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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN "I am as innocent of the crime as the child unborn," declared Pat Quirk when Judge Donlan asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be imposed upon him for robbing a saloon at Butte. The capital stock of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific railway, the Moffat road, was increased from $20,-000,000 $20,-000,000 to $40,000,000 at a special meeting of stockholders held at Denver. Den-ver. Phillip Verrill . Mighels, the author and playwright, died at Winnemucca, Nevada, October 13, as the result of accidental gunshot wounds, self-inflicted, while the author was hunting near Golconda, Nevada. Joseph Tremayne, aged 6, who started for school, accompanied by his dog, was found three hours later, in a mill pond, near Salt Lake, having hav-ing been drowned. The body was nude when found, and the boy's dog has disappeared. Owen Wister, the author, who is on a hunting trip to Jennie's lake, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, declares that the rumors of his ill health are unfounded, and that he expects soon to leave his Wyoming Wyo-ming ranch for New York. The Idaho State Medical association associa-tion will hold its convention next year in Portland, that city being chosen because of the Washington and Oregon association's conclave there next year under teh head of the Northwest Tri-Medical association. John Henry Smith, second counselor coun-selor to President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church, died at his home in Salt Lake, Friday morning. John Henry Smith was born at Car-bunca, Car-bunca, la., September 18, 1S48. He was the son of the late President Smith and Sarah Ann (Libbay) Smith. DOMESTIC It is reported that George McDer-moth, McDer-moth, his wife and five children, perished per-ished while attempting to drive across the Mojave desert in Inyo county, California, having drank of one of the numerous poison springs in that section. Miguel Otero, territorial treasurer of New Mexico, has resigned. After serving as governor for nine years Otero was appointed territorial treasurer treas-urer and served in that capacity five years. Within two squares of police headquarters head-quarters in Louisville, Ky., a mob seized a negro who had attacked two girls and their mother and he was beaten so badly it is believed he cannot recover. In the cathedral at Baltimore on Sunday, Jamas;, Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore, received homage ho-mage from illustrious prelates and laymen from both this country and foreign lands, the occasion being the ecclesiastical celebration of the cardinal's car-dinal's dual jubilee. Seven people were killed and twenty-one injured, four of them seriously, in a collision between a passenger and freight train near Omaha. A call for the nineteenth annual National Irrigation congress was sent out from Chicago on the 15th. It will be held in Chicago from December Decem-ber 5 to 9. Delegates from each state, city and town in the Union have been invited. A cutter from the flagship California, Califor-nia, containing thirty-live members of the band, was run down by a gasoline launch in San Francisco bay, and one of the bandsmen was drowned. A decision has been rendered in the United States circuit court at Baltimore in favor of the government govern-ment in its dissolution suit against the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company and others in the so-called "bathtub trust." The action was brought under the Sehrman anti-trust law. Gifford Pinchot and Senator Miles Poindexter visited Juneau, Alaska, on the 13th, and at a public meeting gave their views on the development of Alaska. Fire destroyed the Union Pacific roundhouse at Sydney, Neb., causing a loss of 200,000, eight large passenger passen-ger and freight engines being burned. James B. McNamara was placed on trial at Los Angeles on Wednesday for murder. District Attorney John D. Fredericks, for the prosecution, elected to try him for the murder of Charles J. Haggerty, a machinist, who, with twenty other men, met death in an explosion and fire which wrecked the Los Angeles Times building build-ing October 1, 1910. The majority for woman suffrage In California is growing as belated returns come in. It is now assured that the voters have decided in favor of woman suffrage in that state. Making his first appearance since his, defeat of Ilackenschmidt in Chicago, Chi-cago, Frank Gotch, world's champion wrestler, easily won from Padoubuy, of Russia, at Kansas City on the 13th. Complete official returns from 2,877 precincts out of 3,121 in the slate of California give: For woman suf- fragc, 119,8,50; against, 1117,779. Ma-' Ma-' Jorily for suffrage, 2,05L A tornado which struck Ben Davis a village near Indianaiolis, Ind., wrecked thirteen houses and stores injured four persons, one probably fatally and caused damage estimated at $50,000. Ortie E. McManigal, alleged dynamiter dyna-miter and