The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-03-10
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, March 1.

VentIOn OF representatives OF all nations
against the invasion and propaganda o
plague and cholera.
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford OF San
Francisco, Cal, widow of the late U. s
Senator Leland Stanford, died at 11:4C
o'clock last night, in Honolulu under
suspicious circumstances, pointing, iu
the opinion of the physicians who at
tended her in her dying hour, to poison
ing by the administration Of strychinne
in vial OF bicarbOnate OF soda.
Former United States Senator Wolcott
of Colorado, died in France tonight
where he had been visiting in the hope oil
getting relief from influenza.
James B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco company. is seri
ously i'll at his home in New, York City
from blood poisoning, caused by the
removal of corn several days ago.
B S. Finch, an official of Brooklyn
coal company, submitted to an opera
tion for the removal OF his tongue. A
cancer having formed at the base OF the
tongue caused from smoking.
Thursday, March 2.
Harry Wilson, a half breed Indian from
Oklahoma, while in an intoxicated con-
dition, jumped from a rock 235 feet
above the water into the pool below the
Shoshone falls this afternoon and got
out practically uniDjured.
The University OF Chicago is to be
transformed into an American Oxford.
Elaborate plans involving the erection,
in the near future, of two solid blocks OF
new buildings at a probable cost OF
$5,OOO,00O and a complete change in
the original university, were announced
by the faculty today.
Documentary and oral evidence of a
drug trust, which does a business of
S400, 100000 and robs the American
public Of $40, 100000 annually, has been
brought out at hearing in Chicago be
fore Commissioner Sampsel for the
federal government. The evidence is to
be turned over to Attorney General
Moody.
A dance at the American embassy in
Paris, France, tonight. inauguraUed the
festivities attending the wedding of Miss
Elsie Porter, daughter of the ambassa.
dor, to DR.. Edwin Mende OF Zurich,
Switzerland.
Charles Montgomery Skinner, drama
author, was the leader in a strike row
between strikers to prevent the sale of
the Brooklyn Eagle and the Eagles EN-
pIoyes who were selling the Eagle tonight
in Manhattan, New York. Skinner and
ten Others were arrested and was later
bailed out by the business manager of
the Eagle.
Friday, March 3.
Seven men were killed and a score of
persons were injured tonight at Clifton,
| ~ nF Do IN a
rear end collision of special trains bound
from Cleveland to Washington on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago rail
way carrying Ohio delegations to the in
auguratiOn.
Ferdinand Ingraham, an insane man
walked into the office of John T. Grim
Minis, president of the City Trust com
pany, in Wall street today, saying that
the angels had instructed him to kill
MIR. Crimmins. He was quickly over
powered and taken to police station.
Binger Hermann, member of congress
from Oregon and former commissioner
of the general land Office, today was in
dicted by the federal grand jury at
Washington, d. c., on the charge of de,
stroying public records. Mr.. Hermann's
bonds we're fixed at $500.
DR.. Walter S. Christopher, known ma
tionally as a specialist in children's di-
seases, died at his home in Chicago today
OF heart failure, aged 46 years.
Vice-P President Fairbanks will be the
guest Of honor at the annual dinner Oi
the Ohio society of New York, on
March IS.
Saturday, March 4.
NJ C ~ &c
sentatives, 5Sth congress, was presented
with handsome loving cup today, the
tribute of affection and esteem of the
members, regardless OF party.
In collision between an Eighth
avenue trolley car and an automobile,
at One Hundred and Thirty fifth streets,
New York City today, four men and two
women were badly cut and bruised. The
automobile, valued at $4,000, was
} completely wrecked and the street car
badly battered up.
In his anxiety to swallow alleged in.
eliminating evidence during raid in
Brooklyn, New York today, Hugh
Winters, the reputed proprietor OF a
poolroom, nearly checked to death.
His life was saved by the prompt action
OF an ambulance surgeon. When the
OUbGruCLlOu WdS EeuOFcu HUH w lutcT 3
throat with the aid of instruments it
was found to be part of racing sheet.
The scrap removed was carefully pre-
served as evidence by the police.
The will of the late Jane Lathrop
Stanford was filed today with the county
clerk OF Santa Clara county, in the city
of San Jose, Cal.
Sunday, March 8.
The largest white sapphire ever dis
covered was brought to Berlin by NJ
Heppner, German engineer, who has
resided many years in Brazil, where be
possesses several mines. Before cutting
the stone weighed 1850 karats, but q
flaw caused the cleavage OF a piece
weighing 400 karats. The owner values
the stone at 200, 900 crowns.
Two men are dead and six people in
, jured as the result of collision between
freight train and the westbound TwiI
. Cities express on the Northern Pacific al
Bearmouth, Mont, this afternoon. W
F. Wilcox, chief clerk OF the railway mai