The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-24
TELECRAPHIC TOUCHES
WirIngs Of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From ali Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, August 15.

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| Owing to the lateness of the season
| Walter Wellman, chief of the Chicago
Record Herald arctic exploration, hat
abandoned the project of ballooning tC
the north pole this year.
The troubles OF the Brooklyn RAPID
Transit company with it's patrons who
have acted under an opinion of the su-
preme court and refused to paw two
fares to COney Island, seem likely to be
amicably adjusted. A rebate check OI
five cents is given to each one paying q
ten cent fare, this five cents to be return.
ed to the holder if the court Of appeals
uphO'ds the decision Of Justice Gayn0r
III the court should decide that the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company il
right in charging double fare. the receipt
Is to be null and void.
The Standard Oil company haR order.
ed reduction in the price OF crude oil
Ohio and Indiana oil was cut two cents
per barrell.
Colonel G. W. Keeting OF New Orleans,
commander OF the joint departments oil
Louisiana and Mississippi, and who
headed their division in the parade Oi
the Il. A. Il. at Minneapolis, was over
come by heat exhaustion and died
There have been many prOstratiOne
among the veterans visiting Mime
apOlis, the heat having been intense ever
since the encampment began.
Will SprOule OF San Francisco, freight
traffic manager of the Southern Pa
citic railroad, has accepted what is prob.
ably the highest industrial traffic posi-
ton in the country. October | he as
nf ho
smelter trust.
Antiseptic barber shops, pharmacies
and patent medicine manufacturers in
this country will be compelled to stop
the red cross as trade mark if the de-
cisiOn reached at Geneva is lived up to
in every detail by the United States.
Thursday, August 16
Gale and Waskey, the candidates OF
the miners Of Alaska for delegates to
congress, have carried the Nome country
known as the Second judicial district, by
handsome pluralities. Their election is
now conceded.
A negro who assaulted Miss Jennie
Brooks, near Greenwood, 5. O., was
lynched there. Governor Haywood made
a strong appeal to save the negro, but
to death.
Examinations will be held at the State
department in Washington October | to
select six student interpreters to serve in
the American consular service in Japan,
and one interpreter for the service in
China. Applicants must be between 10
and 26 years Of age, of strong cOnsti-
tuition, good character and education.
The appointments will be irrespective OF
political atliIiation. Applicants must
write to the state department in their
own hand writing, giving their age and
and full details concerning their educa-
ton. The salary is $1,000 a year and
10 years service is required.
The negro troops at Brownsville,
Texas, have been giving the citizens
much trouble of late by their disOrderly
conduct and further trouble is feared A
citizen guard of $50 men is stationed
along the road between the city and Fort
Brown and if the negroes attempt to
leave the garrison it is the avOWed pur-
pose OF the citizens to shoot them down.
Four hundred rifles have been sold to
citizens. 1t is reported that the Texas
National Guard troops now attending
the maneuvers at Camp Mabry are clam
Oring to be sent to Brownsville. Sensa-
tional rumOrs have intiamed the militia
men and it is believed that the negro
raiders committed the recent acts in
Brownsville in retaliation for the report
ed intention of Texas militiamen to use
ball cartridges in the event the United
States permitted the negro troops to
participate in the Camp Mabry maneu-
Vers.
Lady Haskett, daughter OF the late
Senator Sharon, has cabIed from Lon
don her decision to join other Sharon
heirs in rebuilding the Palace hotel at
San Francisco, and has signed an agree
ment to subscribe her share Of the 49,
100000 which is to be expended on the
new building.
Mrs. Carrie Sparkling of st. Louis was
elected national president OF the
Woman's Relief Corps.
Friday, August II.
Immense fortunes were won in Wall
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