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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If! CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. i INTERMOUNTAIN Farmers and stock growers of northern Montana presented a petition peti-tion to tue senate last week, favoring the Canadian reciprocity bill. The posse has returned to Rigby, Idaho, from the chase of the desperado desper-ado who shot Conductor Kldd and ; wounded three other men, without apprehending ap-prehending him. They report that the bandit has succeeded in getting into the rough mountain country on the Wyoming-Idaho line and cannot very well be captured now. They report that he will be picked up in the near future when he Is least expecting ex-pecting it after he comes out of hiding. Frank Harold Henwood, slayer ot George E. Copeland of Victor, Colo., a well-known mining man who was shot accidentally by Henwood when the latter 'fired upon and killed Sylvester Syl-vester L. Von Phul, the amateur balloonist bal-loonist of St. Louis, at Denver, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree. The penalty is from ten years to life in the penitentiary. A heavy rain obliterated all trails of the robbers who held up the northbound north-bound Southern Pacific Oregon express ex-press train in Cow Creek canyon In Oregon, and it is believed the robbers rob-bers made good their escape. As a Southern Pacific passenger train was pulling out of West Fork, Ore., Wednesday night, three robbers brought the train to a halt. They ran the engine and express, baggage and mail cars four miles up the track, where, after rifling the registered mail and attempting to blow up the safe in the express car, they left the cars and made their escape. Death by hanging or shooting, according ac-cording to his choice, Is the penalty that J. J. Morris must pay for taking the life of J. W. Axtsll on the evening of May 9 at Salt Lake City, while making a desperate attempt to escape after he and his partner, John Murray, Mur-ray, had held up and robsbd a pawn shop. Morris says he will choose hanging. DOMESTIC Using a pick and crowbar to pry open the vault, robbers broke into the state bank of. Biars, at Biars, Okla., obtained $4,000 and escaped. Pacific coast senators have requested re-quested President Taft to detail Dr. George W. McCoy of the public health and marine hospital service to aid the Harvard research laboratory at Shanghai, China, in the investigation investiga-tion of diseases prevalent in the Orient which at times threaten the Pacific coast. Every member of a labor union in this country is to be asked to contribute con-tribute 25 cents toward the defense of John J. and James B. McNamara, charged with dynamiting outrages in Los Angeles. A fast mail and passenger train on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad was held up five miles from Erie, Pa., by twelve masked men. The mail and express cars were rifled and C. H. Block of Erie, mail clerk; H. D. Rooney of Erie, conductor, and C. F. Bemis, brakeman, were injured. J. B. Reichmp.n, former president of the Carnegie Trust company, convicted con-victed of making a false report to the state banking department, has been sentenced to serve four and one-half months in the penitentiary. Edward J. Canficld, a bridge worker, has been arrested at Vancouver. Vancou-ver. B. C, charged with an alleged murder in Dickinson, N. D. Two lives were lost when the steel excursion steamship Spokane of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, bound from Seattle on a twelve-day cruise of southeastern Alaska, struck Ripple rock in Seymour narrows, B. C, 125 miles north of Vancouver. That the lumber interests are the only organized opponents to reciprocity reciproc-ity with Canada is the opinion of Benjamin Ben-jamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, who has completed com-pleted a trip of several thousand miles alone; the northern boundary of the United States in making a study of the situation. The federal grand jury at New York City has returned nine indictments against that number of pools alleged to be operating as the so-called wire trust. Accused of killing Emil Amann at Warren, Pa., on January 27 last, Mrs. Stella Hodge of that place hai made a confession, declaring the killing was accidental. John M. Andrews of Warren War-ren a few days ago was convicted of murdering Amann, despite his vigorous vigor-ous protestations of innocence of the crime. A dispatch from Wilmington, N. C, says that as a result of an accident on a tram road four men were instantly in-stantly killed and another man seriously seri-ously wounded. Thrse of the victims are Italians. Leaping from a blazing gasoline launch into the waters of Conomo-woc Conomo-woc lake, in Wisconsin, to escape the flames. Miss Pauline Alexander, daughter of Lewis M. Alexander of Milwaukee, was drowned. For stealing a bouquet of flowers ' from a woman on the street in Wichita, Wich-ita, Kans., Vincent McArtin has been given an indeterminate