The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-10-20

no scrimination should be made in th,
new state between union and non. unior
men.
President Roosevelt has decided upor
the appointment OF DR.. H. W. Furness
OF Indianapolis, a prominent negro as
minister to Hayti, vice W. F. Powell
whose resignation was accepted today
Or. Furniss is at present consul to
Bahia.
The emperor OF Japan and the emperor
OF Russia today signed their respective
copies OF the peace treaty, thus officially
announcing to the world that the Russo.
Jap war was at an end.
December wheat closed at S5bc at
Chicago today.
Sunday, October 10
The Fall River cotton manufacturer
| association have notified their 25. 900
employees that their wages will be ad
vanced. The textile council voted on
Sunday last to demand a raise and this
may have had something to do with the
voluntary" offering OF the manufactur.
ers association.
Five trainmen were killed today at
| Seaton, LII when heavy double-header
freight train on the Illinois Central ran
into bunch of cattle on the track. Both
| locomotives and a IL cars were piled in
heap.
Following are the official figures with
regard to the yellow fever situation at
New Orleans up to 6 p. M today: New
cases, 8; total, 1914. Deaths, 3: total.
43l. Cases under treatment, 143 Cases
discharged. 274O.
Prof. Tyler of Amherst college, at a
luncheon given by the Western Massa-
| chusetts Grammer Masters club at
Springfield, Mass, today, speaking of
the rigid requirements of woman's col
leges, said the colleges were working an
incalculable injury to girls, adding,
III there is one girl graduate at thesend
OF the year, even though 999 have
dropped out physical wrecks, then will
the elect get together and think God
for the one graduate =
1t remained for the Wasco, Tex, con
ference of the colored Baptist church to
laud John d. Rockefeller as an inspired
giyer. They also commended what he
has done for the advancement OF educa-
tion in the religious world.
Prof. Landouzy of the French faculty
OF medicine, makes the statement that
dogs are largely responsible for the
spread of consumption The professor
emphasizes the danger Of infection from
pets, especially when small children are
allowed to fOndle them.
Monday Oct 10,
W. r. Hearst, the municipal owner
ship candidate for mayor Of New York
city, tonight declined to accept chal.
lenge of W. M. Wins, the republican
nominee, to appear in Joint debate on
campaign issues.
While at the side Of the grave in which
her husband was being inferred at
Chicago today Mrs. Patrick McGarry
was relieved of her pocketbook by thieves,
as was also another mourner On re
turning to her home the widow found
that it had been entered and all the
loose valusbles taken.
A story of shipwreck in which eight
people suffered so fearfully that six of
them either died outright were washed
away, or crazed by their sufferings, threw
themselves into the sea, was told today
by the two survivors of the schooner,
Van Nome and King of New Haven,
Conn which was lost off the South Caro-
na coast Oct. g. The two men we're
picked up in mid ocean by the steamer
Kelly, and taken to Boston.
District Judge Brooks today held that
the gross RECEIPTS tax law on railroads,
passed by the last Texas legislature, is
valid, The enforcement of this tax will
annually cost the railroads operating in
that state $640,O00.
The general council of the Evangelical
Lutheran church OF America in session
at Philadelphia today adopted the re-
vised translation OF Luther's cathecism
in place of the old translation and the
church book committee was given power
to act.
Seventeen persons were seriously
injured, one fatally, by the wreckiDg of
the west bound Missouri Pacific train at
kiIburn, Col, today. The accident was
caused by spreading rails.
Dec, wheat closed at 85B cents at
Chicago today.
Tuesday, October IL.
Twenty Los Angeles girls are to be in
itiated into Buddhist faith Thursday
evening by means of impressive cere.
monies. These twenty young women, it
is said, are the first who ever have at
tanned to a degree of knowledge in the
teachings of Buddhism sufficient to en-
title them to full enrolment as members
of the faith.
President Roosevelt will leave Wash
ington tomorrow at $50 O'Clock for a
tour of the south, accompanied by Mrs
Roosevelt, Secretary Loeb, Surgeon Gen.
eral Rixey, U. S. n, and Others.
At an early hour this morning the
body OF Sir Henry Irving was removed
in great secrecy to a crematorium, where
it was cremated. The ashes were taken
to Westminster abbey, where they will
lie in the chapel until the funeral Friday.
Five tons of molten metal exploded
today at the Joliet plant of the Illinois
Steel company, falling in a shower OF
death on band of workmen about the
converter One man is dead, three
fatally burned and half dozen injured
so badly that they may die.
Even presidents daughter s not
above the most lowly when it comes to
paying duty at port of entry The
collector OF the port of San Francisco,
was instructed today to collect the legal
duty on all dutiable articles brought
back to this country by Miss Alice r os :
welt. The total of the duty is expected
to reach nearly 100000.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson is at
| deaths door, at Wichita, Kan. Mrs.