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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Qlobe and Given In a Few Lines, INTER MOUNTAIN Clarence Dayton Hillman, the multimillionaire mul-timillionaire real estate dealer of Seattle, convicted cf having used the mails to defraud and sentenced to thirty months' Imprisonment, has been released from McNeil's island penitentiary, peni-tentiary, having served less than ten months. His sentence was commuted by President Taft to one year. Henry Weiss, general manager of the Mexican Pacific company, a Seattle corporation, is supposed to have been killed in the fighting in the City of Mexico. Sidney Sutherland, special correspondent corres-pondent for the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, was wounded Saturday by a shell that crashed through Porter's hotel at Mexico City. Suit has been filed in the United States district court rit Cheyenne by the government contesting title to lands held by the Mid-West Oil company. com-pany. Contestants claim the patents were fraudulently obtained by filings made on land temporarily withdrawn from entry September 27, 1909, and later made permanent by act of congress. con-gress. By a vote of two to one, the voters of the city and county of Denver decided de-cided for commission form of government gov-ernment by charter amendment rather 1 than by the charter convention plan. Declaring that he had killed a Mexican Mex-ican in southeastern Wyoming last Bummer and wished to be taken back to answer the charge, a man giving his name as W. B. Poer, walked into the police station at Billings, Mont., and gave himself into custody. DOMESTIC Confessions giving details to the plot which ended in the murder of "Deacon Ed" Callahan in Breathitt county a year ago were made Monday Mon-day by three of the men alleged to have been implicated and who are in Jail at Winchester, Ky. Cipriano Castro's right to remain in the United States as a visitor will be decided by the United States supreme court, to which the government will appeal directly from the decision of United States District Judge Ward overruling Secretary Nagel's order for Castro's exclusion. The first move of the New Jersey corporations to avoid the drastic pro-visions pro-visions of the seven anti-trust laws fathered iby Governor Wilson was made Monday when the American Railways company, owner of the street railway and other plants in various va-rious parts of the country, took out a Delaware charter George Parkins, aged 34, shot and killed his wife at Winnipeg, Man. He then turned the weapon on himself and Is dying in a local hospital. Jealousy is said to have 'been the cause. Jaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras," died Monday in his one-room eahin, which he built with his own hands in the Piedmont hills in California Cali-fornia many years ago. His daughter, Juanita Miller, and his wife were with him. Representatives of the striking rubber rub-ber workers and of the companies involved in-volved were called before the members mem-bers of the Ohio state board of arbitration arbi-tration at Akron, on Saturday to state their grievances and endeavor to come to an amicable settlement. After a visit of three weeks at the ranch near Phoenix, Ariz., of Mrs. Marshall's Mar-shall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Evimsey, Vice-President-elect Thomas a. Marshall left Saturday for Indianapolis. Indianap-olis. : After a rapid-fire grilling that lasted seven hours, Robert Webb, automobile bandit, broke down and confessed to the killing of Detective Peter Halt of the Fiftieth street station, Chicago. Divers at work on the Dreadnaught Arkansas in Guantanamo harbor have been unable to find the extent of damage dam-age suffered as a result of her grounding ground-ing on a coral head off Caimemara. . A 'man who gave the name of D. R. Leeper attempted to hold up and rob sixteen men on the street near the union .tation in Kansas City. He was unable to keep all of them under eye, and after emptying his revolver at those who attempted to escape, he took to his own heels with the men he had attempted to rob in pursuit. Leeper was finally captured. The mystery surrounding the theft of $200,000 in American currency in Havana, Cuba, last September has been solved, four men accused of the crime are under arrest in Havana, and one of them has confessed, according to a cablegram received by the St. Louis police from Havana. By the blowing up of an engine on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad rail-road at Provo, S. D., Engineer S. F. (''Santa Fe") Johnson, Fireman George Wheeler and Brakeman Sun-Btrom, Sun-Btrom, all of Alliance, were instantly killed. The battleship Connecticut, whict ' has been in dry dock at the New York navy yard, was floated, provisioned and manned in eight hours Monday and was ready to sail for Guantanamo, Cuba, at 6:30 Tuesday morning. An examination of former Representative Repre-sentative Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, in connection with the Standard Stand-ard Oil correspondence disclosing letters let-ters between him and John D. Arch-bold, Arch-bold, is to be made by the senate committee com-mittee at Franklin. Pa. