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Show m History of Past Week T1- Jrt f m--jimiii Bll , mn r I,- M ftwilalal II he News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed G IN TERMOUNTAIN. (Iciirpe W. Hliepard, aged I'l, was sun Med at Denver on information t'n.iri Oklahoma authorities, en a charge of I In; murder, ill Seminole i miiy, Oklahoma, in lltox, of bis ou.iin, John Sliepard. Shepard had lived in Colorado for six years under J li f name of Henry Owens. I.iiiiiidas D. Chandler, probably tlie nly surviving comrade of Kit Carson, Hie noted scout and Ind an tighter of i he (il'tics, died at his home at South Windsor, Conn., March lit. Chandler was wiili Carson in Colorado in IS. 17 iind ISIS. The potash deposits near M a rys vale, I 'tail, are to be opened up to till the jlimand caused by the cessation of - ii i pmerii s from Germany. The sending of United Stales eav-:lry eav-:lry against the renegade Piute In-.fl'ians In-.fl'ians under Old I 'ol k and Old I'osey ts being planned by Brigadier General 'Hugh L. Scott following the failure of .liis efforts to persuade the Indians to itirreinU'r. The eleventh session of the Utah legislature ended March 12. At the annual meeting of the Credit Men's association, which was held at Kl Paso, Texas, it was voted to send n large delegation to the national meeting of credit men, to be held in t!alt hake in June. DOMESTIC. The spectacular career of Lincoln ISeaeiiey, one of the most daring of American aviators, was ended Sunday when he fell to his death at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco Fran-cisco in sight of thousands of spectators. specta-tors. Beachey was drowned in the Oay. Hairy K. Thaw and his four alleged fo-ronspirat.prs in the escape from .Matteawan asylum were found not guilty by a jury at New York. Thaw's counsel will now attempt to secure his freedom. The New Mexico legislatuie adjourned ad-journed March 13, after continuing in session one da' beyond what the attorney at-torney general of the state declared was the. constitutional sixty-day limit. Mrs. Peter Veuve, who was Goutiness Gouti-ness .leane D. Madre, once a belle of Kuropeaii courts and a friend of Empress Em-press Eugenie, died 'March lu m ner mall cottage in . South Bend, Ind., it became known Sunday. She . was S3 years old. A vessel flying the German flag has finally passed through the Panama canal. The little gasoline launch Ger-mania, Ger-mania, owned by the chief engineer of cue of the interned Hamburg-Ameri-cau liners in Colon harbor, made the rrip a few days ago from Cristobal to JJalboa and return. Governor Bustinto has denied that .lie had any intention of preventing .the Wiilard-Johuson fignt from taking place in Havana, as had been ru-anored. ru-anored. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the richest man in the world, died at Tarrytown, N. Y., March 12, at the iige of 70. The American ship Honduras, with arms and ammunition for General t'arrana at Vera Cruz, is being held at Key West by direction of customs headquarters while trie case has been referred to the state department. Formal announcement is made of he termination of the $100,000,000 j;old pool organized in the early weeks of the European war by New-York New-York banks and trust companies to itabili-e foreign exchange between A'ew York and London. From "inside" sources it was learned learn-ed that the Johnson-Willard championship cham-pionship fight, scheduled for Sunday, April 4, at Havana, will positively not take place. American capitalists in Cuba are going to protest, fearing race riots. Deliberations in the lower house of the Nebraska legislature were interrupted in-terrupted one day last week by a physical phy-sical encounter between Representative Representa-tive Y. J. Taylor and P. A. Barrows, a correspondent for an Omaha newspaper. news-paper. A resolution favoring branding all Gutter made from neutralized cream aind putting a tax on the same was passed at the closing session of the ..National Association of Creamery ISuttermakers at Mason City. Iowa: The Minnesota senate has rejected ii bill proposing a constitutional amendment- for state-wide prohibition. A law providing for the disposal of prohibition question by counties ninady has been enacted by this leg-! is'.ature. Mayor E. N. Woodruff of Peoria opened the fifteenth annual tournament tourna-ment of the American Bowling congress con-gress at Peoria, Ills., by rolling the first ball down one of the fourteen new alleys. In a speech in New York City, Oscar Y. Underwood, house majority leader in the last congress and now a senator sena-tor from Alabama, declared that "if governmental regulation is unable to cope with the vexed problem that eon-fronts eon-fronts us, the people will accept government gov-ernment ownership as the next step ahead." Steel passenger coaches saved the lives of scores of passengers on the "Dixie Flyer" of the Chicago 4i Eastern East-ern Illinois railroad when trie train was wrecked at "n-l'Hiin, Ind. Three I passenge: s were killed Eski Sheiir in A-iia Minor, il is re-port-d, has been seler-'ed as !m Ottoman Otto-man capita! until t!,e fate of Constantinople Constan-tinople has been il-t -rmin-'d. Funeral services for .Mrs. John !). Rockefeller lure held Sunday a' ill-' Rockefeller home at Tarryiowu, N. Y.I (July members or the family. close friends and employes of il,.