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Show 1 1 I ! History of Past Week Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN William Erwin of Salt Lake was found by a sheepherder on the desert in southern Nevada and taken to the Los Angeles hospital for medical attention. at-tention. It is believed that Erwin will lose both legs, even if his life is saved, his feet having been frozen. Twenty million dollars will be spent in port improvement work in Seattle during the next five years. Of this sum, $13,500,000 will come from public pub-lic funds, private enterprises contributing con-tributing $6,500,000 more. J. J. Morris, the bandit convicted of murder for shooting J. W. Axtel on the streets of Salt Lake City, must pay the death penalty for his crime, according to a decision of the .supreme .su-preme court. Fred Burnham, formerly of Butte, shot and probably fatally wounded P. P. Lavelle, a former mining "partner, "part-ner, at Goldfield, Nev., and then suicided. sui-cided. A quarrel over a claim owned in partnership in Montana is said to have led to the crime. Four men were killed, one fatally and four seriously injured by a snow-slide snow-slide near Telluride, Colo., while engaged en-gaged in cleaning a former slide from the railroad tracks. That Socialist votes figured largely in the election of George F. Cotterill as mayor of Seattle is showr by a study of the returns. Cotteriu was elected by 6G5 votes over Hiram C. Gill. - . DOMESTIC Edgar K. Jones, a private of the 219th company, coast artillery, was killed by a shot fired by Patrolman John C. Gentile of the Newport, R. I., police, while trying to disperse a crowd. Governor Woodrow Wilson of Xe? Jersey, speaking at a banquet of the Brooklyn league, declared that anyone who spoke of a popular vote of the American people as "mob1' government had no right to call himself an Ameii can. A demonstration against Dr. Francisco Fran-cisco Martinez y' Baca, Mexican con sul in Los Anseles, was made Sunday afternoon at the Plazo. About 601 Mexicans participated. Two young men who ran down and fatally injured Miss Elizabeth Mills with a motorcycle, were caught on the south side in Chicago after they had been pursued for more than a mile Herbert L. Brigeman of New York City, president of the Artie Club ol America, is not surprised at the dis covery of the south pole by Amundsen, Amund-sen, and says he will not be surprised to learn that Scott also has won hit way to the southernmost point. WASHINGTON Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, expects to retire from the duties of his department ithin the next thirty days. The fiftieth anniversary of the historical his-torical battle between the Monitor and the Confederate iron-clad Merrimac was commeniorated at the ' annual banquet of the American society of Naval Engineers in Washington on Saturday. The bill for the government of the Panama canal zone and the operation of the canal was agreed to Saturday by the house committee on interstate commerce. It would give to the president presi-dent authority to fix tolls within certain cer-tain limitations. Owing to the constant reports ol danger from marauding bands of Mexicans Mexi-cans in the Big Bend country of Texas, it has been deemed advisable to strengthen the patrolling force in that section. Champ Clark buttons as big as dinner din-ner plates and bearing the picture of a dejected hound surrounded by the admonition, "You've got to quit kickin' my dawg around," appeared on the floor of the house on Saturday, worn by a number of Democratic members. Stripped of the clause which, it is claimed, would invade the constitutional constitu-tional treaty-making power of the senate and with many other limitations limita-tions added, the gejral arbitration treaties between the tTnited States and Great Britain and France, proposed pro-posed by President Taft and Secretary Secre-tary Knox as forerunners of universal peace, were ratified by the senate Thursday by a vote of 76 to 3. FOREIGN Captain Roald Amundsen's triumph is acknowledged generally in London as being complete and the Norwegian explorer is hailed as the conqueror of the south pole. Many Britons, however, how-ever, for the time being still are clinging cling-ing to the hope that Captain Scott's return may furnish a dramatic climax cli-max to the Antarctic story. A decided improvement in the condition con-dition of Engelbert Huumperdinck, the celebrated German composer, is reported re-ported and his complete recovery now is hoped for. Humperdinck suffered from a nervous breakdown. 