The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-08-25
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
aGreat Country.
Wednesday, August IS

Mayor Dunn OF Chicago has perfected
his plan for an independent traction
system and it is now in the hands of the
transportation commission, and the
mayor is sanguine of the commissions g
endorsement. The plan calls for the
expenditure Of $25 100000, and the
system is to be built by friendly financiers
and run by trustees until paid for, with
8 per cent interest, by it's earnings or by
the city. Negotiations with owners OF
present lines. looking to acquiring them,
will be broken off.
The National Association of Railroad
Commissioners met in Deadwood, s. D.,
today, representatives from 81 states
being present.
The birth rate of the United States is
decreasing, says Prof. Wilcox Of Cornell
University in bulletin recently pre-
pared for the government. While the
population of the country is increasing,
the births are falling far short OF the
proportion to population since 1860,
reaching nearly one-third less.
Three persons we're killed on the B. &
o. at Mitchell street crossing, Cincinnati,
by the fast express which smashed into a
trolley car.
OF the 27 men at work in the Lehigh
Cement cOmDany's quarry at Ormond,
Pa, but eight OF them escaped death or
! injury from a slide resulting from recent
rains in which tons of rock and dirt fell
from the top of the quarry OF the
remaining IS, 8 were killed, fatally
| Injured and the resG more or less seriously
hurt.
Following is the official statement OF
yellow fever at New Orleans up to pm.
today: New cases, sc; total to date,
l146. Deaths, 4; total, 176.
September wheat closed at SIC at
Chicago today.
Thursday August II
| In an address delivered before the
National Insurance Agents convention
at Denver today, r. w. Breckenridge,
chairman OF the insurance committee of
| the American Bar Association, made
| strong plea for federal control of in
| surance. He said that a number of
| state legislatures need to learn that
these states are union and not mere
pack of swapping and snorting wolves"
| Passengers coming ashore from the
Deutscherland this evening brought an
almost incredible story OF the ships
officers brutality. 1t is said that a
| common seaman named Louis Jenson
was hogged and handled in such an un-
/ human manner that in sheer desperation
he jumped overheard.
| The following is the official report of
yellow fever in New Orleans up to pm.
today: New cases, II; total to date,
1928. Deaths, 4; total, $50. Number
of cases under treatment 427.
| Between 20 and 30 negroes occupying
the first car on an Atlantic coast line
excursion from Kingston, N. G., were
killed or injured six miles from Norfolk,
Va, today, the train plowing through
an open draw Of the bridge at Bruce's
station.
Walter P. Kraft, the transfer clerk of
the Equitable Trust Co., Chicago, is
missing along with $4,000 OF the
company's cash. The police are looking
for the gentleman, but as yet no clue to
his whereabouts has been obtained.
Sept. wheat.closed .at $3.50 et. Chicago
today.
Friday, Aug. 1S.
Roland W. Diller, for so years
druggist OF Springfield, Ill, died there
today at the age of 63. At OILERS drug
store in bygone times, sitting around
wood stove, gathered the pioneers, and
swapped favorite stories, chief among
them being Abraham Lincoln, one of
OILERS closest friends.
The decision by Judge F. E. Baker OF
| the United States circuit court, rendered
at Indianapolis today, matters of vast
| Importance in respect to the powers OF
municipal corporations taking over the
property of public service corporations
| was decided. Its principal effect is to
deny such right even when the public
service corporations receives it's property
from municipalities.
The telegrapher's strike, which has
crippled the G. N. and N. 2. railroads to
some extent recently has been declared
off so far as the G. n. is concerned, the
referendum voting to that effect. The
strike on the N. P. is still on.
Following is the official figures with
regard to the yellow fever at New
Orleans and are up to 6 pm. today:
Deaths, 8; total to date, 1873. Number of
cases under treatment, AS.
After balloting for five hours today
the Grand Aerie of Fraternal Order
of Eagles succeeded in electing a
grand worthy president, but this was
achieved only on the withdrawal of one
OF the candidates, the present incumbent,
J. F. Pelletier. The grand worthy
president, FL. D. Davis, Cleveland, Ohio;
grand worthy vice-president, Edward
Kraase, Wilmington, Del; grand worthy
secretary, W. A. E.sPartridge, Kansas
City, Mo.
Sept. wheat closed at.S1Ac at Chicago
today.
Il Saturday, Aug. 10.
The Great Northern railroad an
nounces a sweeping reduction in freight
rates on grain in it's territory east of
Montana. The reduction ranges from 5
cents per hundred from points most
distant from eastern termini and the
great lakes to X cent from points near
the Twin Cities and the head OF naviga-
ton.
Members of the Christian Catholic
church will obey the order OF their leader,
Apostle Dowie, SO that in future the
smallest number of children in any one
family can be designated by the number
of years the couple have been married. In
the ukase in which lions apostle calls
upon the welded faithful to deliver
new Zionite every II month he puts thes