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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed l' - ' The Arizona senaie. by a vc-: o: .en to seven, passed a bill providing or submitting to the vote of the peo ,.!e a plan for th abolishing of the lpper house of the Arizona legislature. legisla-ture. Colonel Roosevelt was met by thou--ands of his supporters, headed by :hree bands, when i:e reached Chicago in Saturday. The colonel at once as-;umed as-;umed command of his forces in his ight for the nomination. Senator Xewlands of Nevada has drafted a platform which he desires adopted by the Baltimore convention, and on Sunday he submitted it rn I NTERM OU NTAI N Boise, Idaho, was selected as the place of holding the fourth annual convention of the Good Roads association asso-ciation at the Logan meeting. John A. Hendrickson of L'igan, who has acted as chairman of the executive committee of the association, wai named as president. The national conference of charities and corrections voted to hold its next convention in Seattle. It is expected by holding the conference in Seattle next year seed will be sown that will prepare the Pacific coast states to handle properly the flood of immigration immigra-tion that will pour into them with the openeing of the Panama canal. Former Secretary of -the Interior Richard A. Ballinger addressed the power transmission section of the National Na-tional Eelctrie Light association at Seattle, Se-attle, advocating the administration of the publ'c lands by the states in which they are situated and opposing the leasing system as tending to promote improper and wasteful development. Receivers for the Denver, Laramie & Northwestern railroad have been appointed ap-pointed upon application of F. E. Bridges,, a bond owner. The' road, which extends from .Denver to Greeley, Gree-ley, is about $400,000 in debt. George Wingfield, multi-millionaire mining promoter and friend and busi ness associate of the late Senator George S. Nixon of Nevada, has been appointed by Governor Oddie as United Unit-ed States senator to fill Mr. Nixon's unexpired term. DOMESTIC Mrs. Victor Hebert of San Francisco Fran-cisco was shot four times and fatally wounded by her husband, Aledos Hebert, He-bert, when she attempted personally to serve a summons on him in her suit for divorce. William M. Brenhan of Cua.hoga county was killed and John Schutlz of Columbus, O., was captured when they attempted to escape from the penitentiary! Guards who saw the men climbing over a wall fired upon them. Jonal Chairman .Mack and other national na-tional committeemen. Thomas H. Deyine cf Colorado, whe holds the proxy of Charles Cavendei of that state in the national commit iee, has been agreed upon for chair man of the credentials committee by the Taft leaders. : WASHINGTON The senate has passed the Smoo; bill granting a year's extension of time to entrymen of land on the- Uintah Indian In-dian reservation in which to submit proof, provided a payment of 5 per cent of the purcha.se price.of the entry is made at the t me of applying foi the extension. Lumber and its manufactures rank third in value among the products ol the industr.es of the United States, according to the thirteenth census statistics. Senator Smont's bill providing for the leasing of coal lands in Alaska has been reported favorably to uic senate by the committee on public lands. The legislative, executive and judicial ju-dicial bid carrying amendments to abolish the commerce court and end the terms of office of its five justices, jus-tices, has passed the senate. In a special message President Taft on Friday asked congress to appropriate appro-priate $1,250,000 to protect the Imperial Im-perial valley of California against emergencies of floods from the Colorado Colo-rado river. Evidence intended to show that the $25,000,000 which J. P. Morgan has been credited with placing upon the New York stock exchange during the panic of 1907, was supplied by the treasury of the Untied States was introduced in-troduced Thursday at the congressional congres-sional "money trust" investigation. FOREIGN The rebels under General Julio An-tomarchi An-tomarchi have not yet started activities activi-ties in the coffee district of El Cobre, the residents ol which, they threaten ed to kill. Thirty thousand haversack rations prepared by the araiy commissary in Seattle were shipped to Seward, in Carl Badendyck of Jersey City is or- ganiz'ng an expedition to go to the island of Trinidad, to try to find sev-v sev-v eral millions of dollars in treasure he believes was buried there by pirates. Commissioner of Fisheries George M. Bowers has written a letter m which be calls attention to' the threatened threat-ened extermination of whales In nortn Pacific waters and the desirability of R closet! season by international tgreement- Three men. were instantly k'lled and more than a dozen injured, some cf them seriously, by the premature explosion ex-plosion of six pounds of dynamite' iir the Clearwater tunnel of the Los Angeles An-geles aqueduct near Saugus, thirty-three thirty-three