The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-06-30
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, June 81

hlCeF uoiuIng 1OOO people at bay Tor
two hours, shooting nine people and de-
lying the police force at San Francisco
with a shot gun, Thomas Lobb, a
maniac, from San Diego, blew off the top
OF his head. None of the nine wounded
by Lobb are seriously injured.
The Twentieth Century Limited on the
Lake Shore road, one of the fastest
trains in the world, ran into an open
swith opposite the Mentor, Ohio, station
while travelling at the rate Of mile
minute tonight. Eleven people we're
killed and l6 injured, some of them
fatally.
The Massachusetts supreme court
handed down a decision today holding
that the attempt to force all labOrers to
combine in unions is against the policy
OF the law, because it aims at a mon
Opoly OF the labor market.
Governor Magoon at Panama has re
ported TOUR new cases OF yellow fever in
the Isthmus canal zone.
A st. Petersburg dispatch saws the
commission appointed to Investigate the
capltulatiOn of Port Arthur finds that
the surrender was justifiable
Johann Hook, the convicted wife
u
prieved for one week and possibly longer.
1t was announced this afternoon that
the governor of Illinois intended to take
such action in order to permit carrying
the case before the supreme court.
July wheat closed at SOC at Chicago
today.
Thursday June %
AD ordinary sized button. not larger
than pin photo, stuck in the lapel of
the coat, was the stumbling block that
stood in the way of settlement of the
Chicago teamster's strike TODAY. The
employers insisting that the men should
not wear union button
For the third time Mrs. Mary Rogers.
the condemned murdress of her husband,
has received a reprive. Governor Bell
OF Vermont today granted stay of ex
ecutiOn until December s. She was to
have been hung tomorrow.
District Attorney Jerome of New York
has entered into an investigation of the
Equitable Lille Assurance society trouble,
having telegraphed to Albany for official
copies of the state superintendent re-
port. Governor Higgins has extended
the district attorney cooperation in
any action he may take.
Since the accident on the goth Century
Limited of the Lake Shore road, the 30
hour schedule from New York to Chicago
has been ordered in effect in place of the
Is hour as attempted.
Formal notification of the creation of
the new state Of Norway has reached
Washington, but no action will be taken
by the state department until European
powers directly interested make some
move.
The supreme court of PENNSYLVANIA
today issued permanent Injunction
restraining the merging of Pittsburg
and Allegheny City.
July wheat closed at 9Oh at Chicago
today.
Friday, June 23
DR.. James Tanner, who gained nOter
iety some years ago by fasting 40 days,
is again to undergo a freak test of his
endurance. This time he doctor will be
buried alive for 30 days to demonstrate
that by chemical action the earth gener-
ates form OF energy by which life il
evolved or sustained.
The head camp OF the WOdern Wood
men of America today at Milwaukee
modified the liquor question so that
boOkkeepers, mechanics and Others en-
ployed by breweries and distilIeries who
do not in any way handle liquor, and
prOprietOrs OF department stores who
sell liquors in unbrOken packages, are
not barred from membership.
bag containing Jewels valued at
S32, 900, the property of s. C.. Beckwith
Of New York, supposed to have been
SfnInn from tho xUroaEoI
was found today. 1t had been picked
up in the wreckage and brought to the
Lake Shore claim agents office in Cleve
land.
Another warrant was issued today at
Philadelphia for the arrest of John W
Hill, formerly of the liberation bureau OF
that city, on a charge of forgery. Mr.
Hill is now under $4,000 bail for trial
on similar charges.
1t is reported from Lemburg, Austria,
that 160 meh of the Sixty seventh Rus
sian Uhlan regiment have crossed the
frontier into Galicia and have surren-
dered their horses, etc, to the Austrian
authorities. The men declared they
were determined not to go to certain
death at Manchuria.
July wheat closed at 914c at Chicago
today.
Saturday, June %
The special grand jury which has been
| investigating frauds in the Chickasaw
nation, Indian Territory, today filed
| four separate indictments for conspiracy
against many prominent men OF the ma
| tiOn.
Governor Folk OF Missouri, in his cru
sade OF publication is meeting with
some opposition from unexpected
sources. The sheriff of st. Louis county
today refused to raid the Delmar race
track at the governors behest and be-
vOnd the arrest Of a few most fragrant
violators of the anti betting law nothing
was done. 1t is said the governor will
take steps to remove the sheriff from Of
fee.
Mrs. Aggie Meyers, convicted at Lib
erty, Mo-, OF numbering her husband,
was today refused a new trial and SEN
fenced to be hanged on August IL.
The household effects of Mrs. James
Brown Potter, American actress, and
divorce of some note, now OF London,