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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed J ' 'I INTER MOUNTAIN Following the arrest of A. A. Allison, Alli-son, an ex-convict of the Oregon penitentiary, pen-itentiary, and W. H. Beeman, on the charge of robbing a high school student stu-dent of $3 at Salem, Ore., the police found in Allison's room a full set of safe cracking tools, which they believe be-lieve he made in the penitentiary. Theodore Roosevelt is the preference prefer-ence of the Republican party in Oregon Ore-gon for president. Clarence Dayton, the Seattle millionaire, mil-lionaire, has begun his sentence of two and one-half years' imprisonment for using the mails to defraud. Henry F. Bragdon, first president of the Goldfield stock exchange, committed com-mitted suicide at his home in Oakland, Oak-land, Cal., by shooting himself under the eye. He was 65 years old and well known among mining men. The body of Mrs. Julia Green, wife of a farmer living near Wellsville, Utah, was found in a small stream Sixty-four bodies have been reco ered by the cable steamer Mackay- Bennett, which has been searching the vicinity of the Titanic disaster, according to a report that reached ' St. John, N. F. I A tornado that followed a path two ; miies long in the vicinity of Waldron, . Kans., brought death to one person and injured eight others. Five persons were robbed of money or valuables or boih, by three masked men who went through the sleeper Nottingham, of the Rock Island westbound west-bound Golden State Limited, a fev minutes after midnight Sunday moru-ing moru-ing at Sheffield, 111. Hundreds of delegates to the Men and Religion congress, who were to have listened to an address by William Wil-liam T. Stead, the English journalist, journal-ist, lost in 'the Titanic disaster, on Friday joined in memorial services for Mr. Stead at Carnegie hall, New York. WASHINGTON President Taft probably will send a warship, soon to the west coast of Mexico to enable Americans isolated in Sinaloa and other states to leave the disturbed districts. A state department de-partment announcement declared this action likely in view of the general anxiety of Americans In those localities. locali-ties. "The popular impression that the Titanic was not following the southern south-ern route when she met disaster oa April 14, is incorrect, says a statement state-ment made public at the hydro-graphic hydro-graphic office of the navy. "Reference "Refer-ence to the pilot chart for April ck h at. the lane for the spring months was the one along which she was moving." Secretary Wilson appeared before the senate fiance commitee last week and said that enough sugar could be grown in North Dakota to supply the United States. He said that if immigrants im-migrants could be diverted . to the country and farmers could produce eighteen to twenty tons of beets per acre,, this country wuld be independent indepen-dent of the tariff and the people would 'be saved $100,000,000 a year. Formal tribute to the Titanic's dead was paid by the house on Friday, Fri-day, when it adjourned until noon Saturday. President Taft will not send a message mes-sage to congress urging special legislation legis-lation to strengthen the present laws regulating supervision of steamships clearing from American ports, it is said, as congress will undoubtedly do so without such request. Senator Rayner . of Maryland on Friday severely arraigned J. Bruce Is-may, Is-may, managing director or the White Star line, who was one of those saved from death when the Titanic went down, picturing Ismay as "the officer primarily responsible for the disaster." FOREIGN Fez, the capital of Morocco, which had practically fallen into the hands of the rioters and mutinous Moorish soldiers, has been recaptured by the French troops numbering 2,000. A report is current that the rebels who entered Culiacan about ten days ago have begun looting the city. The people, the report stated, were facing a famine. According to an announcement made at London, before beginning an attack on the Dardanelles, Italy notified noti-fied the porte that Turkey would, be nan a mue irorn ner nome. n is thought she fell from a foot bridge and was drowned. Work will be begun May 1 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway on the construction of a three-mile three-mile tunnel through the Cascade mountains, according to a report that comes from Seattle. Thomas McGillis, aged 23, was shot and killed by Alfred Sorenson in the latter's jewelry store in Salt Lake. The tragedy was the result of a quarrel quar-rel over a trivial matter. Six feet of snow fell in the Yellowstone Yellow-stone park on the 20th. Five feet covered cov-ered the ground at Gardiner, Mont. The fall is the heaviest in history at this time of year. A debating team from the University Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder, Colo., defeated de-feated a team representing the University Uni-versity of Utah. It