The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-17
TELEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
Wirings of Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, August 8

ednesdAy, august 3
Theodore Stensland, vice president OF
the Milwaukee Avenue State bank of
Chicago, and son Of the fugitive presi-
dent of that institution, has come to the
rescue of the p 900 depOsitors, and it is
the belief of those who are endeayoring
to straighten out the affairs of the bank
that there is an excellent chance that
the depOsitOrs will receive most of their
money when final settlement is made.
Staff officers and department com
manders OF the A. R., by large ma
jOrity indOrse the recent utterances OF
Corporal Tanner, commander in chief,
that the passage by congress of an act
abOllshlng canteens from the national
soldiers homes after next March was
''unwise and blow at real temperance,
besides being a restriction of the personal
Liberties OF the veterans of the civil war
that ought 10 be resented"
An Indictment charging the Standard
Oil company with receiving rebates ir
the form of nonpayment of storage
charges to certain railroad companies
was returned by the federal grand Jury
in Chicago. The indictment was sur
prise, as the grand jury had just begun
the investigation. The Standard Oil
company is tie only defendant, no Off
cials OF the company and no railroad
companies or officials being named.
By direction OF President Roosevelt,
the Z. s. immigration station at Ellis
island, \. T., will be open for the inspec-
ton of arriving immigrants on Sunday.
Last Sunday the station was closed by
order OF the department of commerce
and labor in order that the employees
might have rest, and many immigrants
arriving on Saturday night and Sunday
we're compelled to remain aboard ship
until Monday.
Five marines are in double irons on
board the receiving ship Lancaster at
the League Island navy yard and ten
sailors are under arrest, as the result OF
a mutiny in which two Of the mutineers
were badly injured. The trouble grew
out Of a drunken carOuse among mum
Der of the marines.
Thursday, August 9.
For the first time in 13 years the gov
ernment has announced it's purpose to
purchase silver for coinage purposes.
Tenders are invited at the offices of the
director of the mint in Washington on
Wednesday, the 18th instant, and every
Wednesday thereafter until further
notice.
The Roosevelt Home club, which was
organized to acquire possession of the
Roosevelt homestead, where the presi,
dent was born, and to maintain it as a
landmark in the city Of New York, has
decided that it is not in a position to
fulfill its mission. The project was dis
couraged by the president.
Charges have been fled in the district
court at Oklahoma city against John
Sharp, who prOclaims himself God AL
mighty, and 40 OF his followers, who are
encamped near that city and who are
alleged to be living together in disregard
Of moral and civil law
Henry W. Herring, cashier of the Mil
waukee Avenue bank of Chicago, which
closed it's doors three days ago, has
been arrested and will be refused release
on bail until his connection with the dis
appearance of nearly $1.OOO,OOO of the
banks funds is cleared up.
Five United States senators, William
A, Clark of Montana, Chester |. Long of
Kansas, Frank B. Brandegee OF Con.
necticut, C. D. Clark of Wyoming and
Henry M. Teller of Colorado, held a
meeting in Denver. The senator's were
appointed a committee to provide for
the final disposition of the affairs of the
five civilized Indian tribes in Indian ter,
ritOry.
Kansas City won a long fight for cheap
gas when the Mayor promised to sign
the ordinance granting a franchise to a
syndicate of Chicago. The franchise is
to run Tor 30 years and as long as the
supply OF natural gas is reasonably ac-
cessible it is to be furnished at 25 cents
a thousand cubic feet for domestic con
sumption and at 10 cents for manufac.
turing purposes. If the natural gas sup
ply fails, then artificial gas is to be fur
nished at rs cents a th housand cubic feet
Friday, August 10.
What is said to be the first instance of
the conviction OF lyncherin in the history
of the state of North Carolina, was fur
nished at Salisbury, when George Hall, a
white ex convict who was one OF the par
ty that on Monday night lynched three
negroes in jail for the murder OF the
Lyerly family, was found guilty of con-
spiracy in connection with that crime
and sentenced to 10 years at hard labor
in the penitentiary, the maximum sen
tence provided by law.
Frank Kowalski, paying teller of the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank of Chica-
go, which failed last Monday, shot and
killed himself at his home. Criticism by
neighbors and friends, who accused him
of share in the downfall of the bank,
drove Kowalski to his death.
The federal grand jury for the western
district of New York returned indict-
ments against the Standard Oil compa-
nv of New York, the Pennsylvania rail-
road company and the Vacuum Oil
company of Rochester, for violation Of
the interstate commerce law.
The superintendent Of the San Fran
cisco mint has been notified by the
secretary OF the treasury that gold from
Alaska and Yukon will be minted this
year at the mint in that city, instead of
Philadelphia, as heretofore.
Secretary OF Agriculture James Wilson
is in Chicago. He refuses to discuss his
presence here, but it is reported that a
conference has been called at which those