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Show History of Fast Week i The News Happenings of Seven. Days Paragraphed V " INTERMOUNTAIN Returning with her five little children, chil-dren, the youngest a baby in arms, from the first day's outing she has enjoyed in three years, Mrs. Robert Warring of Butte lost her five-year-old girl Susan by death when an in- I bound Columbia Gardens car left the track, hurling the little girl to the ground. Ten thousand elk from the Jackson ! Hole country are to be shipped to I Colorado and distributed over that state, the railroads having agree.l to transport the animals free of charge. The serious difficulty of providing for the animals in Jackson Hole during the winter months makes it urgent to change their quarters. Frank M. Wilson, in jail in Denver, has made a full and complete confession confes-sion to the robbery of the Ove'rland Limited train at Reese, Utah, the evening of Janaury 2, when William Davis and A. N. Taylor, negro porters, por-ters, were shot to death and more than 100 passengers robbed of their valuables. The other two men engaged en-gaged in the robbery, he says, were Joseph Collins of Omaha, and R. M. Roberts of Mullen, Neb. The "Union Pacific Railroad company com-pany has issued orders closing down the shops at Cheyenne all day every Saturday and making the other five days eight hours instead of nine-hour days. DOMESTIC Plans for President Taft's coming trip through the west and the Pacific coast practically are completed. The journey will be almost as extensive as that taken by the president on his famous fa-mous "swing-around-the-circla" in 1909, when he traveled more than 13,-000 13,-000 miles and visited thirty-three states. The fifty-seventh annual convention of the International Typographical union ended at San Francisco Saturday, Satur-day, after the administration wing, which favors a liberal policy in dealing deal-ing with employers, and the avoidance avoid-ance of strikes so far as possible, bad been sustained in every issue coming before the convention. At the office of the general manager man-ager of the Union .Pacific at Omaha the information has been given out that 2,500 employes of that road will be laid off during the week. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was placed on trial for his life at Richmond, Va., on Monday, on a charge of having killed his wife,. The "other woman in the case," Buelah Binford, is expected expect-ed to tell all she knows and great interest in-terest has been aroused in advance of her recital. Lieutenant Whittler, executive officer of-ficer of the United States revenue cutter Androscoggin, died Sunday at the reilef hospital in Boston of injuries in-juries sustained at the hands of thugs Saturday night. F. H. Martin of Stockton, Cal., was instantly killed and five other persons were seriously injured in an automobile automo-bile accident near Lafayette, Cal., when the machine went over a thirty-foot embankment. "Cy" Young, the veteran pitcher who was unconditionally released by the Cleveland American league club several days ago, has reported to the Boston club of the National league. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, sees in the present labor crisis in England a revolutionary movement which will result infighting labor conditions in that country. Prospecting for oil In Valencia and McKinley counties, New Mexico, where oil wells were recently found, a party found an immense deposit of fine asphaltum believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States. A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., ot San Francisco. Since their marriage tne Roosevelts have made their home in San Francisco, where Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt is engaged in business. A windstorm and cloudburst demolished demol-ished the Commercial hotel and sev-eral sev-eral other buildings at Winkleman, Arizona. Officers of the national conservation congress, to be held at "ansns City next fall, gradually are moving their headquarters to that cit; Thiee men, one of whom t:ie authorities author-ities assert was a leader or the mob, have been arrested at Coaiesv:ile Pa., charged with murder in connection with the burning to death of Zach-ariah Zach-ariah S. Walker, Sunday niat. From behind the bars in Sing Sing, Captain Feter C. Hams, Jr.. army officer of-ficer and inventor, has begun his battle bat-tle for freedom against his beautiful wife, Claudia Hains, for love of whom he shot and killed his former friend'; William L. Annis, nt the Bay Side Yacht club three years ago. An old well at the former home of E. E. Hesse at Tecumseh, Xeb., has been opened by direction of Sheri.T Roberts of Johnson county and two decomposed bodies, believed to be those of Hesse's wife and daughter, were found. Hesse has disappeared. A full confession of all the details of the lynching of Zach Walker, the negro salver of Special Policeman Edgar Ed-gar Rice, has been wrung from Joseph Schwartz, 23 years old, who is employed em-ployed in Worth Brothers' mill at Coatesville, Pa. Schwartz has been charged with