safe blower, whose confession con-fession led to the arrest of the McNamara Mc-Namara brothers on the charge of having blown up the Times building in Los Angeles, was sued for divorce di-vorce on Friday at Chicago by Emma McManigal. There are many women holding elective offices in Kansas. The list totals seventy-four, with the exception excep-tion of Mrs. Ella Wilson, the only woman mayor. Renewals of two wharfage franchises fran-chises for periods of twenty years at Los Angeles harbor is asked in applications appli-cations by the Salt Lake Route to the Los Angeles city council. WASHINGTON Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the supreme court of the United States, often acclaimed the greatest constitutional authority of the day, once a conspicuous figure in national and Kentucky politics and long a leader in Presbyterian church councils, coun-cils, died Saturday, aged 78 years. He has been ill less than a week. A saving estimated at $1,000,000 annually an-nually to the pensioners of the United States and eventually about $180,000 a year to the government, is contemplated contem-plated by a simplified plan for the payment of pensions without vouchers. vouch-ers. An order from Washington, paroling John R. Walsh, the former Chicago banker and railway president, was received at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans., October 14. President Gompers, Vice-President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor have petitioned the district supreme court to dismiss the charges of contempt con-tempt preferred against them by a committee of lawyers appointed by the court last May after the supreme court of the United States had decided decid-ed jail sentences for the labor leaders were illegal because they had been criminally charged in a civil acse. FOREIGN The Chinese government has placed severe restrictions on the telegraph tel-egraph lines, evidently for the purpose pur-pose of preventing communication between the rebels. Hankow is thus cut off from communication with the outside world by telegraph. . The Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Beatrice, running between Vancouver, Prince Rupert and the northern canneries, struck on Noble Island Sunday night and is held fast on the rocks. All the passengers were saved. An earthquake of brief duration, occurred in Sicily on Sunday. The strongest shocks were felt at Giarre, at the east base of Mount Etna, Mac-chia, Mac-chia, Guardia, Roudinelli and Santa Venerina. Jose Pino Suarez without doubt will be vice-president of Mexico. Even if he has failed to get a' majority, there is now no reasonable doubt that the chamber of deputies will name him as Madero's lieutenant, over Francisco Fran-cisco De la Barra, who obtained second sec-ond place in the vote of the electoral college. News was brought by the Empress of Japan that thousands were dying of starvation in Kiang Su, along the Yangtse, fololwing the floods, and the situation was expected to augment aug-ment greatly the spread of the rebellion. re-bellion. Refugees paint a black picture pic-ture of dire distress. The agricultural department states in its monthly report that the lower Egypt crop at September 1 was 11 per cent below the average of the past ten years, while the upper Egypt crop was just up to the average. With $2,000,000 in its treasury and an equal amount subject to call, 35,000 trqops in the field and 130,000 reserves re-serves in the United States and Canada, Can-ada, and with a constitution adopted and administrative officers chosen, the proposed Chung Hwa republic is declared to be making a determined effort to overthrow the Manchu ay-nasty ay-nasty and establish itself as supreme in China. News of the attack of the Turkish Turk-ish infantry upon the Italian outposts at Tripoli has been received with great interest in Rome, because it was the Italian soldiers' baptism of fire after fifteen years of peace. Officials Offi-cials say the young soldiers behaved like veterans. News has just been received of the murder of several Europeans in the South Sea Islands, some of the victims being cooked and eaten by the murderers. Six days late and bringing news of the terrible storm last week off the west coast of Mexico, the steamer Benito Juarez, Captain Francisco Mi-rando, Mi-rando, arrived in San Diego Saturday from Manzanillo. The Duke and Duchess of Con-naught Con-naught landed at Quebec on the 13th, and were greeted with enthusiastic cheers and a salute of twenty-one guns. The emperor of Germany, at his hunting lodge near Eberswald, Prussia, Prus-sia, on Sunday invited Signor Alberto Pansa, Italian embassador, to a conference con-ference on the political situation. The German imperial chancellor also attended. at-tended. Should the royalists win In Portugal, Portu-gal, it is possible that an American girl may some day be queen of that country. The eldest son of Dora Miguel, Mig-uel, Prince Miguel of Braganza, married mar-ried Anita Stewart of New York. Prince Miguel may some day succeed to the throne. |