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Show 1, jl History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN A message received from Port Crescent, Wash., states that by the capsizing of a boat bound from Ta-toosh Ta-toosh to Noah Bay, three persons were drowned. A young woman giving the name of Dorothy Wilcox in being held by the authorities at Sandpoint, Idaho, on suspicion of being Dorothy Arnold, the missing New York heiress. The United States army transport Buford, which will carry a cargo of provisions for the relief of the famine victims in north China, will sail from Seattle March 10. After a session that extended ten hours beyond the legal limit, the eleventh elev-enth legislature of Wyoming adjourned adjourn-ed at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. The session should have ended at Midnight Mid-night Saturday, but it was necessary to put back the clock in order to pass the general appropriation bill. Miss Edna Clemmons, a stenographer, stenogra-pher, 22 years old, committed suicide at Seattle by drinking chloroform, following a quarrel with her fiance, to whom she was to have been married mar-ried Sunday night Fifty-one of the fifty-three Democrats Demo-crats In the Montana legislature, in a conference for the purpose of attempting at-tempting to get together on the senatorial sen-atorial question, failed to agree. Majority members of the Colorado legislature who favor a caucus to decide de-cide on a candidate for United States senator, are renewing activity in this direction. Prospects are not considered consid-ered bright, however, for success. DOMESTIC All the American records for ski jumping were broken, at Ironwood, Mich., at the annual tournament of the Ironwood Ski club, by Andrew Haugen of Chippewa Falls, national champion, who jumped 152 feet. Finding the woman with whom he was infatuated in a room with a soldier sol-dier at Prescott, Ariz., A. H. Oakes shot and killed her, shot the soldier in the arm and then turned the weapon wea-pon on himself. Governor Dix has come to the conclusion con-clusion that William F. Sheehan can not be elected United States senator from New York. This statement is made on the authority of a man who is close to the governor. General Manuel Bonilla, provisional president of Honduras, General Lee Christmas, Colonel Florian Davidi and Joseph W. Beer, have been indicted at New, Orleans, charged with violating violat-ing the neutrality laws in connection with the filibustering expedition o" the steamer Hornet. President Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific denies that he will accept the presidency of the Missouri Pacific, succeeding George J. Gould. Mr. Elliott said that an offer of the position had been made, but that he had declined it. Harry S. Harkness, the young New York millionaire sportsman, narrowly escaped death at San Diego, Cat, when a puff of wind drove his Antoinette monoplane to the ground, crumpling up one of the wings. Martin W. Littleton, newly elected Democratic representative from Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt's home district, announced an-nounced Sunday night his candidacy to the United States senate to succeed suc-ceed Chauncey M. Depew. The steamship Sloterdijk of the Holland-American line, arrived at Newport News, on Sunday, from Rotterdam Rot-terdam with the cargo in her forward hold on fire. The rain and snowstorm which swept over eastern and southern New Mexcio and Oklahoma last week, broke one of the largest dry spells in that section in years. At the close of the Western Fruit Jobbers' association convention at Sacramento, St. Louis was chosen as the place for the next convention, January 17, 1912, and Wm. R. Roy-lance Roy-lance of Provo, Utah, was re-elected treasurer. Charles Gates, son of John W. Gates, the steel magnate of New York and Chicago, was stricken with blood poisoning poi-soning at Yuma, Ariz., aud was placed j on a special train ana ui.-.rn to an eastern hospital. j That the United States government j is going to put a stop to filibustering expeditions from New Orleans and ! other gulf ports to Central American countries was indicated Wednesday when an investigation was instituted before the federal grand jury in the J matter of the departure from this port December 22 of the steamer Hornet for use in the Ilonduran revolution. The much-talked of boxing tout be- j tw?n Anthony J. Drexel of Phi'adr !-I !-I hit, husal-r.d cf M.irjo:!. Co;;";,i, ;.ni lion. lio'ocri Eetesfor.l Of E: 1-rr.'!, a l.rc-hcr of ls-ri D t took i:.fp on S : ; : i r 1 n y in p:iv.i:o. tV ---. l'!a v.i::v'r'l by the Gcor- Goi:i 1 finii'y rr..i r.ticut. a srore r ' ' l.v.:.:. ri" :: 1 lost in ttie third roun .1. i i'onr.tor G..!cs' n-f oiu: ion for ihe , fu' :r.i - io:i to the p c;,!e of a con- . s. i ; nt i :;::' arr.r ndmnt prov:.;ing fori the initiative ar.d referendum pns.