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Show 0 n History of Past Week ijiir -- i Wl a I II j I Uli 1 1 111 IMtlMBB The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 1-d j The Calumet & Hecla Mining company com-pany will continue to refuse recognition recogni-tion to the Western Federation of Miners or to employ its members, officers offi-cers of the company said in a statement state-ment Saturday regarding the strike at thfelr mines in Michigan. Notice posted in the carshops of the Xi-w York, New Haven &z Hartford railroad at New Haven, Conn., make effective at once a reduction of 10 per cent in wages of several hundred employees. em-ployees. Twenty-dollar gold pieces amounting amount-ing to $l,4oi were found by Mrs. Wil-. liam McCorkle of McCool, Ind. They had been buried under a tree across from her home eight years ago by her father, Nathaniel Marshall, a carpenter. carpen-ter. Ralph Fariss, the young bandit who murdered Horace E. Montague, traveling travel-ing passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, while holding up a train near Los Angeles, has been sentenced to be hanged. WASHINGTON. Investigation of the cold storage "trust" by the department of justice has progressed so far that officials are conlident they have found trails which eventually will lead to prosecution prosecu-tion in the courts. Treasury officials are inclined to believe be-lieve that the Underwood-Simmons tariff act will produce several millions more revenue annually than had been estimated by tariff experts. There were 7,509 national banks doing business in the United States December 31, according to the comptroller comp-troller of the currency. The authorized author-ized capital of these banks was $1,-070,139,175, $1,-070,139,175, with an outstanding bond secured circulation amounting to INTER MOUNTAIN. Search has been abandoned in the nine at Bingham, Utah, for Rafael liOpez, the Mexican murderer who lias killed six men, the sheriff now admitting that Lopez has escaped from the mine. The most damaging evidence which has yet been secured pointing to the possible guilt of Joseph Henry Margin Mar-gin as leader of the Ogden blackmail .ing gang, was furnished by the man .hiniHelf when he made an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful attempt to escape from the Weber county jail Saturday night. Seven members of the United Mine Workers of America, charged with rioting and assault in connection wilh the Colorado miners' strike, were sunt tint of Steamlicat Springs, Colorado, by the Routt County Taxpayers' league. Acting under orders from Adjt. den. John Chase a detail of the state militia met "Mother" Mary Jones up-:ni, up-:ni, her arrival at Trinidad, Colo., from . 101 Paso, ordered her to return aboard Uie train and accompanied l.r as far us Walsenburg, the limit of the military mili-tary zone. Coventor Amnions of Colorado has oi-'Jr.ied a company of infantry from Trinidad into the north section of the cual fields where Saturday mveh excitement ex-citement was created through the de-.portation de-.portation of eeven strike leaders. Right buildings, including the town hall, were destroyed in a fire at Superior, Su-perior, YVyo,, a mining camp. The fire started in a restaurant. The damage dam-age was $100,000. Another murder may be added to the list of fatalities of the past few months at Bingham, Utah, as the re-. re-. suit of the shooting of Peter Mike, aged about 42 years, by Isis Basshire, a countryman, aged 25 years. Orlando W. Powefs, former associate associ-ate justice of the supreme court of Utah under appointment of President Cleevland and one of the eminent jurists of Utah, died January 2, from pneumonia. Judge Powffrs was born at Puttneyville, N. Y., June 16, 1851. The abase after Rafael Lopez, the Mexican who killed a countryman and later killed five men who- were attempting at-tempting to capture him, will cost Salt Lake county at least $20,000. Martial law was declared at Cop-perfield, Cop-perfield, Ore., by Col. B. K. Lawson, superintendent of the state penitentiary. penitenti-ary. Five members of the coast artillery artil-lery backed up the proclamation. This step was taken in order to close up the saloons. DOMESTIC. Congressman Victor Murdock, Progressive Pro-gressive leader in the house of representatives, rep-resentatives, has announced his candidacy candi-dacy for United States senator from Kansas to succeed Joseph L. Bristow. The Panama canal will be in condition con-dition to pass vessels all the way -across the isthmus within the next .seventy days, it was learned Saturday, Satur-day, unless some unexpected obstacle obsta-cle is encountered. After 211 hours of unconsciousness, unconscious-ness, Miss Anna Wheeler, of Worces- tor, Mass., died. . The hospital physi- cians declare that the girl was fright- ened to death when an automobile in which she was riding on Christmas .day was struck by a trolley car. The gross receipts of the New York postoffice for the year just ended exceeded ex-ceeded by more than $4,000,000 the figures for the twelve months preceding, preced-ing, according to a report made by Postmaster Morgan. Christian Chinese