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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEIT3 EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM. Home and Foreign New Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepr-vd for Buty Men. INTERMOUNTAIN Richard Townley, a retired naval officer, of-ficer, and one time state comptroller of Nebraska, accidentally shot ami killed himself in New York City while cleaning a gun preparatory to a hum-in hum-in ? trip.- Robhers Monday night broke into he express car of a Santa Fe train that runs between Bakesheld and Taft. Cal. beat the messenger into insensibility insensi-bility and escaped with $20,000 in gold coin. William E. Clements, who shot and killed William Landis, a meihant, who admitted killing Clement s mother, moth-er, was acquitted of murder by a Jury at Redding, Cal. A sequel to a frustrated plot to kidnap kid-nap a young woman a week ago was the killing in New York on Saturday of Salvatore Tripodo, who rescued her from four men whn were about tn carry her off in a taxicab. A woman was a passenger aboard the United States battleship Kansas which, with other vessels of Admiral Fletcher's fleet, arrived in Galveston harbor Friday from New Orleans. SKe was dressed in men's clothing and was hidden in the bunkers. WASHINGTON Radical changes in patent office procedure pro-cedure were recommended to congress Monday in a special report by the economy and efficiency commission, commis-sion, transmitted by President Taftt. The house has sustained the appropriations appro-priations committee and passed die legislative appropriation bill without . any provision for the assay offices at Salt Lake, Helena, Carson City and Boise. Trusts would not be able to collect through the courts a single penny of debts due them. if the supreme court upholds the contention made in a case brought before it on Monday. Despite President Taft's vigorous disapproval in his message to congress of the pending b'.U proposing immediate imme-diate autonomy for the Philippines and absolute independence in eight years, several prominent Democrats are preparing pre-paring for its consideration in the house. It is said that President-elect Wilson has declined to accept President Taft's offer to place at his disposal one of the navy's big battleships to make a trip to the Panama canal zone, pleading lack of time. Benjamin Gilbert and Albert T. Teachout, the two youths charged with robbing the'Globe Express company's com-pany's office at Grand Junction. Colo., of $14,000, pleaded not guilty, in the district court Monday morning. They have employed attorneys and will stand trial. William J. Westerfield, former state senator and treasurer of Nevada, died at San Leandro, Cal., where he had been living for some time. Ernest Lister, Democrat, was elected elect-ed governor of Washington over Governor Gov-ernor Marion E. Hay, Republican, by plurality of 622 votes, according to the figures announced by the secretary secre-tary of state. Sir Thomas Lipton told 600 members mem-bers of the Denver Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and Real Estate exchange before be-fore his departure that the James Peak tunnel should be built or that some other method should be devised to shorten the distance and establish direct communication with Salt Lake and the coast. Heavy snows and extreme cold have driven packs of gray wolves out of the timber Into the vicinity of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and many cattle are falling victims to their attacks. at-tacks. Cattlemen have offered bounties boun-ties for wolf scalps. Sardio Summerfield, Progressive candidate for United States senator in Nevada, filed his expense account with the secretary of state last week, showing an expenditure In the general gen-eral election of $60 and an aggregate expenditure of $468.50 for the primary pri-mary and general election. . DOMESTIC A gun of fourteen-inch caliber, of fifty tons weight, the largest and newest new-est type built by the United States government, at a cost of $130,000, exploded ex-ploded at the Sandy Hook proving grounds Monday. While the explosion of smaller guns has taken scores of lives, the big fourteen-inch blew to pieces without causing a scratch to the men around. An investigation is to be made of the alleged confession at San Francisco Fran-cisco last week of John Derr, an apprentice ap-prentice seaman in the United States navy, that he killed William Barkis, a wealthy recluse, whose dead body was found near Atchison, Kans., three years ago. A strike of all the car repairers on the Chicago & Alton system is threatened as the result of the discharge of two men employed in the car department at Springfield, 111. Nine men are belieyed to have been killed when a snowslide on Copper mountain in Alaska, carried away several sev-eral buildings of the Great Northern Development company. Eleven men were buried under the avalanche and only two have been removed alive. The Blue Funnel liner Bellorophou sailed from Yokahama for Tacoma on Monday, bringing what is said to be the largest shipment of raw silk ever to cross the Pacifia, valued at $2,075,-000. $2,075,-000. Changed commercial relations between be-tween the southern states and Central and South American countries that will develop with the completion of the Panama canal, are being discussed dis-cussed at Atlanta, Ga., at a conference of diplomats, railroad and leading southern manufacturers. The government's suit to recover $500,000 alleged proceeds from the Savannah Sa-vannah harbor frauds of 1897 from Col. John F. Gaynor and members of his family has just been compromised by the payment of $125,000. Joseph Pattons, a grocer, was shot and killed as he lay in his bed in his room adjoining his store in Wichita, Kans., and his wife is under suspicion. John Rutger Blanten, for twenty-nine- years consul general from the Netherlands, died Sunday at his home in Brooklyn, of heart trouble, aged 77. At the governors' convention at Richmond, Va., a resolution was passed censuring Governor . Cole S. Blease of South Carolina for his advocacy ad-vocacy of lynch law, and his declaration declar-ation that the constitution of South Carolina "could go to hell." Charles A. Sherman, 60 years old, a delicatessen storekeeper, was shot and probably fatally wounded by one of three automobile bandits in Chicago Chi-cago after a determined resistance by the aged man, in which he had dis-Xned dis-Xned one of the robbers. ibert J. P. Widney, a prominent Angeles real estate dealer, is in Jjspital in San Francisco suffering fwm a bullet wound that may prove fatal,--and Mrs. Frances V. Lyons is a prisoner in the city jail as the result re-sult of..ne shooting. 3-0 11 tract for the building of the cav!ol at Salt Lake has been let, the successful bidder agreeing to erect the structure for $1,106,000. EleveniJead and five seriously Injured In-jured -v wreck score as a result ,y collision o&""a railroad 'Me, O. Chinese students and others entitled to entry to the United States are 'reated with contumely and disrespect, according to Dr. Ting T. Wong, chairman chair-man of the Chinese Boxer indemnity fund, in an address at Washington. The landslide of 1912; how it happened hap-pened and the futility of an attempt to reorganize the "G. O. P." on the old lines, were the themes upon which played the wit and humor of the Gridiron Grid-iron club at the annual fall dinner in Washington Saturday night. FOREIGN Important changes have taken place in the Austro-Huugarian war department. depart-ment. General Auffenberg, the minister min-ister of war, resigned Monday. General Gen-eral Krobatin, under secretary in the war office, has been appointed bis successor. suc-cessor. That the Standard Oil company aided aid-ed the Madero revolution was the charge made by Rouque Gonzales Garza in a speech in the Mexican chamber of deputies Monday night. It was reported at Paris Monday that the entire Austrian fleet had concentrated con-centrated at Pola, the chief naval station sta-tion of Austro-Rungary. A rumor is current in London that the Irish crown jewels which were mysteriously stolen from Dublin castle in 1907, have been as mysteriously replaced re-placed intact in their original position Two weeks have elapsed since the beginning of the trial of the 106 Koreans Ko-reans charged with conspiring against the life of Count Teratichi, the Japanese Japan-ese governor general, and only half the prisoners have undergone direct examination. Gustav Brunin, under arrest at Winnipeg, Win-nipeg, Man., has confessed to absconding abscond-ing wi'h a quarter of a million marks from the Dresdner bank of Berlin, Germany, Ger-many, June 26. Bruning was employed em-ployed as a bank messenger. himperor Nicholas and members of the imperial, family are greatly upset by the determination of the emperor's only brother, Grand Duke Michel An-drovitch An-drovitch definitely to renounce his lights of succession to the throne. Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, is believed to be on his v.ay to take the cure at one of the German baths. Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish embassador embas-sador at London, has declined .0 act as a delegate in the coming peace negotiations, ne-gotiations, owing to ill health. A dispatch to the London Times says it is understood that the Chinese minister of finance has practically settled set-tled with the six-power group the outlines out-lines of an agreement for a loan not exceeding $125,000,000. The police of Vancouver. B. C., are searching for a masked robber who went through a sleeping car on the Canadian Pacific railway's eastbound Imperial Limited as it left Vancouver and held up the conductor and all the passengers. Owing to the refusal of the -governor of Scutari to accept notification of the armistice communicated through the German minister, hostilities hostili-ties continue, according to a Cettinje dispatch to the London Times. The provisional president of the republic, re-public, Mgr. Noel, archbishop of San Domingo, has appointed a new cabinet. It has become known that the insults in-sults at Prisrend to the Austrian consul con-sul and the flag were of an extraordinary extraordi-nary nature and that adequate humiliating humil-iating satisfaction will bo asked from Servia. |