The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-09-26

has demanded and received the resipna-
ton OF j. D. Defenbaugh, principal OF
one OF the schools, because he compelled
several white girls in the school to kiss
the colored girls, with whom the former
had quarreled.
A box intended for Harvey Logan. the
Montana train robber, in iaiI at Knox
vile, Tenn, has been intercepted by the
sheriff. The box contained several
packages OF tobacco and six cob pipes
with long stems. Over the mouth OF
the pipes were seals. These we're broken
by the sheriff, who found a steel saw %
inches long in each pipe.
At Chocktaw, Is miles east Of Okla
| hOma City, an east bound freight train
ran into the Sells Downs show train,
killing three persons and wounding %
Others, several fatally.
Sunday, September Fl.
Peter Olsen, who shot and killed his
sweetheart, Mary Petersen, in Omaha on
September 8, was killed in a fight with a
posse three miles north OF Bancroft.
Neb.
A contribution OF $1,000 will be sent
to the striking miners of PENNSYLVANIA.
as a result of mass meeting held in
Detroit.
This is a day of funerals in Birmine.
ham, Ala, the remains of 7S victims of
the panic in ShilO church being inferred
in the various cemeteries for negroes
around that city.
The Brotherhood of Trainmen en-
ployed on all railroads entering Wilkes
barre, Pa, have held secret meeting
at Kingston. The object OF the meeting
| was to take some action on the question
OF Brotherhood men hauling coal from
the mines where nonunion men are en-
ployed.
Attorney General Knox has returned
to Washington after his trip to Paris,
where he conferred with officials regard
| ing the sale of the Panama canal
| property to the United States. Mr..
Knox devoted his time to questions af-
fectlng the title OF the company and it's
right to dispose of the same, and has Sc
| cured much data. From this he will
prepare an opinion for the president.
Senator W. A. Clark will enter into
competition with Henry E. Huntington
in interurban railrOading about Los
Angeles. Arrangements are being made
geles to Long Beach, one track to be for
electric cars and the other for a steam
railroad.
Monday, September 22
William Hooper Young, for whom the
police of New York have been searching
in connection with the murder of Mrs,
Anna Nelson Pulitzer has been found.
and is also said to have made a COMES,
sion regarding the killing of Mrs. Pull
liter. Young is known in Portland and
Seattle. While in Seattle be was the
editor of scurilous publication which
was suppressed by the police.
The sheriff of Lackawanna county,
Pennsylvania, has called upon Governor
Stone for troops to quell the disturb
ances in the strike stricken region of the
Lackawanna valley. Trouble is feared
from several quarters. The governor
has ordered the Thirteenth regiment to
report Immediately to Gen. Goblin for
duty in the strike region.
1t seems almost impossible to ascer-
tain accurately just how many deaths
have occurred as d result of the panic
Friday night at the ShilO Baptist church
in Birmingham, Ala. The number ap-
pears TO be not less than 104 and may
be number more.
Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldon of Topeka,
Kansas, author of ''In His Steps," has
positively declined to be the candidate
for congressman at large on the allied
pOpulst ticket. Mr.. Sheldon says he
has no desire to be a member of con-
gress, and even if he had he would not
agree to be on the allied pOpulist ticket
Tuesday. September 20.
President Roosevelt has been compelled
to discontinue his western trip, and sub
nit to an operation upon his leg at q
hospital in Indianapolis This became
necessary from the results of a bruise
sustained some weeks ago when an cleo
trio car ran into the presidents carriage
at Pittsfield, Mass. The president has
been suffering considerable pain during
the past few days, and his physicians de-
clded an operation to remove the
pus from the bruise absolutely necessary
and that the president would have to
discontinue the use OF his leg until the
soreness healed. The president has re.
turned to Washington.
A telegram has been received in Har-
risburg, Pa, from Sheriff Jacobs OF Lu,
zerne county, asking Governor Stone
for troops. In his telegram the sheriff
says be is unable to cope with the situa-
ton.
Dan Patch, the famous PAGER, went
against the worlds record OF 1:594, and
by magnificent performance, equalled
the record. He is now the worthy mate
OF Star Pointer.
The combination OF the great packing
houses of the country, which has been
| under consideration and in process OF
actual formation for the last six months,
has been abandoned. The decision not
to complete the combination is due in
| large degree to the administration at
| titude regarding trusts, as outlined by
| President Roosevelt.
Counterfeit Gold,
Few persons know that the gold used
in color printing and on picture frames
is made from a composition powder OF
bronze and spelter, and not from pure
gold leaf, but which, however, gives the
same effect. There ia another article
that is very much initiated, and that is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Spurious
dealers often refill the bottles, and thus
give them the same appearance as the
huf Dr;