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Show r- History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Three miners were killed, nine others overcome by fumes of burning powder, and a rescue party had a close call to death, due to an explosion which occurred in the Opex mine at Mammoth, Utah. The miners were loading the holes when the explosion occurred. Thomas Riley has been convicted of the murder at Salt Lake City of George W. Fassell, a grocer. The shooting occured when Riley and two other men were robbing Fassell's grocery gro-cery store. Three masked men held up an Oregon Short Line passenger train 3ix miles north of Ogden, early Monday Mon-day morning, securing about $500 from the passengers. Because Pedro Pareda insisted upon operating an automatic musical device at Canfield, Colo., when others wished to sleep, he is now dead. Tony Pareda, Pare-da, not a relative, became involved in an argument with Pedro on the subject and the latter was fatally stabbed in the neck with a case knife. The fifteenth annual convention of the Montana State Epworth league, .he largest religious gathering of reg-alarly reg-alarly elected delegates ever held in Montana, convened in Anaconda on Tune 23 for a four days' session. The nortnern portion of Montana ivas visited by a drenching rain last week just in time to relieve what has ippeared to be a grave crop outlook. Six women jurors tried a civil case it Hans Peak, Colo., last week. This s believed to have been' the first jury 5f women that ever sat in a court of record in the United States. Ex-Governor McGraw of Washing-ion Washing-ion is dead at Seattle from typhoid "ever, at the age of 60. He served as governor of Washington from f893 to 1897. Willard Thompson, accused of being 1 partner wi:h Wil'iam Bringhurst, convicted of a number of robberies in Utah, has been arrested at Butte. 3ringhurst is now serving a sentence tor his crimes. The Denver & Rio Grande depot at Price, Utah, burned to the ground on Tune 22. It was a frame structure and the estimated loss is between $1,500 ind $2,000. DOMESTIC. Three bandits shot and killed Thos. Uindregan, a merchant, at Lynn, Mass., and fatally wounded a police-nan, police-nan, when they attempted to take a jag from Landregan that contained f5,000. A posse captured two of the robbers and the third suicided when ae saw escape was impossible. The submarine boats Grampus and Pike, conveyed by the supply ship Justin and the tug Fortune, arrived safely at Santa Barbara from San Francisco. This is said to be the longest voyage ever made by a submarine sub-marine under its own power. Seven men are believed to have seen lost in a storm which swept Cook inlet. The men set out in a lory when the water was extremely rough. With 1,500 excursionists on board, he Acme Packet company's steamer I. S. caught fire :n the Mississippi river between Genoa and Victory, Wis., and three lives were lost. Hoval A. Smith, chairman of the Arizona territorial central committee, las resigned, it is said, to become a :andidate for senator from the new state. Friends of Smith say that le has resigned, but deny that he has senatorial aspirations. Kingdon Gould, eldest son of George 5ould, demonstrated the value of his experience in the railroad shopc one lay ast week, when the eng-.ne pull-vng pull-vng the train on which he was riding Droke down. Young Gould repaired :he engine after the engineer had given it up as a bad job. , State Senator "Big Tim" Sullivan, stakeholder for the Jeffries-Johnson fight, says there ij no basis for the stories that the championship fight is 'fixed.' The Americans interested in the long and bitter fight waged by rival (nterests and German newspapers igainst the Deutsche Vacuum Oil company, com-pany, one of the branches of the Standard Oil company, have just scored a big victory, the public prosecutor, prose-cutor, after a thorough investigation having decided that no necessity exists ex-ists fo action by his office against the concern. Robert Allen, aged 16 years, shot and killed James Holland, a farmer, at Alma. Ark., after Holland shot Allen's Al-len's 14-year-old brother. Two firemen were injured and eight employees escaped by jumping from windows into the river when fire attacked at-tacked the plant of the Gieiss Pfleger Tanning company in Chicago. A jury in the district court at Mullen, Mul-len, Neb., returned a verdict acquit-r'ng acquit-r'ng Harry G. Mclntyre of the murder of Oscar F. Hamilton, the aged lawyer and labor agent Judson Harmon was renominated for governor of Ohio and endorsed for the presidency of the United States by the Democratic state convenaon at 1 Dayton. 