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Show j History of j Past Week ! Tke News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN At a meeting in Denver of the board of directors of the Denver & Rio Grande, It was decided to standard gauge the present narrow gauge line over Marshall Pass, between Salida and Montrose, Colo. This involves widening the gauge from three feet to four feet eight inches for a distance of 13G miles, at a cost of approximately approximate-ly $2,000,000. Hoy D. Williams, came out ahead in a struggle with a "bobcat" at Riverside, Riv-erside, Ore., cutting the animal's throat with a knife. In a speech at Reno, Nevada, Col-I Col-I onel Roosevelt said that the new party stood for the extension of irrigation projects in which Nevada is especially interested and asserted it was through his efforts that both the irrigation law and the pure food law were passed. Having accidentally shot and killed Joseph Wadsworth, his fourteen-year-old playmate, Leroy Harrsion, the fifteen-year-old son of Sheriff E. E. Harrison Har-rison of Weber county, Utah, turned the weapon upon himself and committed com-mitted suicide. Pressmen and feeders in twenty-three twenty-three printing shops in Portland have struck for an advance in wages and several changes in shop rules. The employers say they cannot afford the increase in wages. Speeding fifty miles an hour according accord-ing to eye witnesses a public automobile automo-bile owned and driven by Charles H. White crashed into a buggy in Salt Lake, seriously injuring White and causing slight injury to four occupants of the buggy. It was announced at Boise, Idaho, that former governor James H. Brady has sold to the Kuhn interests of Pittsburg his power plant at American Ameri-can Falls. The price is not made public, pub-lic, but it is understood to be $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. This deal gives the Kuhns practically prac-tically all the power along the Snake river in that section. President W. H. Lucas of the Union association of professional baseball clubs dropped dead at his home at Missoula, Mont., on Sunday. Wesley Brownell, aged 25, and his 17-year-old wife, Winnie, residents of Cul De Sac, Idaho, shot and killed A. Neeves, the stepfather of Mrs. Brownell at Colax, Wash. Both, the authorities say, made full confessions. Neeves was charged by his stepdaughter stepdaugh-ter with having maltreated her in Idaho. DOMESTIC Al G. Boyce, Jr.', was shot and killed at Amarillo, Texas, by J. B. Sneed, with whose wife Boyce eloped to Canada Can-ada last fall. Snead is shortly to stand trial for the murder of Boyce's father, shot at For Worth January 13. Cal Olson was arrested at Sacramento Sacra-mento after he had called at the police po-lice station and demanded that the desk sergeant notify Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt by telegraph that if he came to California his life would pay the pen- Sldna Allen, so-called leader of the Allen clan which shot up the Caroll county court house at Hillsville. Va., March 14, killing Judge Massle and others, and his nephew, Wesley Edwards, Ed-wards, hav ebeen captured at Des Moines, Iowa. Francisco Del Valle Fraquito, a boll fighter, was the first victim claimed by the celebration of Mexican independence inde-pendence at Los Angeles. Frasquito was gored through by a bull which he attempted to throw by the horns. Five naval apprentices were drowned drown-ed and five are missing as the result of the capsizing of a cutter from the United States naval training station at North Chicago, Ills. Inez Salazer and his rebel band have captured El Tigre, the American gold mining camp twice attacked by him. A young girl of Clarksfield, O., waa the victim of eight married women, dressed as men, who on Sunday night induced the girl to take a walk and then tarred and feathered her, and ordered or-dered her to leave town. She was charged with flirting. WASHINGTON The Panama canal is to be opened to traffic in the fall of 1913. This statement was made officially at the navy department Sunday with an announcement an-nouncement that the Atlantic fleet would be rendezvoused at Colon this winter before the water is turned in. Interest in the Mexican situation situa-tion on the border centers on the widespread threats of the rebel leaders lead-ers to kill Americans in Sonora The offiers of the National Irrigation Irriga-tion congress have made application to the secretary of the treasury for the $10,000 appropriated at the last session ses-sion of congress to assist in defraying the expenses of the twentieth session in Salt Lake City. The government regulations controlling con-trolling life-saving apparatus on steamers, revised last April as a result re-sult of the Titanic disaster, will be modified by Secretary Nagel so as to lighten the requirements for vessels plying the bays, sounds and rivers of the Pacific coast. Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast south of Charleston, S. C. A formal appeal for the protection of the lives of its employes and property prop-erty interest in Mexico was made to the department of state on Wednesday Wednes-day by the Southern Pacific railroad. FOREIGN President Madero at 11 o'clock Sunday Sun-day night, standing at an open window win-dow of the national palace, at Mexico Mexi-co City, before thousands below, rang the historic liberty bell with which Hidalgo called the people to revolt September 15, 1810. It is reported that Turkish soldiers in the Alessio and Schutari districts are murdering and torturing Christians. Chris-tians. The Albanians occupying the mountains on the Montenegrin fron-I fron-I tier are preparing for a general rising. ris-ing. Colonel Lupakoff, head of the Russian Rus-sian political police, was shot down when Waiting for a street car with his wife at Pyatigorsk, Word has been received of the murder mur-der of Jose E. Bickerdike, formerly a wealthy resident of El Paso, at San Andras, Lower California, by Juan Rees, a guide, June 19. The next Eucharistic congress will be held at Malta, Colo., on April 24, 1913. Mexican federal troops won a costly cost-ly victory in the vicinity of Oaxaca when they succeeded in routing an attacking force of 4,000 Indians led by Zapatistas, after three days' fighting. fight-ing. It is asserted that Zelaya, ex-president of Nicaragua; Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, and Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, are plotting with Euro- pean diplomats and agents in the countries from which they have been expelled to regain their lost dictatorships dictator-ships and establish a Latin American union hostile to the""United States. All the great European powers -have exercised their good offices in trying to arrange an understanding between Italy and Turkey on a basis which could be made the foundation for official of-ficial peace negotiations. Both Italy and Turkey, however, have declared that they would welcome the good offices of the United States rather than those of any other nation, which is entirely disinterested. The name of Madero was hissed in the Mexican chamber of deputies on Friday and that of Diaz was cheered by a crowd that packed the galleries. In the streets later disapproval of the president was loudly voiced by throngs who watched the chief executive pass in his carriage. Under the protection of Emperor Francis Joseph, the twenty-third eucharistic eu-charistic congress began its labors at Vienna on Tuesday. Delegates and visitors numbering upwards of 150,-000 150,-000 are present. Annie Doyen, an American who became be-came entangled in the capture September Sep-tember 10 of a group of alleged swindlers swind-lers that had operated in Chile. Bolivia, Bo-livia, Peru and the Argentine, has been set free. All but one of the teachers' professional profes-sional unions of France have voted to disband. The Paris union refused to disintegrate and the cabinet decided to prosecute it for violation of the law of 18S4. Twenty-two Zapatistas, captured in a battle with federal troops near San Mateo, state of Mexico, were executed under the terms of the proclamation suspending constitutional guarantees. At a meeting of actors and actresses in London, a resolution against the op, ening of theatres and music halls on Sundays was adopted. alty. Aviator Howard W. Gill of Baltimore Balti-more was fatally hurt at Chicago, j George Mestach of France, whose i monoplane collided with Gill's biplane when they were participating in a ! race seventy-five feet in the air, was picked up unconscious, but later he revived. William D. Haywood of Denver, gen- eral organizer of the Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World, was arrested at Bos-I Bos-I ton on Sunday on a capias warrant ' Issued as the result of the indictment ! charging him with conspiracy in con-I con-I nection with the strike of textile work-ers work-ers in Lawrence last winter. He was : released on $1,000 bond. I Three persons were killed and fifty injured in a tornado which marked a j ten-mile tail of Onondaga county, New York. The roperty loss is estimated ! at $250,000. On account of internal troubles, the Building Trades council has declared a strike of its members in Cincinnati 1 and called out 3,000 men employed on buildings now under construction. ! Martin Thompson, a farmer living near Council Bluffs, Iowa, killed his wife and eight-year-old son and then suicided, while temporarily insane. The city of Fago, N. D., has declared de-clared a dividend of 6 per cent, which will be paid in cash March 1. 1913. Mayor Sweet, in announcing the dividend, said: "Ten thousand dollars has been saved the city in the last year and we have decided to refund the surplus to taxpayers in portion por-tion to their last assessment." With the election of Judge Alfred B. Beers of Bridgeport, Conn., as commander-in-chief for the ensuing year, and the placing of the selection of the next encampment city in the hands of the administrative council, the forty-sixth forty-sixth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic officially ended at Los Angeles on Friday. WSlliam Rand, freshman at the state university at Raleigh, N. C, was killed while being hazed by sophomores. Rand, perched on a barrel and surrounded sur-rounded by his tormentors, fell off and "ashed his neck on a broken pitcher. t |