The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-01-24

to perform the duties of the place which
they seek and are filing"
Colorado's governor finds that cor.
| porai punishment has been excessive
ana unreasonable at the state industrial
schooi Tor bows and that the superin-
tendent and other officers must be re-
moved.
A delegation OF Michigan beet sugar
manufacturers appeared before Presi-
dent Roosevelt and protested against
proposed reduction of the duty on Gu
pan sugar. The president stated that
TINS country should do something for
CuDa, Whereupon the delegation urged
thaS the beet sugar industry should not
Dear the brunt of this country's gener-
oslty. They we're willing that something
snouid be done, but did not want their
industry destroyed.
Phlllp s. Adams, cashier of a small
bank at Fulton, Mo-, fed with $4,000.
The bank is closed. 1t carried $4,000
county funds.
A check for $1,OOO,OOO was received
by the executors of the estate of the
late F. H. Peavey, the Minneapolis
elevator man, for payment of a single
'"nCO pciiCS OH Ills HE.
Two boys Is years old knocked down
u. +. Wagner, Portland broker, in
front OF the Grand hotel at San Fran
cisco and robbed him of $3.50.
The miners of Ohio adopted resolu-
ton assessing all members one half of
one per cent, 1t is estimated that this
Will raise defense fund of about $780,
OOO per annum.
Webster Davis is said to have started
from Kansas City to New York bearing
petition carrying 2,121 .604 names OF
citizens OF the south and west, asking
for national sympathy for the Beers.
AS a PASSENGER train of the Rock
Island road was passing through Vic
tor, Iowa, at 40 miles an hour, the
locomotive boiler exploded, killing the
engineer and fireman, throwing all of
the seven coaches from the track, but
Injnrlng no passengers, land badly jarring
the town.
President Roosevelt announces that
he will make no public speeches until
congress has completed it's work.
Sunday, January 10.
Frederick Krainnardt, for 80 years a
Catholic priest, suicided by hanging at
JosephYille, Mo.
Admiral Schley's hunting party re-
turned from st. Catharine island, off the
Georgia coast. The admiral brought
down one deer and is said to have been
more excited than at the battle of San
tiagO.
-Four blocks of buildings, four stories
in height, in the heart of Detroit's
Wholesale district, fell without warming.
No one was injured because of Sunday
evening desertion.
n An attempt on the part of the Terre
sSfnte, Ind Electric company to run it's
cars on the city lines after a boycott
was declared by the Central Labor
union resulted in several small riots in
the business center.
At a country dance at Morris creek,
v. Va, Lillian Williams entered the
ball room intoxicated and ordered VIM.
Slaughter and Ralph johnson, colored
musicians, TO play ragtime music They
did not respond and she shot both to
death and mortaIly wounded Powell
Galloway, a white bystander. She es-
capped lyncbing only by timely arrival of
officers.
Monday, January 20.
Fl F. Matteson, cashier of the First
National bank at Great Falls, Mont, is
$175,O00 short and under arrest. He
lost the money in the late smash in
copper stocks.
Snow from three to eight inches in
depth covers Kansas and pOr tiOns of
Nebraska. 1t is good for winter wheat.
An Indian uprising is feared at the
Belknap agency in northern Montana.
Reds are dancing and ugly because OF
an order from the Indian commissioner
forbidding wearing of long hair by
males and face painting by either sex.
Tuesday, January Fl.
Richard Croker, for IL years leader o I
the New York Tammany forces, formally
announces his retirement from poll tics
for all time.
The appoin tment of Robert V. Crozier,
to succeed himself as United States at
torney for Idaho. is agreed upon by the
cabinet.
Eighteen-year-old Alvin Boyce, at
Butte, Mont, mourned his brother, who
suicided by poison three years ago, and
today, the third anniversary of his
brothers death. ended his life in the
same manner.
The war department was notified that
Captain NJ. J. Hartshorn, Jr., was shot
from ambush and killed in Samar. He
was an officer of the Seventh infantry.
Admiral Scbley filed with the president
his appeal from the findings of the court
OF inquiry. 1t sets out the grounds of
error on points of law and facts alleged
by Admiral Sehley and concludes with a
lengthy argument il support of his con-
tention that he has been unfairly dealt
with.
The committee of congress on the elec.
tion of president and vice president made
favorable report on the bill for the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people.
Patrolman E. C. Robinson of San
Francisco surprised three burglars at
work. All fired upon him simultane-
ously and three balls entered his abdo
men. As he fell dead Robinson fired and
wounded one burglar, who was captured
January wheat at Chicago, lower
76B. May 782. Portland, cash, So tc
| 81; Tacoma, So.
"Some time ago my daughter caught
a severe cold, She complained of pains
in her chest and had bad cough.
gave her Chamberlain Cough Remedy
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