The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-17
Saturday, August IL.

Representative and Mrs. Longworth
arrived from Europe and are at Saga.
more hill. They will remain the guests
OF President Roosevelt for several days,
when they will proceed to Cincinnati.
Three people were wounded on q
crowded electric car in Fort Worth,
Texas, when a negro refused to give his
seat to a white woman. Sheriff Seth
DinwOody OF Red River county, Texas,
asked the negro to give his seat. When
the negro refused Dinwoody pulled his
pistol, intending to use it only as a club
but in striking the negro on the head
the weapon was discharged injuring two
women and one man.
All theories that Paul o. Stensand
was the sole forger of the 81 100000
worth OF crooked notes in the looted
Milwaukee Avenue State bank Of Chicago
were smashed by investigation. At least
three other men are thought to have
been engaged in the production of bogus
signatures. The big forger, it ia said. is
Cashier Herring. Ten warrants in the
case have been issued.
Samuel GOmpers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, has is-
sued statement concerning the action
OF the isthmian canal commission in
deciding to introduce Chinese cOOlie labor
to the work of constructing the canal
across the isthmus of Panama. He
claims that those in charge are disre-
garding both law and principle in bring
ing in cOOlie labor and in engthening
the working day.
A steel package freighter cOllided with
the span Of the interstate bridge at
Duluth and precipitated it into the chan
nels On either side of the center pier.
Traffic between Duluth and Superior is
cut off. The bridge is owned by the
Great Northern. The drawpin was 500
f'et long, one of the longest in the world,
Sunday August 12.
Residents Of the heights OF Cleveland,
o., witnessed the most remark able
mirage of which there is any record in
that part OF the country. Clear and dis
tinct the Canadian shore of Lake Erie,
so miles distant, was spread out before
them in the sky. The phenomenon lasted
for more than an hour and was seen by
thousands Of people. The city OF Ron
deau could be plainly seen.
In order that the food manufacturers
OF the country may have opportunity to
make suggestions concerning regulations
for the enforcement OF the new pure food
law, hearings will be held at the depart
ment OF agriculture from September IL
to %.
Philippine students sent to this COun-
try by the insular government to study
agriculture will hereafter devote their at.
tentiOn carefully to the southern states,
where sugar, tobacco, rice and other
crops we'll suited to the islands are
grown extensively. At present there are
30 young FilipinOs in the United States
studying farming.
The wave of moral reform that has re.
Gently passed over Kentucky eliminated
in the enforcement of nearly all of the
existing Sunday closing laws and as a
result nearly every part Of the state was
actually "dry" as a desert. All sports
and amusement places were also under
the ban.
Monday, August 13.
Four boys, all under nine years old,
were struck and killed by train while
walking across the railroad bridge in
Elizabeth, n. j. The bodies of two of
the boys fell into the crowded street
amidst a number Of women shoppers,
several of whom tainted.
Lunacy proceedings were instituted
against Miss Asi L. Esac, or Elizabeth
Case, who created a disturbance during
the church service attended by President
Roosevelt. Should Miss Case remain
within the jurisdiction OF Nassau county
until Wednesday she will be held for com
mitment as an insane person.
Much trouble has been caused in New
York over the decision of the court that
five cents should hereafter be the legal
fare on the street car lines to Coney
Island. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company has resisted the decision Of the
court, and many passengers have been
elected who refused to pay the old fare
OF ten cents. The police are backing the
people against the car companies and
many disturbances have resulted.
Orders for the formation of the At
lantic fleet to be reviewed by President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay on September
3, were issued at the navy department.
The fleet will be the strongest, if not the
largest in numbers. ever assembled under
the United States flag. twill consist OF
43 vessels, carrying 117S guns, COM
manded by S12 officers, with 1926
men.
The banks of the Chicago Clearing
House association have offered reward
OF 5000 for the arrest of Paul O. Stems
land of the Milwaukee Avenue bank.
Tuesday. August IA.
The annual convention OF the Union
Veterans WOman's Relief unions was
opened at st. Paul with $50 delegates
present representing all but seven states.
The eighth annual convention of the
grand aerie of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles is in session at Milwaukee, about
1900 delegates being present.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
in New York has suspended travel on all
it's surface lines because of the order that
five cent fare to Coney Island should
prevail.
Senator W. A. Clark of Montana left
New York for Europe on the Cunard
liner CarOma.
Owen Wister, the author, is a guest OF
President Roosevelt at Sycamore Hill.
Satisfactory results with wireless ap-
paratus are reported to the chief signal
Office in Washington from Camp Roose-
velt at Mount Gretna, 2. |.
Children in Pain
never cry as do children who are suffer
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