The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-07
TRLBGRAPHIC TOUCHES
Wirings of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From ali Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, November %


camp was destroyed by fire this morning
The president believes the people o.
Porto Rico are entitled to American citi
| zenship, and will recommend this ht
granted by congress.
Senator Hepburn, at the opening q
the session of Congress, will introduce q
bill creating United States land courts
IN each public land state, to which appea
may be taken from any final decision by
register and receiver ia regard to the
right to enter public lands.
President Roosevelt's summer home al
Sycamore hill was seriously threatened
with destruction last night by a forest
fire which swept over Copper bluff Cop
per blum Is one OF the estates of W. En-
len Roosevelt, cousin OF the president.
Mayor Schmitz arrived at San Fran
cisco tonight. The weather was rainy
and dismal and the streets elushy. Ruefs
big reception for MIR. Schmitz' return
was handicapped and did not amount TO
much.
The Hon. John Fallows Waltop. son
and heir of the present earl OF Portland.
went before the Judge of the district
court at Sheridan, Wyoming, and declar-
d OulLSO
States citizen. He has been a resident
OF Wyoming for IA years and owns a
fine ranch in that state.
Thursday, November 20.
William R. Hearst, interviewed in the
City OF Mexico tonight, modified the ut
terances recently attributed to him that
he would not accept another nomination
by saying that If circumstances war
ranted he would once more be a cand-
date for Office. He did not designate
the Office.
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz who has
been placed under arrest on a charge OF
e1tOrtiOn, spent the earlier part OF
Thanksgiving day receiving friends at
his San Francisco home.
Thanksgiving was celebrated BY the
American colony at the City of Mexico
by general observance.
An army of 5000 Chicago newspaper
boys attacked 500 turkeys, chickens and
other good things last night at the 25th
annual dinner given by a clothing COM
pany.
A special from Carlsbad, N. NJ, says
that 1000 sheep perished in a canyon
near there during the recent storm and
a Mexican herder was frozen to death.
An Alamo Gordo special says the loss OF
goats from the severe weather in Otero
county was severe as the animals had
just been sheared. The Prathers lost
22O0 dead out Of $500.
Friday, November 80.
Messages were read at the dinner of
st. Andrews society tonight In New
York from President Roosevelt, King
Edward, Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman,
the British premier, and Grover Cieve
land.
Erred A. Shepherd was hanged at the
Oregon penitentiary today for the mur-
der OF Benjamin F. Zell in Crook county,
September "a On the scaffoId Shepherd
confessed the murder. Alter the murder
be ravished Z9ll's wife.
San Francisco is threatened with a
shortage OF coal, it being estimated that
there are less than 1000 tons Of domes-
tic coal in the city.
At the request OF Attorney Heney,
Governor Pardee, OF California, has
pardoned Steffens and Wyman, the bal
lot box suffers, in order that they may
testify against Abraham Ruef and Mayor
SchmitZ.
Dunn's Weekly Review OF Trade says
Business was interrupted by the Thanks
giving holiday but conditions warranted
more than ever before day devoted to
grateful recognition. In all departments
OF agriculture, industrial and mercantile
activity. the current year is passing even
the phenomenal record of 1905, which in
turn eclipsed all previous years.
John F. Moore, Massachusetts repre-
sentative of the San Francisco relief i'm
mediately following the disaster, enters
an indignant denial OF the Boston
Herald's full page story charging millions
OF dollars graft" in San Francisco re-
lief work.
Chief Engineer Newell OF the reclana-
tiOn service in a statement today says
that the unprecedented foods in the
Cascade mountains in Washington did
but little damage to the works of the
reclamation service. The principal dam
age was to the roads which had been
constructed to take in the heavy machin-
cry, and the total loss will probably not
exceed $4,000.
After making a dismal failure of an
attempt to hold up and rob the Bank
OF Beudena and believing capture newt.
able, Jesse l.. Harris of Westport, Mo g,
fred ball into bis brain this evening
and died instantly.
Saturday, December 1.
Commadner R E. Peary, the Arctic
explorer, called on the president today.
President Roosevelt has created the
Big Hole forest reserve containing l.
41O.240 acres. The total acreage OF
Montana land included within forest re-
serve is now 100000 acres. which il
approximately one-ffth OF the total
amount OF land in Montana.
Charles Nj. Schwab, the steel manufac
turer, accompanied by a party OF 20
New York capitalists, passed through
Kansas City tonight on special train
on his way to chihuahua, Mexico, where
be will inspect mining property.
Theodore NJ Carpenter, for the past
| ~ years editorial writer on the Times Of
| Los Angeles, and formerly of Grand
Rapids, Mich, died today of ptomaine
poisoning.
Four hundred miners and trammers
struck today at the Osceola mine for a
ten per cent increase in wages. The Cal