The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-07-14
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary Of the Wired
News Ofa Week.
important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country
Wednesday, July )

Wednesday, July 3
tornado struck the upper edge of
Montague county, Texas, this afternoon
and caused the loss Of 40 lives, besides
the injury OF large number of others
Untold damage was done to growing
crops and live stock.
ChicagO's municipal ownership mayOr
has presented bill to the city council
which ls not altogether such drastic
measure. The mayor favors placing the
street railways in the hands of corpOr-
alton and giving it 20-year franchise
Stock Is 80 be sold at popular subscrip
tIOn and the city is to retain the privi
Iege OF taking over the property atany
time al its assessed valuation.
Roy Stokes was caught in the ropes of
a balloon in which he was to make an
ascension at East st Louis, and carried
m In the air about 30 feet, head down
HE shoes ere pulled off under the strain
and he dropped to the earth. Tonight it
Is reported that his injuries will prove
fatal
The population of The city Of Chicago
Il 2272 100, according TO the city di
rectCry WI ch has just been completed
By an explosion in the Tidal Water
coal mine at Vivian, W Va, nine Italian
miners were injured. Three of them died
| later in hospital and it is expected
| three more will die.
Three people were fatally and 20 Others
seriously injured in a wreck on the Great
| Northern, west of MnOt, n d. Two
/ passengers cars were overturned and
\ most of the occupants were injured The
7 wreck wae caused by spreading rails.
! Ill ~
! today.
Thursday July
| Joe Wondman, negro, yesterday
\ eOped with white girl IRON Dumas,
| ARK and was intercepted on train at
! pamo, the girl being returned to her
! home, while the negro was landed in Jail
at Dumas. This morning the Jail was
\ found broken open and the negro's
v body dangIed from a tree a mile away
! Every bridge in Minneapolis and all
! homes on mississippi fats are in danger
| from high water. The Mississippi is
/ higher at this point than for number
Of years.
| In the presence Of the highest digna-
| tarie8 Of France, the diplomatic repre-
| sentatives of many foreign governments
and civil and naval officers of the United
| States, the body of John Paul Jones was
| fGgmaily delivered to the United States
| government at Paris today.
No lives were lost, but great property
| damage resulted at Baltimore today
from cloud burst on the upper Jones
| all river which flows through the city
Commercial failures in the United
States for the first half Of 1895, were
| 6l25 in number, and $55, ,904 S55 in
4m0unt. For the same period of 1904
the figures are 1924, and $79. 400, 900
in amount,
Bishop Joseph Berry, president Of the
EpwOrth League. in an address before
that body, said: "Methodsts need
great wakeniDg; something to arouse
them to a lasting sense of their vast du
ties as Christians. Our church, as well
as other churches, is so permeated with
the spirit Of cOmmercialism that the
spirit OF Christ is crowded into the back
ground"
July wheat closed at 89&c at Chicago
today.
Friday, July
President Roosevelt has issued an
order stipulating that hereafter any
officer OF the navy or army who
shall solicit influences, aside from the
records Of his service on file in the war
or navy departments, in order TO obtain
promotion or assignment, shall be de
barred thereby from such coveted posi-
tion or promotion.
Eleven men were drowned today on
the Little Falls river near Chippewa
Falls, Wis. The men were sent ont to
break a log jam but before they could
land on the logs their boat capszad an
the men drawn into the current. They
were all good swimmers.
Although the Kansas Natural Gas com
pany, Delaware corporation, has ex-
pended large sums in Kansas, the su
preme court of that state has prohibited
the company from doing bushes there.
Caleb Powers will be tried by the
United States court for the Eastern
District Of Kentucky for completely in
! the murder of Governor VIM. Goebel
, Powers motion for a writ of habeas
corpus to transfer his custody from the
state OF Kentucky to the United States
has been granted.
In an address before the International
EpwOrth League today r. l.. Raamy
OF Baltimore said: The very fumes OF
burning tobacco are an incentive to i'm
moral and perniciOus conduct. Tobacco
SMOKE EnOulu De enQnneO, ana tnOBe VINO
must use the weed should do all in their
power to keep the fumes from other peo
pie. A smoke laden room is more harm
full by far than the smokers imagaine
} and it inspires spirit in those who in
hail the smoke which is the doorstep to
SIM"
July wheat closed at 91Ac at Chicago
today.
SATURDAY. ,TuIV q
1t is stated that Judge Stout of the
Circuit court at Georgetown, KY, has
instructed the iailOr to hold Caleb
Powers until after the case has been
: tried an Monday next. In view of the
fact that United States Judge Cochran
has granted the habeas corpus and di-
rected that Powers be removed to the
jail at Newport, KY, clash Of author
ity may occur when the order of the
United States judge is put into effect.
) The resumption today of extensive
picketing in the Chicago teamsters
strike promised to recall some OF the yiO
! lent scenes which characterized the
earlier days of the conflict.
The seventh International Epwortt
{ league convention today inaugurated 6