was the fifth debate de-bate in eight years between the institutions. in-stitutions. Two masked men dressed as cowboys cow-boys bound and gagged the express agent of the Denver & Rio Grande station at Grand Junction, Colo., and stole $14,000 from the safe. Mrs. J. J. Brown of Denver, one of the survivors of the Titanic, says she was forced to row in the life boat for four hours, and that Mrs. Astor was made to row for two hours James Brady, a wealthy sawmill operator, and his wrife were found dead in their bed at their home in Edmonds, Wash. - Apparently Mrs. Brady had shot her husband and then had committed suicide. DOMESTIC It is reported that 200 persons have been drowned in Bolivar county, Miss., by the flood that swept through that section, when the river dikes broke near Beulah. While coming down the Hudson I rivdr nn ripr hiiQhanrVs hnnt Mrs Wil. responsible for serious consequences if she persisted in closing the Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. The Allen line steamer Virginiah arrived Sunday at Liverpool. Captain Gambell was unable to throw any light on the messages sent broadcast broad-cast that the Virginian had the Titanic Ti-tanic in tow. Demands have been made on the rebel authorities at Chihuahua by American Consul Letcher for the immediate im-mediate release of two Americans imprisoned im-prisoned there. The men have been in confinement since March 16. Thirty French instructors have been assassinated by revolting Moroccan Mo-roccan troops, according to a dispatch from Fez. French reinforcements from West Mekinez are attempting to restore order. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor,, mother of Vincent Astor, has decided to proceed j to New York to be with her son. She I will 'sail at the earliest possible mo-I mo-I ment. A statement addressed to the American Am-erican people giving the grievances of the engineers and conductors who struck on the Mexican National railway rail-way lines, declares the Americans preferred to walk out rather than be forced out by a policy of "Mexico for Mexicans." Rebels and federals In the vicinity of Jiminez are showing no indications of a desire to clash, and it is now impossible to predict when the bat-ile bat-ile which recently seemed imminent, liam H. Hull was blown overboard and drowned. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest of the Titanic to the officer of-ficer on the doomed ship's bridge fifteen fif-teen minutes before she struck, according ac-cording to Thomas Whitely, a first saloon sa-loon steward. Thirteen men, two Americans and eleven Mexicans, who were implicated implicat-ed in the Reyes revolution, began sentences in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans., a few days ago. They were convicted of smuggling arms. Fifteen persons were injured, four probably fatally, at Bison, Kans., a town of 400, when a tornado struck the place. The freight, steamer El Stid of the Southern Pacific line and the passenger passen-ger boat Denver pf the Mallory line crashed together in a dense fog off the Galveston bar. Two lives were lost, those of deckhands, who were knocked overboard. Mrs. Ida Hippach and her. daughter, daugh-ter, Jean, survivors of the wreck of the Titanic, who arrived at. (heir Chicago Chi-cago home, have, in an interview, said they were saved by Colonel John Jacob Astor. Chester Smith, who for seven years was an attorney in Buffalo, N. Y., walked into the morgue of an undertaking under-taking parlor at Los Angeles and shot himself through the heart. He died met :in tl V. will take place. Latest advices from Fez to the foreign for-eign office in Paris indicate that the French troops are gradually placing the 'city under control. They have lost ten men killed in the street fighting. fight-ing. Italy and Russia have reached an agreement under the terms of which Italy will support Russian policies in the Balkans, while Russia will recognize rec-ognize Italian sovereignly in Tripoli. The relief funds which" have been opened at London for the relief of those in distress by the disaster to the Titanic now amount to $250,000. Nathan Straus is dangerously il! in Rome, and fears for his recovery are entertained. Mr. Straus collapsed when he learned that his brother, Isi dor, was among the missing on the Titanic's passenger lisl. The body of Mrs. M. U. Scuehler. said to have heen a woaKhy woman of St. Louis. Mo., was found in th-ocean th-ocean at Santa Monica, Cal. She had suicided. Thirty-two persons were killed, half a score were injured so severely they may die, and 150 others were hurt in two tornadoes which swept over southern Illinois in one instance and across northern Illinois and Indiana in tha other just before sunset Sunday. Sun-day. Miss Julia Carter, popular in exclusively exclu-sively society circles in Philadelphia Is dead from inhalfing gas in her apartments. Ofthe .3.423 bags of mail in the hold "of tlie Titanic about 200 bagt. contained registered matter. V : |