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Show Charges of "conspiracy, fraud, malfeasance mal-feasance in office and corrupt so-called so-called high finance," are made against ! five director of the Ocean Shore rail-1 rail-1 way, a suburban steam line at San ; Francisco. Three men were wounded, one of i them prubaMy fatally, in a battle for i possession of a radium claim in Mono i lake on the barren shores of Negrit j island. Alexander P. Moore, publisher of the Pittsburg Lead'-r, is receiving felicitations fe-licitations from his friends who have been informed that he is to be married mar-ried to Lillian Russell, the actress. Charles E. Hoar, nephew of the late United States Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, and known as "The Hermit Her-mit of Simi valley," died at Oxnard, Cal., Saturday, at the age of 70. He had lived a hermit's life for years. WASHINGTON A Chinaman who is a citizen of the United States by reason of his birth in this country can not lawfully bring into the slates his wife, if she is a Chinese woman incapable of naturalization naturali-zation in her own right, according to a decision by the supreme court. The presidential yacht Mayflower, with President and Mrs. Taft and distinguished dis-tinguished guests aboard, narrowly escaped a collision early Sunday with the steamer Northland of the Norfolk and Washington line, not far from Point Lookout, where the Potomac river empties into Chesapeake bay. The navy department on Sunday ordered Admiral Osterhaus to proceed forthwith from Key West to Havana with one dispatch ship and one other ship. The senate will vote on the question ques-tion of unseating Senator Lorimer of Illinois on Monday, July 6. The section of the house Panama canal bill granting free tolls for American Am-erican coastwise ships was agreed to by the senate committee on inter oceanic canals. This practically settles set-tles the toll question, as the committee's commit-tee's action will undoutedly be ratified rati-fied by the senate. In addition to the strong amendatory amenda-tory legislation Chairman Pujo says will be urged upon congress, a recommendation recom-mendation also will be made to bring every clearig ohuse in the country, with national bank members, directly under the supervision of the federal banking authorities. The house voted, 72 to 37, not to include in-clude in the sundry civil appropriations appropria-tions bill the money necessary to continue President Taft's tariff board during the coming fiscal year. FOREIGN i i i 1 History of Past Week TKc News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed V 1 INTERMOUNTAIN A report has been received from Idaho Falls, Idaho, that the Whitney brothers, noted robbers and one of them at least a murderer, have been seen passing yirough the valley near that city. The Moapa valley branch of the Salt Lake Koute was formally opened to traffic Saturday afternoon, when Miss Mildred Anderson of Overton diove the copper strike, finishing the work. What is said by wool buyers to be the largest clip of wool ever sold is the west at one time, was disposed o! at Billings, Mont., last week, by a local lo-cal sheep company. The clip is 3,-500,000 3,-500,000 pounds, and is the product of 400,000 sheep. Henry Potter while riding a motorcycle motor-cycle at the Motordrome in Salt Lake City, collided with a light post and was fatally injured. Potter was a motorcycle policeman and was participating partici-pating in his first race. Convinced that love had flown from her, Mrs. Josephine Smith, a bride of nine months, shot herself as she lay in bed beside her husband, at Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah. Growth in importance, efficiency and personnel of the nursery business was reflected in the reports of committees, the annual address of President P. A. Dix of Salt Lake and in attendance at the tenth annual convention of the Pacific Coast Association of Nursery men, held in Satl Lake during the week. Frank Welch, a city detective of Aberdeen, Wash., was shot and fatally wounded while watching the homo of Mrs. J. S. Greech, who had telephoned tele-phoned that some one was prowling around her house. It is Charged that Greech came home unexpectedly and shot the officer. Freight tariffs have been prepared providing for reduced, rates on carload lots from St. Paul and eastern points, to Spokane, Wash., and Montana points, effecting an annual reduction nf i nrin nnn DOMESTIC Abraham Ruef's application for parole, pa-role, backed by a petition from Fremont Fre-mont Older, managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, was denied by the state board of prison directors of California. A continuation Sunday of the "grub strike" demonstration begun Saturday in San Quentin (Cal.) prison developed devel-oped into a riot in the general mess hall, as a result of , which one prisoner pris-oner was shot and killed and two others oth-ers were wounded. Industrial Workers of the World and their sympathizers held a meeting meet-ing in a vacant lot outside the restricted re-stricted district of San Diego on Sunday. Sun-day. Some