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Show r; -r History of Past Week TKc News Happenings of Sevea Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN After he had shot a patron of a cats in Denver, whom ne mistook for the cashier, a holdup was disarmed by two women and held by them until un-til the arrival of the police. The bodies of three Nevada stockmen, stock-men, whose homes were in Reno, and who had been missing for three weeks, have been found on the desert In northern Washoe county, riddled by bullets and badly mutilated by wild beasts. It is believed the men were murdered by cattle rustlers, who took their horses and' firearms and left their bodies to the beasts of the desert. C. A. Barret, alias Charles McCabe, suspected of being the brains of the famous gold bullion robbers, who broke into the strong box of the steamship Humboldt last August, plying ply-ing between Fairbanks, AlasKa, and Seattle, and stole $50,000 in gold and 18,000 worth of registered mail, has been arrested in Salt Lake City. Searchers found the body of O. W. Wilkins, superintendent of schools of Summit county, Utah, who disappeared disap-peared January 21, in a ditch in a ravine ra-vine of South Fork canyon, twenty-four twenty-four miles west of Theodore. Wilkins had been buried in a snowslide on his way to his home in Peoa from Theodore. The-odore. The body of Herbert B. Sherer was found in his cabin on his homestead, about twelve miles south of Caldwell, daho. The entire back of his head was blown off and his brains scattered about the room. He had suicided. Fifteen miners were entombed as the result of an explosion in the Coke-dale Coke-dale mine of the Carbon Coal and Coke company, eight miles west of Trinidad, Colo. James K. Houghton, mayor of Ault, Colo., died in a Denver hospital from a self inflicted wound. Mr. Houghton shot himself at a hotel when a detective detec-tive went to arrest him on the charge of forgery. DOMESTIC Welden B. Heyburn, United States senator from Idaho, argued for an hour and a half Saturday night before four hundred silk manufacturers in New York City and their guests, against the proposed reciprocity trade agreement with Canada. Thomas A. Edison was 64 years of age on February 11, and he decorated himself in honor of the day. He pinned pin-ned a red carnation on the lapel of his coat. Then he went to work in his laboratory at West Grange, N. J. Andrew Thompson, an ironworker, was found dead in a snack in Los Angeles.. An-geles.. Besides the body lay a note, reading. "This is to certify that two physicians murdered - me." He had been operated on two years ago for appendicitis, and ever since that time he has been threatening suicide. Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, spoke in advocacy of the Canadian reciprocity re-ciprocity agreement before the Union League club of B.poklyn Saturday night. Orasmus Page, the oldest newsboy in Jollet, Ills., who for years has been a familiar figure at the railroad station, sta-tion, where he sells newspapers, is ill, and, owing to his age, little hope is entertained for his recovery. Page this month will complete his 102nd year of life. Richard Olney, former secretary of slate, who recently joined other leading lead-ing men of the country In a declaration declara-tion of reasons why the Panama canal should not be fortified, in a statement Friday indicated that he is unconvinced uncon-vinced that any such fortification was contemplated by the amended Hay-Paunctfote Hay-Paunctfote treaty. As an example to women who have no qualms against smuggling. Federal Judge Martin of New York City sentenced sent-enced Mrs. Roberta G. Hill to the Tombs from Friday night until 8 o'clock Monday morning, and fined her ?2,000. Mrs. Zerelda Samuel, 86 years old, mother of Frank and Jesse James, the former ex-bandit, died on a passenger pas-senger train near Oklahoma City while en route to Kansas City from the home of her son, Frank, who lives on a farm near Fletcher, Okla. 'Carrying forward his campaign for Canadian reciprocity, President Taft made a direct appeal to the American farmer on that issue, in a speech at Columbus, O., on Friday. He declared that the impression that reciprocity with the Dominion would injure the farmer was without foundation, and by statistics he sought to lend actual proof to his assertions. A prize of ?500 is offered by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for an invention inven-tion to prevent the slipping of horses on smoo: h or icy pavements. The Des Moines Press club has received re-ceived acceptance from Dr. Frederick Freder-ick Cook, the Artie explorer, of the invitation to lecture in Des Moines February 23. The Kansas legislature has passed the resolution to submit an amendment amend-ment to the constitution giving women wo-men the right to vole in all elections by a vote of 27 to 12. In a speech at Grand Rapids, Mich., on Saturday, ex-President Roosevelt went on record as being in favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Achbishop Ryan of Philadelphia and Metropolitan of Pennsylvania, died Saturday from heart trouble with which