The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-13

TO MS condition will be told at all times
tnat there is no disposition to deceive
the people. "0o''''
Two hundred anarchists celebrated
the shooting of President Mckinley at
uuheY Hollow, small hamlet in Penn
syivania.
4 lone highwayman attempted to
noiu up stage running between Ager
anu LaKeVleW, Oregon. The driver, with
entee iaqy passengers aboard, refused to
nalC and the bold highwayman shot five
tlhes at him without damage.
Monday, September o.
AG boston, for the first time, 80 per
cent party" with full rights to nomin-
ATE candidates for state offices the
democratic social party met in conven-
1loh. On the matter of resolutions the
convention condemned CzOIgOsz and
sympathized with the president. The
platform included the usual declaration
OF principles, and favored the adoption
OF the initiative and referendum. &. Fl
Wrenne OF Springfield was nominated
Tor governor.
Northern Pacific train Of seven
ireignI cars and two passenger coaches
Gohiued with an engine in the yard at
jamestown, y. D., killing five passengers
anu lnIurlng as many more.
80 Marion, Ind, three inmates of the
soidlers home are in the guard house of
that institution for having expressed
sympathy with the attack on the presi-
dent. P'O''
Inc annual reunion of the G. A. r.
opened at Cleveland, Ohio, with a large
attendance.
1he last efforts to settle the great
steel workers strike failed. The general
executive board of the Amalgamated
association adjourned this evening with
out date and without accepting anv of
the peace propositions that have come
indirectly from the United States Steel
corporation, or making any counter
propositions, according to the official
statement. The semiofficial report is
that the proposition secured for the
Amalgamated association through the
Intervention of the representatives of
the National Civic federation was un-
satisfactory and that the matter Of
settling and arranging was left for Mr..
Shaffer.
GeO. Braunraider, an inmate of the
soldiers home at LeavenwOrth, Kansas.
was dishOnOrably discharged and
drummed out of camp for expressing
satisfaction with the shooting OF Nc
Kinley.
tuesday, September 10.
Unknown parties blew up the safe in
the, postoffice at Edmund, Oklahoma,
and secured $500. Bloodhounds are
after them.
Joseph II. Wright, postmaster at
Nome, Alaska, has been arrested for en-
bezzlement Of $442O.
President Shaffer and his advisors in
the general office of the Amalgamated
associatiOn held the power by authority
of the general executive board of the
Organization to settle the steel strike
Mr.Shaffer and bis advisors apparently
allowed the day to lapse, after this
authority was vested in them, without
coming to any settlement. On Monday.
it is said, the executive board directed
President Shaffer, together with Secre-
tary y-tTeasurer Williams, Assistant Sec
retary Ilghe and Ben [. Davis OF the ad-
visory board, to settle without delay on
the best terms Obtainable.
The average condition of the harvest
in winter and spring wheat combined
was S2S against 696 last year, 7O.9
in 1899, and 10 year average of SO.3.
North Dakota, California and Oregon
report an even Z points, Washington -,
Indiana 16, Illinois 10, Missouri %, and
Kansas % above their respective ten
years averages. On the other hand the
average condition in Iowa is points. in
Ohio and South Dakota 3, Pennsylvania
6. Minnesota AMI Nebraska 8, Michigan
% and Texas 36 points below the re-
spective 10 year averages Of these states.
The average condition of potatoes on
September l was 52,2 against 62.3 on
August l, 1901; 80 on September /,
1900; S6.3 at the corresponding date in
1899, and rs s, the mean of the Sep
tember averages of the last ten years.
The present condition is the lowest ever
reported in September, being 1912 points
below that OF 1894, the lowest previous
September condition.
Wheat futures at Chicago: September,
6Sh; Portland, cash, 55 for club, Sc for
bluestem; Tacoma, same; COlfax, 40.