The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-09-04


publican convention, and instructed to
vote for President Roosevelt. The reso.
luton of the Pennsylvania delegation
strongly indorses President Roosevelt
and Senator's Quay and Penrose.
1t is believed that the elimination OF
the long projected combination of con-
densed milk producers will De reached
through the Incorporation of a new com
pany, articles for which have lust been
nled at Trenton, n. j., by a New York
law frm The capital stock ia placed at
SI,oOO.OOO. The concern will b. known
as the Union Condensed Milk company.
City and County Clerk AicheIe OF Den
yer, Colo, indicted by the grand iury
with II counts. charging him with EN-
bezziement, larceny of receipts and de-
structiOn Of public documents. apppared
IN the criminal court and Furnished
bonds In the sum OF $4,000. He said
ne would plead not guilty to all the
charges.
Sunday, August 80.
There is no doubt now in the minds q
officers but that Kid Curry, the noted
train robber and desperad0, is in the
Little Rocky country of Montana. In
formation absolutely authentic comes
from Harlem that he was in that place
no later than three days ago.
The bureau of navigation of the navy
department has been cabled that the
Brooklyn and San Francisco have sailed
from Genoa and are expected to arrive
at Beirhut, Syria, Friday.
Welser, Idaho, is freed OF gamblers.
The chief OF police and police force have
rounded up all of the tinhorn gamblers
In that town, marched them to the depot
and told them to hit the trail. Every |
slot machine in the town and gambling
OF every description is prohibited.
Without word of warning two men
were killed and two others wounded bv |
hOldup men at the barns of the Chicago |
Clty Railway company. The shooting |
was done by three men who escaped after |
securing $4,000, which they found in the |
cashiers Office.
ln a panic at a picnic at Sunnvside
Park, Racine, Wis, four persons were
severely injured by a mad steer that |
stampeded crowd of 1000 persons. A
hundred or more persons were knocked
down and several women tainted.
After a struggle with two alleged bank
robbers now behind the bars at East st. |
Louis, Chief OF Police Purdy and his
men nipped in the bud what is believed
to have been an attempt to blow the
safe OF the East st. Louis Trust & Saw
ings bank.
Monday. August 3i,
The Washington state delegation to
the grand aerie of Eagles now in session
IN New York City has been rendered
great reception. They were met at the
station by band OF 40 pieces and the
Marching club of the New York aerie
aud We're taken u the Union Square
hotel
Again the beautiful cup defender Re
lance failed to register her third victory
over the Upton challenger because the
wind died to nothing and the time limit
expired before she could reach the finish
line Shamrock Ill was fully two miles
and bali 6stern OF the Reliance when
the gun sounded.
The attempt of President Callahan of
the hotel and restaurant employees to
cause walkOgt of all members Of the
union who are at work in Chicago has
met with complete failure. A few men
left their places, but a great majority
refused.
Two Thousand striking employees of
the John and James DObson textile mills
at Philadelphia have returned to work
after long ldleness.
A Colorado Midland freight got away
from the crew five miles above Maniton.
Colo, and plunged down through
Manitou and into Colorado Springs at
an estimated speed of 100 miles per
hour. One of the worst wrecks in the
history of that road resulted, but no
one was injured.
The Great Northern detectives have
four men in Montana upon the
charge of attempting to hold up train
1t is now claimed that the conspiracy
has been in existence for several weeks,
even before Kid Curry, the train robber
and desperadO, escaped from the Knox
vile, Tenn, jail.
Tuesday. September 1.
The fifth annual convention OF the
Fraternal Order of Eagles is in session
in New York City. This order originated
in Seattle six years ago, and is the
strongest in the west and northwest. The
order now has 100000 members.
Twenty-Five stockmen from different
pdrt6 OF the western grass country met
in the Midland hotel, Kansas City, to
arrange to perfect the organization of a
packing company to compete with the
alleged packers trust.
The third attempt to sail the third
and probably the final race OF the series
for the America g cup was failure, from
the fact that the wind utterly failed.
The eleventh biennial convention of
the Companions of Forresters of America
is in session in Odd Fellows temple,
Philadelphia.
In accordance with orders issued last
week four collieries of the Union Coal
company at Shamokin, Pa, employing
5000 men and boys, have closed down
for an indefinate period on account OF
the overstOcked coal market.
The national association OF Blast
Furnace Workers has opened it's annual
convention at Youngstown, Ohio, with |
100 delegates in attendance. They will |
take up the eight hour question.