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Show i iii ' History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I' 1 INTERMOUNTAIN Following a report from the state veterinarian that scabies is prevalent among Wyoming sheep. Governor Edwin Ed-win L. Norris of Mantana has issued a proclamation . establishing state Quarantine against Wyoming sheep. In northern Montana cattle are suffering suf-fering because of the heavy snow, which prevents their reaching the food beneath. William X Bryan addressed a men's meeting of Spokane on Sunday, Sun-day, confining himself to religious topics. Charges that the payrolls of the freight department of the Northern Pacific railroad at Spokane have been padded for nearly five years, are being be-ing investigated by company officials. Mrs. Emma S. Woodruff, widow of Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Mormon church, died at her home In Salt Lake, March '4, at the age of 74. A fire that started in a boarding house in New York resulted in the death of one woman, the spectacular rescue of twenty boarders, both male and female, and serious injury to a fireman In acknowledgment of an act of bravery performed twenty-seven years ago by his fatner, Charles H. Tunley of Brooklyn, a bookkeeper1 for the Standard Oil company, has just been notified of a bequest of $3,-000,000 $3,-000,000 made upon him by those whose lives were saved by the heroism hero-ism of his parents. Mrs. Annie Yeamans, who has been' known as America's grand old woman of the stage, died at New York at the age of 76 after suffering recently a stroke of paralysis. Since the age of ten she had been on the stage. Fourteen passengers were injured when a sleeper train of three cars on the Illinois traction system was derailed de-railed and turned over in a ditch fifty tiles east of St. Louis. WASHINGTON President Taft has taken the initiative initi-ative in a movement to bring business busi-ness men of the country into touch with the government for advice in the administration of laws, the enactment en-actment of new statutes and the development de-velopment of commerce. ., Grabbing a $5 bill from a hat that was being passed around for the benefit of the wan and haggard child textile strikers from Lawrence, who appeared before, the house committee commit-tee on rules, Representative Berger, Socialist, hurled it into the face of its donor, J. H. Cox, a millowner oS Lawrence. A fight was prevented by A. C. Pratt, one of the best-known men in public life in Nevada, died at Carson, Nev., after a short illness. Mr. Pratt was formerly surveyor general gen-eral of the state. While he never attended at-tended school a day in his life, he mastered telegraphy, surveying and assaying, and often was called upon to expert books of public officials It is said that within a few months Salt Lake will become the western manufacturing home of the E. I. Du Pont' de Nemours Powder company. A branch factory, the building of which will involve a fortune and which will , be capable of supplying the entire intermountain mining territory, ter-ritory, is promised. DOMESTIC . Former United States Attorney General Charles M. Bonaparte, who was a member of the Roosevelt cabinet, cabi-net, has declared himself in. favor of Colonel Roosevelt's nomination for president. The jury bribery indictments against Clarence S. Darrow, former chief counsel for the McNamara brothers, became so enmeshed in legal le-gal tangles on Saturday that, according accord-ing to attorneys, there is a possibility possibil-ity that all charges may be dismissed. dis-missed. William Dean . Howells was the central figure Saturday night of a birthday party which will be memorable memor-able in the literary world. The. novelist nov-elist was seventy-five years old Saturday Sat-urday 1 and to do honor to him the president of the United States and more than 400 men and women prominent pro-minent in literature gathered as dinner din-ner guests of Colonel George Harvey Har-vey in New York. The pulp keg mill of the Dupont Powder company' near - Wilmington, Dela., was destroyed by firje Sunday. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Crossed electric wires caused the fire. . The Democratic State central committee, com-mittee, in session at Detroit, decided to hold the state convention in Bay City on May 15. The committee took no action in respect to the various presidential candidates. Twenty-eight contraband Chinese were captured at San Francisco when the launch Morning Star, supposedly from Ensenade, Lower California, was overhauled by a government launch. After twenty minutes deliberate a jury acquitted Jarret P. Noack, charged with participation in the lynching of Antonio Gomez, a Mexican Mexi-can boy, at Thorndale, Texas, last June. There is no chance for cheaper . meat next year, according to W. J. Tod of Maple Hill, one of Missouri's leading stockmen. Mr. Tod returned from a trip over the range country in the west. ' The