad at Shawnee. Oklahoma. Miss Jennie Priest of Los Angeles, whose 18-year-old daughter died a few-days few-days ago, declares the young woman was poisoned by a rival. Search is being made for the accused woman. Four weeks ago J. W. Tippin, a well-to-do business man of; Rome, Ga., informed in-formed his family that it had been decreed de-creed by Divine Providence that he fast until "God had bidden him eat." He died on December 2S. An untrained horse in the scene of "Sheridan's ride," in Shenandoah, being be-ing played at a theater at St. Joseph, Mo., became struck with stage fright and charged the scenery. It stepped on several supposedly dead soldiers who ran yelling from the stage. When Dr. Wu Ting Fang, retiring Chinese minister to the United States, sailed for China on Wednesday, he declared de-clared he would be back in fifty years. He declared he was serious in the assertion, as-sertion, but expressed grief at the improbability im-probability of meeting -any of his present acquaintances in this country. Lonesome, although at home with his parents and in the midst of the city, because his abnormal bashful-ness bashful-ness prevented him from having chums and coiupan'ons, like other-young other-young men, Henry Welte, aged 22, shot and killed himself at Toledo, O. The finding of a human head in a bucket in the basement of an office building at Abulia, Ga., created much excitement, and the police at first thought they had on their hands a murder mystery. It developed that the head had been used in a medical office of-fice an has been given to the janitor to be buried. Judge It. B. Tappan, to carry out the last wishes of his divorced wife, rode to the highest peak In the hills near Alameda, Cal., and, after appropriate appro-priate remarks, opened the copper urn containing her ashes, and scattered scat-tered the contents to the winds. Scoring both city and county governments gov-ernments unmercifully for failure to safeguard the morals of the youth, the SaDta Clara county, California, grand jury returned a report iu which it declared de-clared that only the difficulty of conviction con-viction prevented wholesale indictments indict-ments of high ofiicials for malfeasance in office. The Tennessee state law prohibiting the manufacture of inxtoxlcating liquors liq-uors went into effect at midnight, December De-cember 31. Forty-one distilleries and five big breweries announced a suspension sus-pension of operations with the close of business. WASHINGTON. When "Uncle Joe" Cannon arrived in the national capital on his return from Christmas, spent at his Danville home, his secretary, L. White Busby, informed him that an entire deer had arrived during his absence as a Christmas Christ-mas gift from Colonel James A, Owen-bey Owen-bey of Colorado. To improve inspection service in the marine corps of the navy, Assistant Assist-ant Secretary Winthrop has decided to establish four field divisions of inspection, in-spection, instead of carrying on the entire en-tire work from Washington. Study of forestry is to be made more systematic in the United States, through the closer association of the schools of forestry and the standardization standardi-zation of the methods of instruction. This was the principal decision ' reached at the conference of professors profes-sors of forestry in Washington with Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot. There are 5S2 people out of every 10,000 population lodged in jail each year, according to census bureau statistics sta-tistics just made public. The figures, based on an investigation of conditions condi-tions in the 158 largest cities of the United States in 1907, show also that 35 per cent of all arrests were made for drunkenness. To investigate the agriculture of ancient an-cient Palestine with a view to finding plants that will resist drouth in the United States, an American company capitalized at $70,000, is being formed in Washington by Dr. Aaron Aaron-sohn, Aaron-sohn, a Turkish agronomist. The announcement that President Taft had determined to go ahead with his legislative program and send in a message dealing with the Sherman anti-trust act has brought an unusually unusual-ly large number of congressional callers call-ers to the White House. FOREIGN. The news comes from London that Earl Percy, Henry Algeron George, is dead at Paris, as the result of injuries in-juries received in a duel. Eastern Roumelia has been swept by the most disastrous flood in fifty years. The whole plain resembles a vast lake. Many are reported drowned and the losses in crops and livestock will be very heavy. Soldiers iri pontoons pon-toons are rescuing the people cut off by the rising waters. An unconfirmed rumor at Valparaiso Valpa-raiso says J. P. Morgan, allied with the Deutsche bank and a powerful British firm, has organized a huge nitrate ni-trate trust with a capital of $250,-000,000. $250,-000,000. The trust, it is said, will acquire ac-quire the majority of the nitrate fields and manufacturing plants and also control the world's consumption. Robert Bacon, former secretary of state who now succeeds Henry White is United States ambassador to Fiance, presented his credentials to President Fallieres on December 3V The traditional ceremony was observed. ob-served. Battered and worn after a month's battle with the seas that at one time rendered her help:ess because of the disabling of her steering gear, the British steamer Bolton Hall reached Baltimore December 31. The log shows a succession of storms since the vessel sailed from Formin, Spain, November No-vember 30. Senor Soler y Guardolia, Spanish iuister, is confined to his house ir ,'avana with a serious wound of the hand, which, according to general rumor, ru-mor, he received in a duel with a Cuban, Cu-ban, who is alleged to have insulted Senora Soler. The Cuban, whose name :s not known, is reported to have een killed. The French chamber of deputies has passed the tariff bill by a vote of 36; to -12, after a protracted discussion This represents a victory for the high protectionists and the tariff commis sion, which practically had its owr way. Ex-President Zelaya of Nicaragua has issued a statement from Mexicc City in which he declares he has beer misunderstood and falsely accused raid lays all the blame to Secretary Knox. He declares that he will trusl to time for a complete vindication. There are nearly 5,000 cases of ty phoid fever at Montreal, Camda The deaths are averaging two a day Appeal has been made to the provin cial health authorities to provide ad ditional hospital facilities. Tin scourge is attributed to polluted drink ing water. Joseph Chamberlain has issued ar address to electors of West Biirng ham, England, advocating tariff re 1 form and reciprocity with the cohmn ; and attacking the budget as plac'pg heavy burden of taxnt'on. upon t' people and at the same time lucre: I ing the number of unemployed. |