The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-10-05

which no other crew in the navy had eyer
received. The president and his guest !
sat down 10 dinner with the iackies. This
feature Of the trip was a surprise both to
the officers and the men
tie explosion Of a gasoline lamp in a
barber shop started fire which totally
DESTROYED the business portion Of Bar
stow, Cal, causing loss approximating
SSO,O0O
All gull towns are reportel as in a de-
plorable state Of destruction, as a result
OF ednesday's storm. 1t is estimated
that % per cent of the yellow pine tim
per In the neighbOThOOd Of Hattiesburg,
Miss, has been destroyed, All turpen
tine orchards are ruined and the loss il
estimated at several million dollars. In
Hattiesburg alone the loss is estimated
at $l,OOO,OOO. No estimate can be
made of the number of lives lost.
Sunday September 80
Three hundred and two persons died
violent deaths in Chicago during Sep
tember according to statistics by Cor
oner Hoffman.
Twenty-seven Chinese were brought
into Humboldt county, Cal. from
Astoria to work in q cannery at Port
! Kenyon. They are the first Chinese adj
mitted to Humboldt soil since February
1885. when $40 Chinese were shiDped to
San Francisco by incensed citizens be-
cause OF various crimes, cimaXed by the
| killing Of councilman of Eureka. The
! Chinese will work in the c8nnery during
the fishing season and will then be de.
| ported,
Today was the hottest day of the
| year az Los Angeles, Cal, the mercury
| registering 112 in the shade on Tile
| streets.
The number OF casualties in the great
gulf storm Of Wednesday is slowly in
creaslng The total number Of lives lost
at Mobile il known to be 10 and it is
believed that at least IS people were
killed at Pensacola
Charles Anderson, a we'll Known
| mining man, committed suicide at Gar
| diner, Mont. His body YVES found il an
old prospect tunnel.
An unknown steamer f0nnderpd with
its entire crew off Port Sanilac, Mich. as
result Of the northwest gale. The
tragedy was witnessed by the crew Of the
passenger steamer City of Mackinaw
Monday. October
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
three Of their children, Miss Ethel and
Archie and Quentin, returned to Wash
ingtOn from their summer home at
Oyster Bay where they have spent the
past three months.
Unable to stop his automobile az he
was turning q corner, Joseph Mill
ian ran the machine into o street
car at Denver, Col, killing his 8
year-Old daughter. and seriously injur-
ing his brOtheT-in-law. SO great was the
force Of the collision that the heavy
automobile was demolished and the
street car 80 badly damaged that it was
put entirely out OF commission
The large coal mine II miles north OF
ThermOpolies, WyO, il burning fercely
end seems doomed. All the men work
ing in the mine escaped in safety.
Statistics compiled by the geological
survey show that the total coal prOduc-
tiOn Of this country last year was nearly
80 per cent larger than that Of Great
Britain, which, until 1899, was the lead
ing coal producing country Of the world.
The president of the Mormon church.
Joseph H. Smith, was arrested and
bound over to the district court at Salt
Lake on the charge Of living unlawfully
with five wives. President Smith was
Immediately arraigned after his arrest
and waived preliminary hearing. After
beng bound over he was released on bis
own recOgniZance.
The business houses OF Mobile sus-
tanned almost as much inancial lOes
from a heavy rainstorm which set in
shortly after midnight and lasted about
II hours, as from the recent disaster.
There is scarcely building in the bust
ness section which has a roof capable Of
keeping out the rain.
Albert j. Adams, who made a large
fortune as the head Of the policy gamhl-
ing combine committed suicide at New
York, by shooting himself in the head
Tuesday, October =
few hours before the time Of his In
tended departure for Mexico, John Alex
ander Dowie decided to remain in Zion
City indefinitely. One Of Dowie's closest
friends, who was to have accompanied
him to Mexico, announced for DOwie
that the 'fir5t apostles" health bad
taken q sudden change for the better.
At mass meeting OF citizens and
union labor leaders in Eureka, Cal, it
was decided that the Chinese brought
there to work in a salmon caDnery must
go. 1t is said that the Tallant com
pany, which operates the cannery, de-
clares its intention to call on the govern
or for militia in the event Of any demon
stration against the Chinese.
The national convention of the Indus
trial Workers of the World split on the
rock of socialism at Chicago, when the
delegates from the Western Federation
Of Miners, representing $4,000 men and
the mainstay of the labor union, bOlted.
The seceders will organize under another
name.
Roy Hoyle, special officer of the
Mobile & Ohio railroad, was fatally
shot, and Alderman Sidney LYONS, chair
man of the city council Of Mobile, was
wounded in the hand during fight It
the county jail at Mobile between deputy
sheriffs and a crowd of men determined
to capture young negro, who had at.
tackled Il year-Old Ruth SOssamOn. The
girl was found lying by the roadside IN
conscious.
OVER SEAS EVENTS.