longest winter drought known In California in the last ten years was ended Friday by a rain storm which swung into the southern end of the state from the southwest shortly short-ly before daybreak and worked steadily stead-ily north. The jury in the case of Vernon Cole, the Christian Science practitioner practi-tioner charged with practicing medicine medi-cine in New York without a license, was unable to agree on a verdict and was discharged. Standing seven for acquittal and five for conviction, the jury at Fort Worth, Texas, which tried John Beal Sneed for the murder of Captain A. G. Boyce, the aged Panhandle cattle king, was discharged, after having been out 112 hours. Representatives of commercial organizations or-ganizations in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., urged President Taft to see to it that no transcontinental railroad be permitted per-mitted to operate steamship lines through the Panama canal. They advocated ad-vocated free traffic through the canal or tolls favoring American shipping. Robert Lafollette's name was added to the list of candidates to be voted on at Nebraska's presidential primary pri-mary by a petition filed Monday at Lincoln by Secretary Corrlck of the Lafollette state league. friends of both parties. Organized with the greatest secrecy secre-cy and backed by unlimited capital, the biggest campaign ever undertaken against white slavery is about to be launched by the business interests of the United States, working in co-operation with the department of justice. just-ice. Increased activity in commerce, due to the approach of spring, has reduced re-duced the deficit of the federal government gov-ernment to $20,570,000. A month -ago the deficit was $22,360,000, while a year ago it was $3,800,000. The attempt of Representative Frank of Florida to abolish the office of solicitor of the department of agriculture agri-culture and thus oust George P. Mc-Cabe, Mc-Cabe, failed after an hour's fight in the house. FOREIGN W. T. Stead is of the opinion that Great Britain stands on the very edge of hell. One million coal miners, representing rep-resenting the whole body of workmen work-men engaged in coal mining, have struck, and if they refuse to go back to work until their demands are conceded, con-ceded, and if those demands are not conceded, the country will be plunged into civil war. There are now 3,000 foreign troops in Pekin and the natives feel safe. Five thousand Japanese troops have been orderef) from Port Arthur to Tien Tsin, where there are only 1,500 foreign soldiers. More than 100 exe'eutions have taken place at Pekin within four days. For the . most part the victims were civilians and included six women. Apparently the authorities are afraid to execute soldiers. Acting on the personal orders of the czar, the Russian government, in spite of all the disappointment it has suffered, is working toward the restoration res-toration of peace between Turkey and Italy and refuses to give up its task as hopeless. A lively agitation is taking place in Catalonia against the law instituting insti-tuting compulsory military service in Spain. Numerous qommercial societies soci-eties have ' vigorously protested against the immediate application of this law, which is not yet approved by the chambers. . It is reported that the crown prince of Servia is compromised in the plot organized by a number of young regicide officers who, dissatisfied with the present Radical government, have formed a secret society known as the Black Hand. The sentence to three and . a half -years' imprisonment as a British spy by the German authorities , at Leipzig Leip-zig of Captain Bertrand Stewart, has aroused such a state of fomentation in England that the possibility of war with Germany is being hinted at. The "black strike.- as the coal crisis is called, is now affecting every class in England. Nearly a quarter of a million of workers of all trades have been dismissed, and railway service is crippled and disorganized. The gravity of the situation in Mexico has caused President Taft to issue a proclamation virtually warning warn-ing citizens to refrain from entering that country and those now residing there to leave when conditions wore threatening to become intolerable. Jose Maria Valladares, a Honduran revolutionist belonging to Arapala, crossed the San Salvadore frontier into Honduras with sixty men ami captured the border town of Arame cina. Suffragets went on a window smashing smash-ing campaign in London on Friday. Before the police were able to muster mus-ter their forces and restrain the women, streets were covered with shattered plate glass from the show windows of stores. Over 100 women were arrested. All the Chinese who were arrested at Batava by the Dutch authorities because of disturbances during the celebration of the declaration of the Chinese republic, were released on the promise of their leaders to prevent pre-vent a recurrence of the disturbances. |