The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-10-21
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, October IL.


The Standard Oil Company has gained
control OF the Union Pacific, the Oregon
Short Line and the Oregon Railway &
Navigation Company and Mr.. Hartman
is now under the ROckefelers and the
Goulds.
Nine children were seriously burned in
San Francisco by the explosion of q
gasoline burner which had caught fire in
a restaurant.
The members OF the Panama canal
commission have called upon President
Roosevelt and given him a detailed re-
port OF the work thus far accomplished
toward the construction of the isthmian
waterway.
Charles f. Kelley, former speaker OF
the lower house of the st. Louis assem- bly, !,
and Charles A. Gutke, a former member
of that board, have been sentenced to
terms in the Missouri penitentiary for
connection with bribery deals.
The cruiser Chicago, which has received
an overhauling in the navy yard at
Boston, Mass, has been ordered to the
Pacific coast, to relieve the flagship New
York Of the Pacific squadron.
The state treasurer of Kansas is short
in his accounts and Governor Bailey has
instructed the attorney general to com
mence action.
Thursday, October IS.
The New York Rapid Transit commits
sion has formally authorized August
Belmont and John B. Mcdonald to open
the main line of the subway to the gen
eral public on Thursday, October 27.
The Cimmaron river in New Mexico
has been the highest in its history and
three towns have been destroyed. Three
lives are reported lost.
In a public speech delivered before the
American Street Railway association in
St. Louis, President Francis declared
that the worlds fair has lost at least
81 900, 900, through being compelled to
close Sunday.
Kuhn, Loeb L Co. and Speyer & Co.
have purchased 100000 Central Pa
cific 4 per cent bonds, guaranteed by the
Southern Pacific company and secured
by first mortgage on the Lucin cutoff,
which now forms part OF the transcOnti-
mental main line.
Chicago is to have the largest hotel in
the world. 1t will cost 10000, 900, be
% stories high and dwarf in size and
magnificen ce, it is promised, any struc-
ture of the kind ever erected.
Friday, October IA.
d 80 showing perfect confidence ia re-
publican success throughout the whole
country, the betting odds on Roosevelt
in New York are getting longer every
day. The odds are 10 to 3, the most
remarkable figures ever known in a ma
tiOnal campaign.
San Francisco is preparing to spend
$2,OO0,OOO for public improvements,
which will extend to the parks and pub
lie places of the city.
Eight torpedo boats, evidently des
tined for Japan, are en- transit over the
Great Northern from Fore River, Mass,
to Seattle, 10 cars being used in trans
pOrtatiOn.
The coal miners of district No. IA,
Knoxville, Tenn, have decided to accept
the per cent reduction in wages offered
by the operators. There are about
5000 union men in the district.
The racing stable of Henry C. Whit
ney has been sold in New York at public
auction. Eighty fine brood mares, eight
stations, and number of the famous
turf animals Of America we're in the lot.
Gunners on the cruiser New York, at
practice off the Mexican coast, have
broken the worlds record for firing with
eight inch guns.