The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-11-28
December Is and to maintain the re-
stored tariffs absolutely.
Sunday, November %,


Sunday, November %.
Major Walter Reed, an officer of the
surgical department of the United States
army, is dead in Washington CITY. Ma
lor Reeds death was due to appendicitis
No trace of the Chicago robbers who
stole a mail wagon has been found AS
near as can be estimated the robbers Sc
cured $4,000 to $4,000.
Gypsy, the big elephant which injured
his keeper IN winter quarters in Chicago
several yerrs ago, went crazy six miles
from ValdOsta Ga. ,and killed her keener
James ORourke. The big beast escaped
into the woods and was shot a number
OF times before she succumbed to rifle
bullets in the brain.
George S. Shelby aged 26,great grand
son OF Isaac Shelby, first governor Of
Kentucky, killed himself with revolver
as he lay in bed He was subject to
somnambulism and it is said that he
hred the fatal shot while in that condi-
ton. No reason is known for suicide.
Antonio Migasi is dead at NobIesyille
Ind, aged 80 years. Migasi was the
moving spirit in Antonio Bros's circus,
famous before the war.
A trainman was killed and seven Others
seriously injured by the explosion of a
locomotive boiler at Thompson, Pa, on
the MOnongahela division of the Penn
sylvanla railroad.
The entire plant of the Colorado Paw
ing company has been destroyed by fire,
which originated from an explosion OF
boiling asphalt. Loss $4,000.
Monday. November "a.
The contracts are about to be signed
whereby the United States government
grants the Commercial Cable company
the privilege of laying it's Pacific cable
from San Francisco to the Hawaiian
islands, Midway islands, Guam, Luzon
and the China coast. The work will
probably start at once.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
given their first dinner of the season at
the White House. Covers we're laid for
lo persons. The guests included Justice
and Mrs. White, Secretary Root, Attor-
ney General and Mrs Knox, Admiral
and Mrs. Dewey, General CrOzier, Baron
and Baroness Speck Won Steinberg, Mr..
and Mrs. j. 5. Strachey, Captain and
Mrs. Cowles, Mrs. Grant La Fargo and
Mrs. Tuckermah.
A suit has been filedsin New York by
walter MOreshead, representing the
minority stockholders of the Central Pa
enc railroad, to recover more than
SlOO, 200, 900 from the estate of Coils
7. Huntington.
James W. Kelley, the newspaper man
who is accused of numbering DR.. Caylev
in Butte, Mont, some weeks ago has
pleaded not guilty.
b. E. Christensen, the Sharpsburg,
Iowa, banker, has been released from
jail. In settlement Christensen has
turned over $4,000 with the under
standing that he will not be prosecuted.
Several hundred business men, repre-
seRting the commercial bodies OF ssn
Francisco have rendered a reception to
Wu Ting Fang the retiring Chinese min
lister to the United States.
Tuesday, November 20.
Mrs. Eva Hart (Mme. La Bonta)
wanted in Butte, Mont, for completely
in the murder of DIR. II. A. CayIey, has
been apprehended and arrested in San
Francisco. She has confessed that she
shot DR.. Cayley and that the newspaper
man, James W. Kelly, had nothing to
do with the affair.
Grover Cleveland has accepted an in
vitatiOn to preside at a public meeting
to be held in Philadelphia on December
IL in the interest of manual training
and industrial school for colored people.
The preliminary report of the inter
state commerce commission on the in
come account of the railways in the
United States for year ending June 20,
last, contains returns of rail companies
operating 1875, ,945 miles OF line. The
gross earnings of these lines amounted
TO $1,711,754 200, or $8756 per mile of
line. The net earnings were $3,091 per
mile.
James E A. Gibbs, aged 73, the in
ventor OF the Wilcox and Gibbs sewing
machine and other inventions is dead at
his home in Rockbridge county, Vermont.