The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-19

oi'S'hdi pan having been agreed on
formation OF the soft coal trust NAV be
de'ayed to give time for the working ont
OF larger plans.
rat Crowe, wanted for abduction of
the Cndahy boy at Omaha, has been
heard from in South Africa.
Inc statement OF the imports and ex-
ports OF the United States for the fiscal
year which ended June 80. 1901, was
completed by the treasury bureau of
STATISTICS today. 1t shows that the
total imports of the year were $500.
I566,533; total exports, 81. .487. 500. 81
ano anu 'ne excess OF exports over imports
$664, ,900,011. The imports are S27
Io+'0ol telow those of last wear and
the exports are S93,173.462 above
those OF last year. The excess OF ex
ports over imports exceeds that of last
year by $l2O, ,35S, 113 and is $40 ACT.
9oo greater than the highest record ever
before made, that of 1898. Under the
De" relations with Hawaii and Porto
hicO the commerce with these islands ia
no longer included in the regular state
di oienC OF foreign commerce of the United
states. had they been so included, as
mas oeen the case in former years. the ex-
ports would have exceeded $1,5OO,O ,O0O,-
oOO, ds the exports to these islands dur
ing the year have aggregated about
$25, 100000.
Sunday, July IA.
Secretary Wilson Of the agricultural
department still believes the country will
nave plenty of corn, notwithstanding
the burning weather in portions of the
corn belt.
Sugar dropped 80 points, a decline of
90 cents a hundred in 80 DAYS. The
price with iobbers Sc 20, is the lowest
Known in Washington for several years.
The case of Cordelia Botkin, convicted
OF numbering Mrs. John p, Dunning of
Dover, delaware, by sending her poisoned
candy through the mails from San
francisco, will be carried to the supreme
court of the United States.
Coleman and James Younger. who
were granted a conditional parole by
the board OF pardons on Wednesday
last, were released from the Saltwater
penitentiary in Minnesota. They were
members of the James gang and have
spent more than 90 years in prison for
robbery of bank at Northfeld, Mimi.
Monday, July 15.
head-end collision between two
freights near Wymark, |. T., killed five
men, two OF whom we're tramps.
Deputy Game Warden F. A. McHaney,
half-breed, shot and killed W. A. Wom
ack and fatally wounded A. l.. Hinch-
man, whom he claimed resisted arrest
while fishing Illegally in Grandmesa lake,
near Deta, Calf
The Idaho board of pardons COM
muted the death sentence of "DiamOnd-
field Jack" Davis to imprisonment for
life. He was convicted of the murder of
two sheepherders in Cassia county and
was backed by the big cattle companies.
The postoffice department has con-
tracted for an increase of the postal
service in Alaska that will provide
quicker time between Seattle and Circle
City and intermediate points and furnish
direct steamboat service to Sitka.
Infuriated ranchers Iynched three
stock thieves near Judith, Montana.
"Bucking Bill' Fred Connie and Waller
were mounted on horses, driven under
tree and swung off.
Reports from all sources connected
with the great strike of the steel work
ers today indicate that the members of
the Amalgamated association have mat
ters we'll in hand and the strike order
was generally Obeyed. Thousands of
men are out.