he had been afflicted for some time. Archbishop Kyan was born in Thurles, Ireland, on February 20, 1831. The supreme court of Kansas holds that the new liquor law is constitutional. constitu-tional. The law prohibits the sa'.e of liquor for medical or mechanical purposes. pur-poses. Richard Hill, leader of the "Church of Christ," commonly known as the "Hedrickite" branch of- the Mormon church, died at his home in Independence, Indepen-dence, Mo., on the 10th. Hill was born in 1827 at Glouchester, England. The United States Steel corporation announces that the unfilled .steel tonnage ton-nage on the books on January 31 last amounted to 3,110,910, against 2,674,-757 2,674,-757 tons on the books of the company on December 31, 1910. WASHINGTON Carrying an appropriation of $50,-000, $50,-000, the house bill authorizing the use of army transports for conveyance convey-ance of Red Cross supplies to the Chinese famine sufferers passed the senate on Saturday. The per capita wealth of the United States, as based upon the new census cen-sus figures, is $34.43. Under the census cen-sus of 1900 it was computed by the treasury department as $35.10. The joint resolution (locating the Panama canal exposition in San Francisco Fran-cisco has been passed by the senate, and now goes to the president for his approval, having already been approved ap-proved by the house. The house bill providing $500,000 a year -for the erection of buildings for American embassies and consulates consu-lates in foreign countries has been approved by the senate. Senators Clark and Warren of Wyoming and Senator Smoot of Utah on Saturday delivered eulogies on the life and work of the late Senator Hughes of Colorado, in speeches be-for be-for the senate. The house has passed the agricultural agricul-tural bill, carrying an appropriation of approximately $15,500,000 for the operation op-eration of the department of agricultural agricul-tural for the next fiscal year. The battleship Utah, sister ship of the Florida, will be towed to the Brooklyn navy yard early in June. It is announced by the New York Shipbuilding company at Camden, N. J., that the super-Dreadnaught will be completed at that date. FOREIGN Baron Albert S. A. Rothschild, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild Roths-child house, died at Vienna on February Feb-ruary 11. He was born in 1844. The rebellion in Hayti has been officially of-ficially declared to be at an end, and general interest is now concerned in the punishment of those who took part in the rebellion. The consulates are said to be crowded with refugees. refu-gees. A plague spot equaling Fudziadian has been discovered in the Chinese city of Assikho, forty miles east from Harbin. There is an average of 400 deaths in the place daily. A girl belonging to a wealthy Geneva Gene-va family has threatened to bring about a referendum in Switzerland. Her fiance has been arrested on what she considers unjust grounds, and she threatens, if he is not released, to obtain ob-tain the necessary 30,000 signatures and refer the matter to the entire nation. na-tion. A strategy board has been created for the . insurrecto army in Mexico, and is now in the field with Orozco, to direct the movement of the troops. Figures compiled from 1910 imperial imper-ial German census show that there are forty-seven cities in the empire having a population in excess of 100.000. Berlin, Germany's largest city, without its suburbs, has 2,064,153, or half a million more people than Philadelphia. It is exceeded in population popu-lation by Chicago by 121,000. The draft of the bill for the separation separa-tion of church and state in Portugal has been completed. It guarantees liberty of conscience, education and propaganda. The churches will be at the disposal of the clergy, the only stipulation being that the clergy be able to keep them up. A general alarm has been sent out for Henry Lawrence Wolfe of New York, a student of painting at the American Am-erican academy in Rome, who has been missing for a week. Unless relieved, 2,000,000 people in China will die of starvation. This is a calamity predicted by American Consul General Wilder at Shanghai. The government or President Simon Si-mon is dealing vigorously with the revolutionary leaders in Hayti. General Gener-al Millionard of the Department of Vallieries, head of the revolutionary forces, and a man o. great influence in the districts of Trou and Vallieries, who has been much feared by every administration, was summarily executed exe-cuted Wednesday, as were two other officers. The committee of the German reich-stag reich-stag has adopted an amendment to the constitution proposed for Alsace Lorraine, Lor-raine, which, if enacted into law, will permit that territory to enter the empire em-pire a full-Hedged federal state on the same footing as the otner members. The steel steamship Victoria of the Alaska Steamship company's lino bound from Seattle for Alaska points went on the rocks on ll:nchinbrool; island during a snow storm, but help was summoned by wireless and the passengers and mail transfered to the steamer that came to the rtsciie. |