The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-11-04
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, October 26.


Private advices by st. Paul railroad
official from New York indicate that the
settlement of the Northern Securities
trouble is near at hand, the most i'm
portant feature being that the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific will
be separated and operated without ref
erence OF one to the other.
With a pacemaker carrying a wind
shield and accompanied by runner at
the side, Dan Patch" paced the fastest
mile at the Memphis park ever made
by horsc in harness circling the track
| in one minute and Sc seconds.
Five persons were killed in wreck on
the Wabash railroad at Sadorus. Ill.
| All five persons were buried beneath the
wreckage.
Packing houses in Omaha and Kansas
| City have received large orders for mess
beef to be shipped to the Orient. Most
of the orders are said to come from the
russians.
Former Governor Frank S. Black of
New York will go to Frankfort, KY, i'm
mediately after the election to become
the attorney for Caleb L. Powers, who
is awaiting execution in that state for
completely in the assassination OF Gov
ernOr William Goebel.
Secretary of State John Hay delivered
an address in Carnegie hall. New York,
to crowd that packed that building
beyond the doors. He was given a won
derful ovation.
Thursday, October 27.
Fire destroyed the pier at Forty-sec-
ond street, Brooklyn, and the steamer
City of Palermo OF the Prince line. which
was lying at the pier. The loss will
reach $5OO,OO0.
Floating gracefully in the air at an
average height of 30 feet above the
heads of several thousand spectators,
he airship designed and built by I. Q.
Benbow OF Columbus, Mont, made what
the inventor declares was a successful
trial flight in the aeronautic course at
the Worlds Fair in st. Louis.
Exercises marking the completion of
the main artery of Manhattan's subway
and the formal transfer OF the great un-
derground tunnel by the contractors to
the city OF New York have been held
The subway cost $35, 900, 900 and is the
greatest in the world.
The Trans Mississippi commercial con-
gress is in session at st. Louis and is de-
voting considerable time to the discus
sion of irrigation.
The Lewis and Clark exposition has
closed contract with an eastern com
pany for the erection of a mammoth
modern hotel at Guilds lake, within the
fair grounds at Portland. The hotel
will have 1000 rooms and is to be ready
for occupancy May l, 1905.
Friday, October Il.
Between 80 and so men are dead as
the result of an explosion in mine No.
of the Rocky Mountain Fuel and & Iron
Compeny at Terico, Colo. The mine is
burning and the exact number OF dead
may never be known.
Orders have been received at the
Brooklyn navy yard from the navy de-
partment to fit the cruiser Columbia for
sea at once, to carry Secretary of War
Taft and the Panama canal commission
to Colon.
Three distinct earthquake shocks were
felt at Meade and Dodge City, Kansas.
People were awakened, dishes thrown
from cupboards and windows broken,
although no great damage was done.
The New York subway route recently
opened is being literally patronized,
great crowds travelling at all hours of
the day and night.
Odds of six to one on Roosevelt are
being bet in New York city. That is
the greatest odds ever offered on a ma
tional election.
The Trans Mississippi commercial con-
gress, in session at st. Louis, has fin
ished it's business by voting to hold the
next annual meeting in Portland, Ore,
some time during the Lewis and Clark
fair.
Saturday, October 20.
New York city has been flooded with
bundles of lottery tickets sent out from
Chicago, accompanied by literature
Offering liberal commission on sales and