The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-08-11
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, August 2

midnight. They will be superseded by
the underground trolley.
The following report of the progress o
yellow fever in New Orleans is up to 6
p N. today: New cases, 81; total cases
to date, 37S; deaths today, IL; tota
deaths TO date, 70.
j. s. Mansfield & Co., a New York
brokerage firm, has suspended, and
anxious creditors have besieged their
place OF business, seeking some inform
alton. The creditors of the firm are
mostly women.
Sept. wheat closed at SAC at Chicago
today.
| Thursday August
After killing two persons. fatally
| shooting two Others and slightly wound
ing two more, Ike Kidney, a negro, was
killed at Doella, Kan. today, aher hot
fight with posse Of citizens.
According to statement issued at
Cleveland, o, today, the creditors OF
| Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick will receive a
total dividend Of about seven mills on
the dollar when the matter is finally
settled. Net assets will amount to about
$25,OO
/ i6ii lnGO JnO MGTCSu
river near Yosemite Valley, Cal, while
playing today and was drowned. John
| Yates, a soldier of the Fourth cavalry,
was also drowned while trying to rescue
| her.
| Judge Barnes of the Nebraska supreme
| court today granted a temporary in
| junction against the Nebraska grain
| dealers association which, it is alleged,
| is q trust or combination in restraint of
trade. The association is forbidden to
pool prices or accept rebates.
The following report OF the progress of
yellow fever in New Orleans is up to q
p. % today: New cases, "a; total CAGES
| to date, 432; deaths today, 5; total
deaths to date, "a.
Sept. wheat closed at S4sc at Chicago
today.
Friday, Aug. 4.
Robert Criswell, the Town Topics man,
who was sued by Congressman Rhinock
OF Kentucky for libelling Miss Alice
Roosevelt, committed suicide by allow
ing a subway train in New York city to
run over him. Criswell printed a story
| to the effect that Rhinock introduced
bookmakers and other shady characters
to Miss Roosevelt during her recent visit
| to Cincinnati.
Ed Lewis and kid" George, negroes,
charged with being accessories to the
murder of Convict Guard Smith were
lynched at Hattiesburg, Miss today.
Charles Pfister, one of the wealthiest
men Of Milw 1ukee, Wis, was indicted by
the grand jury Of Milwaukee county to-
day, charged with stealing $14, 900 be-
lopnipr fn tho Wisconsin, ~
of that city.
Mormon E. Roberts was arrested in
Chicago today, charged with raising
money orders and forgery. Roberts has
swindled merchants in 81 cities out OF
| thousands of dollars by his manipul-
| alton OF money orders.
John W. Lang, an oil driller, was
horsewhipped on one of the principal
| thoroughfares Of Lawton, Okla, today
by Mrs. VIM. Devins, while her husband
held him. Todays trouble is the out
come Of an old grudge OF many years
standing.
Sept. wheat closed at 8514c at Chicago
| today.
Saturday, Aug.
Fire swept through the business sec
tion OF WiDnemucca, New, today
ingtroying 10 business houses and infict
ing damages to the amount of $780,
900.
W. W. Stevenson was shot dead today
by Chiffon Bowen in a room Of a San
Francisco lodging house where the
murdered man had found Bowen in
company with Stevenson's wife. Bowen
and Mrs. Stevenson were arrested
charged with the murder.
Eight deaths and 80 new cases is the
yellow fever report from New Orleans
today, making a total of 81 deaths to
date.
The body of Dudley Chambers, general
maneger of the Southwestern Oil and
Gas Co, was found floating in tank of
oil near Chanute, Kans, today. 1t is
supposed that be entered the tank and
became asphyxiated.
R. Levings fell from the summit OF
Mount Ypsion near Loveland, Col, to
day, and was instantly killed. He fell a
distance of 400 feet.
Three innocent persons were shot in
/ Chicago today by four policemen who
were shooting at two fleeing robbers. The
thieves escaped.
September wheat closed at S3zsc at
Chicago today.
Sunday, Aug g.
Three children were fatally burned last
night as result OF lamp explosion in
East Oakland Cal. They we're children
OF Antoine Fereira, and were 2, and 6
years Of age.
The fast Pittsburg flyer on the Cleve
land & Pittsburg railroad, crashed into
street car at Cleveland O., today,
killing a baby instantly and fatally in
juring people, while Is others sustained
injuries.
As result of battle between mem
bers of the big Chinese societies in q
theater in New York city tonight three
Cinnamon we're killed, two fatally wound
ed, and many Others injured. When the
police succeeded in breaking up the riol