--d 1 the California assembly oy unanimi us I vota. j Mrs. Nellie Ybara Leburn, 20 years j'.d and a bride of six weeks, commit :ed suicide at Los Angeles by strang-.ing strang-.ing herself with a rope adjusted to i door knob in her home. Ill he.ilth is believed to have been the cause. Hoopestown, 111., known as the "Holy City," whose mayor draws a sa'ary of 50 cents a year and whose aldermen serve without remuneration, will be investigated by the grand jury. Twenty-one persons ver injured and the lives of three score imperiled when two coaches burned aftr being turned over in a railroad wrejek near Adairville, Tenn. No one was dangerously danger-ously hurt. Statehood for Arizona is impossible at this session of Congress, liecause the returns of the election held February Febru-ary 9 cannot be canvassed ant! certified certi-fied under the law in time tc. reach Washington for action by congress. WASHINGTON The board of trustees of the Carnegie Car-negie institution of Washington has formally accepted the gift of ? 10,000,-000 10,000,-000 made last month by Andrew Carnegie. Car-negie. An extra session of Congress now seems probable, in order to act on the Canadian reciprocity agreement, as there are so many measures with precedence over the Canadian matter it is not believed it will be reached at this session. The house practically killed the omnibus war claims bill by adopting a motion of Mr. Mann to strike out all after the enacting clause in that bill which had provided for the French spoliation claims. The total value of the fifty principal princi-pal articles of domestic export showed show-ed a decided increase In January, as compared with the same period in 1910. The Hobson bill to encourage the development of the American merchant mer-chant marine and to promote commerce com-merce and the national defense was reported favorably to the house by the committee on merchant marine by a vote of nine to three. That prejudice against the negro is just as intense in the north as in the south, and that the north plays the hyprocrite in its contentions to the contrary, was boldly and bluntly asserted as-serted in the senate on Thursday by Senator Borah of Idaho. FOREIGN Three severe earthquake shocks affected a number of provinces in Italy on Sunday, the center of the disturbance apparently being Porli, where some of the houses were damaged dam-aged and several persons injured. Two French boys are to be legally decapitated in Paris. George Tissier, aged 17, and Paul Desmarest, aged 16, deliberately ' lured M. Andre, a banking collector, on pretext of wishing wish-ing him to examine a $25 note, to the fiat where Tissier lived with his mother. While the collector was looking look-ing at the document they killed him. Impressed with the serious outbreak of plague in Harbin and its spread to parts of China, hitherto free from the disease, the Chinese government has dispatched a circular note to the powers asking them to select plague experts and doctors to proceed immediately imme-diately to China. The forward movement among the women of Norway will receive quite an impetus when, contrary to anticipation, anticipa-tion, during the present session of the Norwegian legislature, the first woman wo-man takes her seat in the storthing. The kaiser is still greatly worried about the drinking habits of army and navy officers. He has gone to the extent ex-tent of advising them to cut out liquor and to sign the pledge. Mr. Kovacs, the head of a firm of distillers at Nagy-Becskerek, Hungary, Hun-gary, has been fined $2,000 for adulterating adul-terating brandy. It was proven that sixteen deaths were due to the adulteration. adul-teration. The patriotism of British consumers will be put to the test the last week in March when all the big stores in tne west end district in London will have an all-British week, during which nothing but British made goods will be given display. Relations between the government officials of Portugal and the navy have again reached almost the breaking break-ing point as a result of a demand from the navy for the reinstatement and the appointment to the command of the batteship Almirante Reis of Captain Jose Cerejo, one of the naval heroes of the revolution. Insurgents attacked and captured Yelardena, Mexico, installing a school teacher a.s the new jofe politico. The recent announcement that Emperor Em-peror William would attend the ceremony cere-mony of unveiling the national memorial mem-orial to Queen Victoria, which will take place in front of Buckingham palace on .May U5, lias been confirmed confirm-ed officially. American soldiers of fortune are said to be joining the Mexican r v. lutionists in large numbers. General Bert hold, it is believed, h::s been sent to Los Ang"!es to arrange for the smuggling of rifles and ammunition over tne holder at a point near Mexiea'i. As a i'i!t of dt-f'-nt at ?T-x!f.-.. the federal force which Gown or Ve:.-a fjijI st-vfrsl wwVj in or'-fn-ing was horc-!e y d:?;;er.-' d. Y. ., rK;rate:y an 1 j.fihnjs fataii.- o-.tn-ivd. ha- r. d h:s ra-,;p at l.a -.l'in:.: v.i:h h.-.:ly a h-.-y g:r:rd o n of his foriv.'T fr-yr;?. The cor,;i:v:.''! tr.li: of an::o.T ,, l.rpt alive l,y ;h- OiToaifon joarnai-. is ca:i.-:.:ntr rc-.-:-ntr.jf i.t in Can'ola. aji:. according to sonic of the h-nding .- : a porters of the gwemmcat, may it-:,-)-ardize the reciprocity measure no v before parliament. |