The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-10-26
TELECRAPHIC TOUCHES
VIKINGS of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, October II.

next president, or whether Mr., ROOse-
welt would consent TO serve a third
term" Mr.. Taft replied that be would
not be the next president" and added
that he could not speak for Mr. ROose-
velt, mot being authorized to do So"
Chairman ShOnts, Of the canal com
mission, is authority for the statement
that coolies are not now nor will they be
employed on the Panama canal. The
report that 5000 are employed is erro-
| neCuS.
II the wishes Of the railway surgeons
| OF America, as expressed at their annual
meeting at Chicago, are regarded bv the
railroad companies, engineers and fire.
men experienced in the service will no
longer be discharged for detective eye
sight, but will be allowed to wear eye
glasses and retain their positions
The triennial worlds convention Of
the WOman's Christian Temperance
Union convened in Boston today. Hele
gates from Japan, Australia and more
than 80 other countries are in attend
ance.
Thursday, October 1S
Governor Vardaman Of Mississippi is
out for the repeal OF the 10Th amend
ment. He would deprive the negro of
the right to vote.
The jury charged with declaring the
Standard Oil company Of Ohio guilty or
not guilty Of conspiracy against
trade, returned a verdict Of guilty at
Findlay at 4:3O p. m. The usual appeals
will follow.
Ex Senator Burton Of Kansas starts
for st. Louis tomorrow to commence his
six months term Of Imprisonment.
In the presence of q large congregation
impressive funeral services were held this
afternoon over the remains OF Rev. Sam
uel 2. Jones, the evangelist, in his church
at Cartersville, Ga.
The feature Of tOday's Pythian con
ventiOn at New Orleans was the decision
to consolidate the Pythian Sisterhood,
of 1000 membership. with the Rathb0ne
Sisters, which has 125, 600 members
The organization will merge their rituals
4 tablet cOmmpmOrat;ng the fret set.
tlement Of the old "Northwest Terri
tory" was unveiled at Marietta, Ohio
The body of Mrs. Jefferson Davis will
arrive in Richmond, Va tomorrow. 1t
will be inferred next to that Of her hus
! band.
James j. Hills address at a recent
banquet Of the Chicago Commercial ass0-
citation, expressing the necessity Of
keeping the boy on the farm, has been
responsible for an annual donation of
| $1,000 by ! Ogden Armour, through the
International Live Stock association
for scholarships to be competed for by
state agricultural colleges at the live
stock shows
Friday, October 10
That municipal ownership has never
been paying investment is the cOnclu
sion contained in q report submitted to
the American Street & Interurban Rail-
way association OF Columbus, Ohio, by
| the committee on municipal ownership
1t embodied reports on 164 electric rail
ways in 40 states and Canada.
AdoIphus Busch. the St. Louis brewer,
| has bought the monster Montgomery
Ward building, at Michigan avenue and
! Madison street, Chicago, and will re
model it as a hotel
At yesterdays meeting Of grain inter
ests called to take action in regard to
| the refusal of the trunk lines to accept
orders for carrying grain. q representa-
| tive committee Was given power to take
| whatever action seemed necessary TO Sc
cure modification of the railroads pO-
sitiOn, says a New York special A
prominent trunk line official was ques-
toned as to the cause of the grain en-
| bargO He made the following state
ment: "The cause Of the trouble is
merely prosperity, prosperity. The rail
roads have more freight to handle than
they can handle; they are working night
and day to serve their customers; they
are doing their utmOst-and as usual
they are getting harshly criticized"
1t was stated at Cromwell, Conn, that
Mrs Laura COwden, daughter Of Bishop
Henry Potter of New York, committed
suicide by hanging at private sani-
tarium in Cromwell Tuesday night.
Saturday, October 20
The Hayes Monett lease on the Mo-
hawk mining property at GOldheld, New,
was robbed Of $50, 600 worth of ore to-
day by band of robbers, whose opera
tiOns were most daring. They drove
away with a wagon load Of the ore, some
OF which runs as high az $50 per pound.
President Roosevelt will sail for Pana-
ma November s. He will remain in the
canal zone only three days.
A big snow storm is raging in South
| Dakota New York is the center OF a
heavy storm. Several ocean liners are
held.
Hold-ups and murders still continue in
San Francisco. The city is thus thrice
stricken.
Ceremonies incident to the dedication
of monuments erected on the Bull Run
battlefield to the memory Of the mem
bers OF the Fifth, Tenth and Fourteenth
New York infantry, who fell in the first
and second battles, we're held today.
Mayor Mcclellan returned TO New
York after an inspection OF the route
over which the viaducts and tunnels for
the additional water supplies from the
Catskllls will be built The mayor says
it is a task even greater than the build
ing of the Panama canal
Unless the game laws are drastically
enforced in Alaska the immense herds Of
caribou and moose in that country will
soon share the lamentable end that has
overtaken the buffalo. Such is the
! opinion Of many well-informed people
lately from Alaska.