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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Clarence Dayton Hillman, multimillionaire multi-millionaire townsite promoter, was released re-leased from the county jail at Seattle on Saturday, having served a twenty-day twenty-day sentence for attempting to influence influ-ence prospective jurors. Posses searching for the assassin who murdered Arthur C. Marsh in his own home at Theodore, "Utah, have returned from their long, but futile fu-tile chase without having obtained any trace of the assassin. Realizing that still further losses are threatened to the cattlemen in the vicinity of Jake's valley, in Nevada, by reason of cattle falling into the crevices made by a peculiar phenomena phenom-ena of nature a year ago, permission is to be asked of the government to fence the openings in the earth. Ingolf K. Boyesen, one of the most distinguished lawyers of the middle west, died at Colorado Springs on the 20 th. In the presence of his family and several neighbors, Arthur C. Marsh was shot to death in his home at Theodore, Utah, by an unidentified man. Before anyone could interfere the assassin had made his escape. The supreme court of the state of Idaho has overruled the motion of Fred Gmber, convicted murderer of John Bilings, his companion, for a new trisl, and Gruber must pay the penalty for his deed on the gallows. Five thousand dollars will hardly cover the damage done the Western Pacific railway and private property at Wendpver, Utah, by a terrific windstorm, wind-storm, which raged nearly all night. Engineer Bert Chapman of Pocatel-lo, Pocatel-lo, Ida., was instantly killed, Fireman A. S. Nichols of Pocatello was fatally fatal-ly injured, and Erakeman H. a. Mc-Daniels, Mc-Daniels, also of Pocatello, was badly scalded by the explosion of a Short Line engine near Dietrich, Idaho. DOMESTIC John J. McNamara, international secretary of the Bridge and Structural Struc-tural Iron Workers of America, the headuarters of which are in Indianapolis,, Indianap-olis,, was arrested Saturday at Indianapolis,' Indian-apolis,' charged with complicity in the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on October -, 1910, and the plant of the Lllewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles. Two other men, a brother of McNamara and Ortie S. McMonigal were also arrested, and the three men are to be taken to Los Angeles for trial. A grandmother at the age of 31, Mrs. Hattie Mankins, died at Susan-ville, Susan-ville, Cal., on Saturday. The funeral was attended by Mrs. Mankin's mother, moth-er, who, though only 45 years of age, is a great-grandmother. Attorneys for Dr. B. Clark Hyde, in whose behalf the supreme court of Missouri recently reversed a verdict convicting him of the murder of Colonel Col-onel Thomas H.' Swope and remanded the case for a new trial, has filed with the clerk of the circuit court at Kansas Cjty a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for the pnysician. While attempting to escape from the steam whaler Belvedere, scheduled sched-uled to sail for Alaskan waters, Row-ell Row-ell Holdorf and G. M. Hogan, residents resid-ents of San Francisco, who had signed sign-ed for the -cruise, were drowned off Goat Island in San Francisco bay. Governor Eberhart of Wisconsin has signed the Keefe bill providing for the nomination of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Five boys, the oldest 13 years old and the youngest 10, have confessed that they attempted to burn the Fair-view Fair-view house, an orphan asylum, at Colonie, N. Y., where they were inmates. in-mates. They said they had hoped to get away from the institution. Efforts of the legislature to cause the governor of Arkansas to interfere with the hanging of Thomas Pearce. which w;J, set for Friday afternoon at Ashdown, Ark., failed of effect. The 1911 New Jersey legislature ended a fifteen-week session Friday night with a record of much progressive progres-sive legislation and with Governor Wilson as the effective force in bringing about such a result. While attempting to capture two burglars who had broken into a general gen-eral store at McCloud, Okla., A. E. Ernett, town marshal, was shot to death. Giarii Along), who was charged with bring a member of the Black Hand society, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Fort Leavenworth Leaven-worth penitentiary and ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 by Judge K. M. Landis at Chicago. An unidentified negro entered Die homo of John Marshall, an aged resident resi-dent of Bristol, Tenn., and after slabbing slab-bing Mr. Marshall, lus wif'', a young son and daughter, escaped wfih a large sum of money. Ail of the member!) mem-ber!) of the family were seriously in-J in-J 11 led. It was learned In Galveston on Wednesday that the war depart merit has ordered 500 coffins shipped from New York via that po"t to points in Texan. No explanation of why this growsome cargo was coming could be obtained. Thomas R. Marshall, governor of Indiana, has issued an appeal to the citizens of that state to join in the search for Elsie Paroubek, who disappeared disap-peared two weeks ago. George M. ("Lefty") Craig, pitcher of the Indianapolis club of the American Amer-ican association, died at the hospital in Indianapolis from a bullet wound received in a struggle with a burglar at Mineral Springs. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott of Illinois has been re-elected president-general of the Daughters of the American revolution for the next two years. Kurt Carlson, who says his real name is Kurtz' Mueller and that he is an ordained Lutheran minister, pleaded guilty in ths municipal court in Chicago on Wednesday of having three wives living. WASHINGTON lEiither going to or returning from the Kansas state fair, where he speaks on September 22, President Taft probably will drop off at Chicago Chi-cago to address the International Municipal congress. Frank Pierce, assistant secretary of the interior, has tendered his resignation, resigna-tion, and it has been accepted by President Taft. Although the corporation tax for this year is not due until June 1, payments are beginning to come into the treasury. About $325,000 was paid in March. The estimated total receipts re-ceipts for the year are $25,000,000. President Taft is requested in a resolution introduced in the house to furnish to congress an explanation of the resignation of David Jayne Hill as embassador to Germany. Prsident Taft's reciprocity agreement agree-ment with Canada, supported by all but a handful of Democrats and opposed op-posed by a majority of the Republicans, Repub-licans, passed the house of representatives repre-sentatives Friday afternoon by a vote of 265 to 89. "Carnegie National Park," to comprise com-prise lands in Arizona, to be set aside as a public park, is proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Hayes of California. The demand of the twelve Republican Repub-lican insurgent senators for recognition recogni-tion as a body in the reorganization of the senate committees is causing trouble to the regular Republicans and delaying the formation , of the committees. FOREIGN An armistice of five cays, beginning at noon Sunday, and affecting the district dis-trict between Juarez and Chihuahua, and west of the latter, has been made effective in an exchange of identical letters signed by General Francisco I. Madero, Jr., for the rebels, and General Gen-eral Juan Navarro for the government. govern-ment. The truce provides there shall be no movement of troops of either side during that time, and that provisions pro-visions and medicines may be brought to either camp from the United States without payment of duty. The German freight and passenger steamer San Nicolas was driven ashore during a gale near Sao Sehas-tiao, Sehas-tiao, -and lies in a dangerous position. The passengers and crew were rescued. res-cued. On the receipt of a report that an illegal meeting was to be held, the police of Vitebsk, Russia, surrounded a synagogue and, identifying 300 of the worshipers, arrested forty on the ground that they did not possess passports. pass-ports. A radical, novel and interesting change of the calendar Is under consideration con-sideration in the British parliament. The author is Robert Pearce, who proposed pro-posed to push the clock on one hour, so that people might have more daylight. day-light. His new scheme is to make 304 days constitute a year and also to make Easter a stationary or fixed holiday. The feeling among the Mexican federal fed-eral forces regarding the participation participa-tion of Americans in ihe insurrection is intense. The federals regard the Americans fighting against them as greater foes than the. natives, and those in authority have sent out notices no-tices warning Americans to keep out of the strife. The steamer Charles Pioza, operating operat-ing between Manila and Corregidor, foundered in a typhoon on Saturday. It is estimated that fifteen persons were drowned. Fishermen rescued a number of the passengers. Twenty persons were killed when a passenger train on the Kowiera railroad rail-road plunged into a rocky gorge 250 feet deep, owing to the collapse of Ihe Blaauwkranlz bridge, thirteen miles from Grahamstown, South Africa. The Rev. C. M. Gordon of Winnipeg, Man., better known as Ralph Connor, the author, lias been chosen chairman chair-man of the board of conciliation appointed ap-pointed to deal with the coal strike in Alberta and British Columbia, where eight thousand men are idle. Emperor Nicholas has conferred the Alexander Nevsky order upon liaron Rosen, the Russian embassador to the United States. A telegram was received in Madrid on Friday saying a native has arrived ar-rived at Tetuan who declares the Moroccan Mo-roccan rebels have stormed Fez and massacred the garrison, and that the sultan has taken refuge in the French consulate. The government's copyright bill lias passed its second reading in lh-British lh-British house of commons. Copyright Copy-right tinder the amended law will run as a general rule during the life of tli 0 author and lii'lyfivo year: after. The delay of the Turkish govern menf in bringing negotiations for an American icc.l profit y concession It' Asia Minor to a conclusion, ha-caused ha-caused the slate department to In struct tho embassy at Constantinople to make another effort to liavo the matter expedited, |