sentence of from one to twenty-one years. Crazed by heat, Mrs. Maude Mc-Crary Mc-Crary of Los Angeles, Cal., killed her three small children and ended her own hie at Lockney, Texas. Governor Johnson of California has received information from the state department at Washington that one of the two fugitves who have been sought for complicity in the dynamite diaster of October 1, 1910, is now un-. der arrest in England. Robert Swazey, a Canadian, was burned at the stake by Mexican bandits ban-dits near Fort Sumner, N. M., June 15, according to a letter received at Shawnee, Okla., from Mrs. Emma Bingham formerly of that city, and mother-in-law of the dead man. WASHINGTON The total reserve held by 7277 national na-tional banks at the close of business on June 7, date of the last call by the comptroller of the currency, was $1,478,140,795, an average of 22.10 per cent, and $121,879,815 above the amount required to be held by law. Restriction of compction is declared declar-ed to have been the prime object of the organizers of the United States Steel corporation which, capitalized at $1,402,000,000, had tangible property prop-erty worth only $682,000,000. President Taft has announced the appointment of Philander Claxton, professor pro-fessor of education at the University of Tennessee, as commissioner of education, succeeding Elmer Brown, resigned. The Supreme court of the United States has issued an order to the attorney at-torney general, directing him to instruct in-struct the lower courts to carry out the supreme court's decison providing provid-ing for the dissolution "of the American Ameri-can Tobacco company. Senator Borah of Idaho has been assured by General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, that Boise barracks will not be abandoned, but will be continued contin-ued as a cavalry post. The senate committee on o?nsus agreed to report the congressional reapportionment re-apportionment bill without amending it, providing for 433 representatives. The bill provides for forty-two representatives repre-sentatives ov-er the present number, and was framed so as to prevent a decrease of the membership from any state. FOREIGN A St. Petersburg paper criticises the outcome of the Washington seal conference and questions the right of Canada to participate. It says that Canada, not possessing seal breeding grounds, could be regarded as a joint possessor with the United States only because, the latter conceded to the Dominion one-fifth of the American Ameri-can yearly catch. King George on Friday issued a message of thanks to his subjects throughout the empire for the loyalty loyal-ty expressed during the coronation period. His majesty says it has encouraged en-couraged him to go forward with the renewed hope that whatever perplexities per-plexities and difficulties may arise he and his people shall unite in facing them and that the ultimate outcome will be to the common good. The candidacy of General Geroni-I Geroni-I mo Trevino for the presidency of j Mexico has been formally launched j through the establishment of a Mex-! Mex-! ican paper in San Antonio, Texas. Special Embassador John Hays Hammond and Mrs. Hammond were guests of honor on Friday of the Society So-ciety of American Women in London at a luncheon given at the Cecil hotel, ho-tel, London. t The impression created by the visit of the American battleships to Kiel is most favorable. The German papers pa-pers generally have commented upon up-on the correct behavior and fine appearance ap-pearance of the American sailors and found the battleships interesting. For the second time in its brief history Idialorod City, Alaska, was nearly destroyed by . 11 re when, following fol-lowing the explosion of a gasoline lamp, a city block between Willow street and Front street, on the river, was burned, entailing a loss of $100,-000. $100,-000. Leaving on the Mexican border a military force adequate to meet any emergency that might arise, President Presi-dent Tat't has authorized the withdrawal with-drawal from the maneuver division of four regiments of infantry. It has just been learned that French troops under command of General Moinier occupied Mekines, thirty-four miles southwest of Fez, the southern capital, on June 24. Mexico has extended for thirty days the order admitting corn free. Anticipating restoration of duly July 1, 200 cars of corn were being carried car-ried to the border when news of the extension was received. It is officially stated that while the Eucharist procession was passing through Calle Mayor, one of Madrid's greatest thoroughfares, last week, a bomb was exploded in a side street. No one was injured. One arrest was made. Four Americans have been murdered murder-ed by Moros in Mindanao, one of the largest of the Philippine islands. Prospectors Pros-pectors named Oyler and Vexesboses were murdered n ar Camp Overton. A plantation owner named McGill was killed by robbers at Pan tar, while Private Michaelis of the Twenty first infantry was killed at Parang. |