The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-02-26
: s'gEEN THE OCEANS
C0ncis, 5ummary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
a Great Country.
Wednesday, February II.

The transport Dix has sailed from
San Francisco with q large cargo oil
oats, forage and horses for the Philip
pines.
Rear Admiral Chadwick has been
ordered to Gibralter to assume com.
mand OF the European squadron, reliev-
ing Rear Admiral Cotton.
Receivers have been appointed for the
american Malleable Iron Company oil
Chicago.
New York harbor is full of ice foes
and navigation is greatly retarded
Many OF the ferry boats are unable to
operate.
Governor Odell OF New York has
named his board of five expert engineers
VINO Will carry out the plan of canal en-
iargement IN that state, authorized by
the last Legislature and $101 100000
mas been appropriated for the purpose.
The territorial democratic central
committee of New Mexico has adopted
resolutions favoring joint statehood
with Arizona. A resolution endorsing
W. Il. Hearst for the presidential nOmi-
nee was voted down unanimously.
The japanese minister at Washington
has received a cable from his govern
ment accepting the offers of DR.. Anita
NewcOmb McGee of Washington, D. c.,
to take to Japan a party of trained
nurses who have seen field service in the
camps and hospitals OF the United States
army.
Application has been made for a re-
ceiver for the Old Town Fire Insurance
Company of Baltimore. Liabilities ex-
ceed the assets by 100000.
Thursday, February 1S.
At meeting of the American News
paper Publishers Association in New
York a resolution was unanimously
adopted calling upon the president and
attorney general of the United States to
institute suit against paper c0mbina-
tons, alleging that the print paper mills
had formed a trust.
A severe storm is raging in West Vir-
glnia. The entire country il beneath a
sheet OF ice an inch thick, the result of
"a hours sleet Railroad traffic is de-
layed and wires are down.
Abner Mckinley. brother OF the late
President Mckinley, is seriously i'll at
his home at Somerset, Pa.
The Greenwich Insurance Company OF
New York has closed a contract reinsur-
ing ali its outstanding fire risks in the
Commercial Union Insurance Company
OF London. The Greenwich Company
goes out OF buriness as a result of the
Baltimore fire.
The only individual failure so far as a
result Of the Baltimore fire is that of
William Stewart & Sons, dealers in
builders hardware, who lOst $4,000.
The heavy ice foes in New York harbor
now cover the bay from shore to shore.
The ebb-tide brought the ice with ire
slstable force. Navigation is suspended.
1t is announced from Washington that
the Russian government has abandoned
the idea OF making an exhibit at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St.
Louis, because of it's inability to make
what it considers a suitable display of
Russian products.
Friday, February 10.
Attended by excitement not often
equaled, wheat advanced on the Chicago
board nearly four cents per hushel.
"DOllar" wheat was made a mere remi-
niscence. May delivery sold as high as
81 OBJ, the highest mark reached since
1898.
Secretary Hay announces that the
Russian government has refused to
grant Edwin Y. Morgan an exequatur
authorizing him to act as United States
consul at Dalny, Corea, The refusal is
the subject of grave consideration in
official circles.
Fire destroyed the paint works of F.
W. DeVOe 4 G. r. Reynolds Company in
Brooklyn, loss 100000. One hundred
families were driven from neighboring
buildings.
Martial law will come to an end in
San Miguel county, Colo. Every man
of the national guard will be withdrawn.
Wheat for May delivery has again
sold on the Chicago market for $1.O3
Almost all provisions felt the effect of
the market.
Twentyfour persons were killed and
u badly injured by the explosion of a
carload of dynamite at Jackson, Utah.
Eight OF the dead and five of the in ured
are Americans, the remainder are Greeks.
Saturday, February 20.
Wheat for May delivery sold on the
CulCdSO udfKeG lOF S1.UI Ouslei,
gain of four cents over the previous
days closing. The market was extreme
ly active, and the volume OF trading was
OF enormous proportions.
Postmaster General Payne, who will
act as chairman of the national republi-
can committee, has received the resigna-
tion of Perry S. Heath as secretary of
the committee, and will accept the same
Elmer Dover, the assistant secretary,
will have charge until the meeting of the
committee.
blazing Larimer avenue electric car,
with all breaks off and with 20 passen-
gers aboard, raced down Fifth avenue,
Pittsburg, Pa. For 10 minutes after
the car came to a stop it burned furious
ly. Four of the passengers seariously
hurt.
One person was killed and seven seri-
ously injured by a Pennsylvania passen-
ger train wreck at Hobart, Ind.
An explosion of the Latin & Rand
powder mills at Wayne, n j., caused the
death OF three men. The mills were
wrecked.
President Roosevelt has selected the
men who are to constitute the new Pan
ANA canal commission and formal an
nouncement of the personnel of the COM
| mission will he made as aoOn aa Tho