The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-08-23
Sunday, August 1S.

Dr. L. ID. Wood has resigned his nosi.
ton as professor of hygiene and organic
traih'hg at Stanford university. Cal.
ana accepted a similar position in the
teachers college of Columbia university.
The census bureau has issued report
on Ine agricultural statistics for Alaska.
lt SHOWS that Alaska's total farm
Weaith June l, 1900, was $15,6S6. of
Wh1ch S2l96 was invested in live stock
SoSO 10 implements and machinery and
$lz,ouO represented the value OF huild-
ings and other improvements. Poultry
raising IN 1899 was relatively the most
prontaOle branch of Alaskan agricul
ture.
car on the Fifteenth street Rsnid
transit line collided with Long Branch
hallway company locomotive at Ken
slneIon crossing in the lower part OF
Brooklyn, n. Y. The motormsn.
named Lee, was killed outright and
some ~ or 25 passengers on their way
TO Coney Island were injured. Three of
these, it is said, will die.
Colonel DunwOody, acting chief signal
officer, has received a cablegram from
General Greely in the Philippines, stat
q.
Japan, on Monday.
Monday, August 10.
A. W. Graham, first vice-presidpnt of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad, died
today at PetOsky, Mich.
DR.. Edward Claypole of Pasadena,
is dead. Mr.. ClaypoIe was a we'll
known geOlogist and was formerly a
member of the faculty of Buchtel college,
Akron, Ohio.
Most Eminent Sir Reuben II. Lloyd,
accompanied by 100 Sir Knights OF
California commandery, left San Fran
cisco In special train for Louisville to
attend the 2Sth annual conclave of the
Knights Templar. The pilgrims will
MAKE stops at Ogden, Salt Lake, Denver
and Omaha. The special train includes
two refrigerator cars filled with fruit and
wine!
Senor VarOna has issued a circular to
the presidents of the board of education
throughout Cuba reminding them that
they should use great care in the selec.
tiOn Of teachers and should not allow
the political opinion of candidates to
weigh for or against them Recently
complaints have been made that the ap
pOlntnlents of teachers by boards of
education have not been marked bv
fairness.
An explosion of 10 tons of molten
metaS n the blast furnace at the plant
of theoNatiOnal Steel company today re-
suited 10 the death of three wOrkingmeu
and in the injury of IL Others. Two
men are in a dying condition and at
af fu,n nfh .of h.
expected to survive. The machinery
which connected the ladle connecting
the molten metal broke and allowed the
metal to drop into a vat containing
water.
The Brooklyn trolley car accident
which occurred last night has resulted
ia the death OF one man besides the
noforman, John Sirenik, who was
killed outright. Joseph ROsenbacher
passenger upon the car, died in hos
pital. The conductor and 20 pass
engers were injured, some of them very
seriously, but the hospital authorities
report that none of them are in danger of
death.
Tuesday, August 20.
Jack Wade of Salt Lake was given the
decision over kid" Ogelsby of Helena,
at the end OF a 20 round go before
local athletic association. The threat
ened interference by the attorney general
did not materialize.
Rev. Frederick Russell of the New
York Law and Order league was ar
rested today on a charge of extortiOn
preferred by James Fl. Lawrence, a re-
porter for morning newspaper. The
complaint charges that Lawrence, under
an assumed name, approached Russell
and agreed to a payment of money
for protection from raid by agents of
the law and order league, Lawrence
pretending that he was about to place a
number of slot machines in resorts in
New York. Russell denies the charge
Will Cooley, negro, was lynched by
a mob composed of 1000 armed citizens
of Pierce City, Mo-, shortly after dark
for the murder of Miss Caselle Wild,
whose dead body was found in the
woods near here.
An unidentified man, supposed to have
come to Chicago from San Francisco,
committed suicide in the Empress hotel,
1900 North Clark street. He had been
a guest in the hotel.
Adam kest and Joseph Eugene, two
OF the wOrkmen who were trapped in the
waterwOrks tunnel 200 feet below the
surface of Lake Erie by the burning Of
the crib No. 2 last Wednesday morning,
were rescued from their dangerous posi-
tion and are now lying semiconscious at
the Huron Street hospital, says Cleve-
land, Ohio, dispatch. With careful
nursing the physicians say they will
soon rpcOVor their f0rmor Sfronoth