murder. Twelve men were buried under hundreds of tons of earth, stones and debris in a cave-in which occurred at the Buffalo and Susquehanna Open Pit mine at Hibbing, Mich. A considerable number of the employes em-ployes of the Southern Pacific Railroad company will be dropped temporarily from the company's payrolls September Septem-ber 1, according to advice from San Francisco. It is persistently reported that the wedding of Colonel Astor and Miss Force will take place on the colonel's yacht at an early date. WASHINGTON A summing up of the results of the extra session of congress shows that Canadian reciprocity was broug'.it as near reality as the executive and legislative leg-islative departments could advance it, statehood was assured for New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona; campaign publicity legislation was enacted in a form satisfactory to its most earnest advocates; advo-cates; provision was made for an enlarged house of representatives based on the latest ;census, and a few j other measures of minor importance were passed. Presidetn Taft has issued orders that the bones of all enLstcd men recovered re-covered from the battleship Ma'iis be . brought from Havana to the United States on a. battleshipe. Yielding to the insistence of President Presi-dent Taft that the new constitution of Arizona should not contain a provision provis-ion providing for a recall of judges, there was rushed through the house on Saturday a new resolution providing provid-ing for the admission of Arizona and New Mexico with directions to omit the judiciary recall from its organic law. The vote was practically unanimous. unan-imous. A bill introduced by Senator La Follette specifies that whenever a combination, trust or conspiracy is shown to exist, the burden of proof that the combination is not unreasonable unreason-able shall rest on the party who contends con-tends that the restraint is reasonable. The house failed to override the president's veto of the wool measure. On motion to pass the wool measure over the veto, there were 227 affirmative affirma-tive votes, twenty-two of them insurgent insur-gent Republicans and one independent independ-ent Republican, while the negative votes were 129. Attorney Genearl Wickersham, former for-mer Speaker Cannon, Representative Mann of Illinois, Republican leader of the house, and several other Republican Repub-lican members of congress had a narrow nar-row escape while on a train Friday night when their special car, traveling travel-ing at high speed, ran down a cow. FOREIGN The railway strike in England has been settled and all the men ordered back to work. So far as technical advantage ad-vantage in the compromise goes, it appears to be in the men's favor, particularly par-ticularly as the managers consent to meet their representatives. Congress has declared that Emilio Estrada has been legally elected president pres-ident of Ecuador by a plurality ot more than 100,000 votes over General Flavio Alfaro. Estrada will assume office on August 31. The election campaign has gained full headway throughout Ontario, the great industrial province of Canada, by the visit of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. the premier, and R. L. Borden, the opposition leader. On all sides it is now recognized that reciprocity is the issue. An election was held throughout the state of Chihuahau on Sunday foi the state ticket. It is evident that Abraham Gonzales, the present provisional pro-visional governor, is elected with all his ticket. Prosecution for violation of ths hours of service act faces officials oi the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Sault Ste Marie railroad as a. result of an acci ednt near Superior, Wis., on July 5 1911, in which four employees were killed and two injured. The crew hau been on duty eighteen hours and fiftj minutes. Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern the most prominent co stars in tht theatrical world, were married ir. London last week. Thirty army officers were poisoned at their mess dinner at Torres Novar, Spain, apparently from arsenit Prompt use of stomach pumps save, the lives of all. It is thought re venge was the motive Tor the act. Hawaii's Chinese population fell of during the last decade, but this dc crease was met by the great increas n the nuv.iber of Japanese, accorai:;. j preliminary figures made public b. .he census office. 1 President-elect Cincinnatus Lec.o-.it ; n Thursday at Port au Prince, toe i the oath of office before congress ar. ! a great assembly that included all tin j high officials of the new government In government circles at Mexicc Ci'-y it is no longer denied that th. government has on its hands anothc-! anothc-! revolution. The movement begun b. Emiliano Zapata's men has gain : t such headway that it can be stoppe J apparently only by the use of the j army. i News has just been received of th death in Germany of Major Ienr : Reid Kathbone. v.-ho w-as a militar; : aid to President Lincoln, and who, ii attempting to defend the president oi the night he was assassinated, re j ceived a stab wound from Booth. |