The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-10

or nYe days.
ln letter written by President ROose
welt to the president OF the National AS
socie tion of Audubon Societies the nres
ident, speaking for himself and Mre
Roosevelt, expresses hearty sympathy
with the efforts of the society to prevent
the sale and use of white heron plumes
known as "aigrettes,' which are worn
/ on wOmen's hats.
/ The Oregon Short Line, Great North
ern and Northern Pacific railways in
Butte, Montana, have announced that
beginning August Is, a reduced scale OF
freight rates would go into effect. The
revised tariff rates announced quotes
prices to shippers from Chicago and Mis-
| souri, river points to Montana points and
west. The new rate will effect all goods
moving by rail routes or by lake and
| rail routes.
Sunday August s.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, looking much
improved in health and under the
assumed name of Nine. F. Cheney, ar
rived in New York on the French liner
La GascOgne. She declined to tell her
| plans. Mrs. Maybrick has been abroad
for three months.
The Negro Young Peoples Christian
| and Educational congress brought it's
sessions to a close at Washington, ID. o.,
| by meeting Of 5000 persons at Con
vention hall Numerous addresses were
delivered, mainly regarding the work
necessary to raise the standard of the
race.
The official call for the 18th annual
| session of the Transmissippi Commercial
congress, to meet in Kansas City, Mo,
November 20, 21, % and % next, has
been issued by the executive committee
The congress promises to be the most
important since its organization.
William Jacobs, "a years old, and
Abraham Jacobs. aged IL, brothers, we're
drowned while rowing in Branch Creek
park lake, N. Y. Their boat capsized
while the younger brother was standing
up to have his picture taken by William
Nichols, an amateur photographer
Nichols endeavOred to rescue the young
men, but without result.
Twenty people were injured in head
on collision between a passenger and
freight train on the Frisco road at St.
Genevieve, Mo. The engines we're de-
mOlished and the tracks torn up for
considerable distance.
Monday, August g.
The Milwaukee Avenue State bank,
one OF the largest outlying banks in Chi
cagO, was closed by tie state bank ex-
aminer. In the excitement following,
j. c. Wiser, an official of the Royal
league, who had on deposit in the bank
funds of that order, fell dead of heart
failure. Henry Koepke, a small grocer,
on hearing that the bank had suspended,
went to the rear of his store and shot
himself to death. Riotous scenes fol
lowed the failure and a large force Of
police struggled all day TO keep an ex.
cited crowd of depOsitors-nearly all of
them foreigners and many OF them wO-
men-from bursting in the doors of the
bank. The president and cashier of the
bank can not be located.
Reports from Ballinger, Tex, are to the
effect that nine inches of rain fell during
the past "a hours over an area includ-
ing several hundred square miles. The
Colorado river and Elm creek are higher
than ever before. Santa Fe railroad
bridges are being swept away and in
places the track is under 20 feet of water
Relief trains are being sent out from
Temple.
The temporary track around the tun-
mel near Redding, CAL, is completed and
the blockade on the Southern Pacific is
lifted. All trains are now moving on
time for the first time since Friday.
The big balloon Virvinia, carrying DR..
Thomas of New York and a professional
aeronaut, assembled from a point on the
East river in New York city Sunday
evening and landed it's passengers in
Noank, Conn.,, Monday morning, after
one OF the longest fights ever taken by
a passenger balloon in this country.
The party took on water and proceeded
on their journey, stopping next at Brant
Rock, Mass.
Tuesday, August Z.
The government wants 500 skilled me-
chanics for service on the Panama canal.
Henry A. Smith, employment agent OF
the isthmus canal commission, is in Chi
cagO to recruit these men. The classes
of men wanted are mechanics, boiler
makers, blacksmiths, locomotive en-
gineers, conductors and brakemen. They
will be furnished transportation.
The grand jury found true indictments
against IA members OF the Philadelphia
ice exchange, who are charged with con-
spiracy to increase the price of ice.
Among the recent recruits of the navy
have been a number Of young Indians
who were educated at the Carlisle In
dian school in Pennsylvania. Edward
Mellis, a grandson OF Red Cloud, the
famous Sioux chief, is one of these. He
is petty officer.
A report OF the killing OF five japanese
fishermen and the capture of twelve
japanese prisoners on Attu island, the
westernmost of the Aleutian group, the
the prisoners having been taken by the
revenue cutter McCulloch, was made to the
department OF commerce and labor by
Edwin @. Sims, solicitor for the depart
ment, who is in Alaska to enforce the
law prohibiting all persons not citizens
of the United States from fishing in
Alaskan waters. The japanese killed
we're shot by Americans on Attu island
before the McCulloch arrived
An Abundance of Gold.