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Show History of Fast Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER-MOUNTAIN. Mothers are the real conservation-its conservation-its of I his country, Miss Klizabeth Harrison, president of the Chicago kindergarten committee, told the National Na-tional Congress of Mothers' convention conven-tion at its session in Denver. She advised them to study psychology, better to equip themselves for their outies In this direction. An automobile driven ,by Alexander Mackel, a Butte attorney, and containing contain-ing three well-known young women, turned turtle on the Butte and Anaconda Ana-conda road Sunday afternoon. All three of the women were seriously injured. Henry Miller and Andrew Frilliski, two 1 4-year-old Chicago boys, who ran away, they said, to become bandit hunters, were arrested at Golden, Colo., wliile trying to purchase firearm., fire-arm., Grief over the death of her son, William Hogg, a former pitcher of the New York baseball team, is held largely responsible for the death, at Pueblo, of Mrs. Addie Hogg. Every building in the town of Hahn's Peak, Colo., with the exception excep-tion of the court house, was destroyed by lire which originated in the court house. Merl Kissinger, a boy , employed as a tram tender at a mine near Canon City, Colo., has his thumb caught in - . the running gear of the aerial tram and was carried 100 feet in the air. When the thumb pulled loose he fell to the ground and was fatally injured. The Colorado anti-coercion law, enacted en-acted twenty years ago, which provides pro-vides that no employer shall discharge dis-charge any employee because he belongs be-longs to a labor union or attends labor meetings, has been declared invalid in-valid by Judge Sullivan of Mesa county. Attiring himself in an entirely new outfit of clothes, an unknown man ' suicided in a park at Denver, taking carbolic acid, his body being discovered discov-ered by a party of women seeking a cool spot for a picnic. In five minutes one day last week, three Leadville, Colo., miners took out of their lease on a mine over $12,000, 35 per cent of which belonged be-longed to them and 65 per cent to the mining company. Fire on the water front in Seattle on June 10 caused a loss of a million dollars, the flames sweeping over ten blocks. DOMESTIC. Clyde Heckle, an 18-year-old Lin- - coin (Neb.) boy, made a terrifying 6,000-foot balloon ascension Sunday evening, clinging for a part of the time to the clutch rope of the aircraft. air-craft. He landed half an hour from the start in the middle of a shallow lake at a summer resort near Lincoln. Lin-coln. Armed with two revolvers and a dagger, Frank Nunamaker, a former convict, entered a church at Louisville, Louis-ville, Ohio, where a Roumanian christening chris-tening was taking place, and shot three men, one of whom will die. At all the Indian reservations through the west, carloads of farming implements of the most modern type will begin to arrive this week. Expert Ex-pert farmers in the employ of the Indian In-dian service will soon begin making visits to the agencies instructing the Indians how to use the implements. Three Polish miners were killed by After a nine-day chase over a tra, tracked by bloodhounds, John Hcd nett, an ex-convict, who escaped fruu; the county ail at San Luis Obiespo Cal., June 3, was captured Sui day it Santiago, Cat, sixty-five miles fron Bakerslield. Charles R. Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining company and Ernest W. Gerbracht, former su perintendent of the Brooklyn refinery have been convicted of the charge ol conspiracy to defraud the government govern-ment of customs duties on sugar Heike may be imprisoned two years and fined $10,000, while Gerbracht can be sentenced to twelve years' Imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. Two hundred and seventeen dol lars in cash, a diamond ring and several sev-eral other trinkets was all that re warded the cold-blooded daring of a lone robber, who held up a passenger train near El Paso, Texas. WASHINGTON. The treasury department has taken steps to increase the supply of small bills, for which there always is a heavy demand during the fa'.l months. Especially is this the case with the one and two-dollar denominations, their Issue being limited to silver certificates. cer-tificates. Beginning with September, 1908, there has been an increase in wholesale whole-sale dry goods prices without a break up to March 1, 1910, and during the latter months prices were higher than during the preceding twenty years, according to a report issued by the bureau of labor. More than a million dollars has been paid into the treasury this year on account of the corporation tax. Twenty-seven million dollars have been levied against the corporations of the country. The tax is payable on or before June 30. The first concerted step towards suppressing graft in all its forms throughout the country will be taken during the week, when the organization