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Show History of Fast Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Four persons were injured, one probably fatally, when an interurban car on the Denver & Interurban railroad rail-road struck an automobile a mile east of L'ldorado Springs, Colo. William M. Rampton, aged 30, shot himself through the heart following a celebration of his birthday in Salt Lake City. Financial difficulties and unrequited love is given as the cause. Seven persons were injured, one probably fatally, when an automobile driven by V. A. Briggs and carrying a party of friends, ran into another machine ma-chine driven by Henry Mayagonet. a chauffeur, at Seattle. The Standard Gilsonite and Asphalt-um Asphalt-um company of Utah and Colorado lias begun proceedings before the interstate in-terstate commerce commission against the Uintah Railway company, and what it terms the asphalt trust. One man is supposed to have perished, per-ished, and another man is missing as the result of a fire at Portland, Ore., which destroyed $1)00,000 worth of property Drought in the northwest is seriously serious-ly affecting the cattlemen, threatening threaten-ing them with great loss and possibly financial ruin. The lack of grain and a scourge of grasshoppers is causing no end of worry in Montana. Mayor Fawcett of Tacoma was seriously seri-ously Injured in an elevator accident, being thrown from the passenger platform plat-form to the freight platform Ijelow, being injured about the head and neck. The governor of Colorado has called a special session of the lgisla-ture lgisla-ture to meet August 9, to consider legislation promised by the Democrats Demo-crats at the last election. Sheriff Bickle of Great Falls. Mont., had a narrow escape from death on a train near Fort Benton, Mont., when some one fired a rifle shot through the car window, the bullet passing within with-in an inch of his head. William Seemet, aged 36. cut his throat while attending a prayer service ser-vice at a Seattle church. A letter from his father at Corvallis, Ore., was found in his pocket, urging the son to hurry home, as the father feared he could not live long. Colonel Roosevelt is to be the guest of the Denver Press club at a cowboy cow-boy breakfast to be given in his honor hon-or on August 29. The breakfast will be the old-fashioned chuck-wagon kind, and several famous cooks skilled in that style of cooking have been engaged. en-gaged. DOMESTIC. T. E. Mulvhill and Patrick Haley were possibly fatally shot, several other men were seriously injured, and a ten-coach excursion train was wrecked by a mob in a riot at Columbia Colum-bia park on the Santa Fe railroad west of Chicayo. Richard J. Comiskey, who Jack Johnson says is his secretary, was bounced out of the champion's car as it took a sharp curve in the theatrical district of New York City, and his left leg was broken. Accusing his wife of bestowing upon him a "Judas kiss" and of instigating i his arrest as a fugitive, William Lyons took his own life by hanging himself with his leather belt in his cell in a poliqe station in Washington. The counting of the strike vote tak- i en by the Grand Trunk and Central Vermont conductors and trainmen was concluded Sunday, and according to Vice President Murdock of the trainmen train-men it shows that of the 3,000 votes cast on the Grand Trunk and 350 on the Central Vermont, less than fifty men voted against a strike. Sixteen of the practitioners who were identified with and supported Mrs. Agusta Stetson in her contro-1 versy with the First Church of Christ Scientist, in New York City, have been dropped from membership by the board of directors of the mother church in Boston. E. H. Dyer, "father of the sugar beet industry," who established the first plant in this country for the manufacture of sugar from sugar j beets, is dead at Alvardo, Cal., at the I age of SS. ! Louis Carpenter, a farmer near Se-! dalia, Mo., was struck by lightning during a small sued tornado which passed over that section of the country, coun-try, and rendered unconscious, but has since recoverd. i One of the effects of prohibition in ! Tennessee is a 200 per cent increase j in money orders paid at Hopkinsville. i Ky.. postoffice in the last year. ! William Kelso. William Cook and James Gordon, all of Jersey City, were drowned in Esopus creek near Saug-ertis, Saug-ertis, N. Y. With Thomas Hopkins chey had been camping. Just after leaving a stag dinner on the eve of his wedding Edward T. Elter, a young merchant of Reedley, j Cal., sent a bullet crashing through his brain and dropped dead. There is no known cause for the suicide. Heavy rains, accompanied by violent thunder and linghtning, caused a num-i ber of minor washouts at Bisbee, Ariz., j and did other minor damage. j Mrs. Joseph Dellorens. aged 20 years, wife of the Spanish consul at Gulfport, Miss., was drowned, and several sev-eral oilier members of the yachting party of which she was one were rescued res-cued with difficulty, while bathing at Ship Island. Temperatures over Oklahoma Sunday Sun-day varied from 98 to 103. Three men died in McAlester from