The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-08-03

Severe crop damage ia reported from
several points in Minnesota, North Da-
kOta and Iowa, resulting from hail, rain
and wind storms.
Fifty thousand dollars damage was
done Saturday by an electric storm which
| swept over the country near GAINESVILLE,
| Wis. Churches, warehouses. factories
and large barns were damaged or de-
strOyed.
John D. Rockefeller arrived in New
| York on the steamer Amerika from
Europe.
In New York, Maxim Gorky made an
earnest appeal to the people of America
to help the people OF Russia free its body
from the parasites who suck its life
| blood
Sunday. July 20.
A handsome memorial window of Gen
| eral Stonewall Jackson was unveiled in
| the negro Presbyterian church at ROa-
! noke, Va. The window was erected bv
the pastor, Rev l.. L. Downing, the
money for its purchase coming wholly
| from negroes.
Two pleasure yachts coming in from
| the fishing banks capsized on therefore,
fore inlet bar, n. J., and eight persons
| lost their lives. There were 30 persons
on one yacht, of whom seven were lost.
and II on the other That there were
not more victims was due to Captain
| Ludam Of the therefore, Inlet life saving
station and a crew Of five men.
| When Samuel Pearse, a we'll known
| resident of Washington county, Pa, re-
| turned 10 his home from q drive he
| found his young wife and two children
| dead and a third child dying from bullet
| wounds. Who fred the shots has not
been learned. Indications point to rob-
| berry as the motive.
| A dispatch from San Francisco saws
| that the board of fire underwriters Of
| the Pacific coast has amended it's rules
! 80 as to do away with city agents and
| solicitors and hereafter all business of
| the companies connected with the board
| is to be done directly or through regu-
| larly enrolled brokers. The purpose OF
| this change is to reduce the expenses OF
the companies.
Monday, July so.
Mrs. William Ellis Corey. wife OF the
the president of the United States Steel
corporation, was awarded divorce in
the district court OF Nevada, sitting at
Reno. She was given the custody of her
16 year old son.
Five thousand Snake Indians OF In
dian Territory have formed govern
ment of their own, for the purpose Of
resisting the encrOachment of whites on
their lands. Officers have been elected,
the main purpose being to save old Iu-
dian customs from civilization. The
leader is Cray Snake" who has several
times led revolutions against the federal
government.
The strike OF union wOrkmen engaged
in making repairs at Stanford University,
which occurred a week ago and was tenn
pOrarily adjusted, is on again in full
force.
A rumor current some time ago that
George Won L. Meyer, ambassador to
Russia, would quit his post at St. Peters
burg and become member of President
ROOsevelt's cabinet is now fully confirm
ed. Attorney General Moody will retire
from the cabinet to engage in the private
practice of law. Secretary Bonaparte is
slated to succeed Moody, and Ambassa-
| dor Meyer is slated to succeed Bona
parte as head OF the navy department.
John c. Hatley, receiver for Zion City,
| issued an appeal to the mOneyed believ-
| Clc III JnC DOWl6 W
for the relief Of the destitute of the com
munity. A large percentage OF the pop
ulation is underfed and iDsufficiently
| clothed and the land into which they put
their savings has little value under exist
| ing conditions. DOwie will appeal from
| the decision OF the federal court declar-
ing Zion City trust estate.
Tuesday. July 81.
| A banquet was given to DR.. Devine of
the national Red Cross, who has had
charge of the relief work in San Fran
ciscO, and who is about to return to his
home in the east. A number of discOn-
tented persons who are living in the
refuge camps took advantage of the oc-
casiOn to work up a demonstration
against the relief commission, and a
thr0ng gathered in front OF the ST.
Francis hotel, where the banquet was
held. A number of speeches were made,
mostly denunciatory in character.
| Terrible heat conditions prevail in the
Inyo county gold fields of California and
adjacent deserts, and mining prospect
ors are dying daily from the heat. Eight
| prOspectOrs in the Panamint range we're
brought in dead from the heat. At
| Ballarat, the thermometer registered
135 at noon, and at midnight following
had dropped to but 116 degrees, which
was the average for three days. In the
desert section, lying south OF Redlands,
the mercury went up to 160 and could
record no higher.
A meeting at the Zion City tabernacle
unanimously nominated Voliva for gen.
eral Overseer of the church, for the cleo
tion in September, in accordance with
the recent decision OF Judge Landis.
James W. Sage, a nephew of Russell
Sage, declares that he will contest the
will OF the deceased millionaire.
An Abundance of Gold.
Reports from South Africa are to the effect
that this year the gold output will be more
than 500, 900 900. and as there is no dlminu-
tion Of the gold production of other countries,
it follows that 1906 will far surpsss all pre-.
vious figures. The record of cures made by
the celebrated Hostetters Stomach Bitters far
surpasses that of all other stomach medicines
, The reason for its success is very plain when
you remember the fact that it has often affect
ed cures after other remedies had failed. II
you have never tried the Bitters get bottle
today and see for yourself what wonderful
medicine it is in cases of poor appetite, head
ache, vomiting, cramps, diarrhoea, dyspepsia
, indigestion and malaria. Don't start on your
: vacation without taking along supply of the