The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-06-16
BETWEEN THH OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.

Wednesday, June
WILDER F. Sanders, chairman Of the
early day vigilantes, a pioneer of the
state OF Montana, former United States
senator and one of the best known men
OF the state, is dying at his home in
Helena from the effects of a caucerous
growth, together with paralysis.
Mayor Weaver Of Philadelphia today
dismissed IL policemen for direlection
OF duty, The city treasurer reported
that SIS, 6S4, 900 Of the city's money
was on deposit at 2 per cent in 81 banks
and A trust companies.
The aspect of the teamsters' strike in
Chicago is reaching a very acute stage.
A committee of the men met a commit
tee from the employ ers today, but were
so far apart it was considered futile to
continue the meeting. 1t is thought
they will meet again tomorrow, after
consultation with their respective organ
lZatiOns, when hopes are entertained that
an amicab.e agreement can be reached.
Ii not grave fears are entertained az to
the outcome, as 5000 drivers are on the
verge OF going out
General Castro, Vincente Gomez and
General Velentini respectively were elect
ed president, first vice president and
second vice president of Venezuela today.
William W. Karr, the accountant Of
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington,
was arrested today on the charge of en-
bezzlement, which aggregates SAG, 900
according to his own confession, and has
been going on for the past 15 years.
William Jennings Bryan today doliv-
cred the commencement address at the
Illinois college, Jacksonville. The degree
of doctor of laws was conferred upon
him by the college.
July wheat closed at 86Bc at Chicago
today.
Thursday, June s
The opinion OF Attorney General
Moody regarding the application Of the
S-hOur, law on the Panama canal holds
that the law is applicable on that work,
but does not apply to clerks or office
help, as they do not come under the
heading, "laborers and mechanics
Prince Leopold Won Hohenzollern,
cousin OF Emperor William, died sud
denly at Berlin today, aged 20,
Judge James Leathers of Indianapolis
today decided the anti cigarettee law,
passed by the last legislature, was con
stitutional except wherein it may conflict
with the interstate commerce law. Smok-
ers may import cigarettes and smoke
them, but it is unlawful to sell or give
them away in Indiana.
Reports from the flooded basin north
Of Grand Rapids, Mich, Indicate that
the worst is over and the river is falling.
Loss on account OF the high water will
reach $1,O0O,O0O.
The 468 miles between Pittsburg and
Chicago was covered in 440 minutes to-
day by a special on the Pennsylvania
road.
The supreme court OF Alabama sitting
at Montgomery today held that trans
actions in cotton futures is not gam
bling but legitimate business.
To demonstrate his claims that there
s little danger in electrical force when
properly handled, Prof Elihue ThOmp-
son Of Boston permitted q current said
to have measured over half a million
volts to pass through his body. The
professor adjusted an apparatus to his
body and q high frequency current was
used. Flashes from his finger tips illu-
minated two incandescent lamps held
two feet away. The professor showed
no ill effects from his remarkable per
fOrmance.
July wheat closed at 86H at Chicago
today.
Friday, June9
Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia, today
announded the appointment of an ad-
visory committee Of IL Of the most
prominent business men OF Philadelphia.
Governor MagoOn, has reported two
new cases OF yellow fever in the canal
zone. compilation Of yellow fever cases
reported by the governor shows that
there has been total of sc cases and
80 deaths on the lsthmus from this dis
ease up to May % last.
Secretary Taft has appointed General
Ezra A. Carmen chairman of the Chick
amauga Military Park association to
succeed the late General II. V. Boynton.
The court OF appeals sitting at Albany,
n. T., today sustained the lower courts
in adjudging Albert L. Patrick, the New
York lawyer, guilty of murder in the
first degree, in eau sing the death of
William Rice, an aged millionair, for
merly of Texas
Judge Rufus W. Peckham of the su
preme court of the United States today
declined to grant a writ of error which
would allow the case of Mrs. Mary Rogers
OF Vermont, now under sentence for the
murder OF her husband, to go to the
United States court.
The Japan government has placed
with Pittsburg car building company
an order for 900 bOxcars for early de-
livery. This is supplemental to the order
for 1000 box and gondola cars placed a
few days ago with several Pennsylvania
car building companies.
Saturday, June 10
Almost unprecedented rains last night
and today have caused serious floods in
the Mississippi valley. At Peoria inches
of rain fell in II hours. At keOkuk the
| Des Moines river rose feet in three
hours, and the Mississippi rose 5 feet to-
day. At La Crosse the river is the highest
in three years.
F. g. Biglow, the defaulting bank
president of Milwaukee, this afternoon
pleaded guilty to an indictment of 1C
counts, charging violations OF the ma
tional banking laws, and was sentenced
to 10 years at hard labor in the U. 5
prison at Ft Levenworth, Ken.
The monument marking at Bethel, ir
York county, Virginia, the place OF the