the heat and four others were stricken down at their work. Engineer Decamp was instantly killed killed, Fireman Percy -Hamilton fatally scalded and Fireman Nagle severely se-verely injured when the engine drawing draw-ing a southbound Frisco passenger train went into the ditch one mile west of Tolar, Texas. William Wurster, Jr., a 19-year-old boy, has been arrested at Zanesville, O., charged with murder in the first degree de-gree in connection with the lynching of Carl Etherington. the "dry" detc-tive, detc-tive, at Newark, recently. Clyde Evans and wife were dangerously danger-ously injured near Burnswick, Mo., when a barn in which they had sought refuge from a tornado was wrecked. Six members of the Dittman family were injured when their home was wrecked. WASHINGTON. The 'United States is beginning to supply for its use fruits and nuts which a few years ago were practically practical-ly all imported. This applies particularly partic-ularly to such fruits as oranges, prunes and raisins. Bananas, figs, walnuts, cocoanuts and almonds are still largely imported. Developments in the Porter Charlton Charl-ton extradition case are expected at the state, department this week, following fol-lowing the receipt from Rome of the formal application for the removal of tihe young American to Italy from America Am-erica for trial on the charge of having murdered his wife at Lake Coimo. With the purpose of contributing to the development of northwestern California, Cali-fornia, the department of agriculture has offered to sell about one billion feet of timber in the Trinity national forest in that state. Nearly 25,000 of the immigrants who arrived at U. S. ports during the fiscal year ended June 30 last were denied de-nied admission by the immigration officials and were compelled to return to the countries from which they came. Personal strife among the officers of the United States marine corps on Friday reached a climax when the navy department, as a result of a court of inquiry, sent letters of censure to nearly all the officers concerned. The drought conditions in the west are reflected in the increased demand for irrigated lands, according to Director Di-rector Newell of the reclamation service. ser-vice. It is expected that the Ohio Republican Repub-lican state platform, to be adopted at the Columhus convention, July 26 to 28, will contain a ringing indorsement of the entire Taft administration and the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. FOREIGN. To race with the British expedition under Captain Scott to the south pole, a Japanese sailing vessel of 200 tons, carrying Lieutenant Shirase and the Japanese expedition to the Antarctic, will leave Tokio bay on August 1. Dr. Lawrence Burgheim of Houston, Texas, is held a prisoner by the Ma-driz Ma-driz forces at Bluefields. The report is that Dr. Burgheim had been compelled com-pelled to treat the wounded at Blue-fields Blue-fields Bluff. An annual deficit of $9.89 in the cost of living of families of wage-earners and salaried persons in Germany was revealed in an investigation by the imperial statistical officers of that country, according to a report in the possession of the department of commerce com-merce and labor. Fetes were held at Dieppe, France, on Sunday, in celebration of the tercentenary ter-centenary of the town. Admiral Du-quesne Du-quesne opened the pageant, which represented rep-resented the civie reception to the hero of 1676, Admiral Duquesne, who defeated the Dutch admiral, de Buy-ter, Buy-ter, off the coast of Sicily. Two sisters, Alice and Emma Kitch-ing, Kitch-ing, aged 16 and 10, were drowned on Sunday in Beaver creek, near Hanley, Sask., while bathing. The father of Oscar Arbsloeh, who was killed on July 13 when the benzine ben-zine tank of the dirigible balloon Erb-sloeh Erb-sloeh exploded, died from apoplexy at Saleng Rhemish, Prussia, at his son's funeral. The apoplectic stroke was brought on from shock following the aeronaut's tragic death. The Portugues gunboat Patria uc July 11 dislodged the Chinese from the fort on Cowan island. Many wero killed during the bombardment, and when two junks loaded with Chinese attempted to escape the vessels were sunk and all on board drowned. Secretary of War Dickinson was the guest of Foreign Minister Count Ko-mura Ko-mura at a dinner given in Tokio on July 15, the dinner being a brilliant affair, eighty persons being present. Count Komura declared there is no danger of trouble arising between Japan Ja-pan and the United States which can not be settled through the channels oi diplomacy. William Pittman, an American captured cap-tured by the Madriz forces near Blue-fields, Blue-fields, has been found by Consul Olivares in a filthy prison at Managua, Mana-gua, starving, as the prison olficials furnished no food, and he was dependent depend-ent upon passers-by for food. He has been moved to a more sanitary prison and the consul will be allowed to furnish fur-nish him with food. Notice of the termination of commercial com-mercial treaties one year hence have been dispatched from Tokio to European Euro-pean countries, including Great Britain. |