The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-10-28
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, October 10.

"cuHcsuAy. oCLODcr Id.
Six prominent residents of Columbia
5. g., two of whom are peace officers
have been arrested upon the charge o
completely in the lynching OF negro.
The directors of the Northern Pacifi,
railway have declared a regular dividend
OF y per cent and an extra dividend o
4 OF l per cent, both payable Novem
Der /.
Representatives of Mississippi planters
are employing whole families of Mexi-
cans for work in that state. There is 6
general movement in that state, it il
said, to get rid of negro labor as far al
possible.
A violent storm broke over Miami
Fla, and much damage was done. The
wind attained a maximum velocity OF rs
miles an hour.
The Middlesworth home for children
at Shelbyville, H., has been destroyed
by fire, and although the flames were
discovered while the childred were asleep
all but two were rescued.
Snow and hail has fallen in Western
| Kansas, driven by a strong wind, and
the temperature dropped to Al degrees
above zero. A terrific storm swept over
parts of the country and hail smashed
windows and ruined orchards and alfalfa
Sheep and cattle men have taught an
other pitched battle on Gray's river in
Wyoming and several persons were
killed.
Thursday. October 20.
Sergeant Tooley, Troop K, Fourth
United States cavalry, has been shot
near house of ill repute at Monterey,
Calf, and another member of the same
regiment, dangerously wounded. Their
assailants were members of the First
squadron, Ninth United States cavalry
| (cOlOred).
The supreme court of the United States
is hearing the case of E. j. Smiley vs..
the State of Kansas. This case raises
the question of the constitutionality of
the Kansas anti trust law, which Smiley
is charged with violating by forming a
pool to control the price OF grain.
The truck and wagon drivers in New
York who signed in May last an agree
ment Tor one year with the New York
Truck Owners Association, by which
strike was averted, are reported to be
on the verge OF quitting their jobs.
From 10000 to $4,000 people would be
affected.
The total number OF money orders
issued by the govrrnment during the last
fiscal year passed the 50,OOO,0 900 mark
for the first time in history. The net
revenue OF the money order business was
81, ,52S, ,4O3.
Charles Comment. q Frenchman, has
been captured at Sheep Mountain, Mont,
by posse which had been pursuing him
for several days. Comment is charged
with the murder of G. G. Tarrants, q
sheepman.
Friday, October II.
Grover Cleveland has delivered his
| first and only speech for the campaign
in Carnegie hall, New York. He eulo-
| gized Alton b. Parker.
| Two city detectives are dead at st.
| Louis and another is not expected to
live, while one train rObber suspect is at
the mOrgue and two others in the city
hospital, one probably fatally wounded
and the other badly beaten up, as a re-
suit of a desperate battle between five
officers and three men whom they tried
| to arrest.
Two million dollars is the amount OF
damage asked for ore alleged to have
been legally extracted from the Nipper
mine, through the underground work.
ings of the ParrOtt claim by representa-
tives OF the Amalgamated Copper Com
pany, according to complaint filed in
Butte by F. Augustus Heinze.
The Union Pacific's annual report of
the year ended June 80, shows a balance,
after paying 4 per cent on common
stock, Of $S, ,263 900. an increase of ST.
319, 600, out of which extraordinary ap-
preparations for improvements OF 3d.
555, 900 were made, leaving final sur
plus OF $4,713,O0O. or $230,O00 from
the previous year.
Saturday. October %.
Executive representatives of the Ma
tional Council of Jewish Women are
holding four days session in Temple
Isreal in st. Louis.
Three are known to have been killed
and number injured in a headOn col
lision between a northbound passenger
and freight train near Fayette, Miss.
The dead are two firemen and an
engineer.
The naval department at Washington
has announced that Moran Bros. OF Sc
attic, now finishing the battleship Ne
braska, have been furnished plans and
specifications for new battleships and
armored cruisers and are expected to
bid on at least one new warship.
This years total registration in
Greater New York is 6SS,775, which ex.
ceeds by nearly $4,000 the record oil
1900.
Patrick Mclaughlin and Butler Con
nelly, amalgamated association men
former employees of the Carnegie mills
have been shot in Youngstown, Ohio, by
strike breakers.
A portion of the store of Durand &
Kasper Company, wholesale grocers o
Chicago, has been destroyed by fire
Loss 100000.
: Sunday, October 23.
The annual report of the governor O
Arizona to the secretary of the interio
says the territorial population has in
creased very materially and the tota
. population now is between 165, 900 an
10000.
The official figures of the receipts an
expenses of the worlds fair for the frs
four months, May, June, July and AUG
: ust, show the total receipts to hav
been 20,665, ,020; disbursements, $40
ATT ,065, leaving a balance on han
September 1, of $18S ,955,