miles north of Los Angeles. Of the 254' contested seats in the national na-tional convention, 235 were awarded to President Taft and' 19 to- Colonel-Roosevelt. Colonel-Roosevelt. Miss Florence Weston, twenty-five years old, a student nurse at the' Post-Graduate Post-Graduate hospital, killed herself at the Hotel Astor, New York, by dVinlt-ing dVinlt-ing poison. Twenty-six persons are known' fro have been killed and' many injured ia a storm that passed over-central' ve;t Missouri late Saturday, demolishing villages, tearing down wires- and' leaving leav-ing the smaller towns and' country-homes country-homes comp'etely wrecked. An affidavit charging an attempt to' bribe F'. H. Cook, a negro delegate- to the' Republican national convention from Louisiana, for ifl.000 to desert the Taft forces and vote for Roosevelt, Roose-velt, executed by Cook himself, was-made was-made public- Sunday by Director Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley of the Taft he?.dciuorters. A movement in behalf of Justice Charles E. Hughes of the United States supreme court as a compromise candid lie for president took definite form Sunday. Kadiak, on the steamship Admiral Sampson, which sailed Saturday from Seattle. Seven new oil deposits will " be opened on the west coast of South American on or about July 1, for the use of oil-burn. ng steamships and internal in-ternal combust. on craft. Skirmishing between outposts of th federals and rebels at La Cruz, fifty miles south of Bachimba, Mexico, the rebel stronghold, resulted in a loss to the government of twelve and the rebels reb-els two dead. A cloudburst at Guanajuato, Mexico, flooded the city to a depth o several feet. The loss of liie and property was large. The Porfirio Diaz drainage drain-age tunnel saved the town from greater great-er disaster. The rainfall was greater than, in 1905, when, more than 200 lives were lost. Prince Taro Katsurar twice premier of. Japan, has made a prolonged statement state-ment regarding his views on Japan's attitude toward China. The former statesman denied, most emphatically that the Japanese attitude toward China had. been prompted by selfish aims and declared that Japan's greatest great-est hope is. to see peace established. I The revenue cutter McCulloch arrived ar-rived at Reward,. Alaska, direct froni ! Kodiat with the cheering news that ! condit.ons in the iLstrict, covered by ashes lrom Katma. volcano, are much impioved and that there is no confirmation con-firmation of reports of heavy loss ol life on the mainland. j From Guantanamo, Captain Per domo reports that his column engaged engag-ed 250 rebebs at Pa ma Mocha, thirty miltts east of Guantajiamo, killing ! eight men arid capturing thirty : norses, a number of cattie, arms and i ammunition. The Turkish troops and their Arab I allies won a v. dory Wednesday at Systematic murder of her own family, fam-ily, one member after another, until none was left, is believed by the Chicago Chi-cago police to have been the sole support sup-port of Mrs. Louise Linlcff of Ch'cago for the l.'.ts seven years. She lived on the life insurance. The American border again may be the scene of fighiing between the Mexican federals and the revo'u'ion-ists. revo'u'ion-ists. Train'.oads of rebels a: lived at Juarez on Friday from Casus Grandes and other points. Alarming reports that the Coloradi river has begun-to cut a new channel that would carry it into the Salton -a are current. The-final decree was entered Thursday Thurs-day in the United States circuit court by Judges Gray, Buffington and Mcpherson Mc-pherson in the government suit against E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. et al., providing for the dissolution dissolu-tion of the alleged "powder trust." Richmond P. Hobson has announced his candidacy for the United States senate froni Alabama. Captain Hob- ' yon said be aimed to "purge the government gov-ernment of men who serve sinister ! liquor interests and depend for their success upon debauching the people's ' mon'.ls." Hems, according to a correspondent in Tiipol , who sys that many Italians ' were left dead on the field while the iTuikish caeua ties were . only fifty killed and 11. ty wounded, j American Consul Letcher denies i that twenty thousand men are out o; ' work in Ch-hiiahua o.i account of the ' piohib tio.i against the importation Oi dynamite. He says that not a single 'mine in his disnict has closed on that account. j The Mexican rebels have decided Lo 1 confiscate all the cattle of the fa-1 fa-1 incus Terwzas family. This will add ia m llion bears to their depleted treasury. General Monteasudo, Cuban commander-in-chief, reports that a column col-umn under Colonel Yaliente had defeated de-feated the forces of General Est'enez and Ivonet at Jarahueca, killing many rebels. Forest fires which have been raging rag-ing in western Alberta all week are the worst in years and hundreds of rangers are making desperate efforts to beat back the fire. The British court of. inquiry into the Titanic disaster will find that the steamer Californlan defaulted from Us duty. |