The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-06-29

!, FRIDAY, JUNE %, l9(
the shoe and dry goods merchants Of St
J Louis, Omaha and Kansas City on q
charge of accepting rebates from rail
roads secured for them by g. l.. Thomas
the New York broker who with bis clerk
L. b. Taggart, in the Kansas City fed
eral court, we're fined and given a peDi
tentiary sentence.
The license bureau of the San Fran,
| cisco police department was besieged bv
applicants for saloon licenses, and that
the higher license has little effect is
shown by the fact that by noon over
400 applications had been filed. Now
that the time for opening saloons has
been set Tor July D, there is great ac-
tiVity putting up temporary places for
saloons.
The Louisville, KY, Packing com
pany, said to be the largest plant owned
by the Cudahy Packing company of Chi
cagO, is closed. The company was es-
tablished in 1892, employed about $50
men, and had an output of 10000 sheep.
10000 cattle and 100000 hogs. News
are given as causes for the shut down.
Governor Folk Of Missouri has sent
letters to the county prosecuting at
torneys throughout the state calling
their attention to the action of the ice
trust in arbitrarily raising the price of
ice. He promises to assist in taking
measures to correct the wrong and pun.
ish the offenders
Sunday, June "a.
A woman went to Milwaukee depart
ment store to get a prescription for Ep.
som salts filled and received what the
health department has analyzed as car
Donate CT potash. She escaped death by
misreading the prescription and taking
a smaller quantity than ordered by her
physician. Now the health department
mas begun crusade against the hand
ling OF drugs by grocery and department
stores. This may assume national pro-
portions.
In an effort to lessen the number Of
Sunday automobile accidents in New
York, the police equipped two squads of
police with high powered touring cars
and sent them out to arrest all violatOrs
OF the speed law. The policemen were
attired in the latest summer STYLES of
automobile apparel. Before nightfaIl
they had made % arrests OF chauffeurs
and owners, 500 cash bail being re-
quired in each instance.
One case of yellow fever has been re.
ported at the Mississippi quarantine
station, 81 miles below New Orleans
This is the first case of yellow fever re
ported in Louisiana this year by the
OF 70 hnn nd nE han THa
Cuban sailor.
Announcement is made in Wall street
that plans are being worked out for the
unifcation OF all the large independent
telephone interests of the country for
the purpose Of greater development and
for resisting the Bell monopoly.
A pitched battle was fought at a park
at LOrain, Ohio. between several bun
drcd Hungarians from LOrain and CleVe
land, who were holding reunion and
picnic. A fight started from some un-
known cause and scores of the contest
ants we're injured. Three of the Hun
garans from Cleveland were fatally hurt
Monday, June 20.
After July 81 of this year no more sa-
looms than are then in existence can be
opened in Chicago, until the population
OF the city is nearly double that Of the
present time, according to an ordinance
passed by the city council.
Five hundred men are at work in the
vicinity of Laton and Hanford, Cal,
trying to check the mighty flood which
threatens to destroy the many fine vine
yards.
That thousands of barrels Of whisky,
gins, brandies and cordials consumed in
New York every year, are made from
chemicals was thoroughly cOrrObOrated
through Investigations made by World
reporters. 1t develops that barrels Of
whisky which retail by the drink in first
class cafes for more than $500 can be
manufactured for less than $40. In the
borough Of Manhattan alone are more
than Is firms supplying those chemicals
They all act within the letter of the law,
but saloon men who make this "moon-
shine are violating every revenue act.
The business is carried on in New York
to an enormous extent.
President Roosevelt has signed the bill
authorizing the city of st. Louis TO
build and operate a railroad, wagon and
foot passenger bridge across the Missis-
sippi river at that point.
Before the organization Of the Interna-
tional Juvenile Improvement association
at Chicago, Judge Lindsey OF the juvenile
court at Denver, NestOr of the move
ment, gave pledge that he would re-
fuse John D. RockefelIer's offer of So
100000 to finance the plan.
Tuesday, June 20
Frankly admitting that he killed STAN
ford White, the famous architect, and
pleading in justification that White bad
ruined the life of his wife, the former
chorus girl and artists model, Florence
Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Kendall Thaw OF
Pittsburg, brother of the countess Of
Yarmouth. occupies cell in the Tombs
prison, New York, awaiting the action
of the grand jury on a charge of murder.
The murder occurred on the evening of
June %, when all parties concerned were
attending a musical entertainment at
the fashionable Madison Square Gar
dens.
Saturday half holidays during the
months of July, August and September,
have been granted by President Roose,
| veIt to skilled mechanics and laborers
and to all employees in the classified ser
vice at navy yards and naval stations oil
| the United States. The same benefit is
| extended tO the skilled mechanics labor.