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Show History of Past Week i . TKc News Happenings of ' Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN The town of Ronan, Mont., on what 'ormerly was a part of the Flathead ndian reservation, was almost entire-y entire-y destroyed by a fire that started in l garage. The loss is estimated at learly $500,000. In a quarrel over a card game at Tekoa, Wash., Patrick Collins was (truck on the head with a revolver by 'Curley" Gardner and fatally injured. Deputy Sheriff William Estep of Col-lax Col-lax and Town Marshal Grant Dickson )f Tekoa went to the saloon to sum-non sum-non witnesses. As they entered the loor, Palouse Gardner, a brother of 'Curley," opened fire with a rifle, kill-ng kill-ng both officers. He then fired a bul-et bul-et into his brain. Plunging over an embankment after &e driver had lost control of the ma-I ma-I ihine, a large touring car crashed ;hrough the eight-inch brick wall of Paul Kemmeyer's home at Ogden, Utah, and injured Jennie Kemmeyer, i 3-year-old child, so seriously that leath may result. William Shakespeare Fuelling was nstantly killed and H. G. Wade fa-ally fa-ally injured by the explosion of a ;awmill engine near Kamas, Utah. Vade died of his injuries at a hospital. hospit-al. His wife was also seriously inured. in-ured. Congressman Stanton Warburton of Tacoma, elected two years ago from he Second Washington district as a iepublican, has announced his cana:-lacy cana:-lacy for re-election as a Progressive. An hour before the time set for his sxecution at Salem, Ore., H. B. Rob-srts, Rob-srts, convicted of the murder of Don-ild Don-ild M. Stewart of Portland, was rieved by Governor West The mountain peak formerly known is Mt. Baldy, northeast of Spokane, ivhich in former times served as a neeting place for Indian tribes of the lorthwest, was rechristened Mt. Spo-tane Spo-tane on Friday. The ceremonies vere attended by Governor M. E. Hay, Mayor W. J. Hindley of Spokane, 'representatives 'rep-resentatives of the State Historical society and officers of civic bodies of Spokane vThe management of the Oregon Short Line railroad has received authority au-thority for an expenditure of $1,750,-000, $1,750,-000, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, for general improvements improve-ments along the line in Idaho. DOMESTIC Governor Hrima W. Johnson on Saturday bade farewell to his political associates at San. Francisco, preparatory prepara-tory to a stumping tour of thirty-fivo days through the east while Colonel Roosevelt is touring the west. Swinton Permenter, son of a Mississippi Mis-sissippi planter, charged wtih the mui-der mui-der of Miss Janie Sharp, whose body was found on her father's plantation two years ago, was acquitted at Winona, Wi-nona, Miss. He was convicted on his first trial, but secured a reversal. All of the twelve superior court judges of Los Angeles county have refused re-fused to preside at the second trial ot Clarence S. Darrow, the Chicago lawyer, law-yer, chaiged with jury bribery in his handling of the MacNamara trial. Theodore Roosevelt on September 2 will, take an early train for his west ern trip, which he expects will last about six weeks. This week he wih spend three days campaigning in Vermont. Three persons were killed and seven others injured by lightning which accompanied a severe electrical electri-cal storm which visited St. Louis and vicinity. Beginning September 10, full publicity pub-licity will be given to contributions to the Democratic national campaign fund, Josephus Daniels, head of the publicity department, announced Saturday Sat-urday That a wife ' may with imp(mity beat her husband's affinity was the opinion expressed by a Baltimore justice jus-tice in the case of the wife of John Sameho. She was charged with assaulting as-saulting and beating Victoria Szy-manski, Szy-manski, to whom, according to the evidence, he paid attention during the absence of his wife in Poland. Four members of the family of Jefferson Jef-ferson Ruhlo, a road worker, wert killed by lightning, which struck the tent which they were living in at De-sota, De-sota, Mo. Jose Aramandez, a Mexican, is deao at Los Angeles as the result of having tried to relieve an attack of acute stomach trouble by performing an operation upon himself with a butch-erknife. butch-erknife. Five million dollars to establish institutions in-stitutions for the benefit of its members mem-bers was voted by the Loyal Order of Moose in sessioa at Kansas City. Anna Held, the actress, has obtained obtain-ed an interlocutory decree of divorce from her husband, Florence Ziegfield, the theatrical manager. Runring sixty-five miles an hour to make up lost time, the Missouri Pacific Pa-cific "Colorado express" No. 3, westbound, west-bound, went into a ditch near Osa-watomie, Osa-watomie, Kans. oBth engines were wrecked, the mail and baggage cars telescoped but no one was killed. An American who has just reached El Paso from Chihuahua, says that at the present time no woman is safe in the state of Sonora and cites the case Aiiere twenty-three young Mexican girls of good families were carried away by the rebels udner Rojas. John Helmberger