1 The lord mayor of Berlin, K. A. Martin Kirschner, who has occupied the position since 1899 and was reelected re-elected for another term last year, has announced his intention of resigning. Six deaths and almost a $1,000,000 fire loss are the result of a blaze which started in the warehouse of the International Harvester company at Winnipeg, Man. Eight thousand soldiers have revolted re-volted at Canton and serious fighting has ensued. All shops in the old and new city of Canton were closed Saturday. Sat-urday. Many persons are reported killed or wounded. Captain Amundsen declares he saw no traces whatever showing that Cap- tain Scott, the British explorer, had been at the pole, but it is possible that he had been there,, and had left some unsubstantial memorial which had afterward been destroyed by the storms. The American secretary of State, Philander C. Knox, and party arrived in the republic of Salvador on Sunday. Sun-day. Miss Suzanne Bernard, a nineteen-year-old aviator, was killed at Elamps, France on Sunday, while undergoing examination lor a pilot's license. She had passed most ol! the tests success-tully, success-tully, when, in attempting a sharp turn to the right, the machine was caught by an eddy and capsized. Four rebel divisions, cautiously ad-: vancing for the crucial trial of strength with the Madero forces, are closing in on Mexico City, according to advices from the Mexican capital. Captain Raould Amundsen tele-' tele-' graphs from Hobart, Tasmania, that j he had succeeded in winuing his way ' to the south pole, arriving at the pole i on December 14, 1911 ! Miss Christabel Pankhurst, suffra- A general advance in the wages of textile operatives in northern Netw England was announced Saturday by various mill interests that have their head offices in boston. More than 125,000 persons are affected. By way of a final hearing before returning re-turning to San Quentin prison, Abe Ruef, former political boss of San Francisco, under a fourteen-year sentence sent-ence for bribery, entertained a party of friends Thursday night at a road-house road-house near San Rafael. A lone robber held up two employees employ-ees of McNati & Smith, a wealthy Irayage firm, in the lumber district in San Francisco, forced them at the point of a pistol to drive him to a secluded se-cluded barn and there robbed them of a $3,000 payroll. About 5,000 persons who gathered at the police station in San Diego on Sunday in anticipation of possible demonstration from nearly 100 prisoners prison-ers accused of violating the street-speaking street-speaking ordinance, were dispersed by streams of water from the city's fire hose. After ten days of negotiations the United Brewery Workers of Milwaukee Milwau-kee on Sunday came to terms with their employers and a strike Was averted. Julius Rosenwald, a capitalist, on Friday paid $2,560,000 in cash for the Columbus Memorial building and the ground on which it stands in Chicago. This is said to be the largest cash real estate deal ever made in that city. That his wife shot him unintentionally unintention-ally while dreaming is the unique theory the-ory said to have been advanced by Eugene H. Grace, who lies critically wounded at Atlanta, Ga., while his wife is in jail. According to a dispatch from Camden, Cam-den, N. J., Andrew Herr, a well known athlete and for many years a life guard on the beach at Atlantic City, sneezed to death at his home there. George Graham Rice and Bernard H. S. Scheftels of the brokerage firm of B. H. Scheftels & Co. of New York, on Thursday pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy and misuse of the mails. Rice was sentenced to a year in jail, while Scheftels goes free. Rounding a curve on a thirty-foot embankment two miles west of West Lebanon, Ind., westbound continental limited train on the Wabash railroad left the rails and rolled down the incline, in-cline, killing five persons and injuring seventy. Mrs. Daisy Grace of Atlanta, Ga., has been arrested on the charge of assault with attempt to murder her young husband, Eugene H. Grace, a prominent building contractor, whj was shot mysteriously at their home. Mrs. Grace declares that she is innocent. inno-cent. Anthracite coal operators in session in New York decided to reject the demands de-mands of the miners for increased pay. A committee was appointed to notify union officials of the result. For the first time in Massachusetts criminal procedure, a woman, Mrs. Lena Cusuamano of Hull, has been sentenced to death in the electric chair by Judge Quinn in the superior court. Mary A. Whiting, an invalid, 75 years old, was asphyxiated in a fire which destroyed the home of her son In Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. pet leader, sought on the charge of inciting to malicious destruction of property in London, has disapeared and thus far has baffled all attempts of the police to trace her. Premier Asquith has invited representatives repre-sentatives of both sides of the coal controversy in England to hold a joint conference "with a view to a free discussion dis-cussion of the whole situation." What the government's proposals are has not been divulged. The possibility is widely discussed of the Manchus taking over the city of Pekin and proclaiming a monarchy again. Chinese papers make this suggestion, sug-gestion, but as no Manchu leader has been forthcoming in the last six months, it seems hardly probable that one now can be found. |