organiza-tion whose future name probably will be the "National Anti-Graft Movement," Move-ment," will open offices in Washington. Washing-ton. By a vote of 195 to 101 the house passed the postal savings bank bill as recently agreed npon by the Republican Republi-can caucus of the house. Not a single sin-gle Republican voted against the measure, while twenty-four Democrats Demo-crats .voted with the majority. A complete vindication of Commissioner Commis-sioner Fred Dennett of the general land office of all the charges of reckless reck-less expendituress brought against him by Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska, a Democrat, will be the report re-port of the majority of the house com1 mittee on interior department expenses. ex-penses. The Canadian government has indicated in-dicated to the secretary of stat;e its desire to take up as early as possible the subject of the negotiation of a trade treaty with the United States. FOREIGN. Five more bodies have been removed re-moved from the French submarine Pluviose. ' These include the body of Commander Callot, who was found dead at. his post, his hands clutching the periscope. Henry T. Gage of California, the new American minister .to Portugal, on June 12 presented his credentials to King Manuel, who received him cordially. Officers Marconnett and Feguent of the French army aviation corps on Friday flew from Chalons Sur Marne to the gates of Paris, a distance of 105.6 miles, in 2 hours and 50 minutes min-utes without a stop. Frey, the German aeronaut, while making a flight at Buda Pest, lost control of his biplane, which dashed into the grandstand. Six women were injured, two of them probably fatally. Frey was not hurt. The captain general has approved of the sentence of six years' imprisonment imprison-ment imposed on the teacher of a lay school' at Granoliers, Spain, who was sentenced by court-martial for insult-ine insult-ine the armv. a cave-in at me l-iomer mine, near Nelson, B. C. With semi-official returns in from every county in the state of Iowa, both the progressives and stand-patters are claiming control of the state convention, August 3. Representatives of the railways east of Chicago and north of the Ohio river, at a conference in Washington, decided that the advanced freight rates would be filed as effective August 1, pending the enactment of the railroad bill now - in conference. Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford, of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, the "Woman in the Case" of Charles L. Warriner, now in the Ohio penitentiary for embezzling $643,000 iroin the Big Four road, has become insane and will be committed to a pr'vate institution. Jules Robinson, an important witness wit-ness in the night rider cases at Princeton, Ky., was assasinated from ambush on a farm near Otter Pond, Ky. Unrequited love is believed to have prompted Frank L. Campbell to slay Miss Lena Hansen and kill himself at Chicago. According to a story printed in a Memphis paper, evidence tending to show that more than $100,000 worth of cotton was stolen from railroads in the season of 190S-09, is now in the possession of the Shelby county grand jury. Negro dray drivers are said to have been used as tools by prominent men. F. W. Dubbs, a farmer near Lisbon, O.. had battle with an infuriated bull, and with one arm broken managed to climb into a tree. After the animal was driven off it was found that Dubbs had died in the tree. Germany has a 12-year-old royal hero in the little Hereditary Grand Duke Nicholas of Oldenburg, who rescued his aunt, the Grand Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, from death by drowning. William P. Pittman, the American engineer, who was captured some days ago by the Madriz forces in Nicaragua Nic-aragua while operating mines under the direction of Estrada, is reported to be well and is treated with consideration. consid-eration. There is high authority for the saying that Queen Alexandra of England Eng-land will make her permanent residence resi-dence in Denmark after a short time. Her majesty always has been very fond of her childhood home and is one of the most popular of the royalties with the Danish people. French politicians are worried over the increased strength of the Socialists Social-ists in the new chamber. They now have a block of seventy-five members, and with a prospective split among the Republicans over the presidency, they may be found holding the balance of power. Danish athlettes are still celebrating celebrat-ing their recent victory over a British football team . in a game played at Copenhagen. It is the first time on record that a visiting team of English footballists has been beaten on the continent. The floods iu Norway, Sweden and Lapland have been more destructive this spring than for many years. The warm weather has melted the mountain moun-tain snows to a degree which has made the streams raging torrents, destroying de-stroying a great deal of propsrty, and several lives being lost. j |