The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-03
TRLEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
Wirings of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, July 20.


The San Francisco CITY hall. which
cost $7,O00,00O, was declared unsafe by
the board of public works and notice
was served on the police department
that it's station in the building must find
other quarters. The building was con
demned throughout.
Marshall Fields executors will be
asked to pay taxes amounting to about
$500 600. This will be the greatest
sum ever levied upon the property of an
individual taxpayer and is the result of
decision by the board of review fixing
the personal property on which the
Field estate must pay taxes at $13O.-
OOO,OOO. The real estate is worth about
$4,000, 900, making the total amount
OF property on which that estate will
have to pay taxes approximate $780,
100000.
The consular agent of Cananea, Mex.
| arrived at Douglas, Ariz., with an EN-
phatic denial of rumors current along
the border of another uprising at Can
anea. lie says the Americana in Sonora
are safe.
Every dollar Of Russell Sage's fortune
ls left to Mrs. Sage, except an insignifi
cant bequest to an only sister, who died
two years ago. 1t will undoubtedly be
contested by relatives, who will charge
| that the will was made after a mental
breakdown on the part of Mr.. Sage, and
that Mrs. Sage exerted undue influence
over him in the distribution OF his
wealth. Not one dollar OF the fortune is
left to charity. The fortune of Mr.. Sage,
which was believed to be 100000
amounts about $60,000,000.
Thirty seven acres of cultivated land
| on the border of Long lake, in Fond
du Lac county, Wis, sank and are now
covered with deep water The sinkage
| is supposed to be due to slight earth
quake shock. Farmers in the neighbor
hood are alarmed and are afraid to 60
near to investigate.
Thursday, July 20.
Residents of Lander, Wyo., are up in
arms against a colony of "hOly rollers, .
who are to arrive there with the idea of
registering claims on the ShOshOne res
ervatiOn and founding a tOwnsite near
that place.
Disappointed because their parents
would not permit them to marry, Gus
tav Kathke, aged 10 years, and Ella
Miller, aged IS, committed suicide at
Philadelphia by jumping into the Della
ware river.
A terrible wind and rainstorm struck
St. Louis and vicinity. Lightning start
ed several fires in different parts of the
city. A negro was blown from his wagon
and fire engine ran over him. Tele-
graph wires were blown down, a few
frame houses were demolished and a
number of people hurt. The steamer
Liberty, filled with pleasure seekers,
caught in the storm near Alton, Ill.,, was
driven through the river at an uncon.
trOlable speed and dashed into a dixie
on the Missouri side.
At Kingston, Tenn, in Williamson
county, a negress gave birth to six
children. They are we'll formed and all
were alive at last accounts.
DR.. Edward 7. Devine, Colonel George
H. Pippy and Edward F. Moran, com
| posing the relief commission, which has
had the relief work in charge in San
| Francisco, have resigned, to take effect
August L. DR.. Devine was sent from
New York by President Roosevelt as the
| representative of the National Red Cross
A baby boy was born to Mrs. Stella
| Brannan IN the state prison at Still
water, Mimi. Mrs. Brannan ia serving a
| life sentence for the murder of her step.
children in Minneapolis year ago The
child will be sent to Mrs. Brannan's
mother in Michigan.
| The proposition to secure a lunacy
commission to adiudge Harry Thaw in
sane has been dropped even by counsel
retained by his mother, Mrs. William
| Thaw.
Friday, July -.
| DR.. Frank Billings, who attended Mar
shall Field IN his last illness, presented q
| claim against the estate for $25, 900 foI
services. As he attended Field but seven
days it is believed to be the largest fee
ever charged by physician in the United
States where no surgical operation was
performed. There is no likelihood, it il
said, of the claim being collected.
The mysterious disappearance O
thirty seven acres on the shore OF Long
lake, in Fond du Lac county, Wis, was
| cleared up by the discovery that the
tract had worked loose and drifted into
the lake as floating log.
Neither John Alexander Dowie founder
nor Wilbur Glenn Voliva, present over
seer, is given the property, estimated tc
be worth from $12.0O0,0OO to $21, 900,
900, in the decision OF the federal circuit
court, in the Zion City case. Instead
Judge Landis declared Zion City trust
estate, named John G. lately, member
of the Chicago board of trade, receiver
for the property and ordered the hold
ing of an election September 18, wher
the people of the Christian Catholic
Apostolic church in Zion City shall
choose their overseer.
Henry st. George Tucker is presiden
of the jamestown exhibition to be hell
next summer, with the distinctive pur
pose of telling the story of the colonia
beginnings and national growth of tn
United States.
The Carnegie fund for the pensionin
Of aged college professors has been in
creased from $1O,0OO,OOO to $4,000
900 by Andrew Carnegie, and the condi
, tions Of the fund have been altered t
allow of the pensioning OF the widows c
professors.
Saturday, July %.
In a speech at Thompson, Ca. hi
home, Thomas E. Watson, populist lead
er and candidate for president in th
last election, advised the populists {
vote the democratic state ticket, an
: not put up ticket of their own.