The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-06-16

bulletin, issued today, gives the con
ditlOns OF winter wheat as S5 g. Acreage
OF spring wheat as compared with last
year 17,613,0U0 or 2S increase.
Conditions of oats, 92 8 as compared
with 90 2 last year. Barley, 80 Z as
compared with 9.O5. Rye, 80 6 against
SO 3.
The recent decision of the London
diocese that no divorced person, wheth
er guilty or innocent, shall be remarked
while the other party is alive, in
the Anglican church is causing much
comment within the Church OF England,
both in England and America.
July wheat closed at Sc < at Chicago
today.
Sunday, June IL.
A break in the high pressure water
main at Forty second street, New York,
today caused serious damage to the sub
way passenger road, endangering the
lives OF thousands OF passengers and
effectually putting stop to that kind Of
traffic for a number of hours.
In the Chicago transfers strike a
critical stage was passed when the refer
endum vote of the team owners associ-
alton on the question OF forcing the men
to deliver to strike bound houses was
counted The vote resulted in 155 of
the team owners voting to remain neu-
tral, while three voted in favor of com
pelling the men to deliver to boycotted
houses.
The food which has overfowed thous
ands of acres OF fine land in the vicinity
of KeOkuk, Ia, is slowly receding, the
hox fnIl ahn
reaching a standstill last night. Losses
throughout the flooded district will reach
into the hundreds Of thousand of dollars
james SammOn, q pioneer saloon
keeper of Leadville, Col, was murdered
this morning by robbers who succeeded
in making their escape. The officers
have no cleW as to who committed the
crime.
The jury which has been sitting at
Liberty, Mo-, for the past week on the
case of Agnes Meyers returned verdict
OF guilty of murder in the first degree
This means that the woman will be
hanged. She was convicted of partici
pating in the murder Of her husband at
Kansas City,
A sensational shooting ecrape occur
red near Palmetto, La, today in which
Tom Carroll, Oscar tredricks and Tom
Nc ee and Constable Soileau was mort
ally wounded. The cause of the shooting is
supposed to have been an old grudge be-
tween Carroll and Constable SOileau.
Monday. June 12
Raymond Coin, aged IA, and Mabel
Cooper, aged 10, were accidentally shot
today and perhaps fatally wounded with
a shot gun in the hands of Claudine
Coin, the 13 year old sister Of the boy.
A farmers packing company has been
organized in Chicago with a capital
stock Of 81, 900 900. The purpose OF the
company is to enter the packing
business in competition with the Chicago
packing industries.
Three additional cases Of yellow fever
were reported in the canal zone in q
cablegram to the war department from
the governor of that territory.
All the schools and churches Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, have been closed on &C
count of the prevalence of small pox in
that city. The disease has taken the
form OF a dangerous epidemic. Seventy
five cases being reported today.
More than 200 employees of the United
States mint at Philadelphia were today
suspended ind fnitely. The coming de-
partment and the melting room
were closed down because of a lack of
silver bullion. The order closing these
departments was received from Washing
ton on Saturday.
July wheat closed at 86%c in Chicago
today.
Tuesday, June 1S.
The Lake Shore railroad established q
new speed record between Chicago and
Buffalo today. The distance, 526 miles,
over the air line division, was covered in
453 minutes, thus beating the worlds
record of 40 minutes made last Sunday.
With her little body bruised and torn
almost beyond recognition, Syear- old
Pearl Shibley's ifeless form was dragged
into her parents barnyard this morning
at Oak Creek, near Jerome, Ariz Around
her neck was tied strap which also ex-
tended around the neck OF the horse.
Her younger brother was with her on
the horse when she left home, but is not
to be found. 1t is thought the child was
outraged and this method was attempt
ed to hide the crime.
Three people were killed and 20 injured
in a wreck Oh the Southern Railway at
Golden Gate, Ill.,, today. While running
at a speed OF so miles an hour the engine
struck a spread rail on a trestle 20
feet high and the engine and four
coaches were overturned and fell to
the bottom OF the ravine.
The court of appeals at Albany, NY,
today refused to grant a stay of execu-
ton OF the death sentence, to permit
motion for new argument, in the case
of Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the
murder of William R Rice. The court
within the next three days will fix the
date OF execution.
According to a new ordinance New
York city is to attempt new scheme
with regard to the drink habit that
would find universal approval among
drunks, at least for the first three trips.
Ii man is arrested there for drunken
ness and he swears that he has not been
arrested more than three times within
year for the same offense, the police cap
tain is at liberty to turn him loose In
the morning. Provision is made to
purnish those who swear falsely.
The first general strikeslin ten years
among the foundry men of New York has
begun for 35 per cent increase, and has
caused a stoppage at the foundries OF
the New York and New Jersey Foundry
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