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent superinten-dent of the Chicago public schools, has resigned as a member of the state board of education. Her resignation was not due to politics she said. Mrs. Julia A. Hill, who claimed to have been Abraham Lincoln's housekeeper house-keeper when Lincoln was practicing law in Springfield, 111., before his election elec-tion to the presidency, is dead at Jersey Jer-sey City, N. J. She was 101 years eleven months and one day old, according accord-ing to her relatives. She was a colored col-ored woman and born in slavery. Maine is reported to be in a critical condition from paralysis, with which he was stricken Sunday. He will be 77 years of age next June. Former Senator Eugene Hale ol WASHINGTON An increase of nearly $3,000,000 in the annual post office appropriation bill was made by the senate commit tee on postoffices, which reported the measure to the senate on Monday. The total asked for support of the postal service for the year ia $283,487,442. The Sundry Civil bill reported ta the house on Monday carries $20,000 on a continuing contract for Salt Lake's federal building and $15,000 foi Brigham City. Pocatello is given $50,-000 $50,-000 and Idaho Falls $38,0t0. Memorial services were held in the house of representatives on Sunday for the late Representative W. W. Wedenieyer of Ann Arbor, Mich.; John G. McHenry of Benton, Pa., and Richard Rich-ard Connell of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,. and Senator George S. Nixon of Reno, Nev. A high record in "trust busting" is being established in the closing days of President Taft's administration. Attorney At-torney General Wickershaim and James A. Fowler, his assistant, the "trust buster" of the department of justice, filed four civil trust suits last week and two similar suits in the preceding week. Representative Moore of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania (has been advised by Secretary Knox that Robert Ward of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, seized by eight armed Mexicans at Parrel and held for $5,000 ransom, was liberated on February 4. Mexican Mexi-can troops are pursuing his former captors. Admiral Dewey's dog bit William T. Johnsonlast July. Johnson has sued the admiral for $20,000. The pup Was in charge of the admiral's coachman, so Johnson made him a defendant, too. FOREIGN The Portuguese government has decided de-cided to refer all questions regarding the property of religious congregations, congrega-tions, seized under the law separating the church and state, to The Hague tribunal for settlement. Lieutenant Mittner of the Austrian army, while making a trial flight in a new aeroplane at Vienna, fell from a a height of 300 feet and was killed. Dr. Friederich Fried'mann, the discoverer dis-coverer of the alleged infallible cure for tuberculosis, is booked to sail this week from New York on the Krou Princezzin Cecilie. He will submit a sample of the serum to a test to be made by the American government. The lord mayor of London has issued is-sued a fresh appeal to the public on behalf of the fund that Is being raised for a memorial to Captain Scott and his comrades who died on the expedition expedi-tion to the south pole, owing to the small amount of the donations thus far received. The second Norwegian expedition sent to the relief of the German scientists scien-tists stranded in a remote part of Spitzbergeh has not succeeded in its undertaking. It left1 Advent bay late in January, 'but was forced to return to Green harbor in a pitiable condition, condi-tion, i The Tiro General mine, one of the largest properties of the American Smelting & Refining company, twenty-two twenty-two 'miles from Gharcas, in San Luis Potosi state, Mexico, has been completely com-pletely looted by bandits. Carl J. Link, wounded in a fight at the Tiro General mine in Mexico, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Link of Denver1, and a graduate of the Colorado Colo-rado school of mines. The German aviator Lenk was killed, at Leipsic, Germany, while attempting a gliding flight from a height of 2,400 feet. His aeroplane toppled over in midair. Five officers of the steamer Christiana Chris-tiana were drowned when their vessel sank after being cut down at night by the steamer Galata during a dense fog off Borkum. The Christiana foundered found-ered three minutes after the collision. The danger of a rupture among the great European powers over the Balkan imbroglio has not yet passed. Xo progress is being made by the ambassadors at their conferences toward to-ward reconciling the widely divergent views of Austria-Hungary and Prussia regarding the boundaries of Albania. That relations between Austria-Hungary and Russia are in a dangerous state of tension was again indicated Saturday by an alarmist editorial published pub-lished by the Reichspost, the organ ol the Austro-Hungarian heir apparent Achduke Franz Ferdinand. |