now studying in America are powers to propagate Christianity in China, William J. Bry-.an, Bry-.an, secretary of state, said in an address ad-dress at Kansas City to the National Conference ' of Chinese Students in America. Three men and one woman were killed when a recently remodeled three-story building, the lower floor of which was vacant, collapsed at South Bend, Ind. One of the victims vic-tims was a Chinaman. The withdrawal of J. P. Morgan & Co. from more than a score of great corporations and the statement by George F. Baker, an almost equally dominant figure in American finance, that he soon would take similar acr tion, gave Wall street a thrill on' Friday Fri-day which almost brought trading on the stock exchange to a halt. The estate left by Whitelaw Reid, ambassador to Great Britain and editor ed-itor and part owner of the Xew York Tribune, was valued at $1.3!S,SS4 in a report filed at White Plains. X. Y., by the tax appraiser. The condition of Congressman Robert Rob-ert G. Bremmer of Xew Jersey, who is taking radium treatment for cancer can-cer at a sanatorium in Baltimore, is .said to be gratifying. With the first breath of the new year the segregated district of Oak-laud Oak-laud went out of business. About 2U0 women were given a few hours to pack their belongings and get out. San Francisco s scheme of providing provid-ing employment for men who want to. work is about to blow up. The rea-. rea-. son 'is that the appropriation for this (Purpose is all but gone. $740,633,645. Congress will be asked to create four vice admirals in the United States navy immediately after the holiday recess. A fight which is expected to open up the whole question of water power pow-er policy, including the federal regulation regu-lation of prices to consumers and government exaction of bills, will be begun in the house shortly after the holiday recess. New Year's day in the capital passed pass-ed over without a White House reception recep-tion for the first time since the day of President Monroe. Seven hundred and sixty-seven I banking institutions, scattered over forty-five states and having an aggregate aggre-gate capital, exclusive of surplus, of approximately $300,000,000, have informed in-formed the federal authorities of their intention to enter the new currency cur-rency system. FOREIGN. Four men charged with having cried "Viva Orozco" were executed in an alley in Juarez on Saturday. The men were first held onv suspicion of being Huerta sympathizers. In a fight preceding the execution a rebel lieutenant was fatally shot. Pascual Orozco is one of the federal generals at Ojinaga. A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, announces an-nounces that four convicts were killed and fifty seriously wounded when the prisoners confined in the Toural penitentiary pen-itentiary mutinied and were fired on by the guards. Pastor Loetz of the Protestant church in the village of Reepsholt, Germany, was shot and killed by thieves whom he surprised robbing the poor box. The murderers escaped. Seven soldiers were killed and twelve seriously and twelve slightly injured at Woippy station, Germany, when a fast express telescoped a military mili-tary train returning to Metz with men who had been on a furlough for the Christmas holidays. Kiug Alfonso on the advice of the cabinet has dissolved the Spanish parliament and pro.aimed a general election. Deputies wifl be voted for on March 8.f An indication that Russia is not satisfied sat-isfied that all the complications raised by the recent Balkan wars have yet been disposed of is given by the issue is-sue of a long official list of topics which Russian newspapers are prohibited pro-hibited from mentioning during 1914. Capt. L. L. Lane of the schooner Polar Bear has written the department depart-ment of naval service at Ottawa, Ont., confirming reports of the safety safe-ty of the Anderson section of the Stefansson arctic expedition. It is officially stated that 24,000 executions were carried out in the province of Sze Chuen alone in 1913. Most of those killed were robbers, but a large number were political offenders. of-fenders. The London Spectator, in an article on the Mexican situation, declares that the pressure of public opinion in all the rest of the world will soon force the United States to intervene, in Mexico. President Juan Vincents Gcmez has returned to the capital of Venezuela after an absence of live mcnths. He brought with him an army of 7,000 men, with which he had encamped at Maracay since early in A.ugust, when Gen. Cipriano Castro, the former for-mer dictator, made an unsuccessful attempt to bring about a reolution. U is reported in Tangier, Morocco, that Raisuli, 1 the former Moorish brigand, had been proclaimed sultan ol .Morocco y his partisans in the interior, inte-rior, who have decided to contjuue at all costs the war against the Euro pean invaders of their country. An American, P. H. Carland, of San Jose, Chihuahua, killed two Mexicau bandits, wounded two more and frightened another pair away as they were counting three, prepartory tc. shooting him because Le could nJ produce the necessary ransom moiiej io buy his release. |