The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-05-04
TRLEGRAPHIC TOUCHES
Weeks Summary of Interesting
News and Events ut Home
and Across Oceans.

The Parks antic cigarette law was de-
clared valid by the supreme court of In
diana. The court interpreted the law as
meaning that it is illegal to sell cigar
cites or keep them for sale, but it is not
illegal TO smoke them, and it Ia not ille-
gal to bring them into the state.
Senator Long was directed by the
committee on Indian affairs to report an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill removing the restriction upon the
alienation OF allotted lands in the Indian
territory. The only exceptions are the
cases OF the fullblOod homesteaders and
as to coal and oil lands "known to be
such at the time of sale"
j. b. Straub, who recently returned
from sanitarium, shot and instantly
killed his brother, Charles, proprietor of
fashionable tailoring establishment in
the Cafe Caesar, restaurant in st.
Louis. Straub was arrested and said
that he had killed his brother to protect
future generations and in obedience to a
command given him by his father thirty
years ago. Both men are considered
wealthy.
Prosecution OF the suit against the
Armour and Swift interests in Texas for
the purpose OF securing q $4,000
penalty for violation of the antitrust
laws may result in the closing OF all pack
ing plants in Texas and the withdrawal
OF the Chicago packing concerns from
the state
Every first and second class hotel in
Des MOines, Iowa has signed an agree
ment to refuse to entertain negro dele
gates TO the general assembly Of the
Presbyterian church, which convenes
there next month. Among the promi
nent negroes scheduled to attend is
PresideDt d. j. Sanders of Bdde uni
versity OF South Carolina
Appalling accounts Of Cossack out
RACES in Armenian villages are coming
in. la many instances the villagers, be
lieving that the soldiers came to defend
them from the Tartars, went out headed
by the clergy, bearing a cross, only to
be fired on without warning by the Cos
sacks and driven away in a panic.
The hearing in the divorce suit of
James B. Duke. the millionaire tobacco
manufacturer, against Lillian N. Duke
took a sensational turn at Newark
n. j when Vice Chancellor Pitney an
nOunced that an attempt had been made
to influence the court in favor OF one of
the principals.
If thn Kansas ranchmen who are
charged with maintaining fences around
government lands will remove the fences
within 60 days from this time the cases
against them will be dismissed.
On the day of the earthquake 4 men
were killed at Iona Preta, 10 miles
from Santa Cruz, by the crushing OF
sawmill by a landslide. There were l 5
men in the mill, and only one escaped.
A tornado swept through Bellevue,
Tex, destroying everything in it's path
and az result, practically the entire
town is a mass of ruins, only three build |
ings now standing. At least II persons
were killed and number injured The
tornado was followed by fire, which con
sumed the wreckage. The town of Belle
vue consisted Of more than 200 houses
The mlkado OF Japan has donated
$500, 900 for the San Francisco fire suf-
ferers. The leading business men of
Toxic and Osaka have given like sum
No attempt is being made to begin the
work OF repair and reconstruction neces-
sary on the Stanford university build
ings torn down by earthquake. Cheap
workmanship and defective construc
tiOn are attributed as the sole causes
for the absolute overthrow of the larger
university building.
Two slight earthquakes at an interval
OF an hour we're felt in San Francisco
Monday. They we're OF the same nature
a. dozen other shocks felt since the big
quake of April 1S. No damage was
done and there was no alarm.
A dispatch from Mogador, Morocco,
says that a cobbler named Mesfwi was
cruciied May 3, for the murder Of 36
women whose bodies were found buried
under his shop in his garden.
At Baltimore G. l. Wiltshire, editor OF
Wilshire's Magazine, and DR.. Morris Kor-
shot OF Philadelphia, made addresses,
announcing the arrest OF President Meyer
and William D. Haywood OF the West