The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-11-08
NEWS OF THR STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information OF
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, October 80.

Wednesday, October 80.
Three hOboes, whom he had pre-
viOusly given money for meals, attacked
Harry Conway, miner returning in q
box car from Idaho, at Redding, Calf,
badly beat him and robbed him of a
gold watch and So So They overlooked
800 in his waistband, and when they
proposed TO investigate that he jumped
from the running train and caught the
cabOOse. The men were locked in the
car and captured. All are young.
An automobile collided with loco.
motive at New York. All six men
aboard the auto we're hurt. The ma
chine was in charge of Henri Fournier,
the eminent French chauffeur.
At Virginia City, Montana, Mr.. and
Mrs. Plumb engaged in a revolver duel,
which was opened by the husband. At
his first shot their 2-year-oId daughter,
Ethel, fell dead, with a ball through her
brain. The mother was shot in a hip,
and her mother, Mrs. Parke, through a
shoulder. Both will recover. Plum is
in jail.
A new transcOntinental railway sys-
tenn is to be formed. The Pennsylvania
and the Santa Fe roads are planning an
alliance. Heretofore the Pennsylvania q
connection to and from the west has
been the Burlington, which has become
the property of the Morgan Hill syndi-
cate. The scheme is not a financial
proposition, but one merely involving
close relations.
Thirteen German walters, who arrived
IN this country a month ago, have been
ordered deported by the treasury de-
partment as contract laborers.
The estimates for the entire postal
service for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1903, aggregate $135, 1856, ,596. This
is inclusive of 81 ,O37 $40 for department
al salaries and $216,G $50 for contingent
expenses. The total for rural free de-
livery is $3.50, 900, an increase of So
100000 over the current year.
Seventy five families lost their homes
by fire at Union street and Austin
avenue, Chicago.
Thursday, October 81.
Commissioner POwderly OF the immi-
grafton bureau has sent notices to al!
immigration officers to be on the look
out for man known as Jaffei, an an
archlst, otherwise known as ,Jaffei, the
Red, who is supposed to be on his way
to the United States. Ii he is found
on any OF the incoming steamers he will
be detained and if a precedent, estab-
llshed about four years ago in the cas-
OF well known anarchist who attempt
ed to center the country, is observed.
Jaffei will be returned to the country
whence he came. Jaffei is said to be an
Italian under 25 years of age and no.
torious for his anarchistic doctrines.
Judge Hanecy OF the Chicago circuit
court issued an order against William
K. Hearst, owner of the Chicago Ameri-
can, and six employees of the paper to
show cause why they should not be pun
lshed Tor contempt of court. The pub
llcatlOns were news items, editorials and
cartoons rejecting on the motives of the
Judge in a recent decision in which the
Peoples Gaslight and Coke company
was interested
To Representative Jones of Washing
ton, who called upon President Roose-
velt to pay his respects, the president
expressed his great interest in the north
west, and said he expected to make a
tour OF this part of the United States
next summer.
The annual report of Commissioner
Hermann of the land office says that
1862, ,796 acres of public land we're dis
posed of during the last fiscal year, an
increase OF 2,1O8, ,908 over the previous
year, which was the banner year in pub
lie land sales. The net surplus from the
entire land and forest administration is
So, 54S, ,442