1 I In trying to make the "double drc;" J from a height of 1,UU0 feet, George Taylor, a young Philadelphia areonaut 1 fell several hundred feet, hanging I from a disabled parachute and was 1 picked up unconscious, but not fatally j injured, at Beleville, N. J. Following an altercation with Nava- ' jo Indians near Farmington, N. M., Richard Wetherill, a rancher, was shot and killed by Navajo braves. The Indians who did the shooting have surrendered. William Krug, vice-president and general manager of the Fred Krtfg Brewing company of Omaha, was killed kill-ed and three others were injured as the result of an automobile collision in Omaha. The wholesale prices for refined oil have been reduced from one and one-half one-half cents to one cent a gallon by the Standard Oil company, making the prevailing price throughout the country coun-try now seven and one-half cents a gallon. The Standard controls more than seventy per cent of the refined output of the country. WASHINGTON. The energies of the forest service are being directed in large measure to reforesting millions of acres of land which have been denuded by fires. During the past spring ten tons of seed were sown and many trees transplanted trans-planted on burned areas. The United States government will have a half dozen representatives at the international aviation tournament, tourna-ment, which will be held on Long Island in the fall. Following the tournament, tour-nament, congress will be asked to appropriate ap-propriate $1,000,000 to build and equip an airship fleet. A valuable national asset is described de-scribed in a bulletin isued by the department de-partment of agriculture and prepared by Professor W. M. W'aggaman. It is a scientific review of the phosphate fields of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, which are described as "one of the largest phosphate areas at present known in the world." The closing session of the sixty-first congress was held Saturday, Vice-President Vice-President Sherman and Speaker Cannon Can-non announcing adjournment shortly before midnight. President Taft expresses ex-presses himself as well satisfied with the work of congress, while Speaker Cannon pays the work of the session was the best in thirty-five years. The enumeration ,of the Indian population pop-ulation will be a feature of the thirteenth thir-teenth census. It is calculated by officials offi-cials of the census bureau that ten years hence all the redmen will have become citizens and consequently this is the last time the census will be taken showing their tribal relations. rela-tions. The senate committee appointed to investigate the causes for the increased in-creased cost of living has submitted its report, the Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic members disagreeing, two reports re-ports being Submitted. Many different differ-ent causes are found to contribute to :he high prices of living. The Ballingr-Finchot investigating committee has adjourned to meet in Minneapolis on September 5, when an effort will be made to agree on a report. re-port. FOREIGN. Following the request of King Manuel Man-uel of Portugal, Don Antonio Teix-eira Teix-eira de Sousa; the ex-minister of finance, has formed a new cabinet. King George is asserting himself to the full extent of the royal prerogative preroga-tive to bring about an agreement in the conference between the chiefs of the rival parties as to the future of the house of lords as a legislative body. Two brides were made widows a few hours after the wedding ceremonies ceremo-nies were performed in the penitentiary peniten-tiary at Valla'.odid, Yucatan, on Saturday, Sat-urday, when their husbands faced a firing squad selected to execute them, in accordance with sentences passed upon them after trial by the war department de-partment for sedition and murder. England is facing a meat famine. Already ..he prices of all kinds of meat have gone so high that it is beyond be-yond the reach of the poorer classes, and there is no relief in sight. The Transvaal government and the mines have jointly offered $25,000 for the discovery of a hand-drill to enable white miners to discard -native assistance. assist-ance. The result of the competition will he the encouragement of white labor i-n the mines. News of a dramatic suicide has been received at Ziuich. A man at present rot identified, but who is said to be Engl'sh or American, having placed himself on the brink of a precipice of the Rigi, shot himself through the head, falling into the depths below. An ingenious plan for the reform of !the calendar is proposed by Mr. Rein-' inghaus of Zurich. He suggests dividing divid-ing the vcar into twelve months of twenty-eight nays, one half month following fol-lowing the first six months and the other the second six months. Peru has accepted the suggestions of the United States, Brazil and Argentine, Ar-gentine, the mediators in the dispute between Peru and Ecuador over the boundary li.v. The 15,000 volunteers who had been mobilized on the frontier fron-tier have been recalled. The Lake Camo, Italy, trunk mur der mystery has been solved. Portei Charlton, an American youth of good family, has confessed to murdering his wife, during a quarrel, placing hei body in a trunk and sinking it in trie lake. He was arrested when he arrived ar-rived at New York and confessed. The recent action of the Prussian diet in increasing the civil list approximately approx-imately $5.0CO,000 a year gives the German emperor the second largest income of any Futopean ruler. The jzar of Russia, with a civil list of $S,-500,000, $S,-500,000, leads them all. I |