The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-06-15
TBLEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
WiriDgs of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, June g.

| Immediately by the state board of health
| The inspection will be thorough, and will
cover both the sanitary and pure food
| features.
| John ". Foster, formerly secretary OF
| state, has been appointed by the Chinese
government as its representative at the
| Hague conference.
Chicago is using uninspected eggs as q
result of the lockout Of the members Of
the egg inspectors union, who have been
demanding an increase OF wages About
1000, 900 eggs are inspected there daily.
A lockout OF the brotherhood OF car
penters in New York will affect 1900
carpenters.
Governor FOX OF Missouri will be
chairman Of the reception committee at
the reception to be rendered y ilIiam J .
Bryan upon bis arrival in New York
from Europe
BY a two thirds vote, striking miners
at McMechen, W. Va, decided to apply
for work at the mines, thus severing the
ties with the miners union on the ground
that the latter had not lived up to it's
contract respecting payment OF wage
benefits. An independent miners organ
izatiOn will be formed, national in it's
scope.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Secretary of State W. f. II ouser
Of Wisconsin, charging attempted bri-
berry. The complaint is signed by State
Insurance Commissioner Host, who tes-
titled that in 1908 HOuser brought to him
draft of decision desired by the Equi-
table Life Assurance society and said
that if it should be rendered the compa-
ny would contribute $1,000 toward the
LaFollette campaign fund.
Thursday, June Z.
-Four more deaths occurred in Chicago
from the excessive heat, making q total
Of eight deaths in As hours. There have
been dozens OF prOstrations.
One Of the most serious accidents in
the history Of coal mining in Montana
occurred in the mines of the Northern
Pacific at Rocky Fork, Eight men are
dead, all victims Of the fatal white damp
that filed the corridors of the mine
The old historic state capital building
ut Baton Rouge, La, was badly dam
S3gcd By fire. Hundreds OF citizens jOinpd
the tiremen in an effort to save as much
as possible OF the structure and it's con
tents The fire was checked after it had
consumed most of the eastern half Of the
building above the first floor.
subcommittee OF the citizens finance
committee of San Francisco, left for
Washington in Harriman's private car
for the purpose of learning the presi.
dents views on the proposal to have
congress indOrse the long term bonds Of
San Francisco in the sum of 5000, O,OOO,-
O00
A concurrent resolution introduced in
the California legislature provides that
the I. 5. government be requested to
cede to the state OF California the island
known as Goat Island, to be used by the
state as terminal for different railroads
Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, rector of St.
Andrews Episcopal church Of Rochester,
n. Y, who was found guilty of heresy by
an ecclesiastical court at Batavia last
month, has filed an appeal from the
findings Of the court.
Friday, June 8
The food situation in northern Mon
tana has assumed unprecedented pro-
portions. Efforts are being made by the
officials to rescue q half dozen passenger
trains on the Great Northern that are
stalled between washouts east aud west
OF Havre.
In New York, Recorder Golf has denied
a motion to dismiss the indictments for
alleged grand larceny and forgery found
against the officers of the Mutual Re-
serve Life Insurance Co., saying there
was sufficient evidence to sustain the
findings OF the grand jury.
As a result of the strike at the
Cananea, Mexico, mines last week, the
American miners in the camp will be
very few in number in the future. it is
believed. They are crossing the line in
droves, and several hundred have arrived
in Bisbee. Arizona. The number killed
in the riots will probably never be
known.
The firm of Sears, ROebuck & Go. will
dissolve partnership and transform the
Chicago company into a S40,000,000
corporation. Eleven years ago the firm
had capital of $1500OO.
The Continental Rubber Company Of
America is the concern of which John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and son OF Senator
Aldrich are the heads. 1t has come in.
to the rubber business with such a
weight Of money that the price of rubber
has been driven down so that the esti-
mate of last years crop, SIG, ,15S, 900,
would dwindle So 600, 900 if sold at the
last price quoted under Rockefeller. AL
ready they have caused the loss of many
millions to the rubber trust, their rivals
Although the Federation of Women's g
Clubs, which has been in session at St.
Paul, has adjourned, the council met
and decided to hold the next meeting OF
the council, which takes place between
biennial years, at jamestown, Va, in
April, 1907. The council also passed a
resolution commencing President Roose-
velt for bis investigation of the packing
houses and urging congress to pass
stringent remedial legislation.
Saturday, June 8.
A summer sanitary campaign against
mosquitoes which transmit yellow fever,
| is planned in New Orleans. The city pro-
poses to spend about 5000 day during
| the summer months. The work is based
largely upon the experience gained last
summer during the yellow fever outbreak
1t has been decided to use 125 laborers
and 40 carts, in addition to the regular
cleaning force, flushing sewers and
drains, cutting and burning grass and