The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-09-19
ALL OVER THB Union
Inc Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, September 10.

I'll. The Brazilian minister of marine
mas ordered Warship to go to the aid
OF the Iowa. The Iowa is the flagship
OF the South Atlantic squadron.
President Roosevelt returned to Ovs-
ter bay from his southern trip. The
president was accompanied by secretary
Cortel you, Assistant Secretary Loeb,
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel RoOse.
veit: The president was wearied and re-
tired at an early hour. Secretary Cor
telyou went to his home at Hemstead.
Henry Grady of Atlanta, Ca, who
disappeared from Norfalk, Va, several
days ago, has been found in New York
city and his relatives notified.
The investigation in the cases arising
from the st. Louis municipal upheavel
are growing more interesting. These
Investigations show a state of affairs in
st. Louis city politics that would make
Croker and his gang of New York frauds
green with envy. Bail for some of the
delegates already arrested has been
placed IN sums ranging around $4,000
each.
Charles Gordon, who was once SEN
tenced to die on the gallOws, at Butte,
Mont, is free mon. Gordon was con-
vlcted OF murder in the first degree, but
his sentence was cOmmuted. The board
OF pardOns have approved the pardon
OF the governor.
The anthracite operators in PennsyI-
vania say that there will be no settle
ment of the strike unless the miners
acceed to the demands of the operators
and go back to work. The operators
will not listen to arbitration.
Thursday, September Ii.
The Beaumont, Texas, oil fields are on
fire. A number of huge settling tanks
have exploded and burned and it is
feared that the entire field will be de-
stroyed. There are 410 producing wells
in the field. Some of them are being
buried under earth to safeguard against
fire
Bert Alvord, the notorious train rob-
Der and outlaw has surrendered to
Sheriff Lewis of Cochise county, Arizona,
He is charged with attempting to rob
the q. S. mail at Cochise in 1899 and at
Fairbanks in 1900. The charge of train
robbery, which in Arizona is a capital
offense, also hangs over bis head.
Forest fires in the Cascades in Oregon
are destroying milIions and millions OF
feet of some of the most valuable q and
ing timber in the world. The smoke
from these fires hangs so heavy over the
mouth of the Columbia that navigation
is dangerous.
At meeting of the Brotherhood of
Electrical workers in New Orleans it was
TppIHe6 fn attQmnt tn hn Ill
OF the telephone lineman to every city in
the south in which the Cumberland Tele-
graph & Telephone company operates
The postoffice department has issued
an order directing all mails for trans
pacific destination hereafter to be for
warded by the steamer to sail first with
out regard to whether such steamer
sails from San Francisco, Seattle or
Vancouver.
The jury in the case OF A. L. Belding,
charged with killing three persons in
Portland two months ago, rendered
verdict OF murder in the first degree.
Belding will probably hang.
Friday, September IL
There is every prospect that the
steamer Jessie Banning when she sails
from San Francisco under the Colombian
flag, will have on board an out and out
American crew, officers and all. Sew
mOur DuttOn, a reporter on San Fran
cisco paper, has shipped as executive
officer. DuttOn has seen service aboard
warship in Cuban waters. Captain H.
H. Marmaduke will be in command.
Alexander B. Shepherd, who was at
one fimn pnUorDnr nf tho Dict IF 10
lumbia, and who is credited with nipping
in the bud the movement to remove the
capitol from Washington City to some
western town, is dead, at his mines at
Batopiles, Mexico. He in company with
New York capitalists was the owner Of
the great Hacienda silver mine. He
leaves widow and seven children.
The navy department has awarded
the contracts for steel material to be
used in the construction of the new
battleship Connecticut at the New York
navy yard.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Fair, killed in an automobile accident in
France, have been inferred in Laurel
Hill cemetery, San Francisco. The SER
vices were simple and attended only by
8.
A conference is being held at the ex-
ecutive mansion in Harrisburg, Pa, be
tween Governor Stone, State Senator
William Flynn, M. K McMullen of Pitts
burg and President Mitchell and Dis
trict Presidents Duffy and Fahey. The
conference is being held on the sugges-
tiOn of the governor.
Mrs. William M. Stewart, wife of
Senator Stewart of Nevada, was killed
almost instantly in an automobile ac-
cident, while riding with Henry Foote
and FL. B. Taylor. They were riding
along Santa Clara avenue, Alameda
county, California, Taylor guiding the
machine. A carriage approached and
Taylor swerved to avoid a collision and
struck telephone pole.
Saturday, September 13.
Corners in grain are forever rendered
impossible hereafter by decision handed
down by Judge Chytrans in the circuit
court of Chicago, if sustained by the
higher court. The case was for an in
junction asked by Waite, Thorburn
Co., against prominent Chicago Com
mission houses in the recent July oats
corner.
Two of the most disastrous forest
fires that have ever ragged in the forests