The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-11-21

slppl' Dinner was the chief event of tn,
DAY and the menu included roast bear
paws, opossum and sweet potatoes.
One man was killed and a dozert men
women aud children more or less seri
ousiy injured in a collision between >
western Avenue electric train and a G.
d. q u freight train at the Eighteenth
street crossing Chicago.
Harlan Buckles, who was sentenced to
lie Imprisonment for the murder of Rob.
ert l., Reid at Elizabeth, Ky., has been
hanged by mob of rs men in the conrt
house yard
Fhyslcians attending Governor Yates
OF Illinois say that they believe a turn
Tor the better has developed. The gov.
ern0r's temperature was 80 3 5 degrees
for five hours. This is the lowest mark
since the beginning of the governors
Illness % days ago.
Through the instrumentalitv of the
Colorado Humane society, Colorado's
representatives in congress will Introduce
at the next session a bill creating a ma
tlonsl bureau of child and animal pro-
lection. The bill as prepared would es-
tablIsh board of three to be appointed
by the president.
Monday, November II.
The japanese empire will maintain a
permanent fleet in the American waters
OF the Pacific. This announcement has
been made by Fleet Surgeon C.. Oaki of
the imperial Japanese navy, who is now
in San Francisco.
An American firm has been awarded a
million dollar contract to construct a
system OF telephone conduits in the city
OF St Petersburg, Russia. The contract
provides for the laying Of 20 miles of
underground tubes in 1908. That CITY
is preparing to install model telephone
system.
The crown prince of Siam is now visit
ing IN Southern California. He appears
to be having a royal good time every
where he goes.
A state irrigation convention for
Oregon is being held in Portland. Reso-
lutiOns of this convention will go to the
United States government.
The bears in the swamp country
around the presidents camp on the
Little Sunfower in Mississippi seem to
have effected a successful combination to
prevent the president from having a
single shot at one of them on the expedi-
ton. The president takes his ill luck
good naturedly.
Tuesday, November 18.
President ROOsevelt's bear hunt in
Mississippi has ended, and he has not
even shot at bear. Try as hard as
they would, the hunters could not get
bear within range of the presidents rife.
The home coming of General Luke E.
Wright, after three years absence in
the Philippines, was made memorable
by the citizens of Memphis, by
monster celebration.
The monitor Nevada, which was
launched at Bath, Me-, November "a,
1900, has been completed at the Bath
iron works and will leave for Boston,
where she will be prepared for her trial
trin
The American Federation OF Labor is
in session at New Orleans and has been
for several days. Many matters of im-
Four masked robbers held up pass
enger train No. Z, on the Colorado &
Southern road near Trinidad, Col. One
OF the robbers was shot by an express
The east bound Southern Pacific pass
enger train was wrecked near Devers,
Texas. The engineer, George Burts of
Houston, was caught under the engine
and probably fatally injured. Fireman
Floyd was badly scalded and otherwise
injured, but probably will not die.