and John Farley, the 10-year-old boys of Kansas City, who confessed to having killed and buried 4-year-old Joe Timmerman, aave been released on $3,000 bail. In a freight train wreck on the Atchison, At-chison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway near Mesilla Park, N. M., Louis Vaugh, a railway fireman, was killed and two other lives lost. Mrs. Florence Bernstein, on trial at Chicago, was found not guilty of murdering her husband, George Bernstein, Bern-stein, last May 4. The jury was out twenty-five hours. WASHINGTON President Taft signed the Panama canal bill Saturday. Following this he sent to congress a memorandum suggesting sug-gesting the advisabiilty of the passage pas-sage of a resolution whieh would declare de-clare that this measure was not considered con-sidered by this government a violation viola-tion of the treaty provisions regarding regard-ing the canal. President Taft has vetoed the Coosa river bill. The bill was to give to the Alabama Power company the right i to build a dam across the Coc(sa river seven miles abovev Wetumpka, Ala. Acting under the authority of the postoffice appropriation bill enacted Saturday, Postmaster General Hitch cock has directed the expenditure of almost $1,000,000 in promoting clerks' and carriers in first and second-class postoffices and assistant postmasters. It is believed that Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt will take the stand within a few days before the senate subcommittee investigating campaign expenditures, to answer the charges made by John D. 'Archbold that Mr. Roosevelt had knowledge Of the use of Standard Oil money in his campaign of 1904. A countervailing duty on importations importa-tions of wheat and rye, flour and split peas from Germany has been ordered by Secretary aMcVeagh because those commodities enjoy a bounty from the German government. FOREIGN On Satudray London was entirely cut off from telegraphic communication communica-tion with therest of the country and with the continent and for a time connection with America was severed as the result of a fierce fire in the general, postoffice,, where the central telegraph office is located. A fearful accident, which brought death by drowning to at least foui-teen foui-teen persons and placed the lives ot 1,000 others in imminent peril, took place at Binz, a bathing resort on the island of Rugen. The disaster was due to the sudden collapse of an overcrowded over-crowded landing stage known as the "Prince Henry bridge." Most of the London newspapers printed articles in which regret is expressed ex-pressed that President Taft signed the Panama canal bill, and they unite in declaring that the British government govern-ment will fail in its duty if it omits to insist that the matter be referred to The Hague. All around Torreon, Mexico, the telephone tel-ephone poles are decorated with dead men, murdered by the soldiers, and at Rialo last week twenty-three bodies were hanging at one time. The massacres by Turks have extended ex-tended to the Servian frontier. Telegrams Tele-grams received from Sienithoa, on the southern boundary, says Turks attacked at-tacked the town and butchered many of the inhabitants. x President Yuan Shi Kai and Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provisional president of the republic, dined together Sunday at Pekin and later held a conference lasting several hours, during which the political situation was thoroughly discussed. Four Italians, masked and carrying automatic revolvers, robbed the Cedar Ce-dar Cottage branch of the Bank of Hamilton 'at Vancouver, B. C. Acting Governor Gilbert and party have left Mindanao to inspect. In the rich Cottabata valley a site for proposed pro-posed huge rice plantations to be owned by the government. The forcible feeding of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, the suffragettes serving terms of five years each at Dublin, continue. The lord lieutenant of Ireland refuses to grant a petition for their release. Dabajon, the border" town in Sat Domingo which has been a strategic point since the outbreak of the insurrection insur-rection there, has been retaken by government forces. The Suez Canal company declares that it is a mistake to imagine that a reduction of 10 cents a ton on the Suez canal dues is in any way connected con-nected with the Panama canal. The directors of the Suez Canal company have not, they say, even thought of reprisals against the Panama canal. Nearly the entire detachment of 500 Xicaraguan troops, comprising the garrison of the city of Leon to the north of Managua, was slain in a massacre by a force of insurgents. Yo Shihito the new emperor of Japan, has completed the formalities connected with his accession to the throne. The concluding function was the reading by the premier of a special spe-cial imperial edict to the diet on Friday. Fri-day. "Kid" McCoy (Norman Selby), the American boxer, was discharged from custody by the magistrate of the extradition ex-tradition court at Bow street, London, ( i on Thursday. He was arrested July 2l! I on a provisional extradition warrant charging him with larceny alleged to I have been committed at Ostent. |