of the speakers made violent vio-lent attacks upon the government and insulting allusions to the flag. The practicability of aerial artillery was demonstrating at College paik, Md., an army officer from an aeroplane aero-plane 600 feet in the air, flying fifty miles an hour, firing half a hundred shots from the army's new aeroplane i. machine gun and made every shot tell ! dun a space three bv twelve feet. I The French submarine Vendamaire was sunk at Cherbourg in a collision with the battleship St. Louis. The submarine was cut, in two and the whole crew of twenty-six was drowned. President Gomez, on being informed inform-ed that American warships had been ordered to Havana, declined to : make any comment. Senor' Ramierz, the presidetnial secretary, however, said the president had expressed neither satisfaction nor regret on the receipt of the news. Katmai volcano, in the Alaska peninsula, pen-insula, is in violent eruption, and grave fears are entertained for the safety of the inhabitants of Kodiak and neighboring islands. It is estimated esti-mated that 1,500 people are in peril. The camp of the Cinco Minas Mining Min-ing company, near Guadalajara, Mexico, Mex-ico, was attacked by bandits who were repulsed after a fight in which two were killed and several on each side wounded. Count Tisza, president of the lower house, had a narrow escape from assassination as-sassination in the diet at Budapest, j Hungary, on Friday. He was fired upon three times by Deputy Julius j Kovacs, who then shot himself, prob- A fast train from Winnipeg to Min- J neapolis on the Northern Pacific, ! while running forty miles an hour, crashed into the Pacific coast express, running from Chicago to Seattle, at Winnipeg Junction, N. D., injuring a dozen persons, none serioulsy. On a charge of murder the Rev. Charles Etnelius, a Lutheran minister, has been arrested at New Sweder, Maine. He is accused of having killed his father-in-law, August Jacobson, in i June, 1911. Violence marked the beginning of a ; strike of several thousand employes of the Boston elevated railway at daylight day-light Friday. Those who refused to work demanded recognition by the ; company of a recently formed union. ! Twenty-four delegates from Ala- ! bama and Arkansas were added to the j Taft column on Friday by the action i of the Republican national commit- j tee upon the so-called Roosevelt con-i tests from those states. Nashville (Tenu.l Socialists, who: Insist they have been persecuted and ; prevented from having meeting, by ; the Nashville police force, iipve ob-: tained a temporary injunction, pre-! venting the police of that city fro;,; j interfering wiih them. L. K. Stockwell. for many years a well known San Francisco actor-mat.-ager, died Friday after a long illness. : lie had been blind for several years. ' He was about 00 years old. i Tho name of President Taft will be presented to the Chicago convention by Warren G. Harding, for.ner lieutenant lieu-tenant goyerno rof Ohio. Mr. Harding Hard-ing announced Friday that he had received a letter from Mr. Taft asking him to name him at the Chicago convention. con-vention. Ernest Clifford Feixotto, the we'l known American painter and illustrator, illustra-tor, is critically ill at Oakland of an obscure tropical fever, which he contracted con-tracted this spring on an extended trip through Central and South America. ably with fatal etieci. Federal outposts advanced too far north on Friday and were driven back in a sharp skirmish by 200 rebels uu der General Jose Campos, a few mile3 south of Santa Ysabel, a station on the Mexico Northwestern, forty-three miles west of Chihuahua. The Cuban house of representatives has ratified the action of the senate authorizing President Gomez to expend ex-pend ?1, 000,000 to cover the extraordinary extraor-dinary military preparations. American marines have landed on Cuban soil. To the number of 450, under command of Colonel Lucas, they came ashore on Wednesday at Caimanera and proceeded by train to Guantaiiamo City. Frank confession of President Gomez Go-mez that he was unable to meet the demands of the large plantation own ers in eastern Cuba for adequate guards against the marauders and in-surrectos, in-surrectos, was the factor that led Captain Cap-tain Kl.ne, commanding the United States 'naval station at Guantaiiamo. to set in motion the body of Fn ted States marines gathered there. Engineer Joiiffe of Revclstoke was killed and two brakemeu injured in a ecliisien on l lie Canadian i-'ac.iic rn-.r.-'i avaa siu.ug, IS. C, Thursday, be-twe be-twe en a regular iie:g'ui tram and a stock Special. General Pascual Orozco, chief of the revolution in northern Mexico, has formally for-mally sanctioned an auack on Mexico City of Emiliano Zapaia rebel leadei in the south. The national disorders in Belgium are attributed to the disappointment of the laboring classes over the victory of the Clericals in the recent elec tions. The Californians resident in London Lon-don are planning a pageant of Pacific-coast Pacific-coast history for the Panama-Pacific exposition to be held at San Fran- j Cisco in 1915. |
