The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-11-30
TELEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
WlrIngs of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country
Wednesday, November Fl.

| WIN Iu6iR.
President Roosevelt today iourneved
IN an automobile over the famous road
from Ponce to San Juan, and was ac-
corded an ovation by the people Of Por-
| to Rico.
| 1t Is announced that the railroads oI
| the country have decided to inaugurate
an era of rigiG economy. The plans
| which have been decided on will result in
| a decrease IN expenditures during the
next II months OF between $50. .OOO. .OOC
and $l2O, ,OO0, 900, as compared with the
sum spent during the year just closing
| Everything costs more, rates are decreae.
| ing and the public is hostile to corpora.
tions, particularly railroads.
President Hill of the Great Northern
says his road is swift, but he criticisee
| the elevators.
1t is planned to erect a monument to
Carl Schurz either in New York or Wash.
ingtOn.
Official count of the vote for governor
| IN Nebraska was completed today as fol
lows: Sheldon, republican, 81. .85S; Shal
| ienberger, democrat S4SS5; Sutton,
prohibitionist, $5106; Taylor, socialist,
2999. Sheldon's plurality is 1878.
and his majority 1868 The republi-
| cans elected all their state candidates.
Thursday, November 20
The advocates of a monster battleship
that will break all worlds records will
press their fight toward that end at the
| coming session of congress.
The supreme court Of the United States
| ls to be asked to pass on tie question
whether railroad company can Issue
transportation in exchange for advertis-
ing 10 newspapers. A test case is 70 be
made.
The National Grange convention at
Denver, adopted resolutions reported bv
the committee on agriculture condemn
ing free seed distribution by the govern
ment as being of no benefit.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway has granted an increase in wages
Of 4 cents an hour to switchmen and
yardmen on the entire system.
The railroads of the nation for the
year ended June 80 last netted S7S7.-
597, ,S77, being $3.50 per mile, and near
ly $97 100000 more than the cores
ponding amount Of the previous year.
Tn fierce gale, blowing so miles an
hour, the fire department OF San Fran
cisco had the hardest battle with flames
since the disaster of last April The loss
is between 100000 and 100000.
Ferdinand L. Barnett, the negro as
sistant states attorney, who, according
to police returns, was elected Judge OF the
new muni"ipal court in Chicago at the
recent election, has been uueeate6 by the
canvassing board. The police returns
gave Barnett plurality Of 499, but the
official count, completed today, shows
that Thomas B. Lantry, democrat, was
elected by plurality OF 304.
Whites and negroes cannot attend the
same schools, either public or private,
under the laws Of Kentucky. This ques
tion WAS settled today by the state court
of appeals.
In the Virginia supreme court of ap-
peals today Judge CardwelI handed
down decision affirming the decision
Of the state corporation commission de-
claring the cent passenger rate act
passed by the Virginia legislature con-
trary to the 18th amendment of the
constitution.
Friday. November 23.
The New York Central railroad has
advanced the wages Of its fremen be-
tween 8 and z ner cent. About 5000
men are affected.
The American Federation of Labor at
it's convention held in Minneapolis voted
to continue it's war against armed
guards.
The presidents trip yesterday from
San Juan to Ponce by way OF Arecibo
was one continued ovation in spite Of
the announcement of the break in his
plans, necessitating his return to Ponce
to- embark on the Louisiana. The towns
throughswhch the president passed were
decorated and crowded with people. He
made several speeches.
A raise of 10 per cent in wages was
announced by the Calumet & Hecla Min
ing company today. Between 5000 and
5000 workmen are benefited by the in
crease.
Reports have reached Santa Fe, n NJ,
that prairie fire has swept from west
ern Texas into eastern Mexico, and that
over 100000 acres of grazing and
| homestead land has been burned bare of
foliage.
The United States Steel corporation
| today announced that the wages Of com
mon labOrers in the plants OF the sub
will be increased 10 cents a day, begin
ming May 1 next. The wege Of day and
turn labor will be adjusted accordingly.
Walter H. Westwood, William H.
Mears and Frederick A. j. Peterson,
youths who were implicated in the MUIR
der and robbery of Fred Molliniz at The
Ocean beach, San Francisco, several
months ago, we're today sentenced to
spend the remainder of their lives in
prison. They admitted the crime aud
threw themselves on the mercy OF the
court.
"Practically the whole world is asking
for American wood and it's products,
SAYS the bureau of statistics OF the de-
partment cf commerce and labor, in
statement issued today.
Saturday, November "a.
Andrew Carnegie today offered the city
of Baltimore 100000 for the erection
of 20 new branches of the Enoch Pratt
free library.
According to the official report made
| public today the gold production o.
mines in the Black Hills for the past year