- Rockefeller Rocke-feller estate a' tended. Mayor Mitchell f vu- York City promised in an address he delivered in Brooklyn that he- would vote for j woman suffrage- in November. The . mayor said he was convinced that it j was only a mailer of time before I women would vote in that state. ; WASHINGTON j Colonel W. H. Crook, disbursing of- ficer of llie While House, who was J President Lincoln's bodyguard, and j who has been intimately acquainted j with every president since lsOn, died March I'i at his homo in Washington. The Piybilott islands wh-re the seals come fro.ii will be put under piohibitive regulations by order of the Secretary of Commerce Kedlield. It seems the islanders have a native drink known as "quass." which has become altogether too popular. Secretary McAdoo was operated on for appendicitis at a hospital in Washington Wash-ington on March 12. The physicians 1 issued a bulletin saying the operation had been successful in every way. Officials of the American government govern-ment have decided that the time to be allowed the German raider Pnnz Eitel Friedrich to repair at Newport News shall remain an official secret. Secretary Lane announced after the cabinet meeting Friday that he had entered into a contract with private interests to build a $250,000 plant to handle the invention of Dr. Walter G. Rittman of the bureau of mines a process for the manufacture of gasoline, gaso-line, dyestuffs and explosives. FOREIGN. The Chinese government has official offic-ial information to the effect that the second Japanese squadron, conveying two divisions of approximately 30,000 soldiers, has sailed for China. German submarines have been particularly par-ticularly active of late in British waters, wat-ers, with the result that seven British Brit-ish steamers have been torpedoed since .March 10. The Germans, according to reports, are already sending large numbers of troops to Flanders, in the belief that a general offensive on the part of the allies has been begun. An experiment in drafting unemployed unem-ployed jewelers from Birmingham to Elswick, so that they might reinforce the makers of guns and other munitions muni-tions of war, has proved so satisfactory satisfac-tory that other drafts are being arranged. ar-ranged. A dispatch from Ferrol, a port in Corunna, Spaiu, stat s that the sea has thrown up a number of dead horses and oxen, and fishermen declare de-clare the whole coast is littered with the carcasses of animals. It is believed be-lieved they came from the wreck of a large steamer carrying cattle destined for the allies. The submarine U-29, one of the largest larg-est and fastest of German underwater craft, had a successful three days off the Scilly islands and in the British channel, where on Thursday, 'Friday and Saturday, she succeeded in sinking sink-ing four British steamers and one French steamer and damaging three ethers. Reports received from Manzanillo, Mexico, say anarchy prevails there. The Carranza troops in possession being be-ing unable to maintain order, and that the food supply is decreasing. The United States battleship Georgia Geor-gia arrived at Vera Cruz on Sunnay. The other warships there are the battleship bat-tleship Delaware and the cruiser Washington. The British steamship Indian City, which sailed from Galveston for Havre. February IS, has been sunk. The Indian City carried a cargo of cotton. The crew of the British bark Conway Con-way Castle, sunk by the German cruiser Dresden off Corral, Chile, on her way to Liverpool with a cargo of barley, has been landed at Valparaiso. John B. McManus, p.n American citizen, citi-zen, was murdered in Mexico City, shot down in his home, the door of which had been sealed with the coat of arms of the United States, and over which flew the stars and stripes. Because the inhabitants of Lille, a city in France, occupied by the Germans, Ger-mans, made a demonstration in honor hon-or of a group of prisoners of war brought into the city, the German military authorities in control imposed impos-ed a tax of 50,000 francs to be paid by the city before March 20. The French chamber of deputies has passed a bill calling the 1916 class of recruits. These recruits will not be, J sent to the front, however, until after '.he men of the older classes are utilized. uti-lized. Great Britain's plon to give effect to the naval reprisals against Germany was embodied in an order-in-councll signed Thursday by King George. A decree has been - published adjourning ad-journing the Greek parliament for a month. It is probable that the chamber cham-ber will then be dissolved. Members of the Prussian diet, who have been visiting prisoner camps, have received information that at present there are 7S1.000 war prison- ; ers interned in Germany, an increase ' since the end of 1914 of over 200,000 1 men. |