The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-10-10
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The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, October 1.

r. ii. Newell, chief of engineers in gov
ernment irrigation works, is in Lincoln
Nebr., consulting with field engineers
and Nebraska members OF congress Mr.
Newell says the government will sOor
sink number of artesian wells in west
ern Nebraska for the purpose of ascer
tanning the depth necessary to have q
continuous water flow. The same plan
will be followed in Kansas and South
Dakota. Mr. Newell was met in Lincoln
Dy Arthur z. Davis, principal engineer
10 charge of construction in the west
he is on his way to Chicago where ma.
chlnery will be purchased for work on
the Colorado river. The two will meet
later IN Denver, where they will formu
late plans for the winters work in the
south and west.
According to dispatch from Goshen
N. l., the hOld-up of the coach Pioneer
between Goshen and Warwick, by three
masked and heavily armed men, was a
hoax perpetrated by young society men
from Warwick. The passengers we're in
entire ignorance of the affair, however
The joke was arranged, the dispatch de.
clares, as fitting climax for the coach
ing season. The Pioneer was on it's last
trip.
It has leaked out at Canyon City,
Colo, that a break for liberty of con
victs in the state penitentiary was
nipped in the bud Sunday night by the
prison officials. Almost all of the life
time and long sentence prisoners had
planned to Overpower the guards and
escape, but the plan was told to the
officials by one of their number. A
number OF revOlYers and a quantity OF
citizens clothing were discovered.
James Bradley of the Black Hills, N.
D., who is visiting at La Crosse, Wis.
announces that notwithstanding Presi-
dent ROOseVelt's prohibition of the COW
boy race from the Black Hills to Chi
cago the event will be pulled off on the
Goth OF next month. The amount of
money wagered is over $4,000. Horse
owners and those who are betting on
the race will follow the bronchOes in a
special train to leave at the same time
as the racers.
Thursday, October 2.
President Roosevelt will make an ef
fort to bring the anthracite mineowners
and their striking employees together in
the interest of the public good. This
conclusion was reached after a series Of
conferences with his cabinet advisers.
The decision was arrived at when the
lawyers OF the cabinet informed the
president tnat there was no way under
the constitution and the form of gov.
ernment of the United States for federal
Intervention to end the strike. Every
phase of the situation was canvassed
and the determination to have the mine
operators and President Mitchell meet
the president was reached after it was
found no other method was open.
The presidents injured leg continues
to improve, and his condition is salts
factory. According to the report given
out at the temporary White House he
keeps in good spirits, and enjoys the
bright, spring like weather which pre-
vailed during the day.
The Ventura corporation of London.
promoters of the Independence mine at
Cripple Greek, Col, confirms the report
from Colorado Springs that it is prepar-
ing to bring suit for $5,O00,O00 dam
ages against the estate of W. S. STRAIT
ton.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued circular identically the same as
that given out in New York, with this
addition: The other satisfactory securi-
ties referred to must for the present be
the state or municipal bonds OF the char
acter permitted to be accepted by say.
ings banks under the laws OF such states
as have legislated on the subject.
John C. MCCULLOUGH of Bennington
has been elected governor OF Vermont
by the state legislature. He was the re.
publican candidate who failed of election
at the polls because he did not carry a
majority of the votes.
Friday, October 3
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