The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-08-14

! son, 1exa5, and each sentenced tn Q!
years IN the penitentiary. They ha,
o0th committed criminal assaults upor
| white women.
The textile strike which was inaugu
rated IN Philadelphia 10 weeks ago bal
been declared off and 10000 out of IN,
$4,000 workers will return to worl
Monday.
One furnace at the Globe smelter II
Denver. Colo, has started to work witt
non union men. A strike OF the smeIter
men closed the plant on July 4. tn,
company announces that other furnaces
VIII open within day or two.
Mrs. Van Cercke of Shawnee, Kansas
reported to the depot authorities that
she had lost a hustle containing S35C
while enrOute to st. Paul on a Rock
Island train.
The trial OF ex-Secretary of Stats
Caleb Powers of Kentucky for complicity
IN the Goebel murder has been begun
and promises to be very sensational.
Sunday, August 8.
Three murderers, two under sentence
OF death, stage robber wanted in Wv.
oming, and two highwaymen, escaped
from the Silver Bow, Mont, county iail
Two were captured within an hour after
the escape, but the remainder have sur.
ceeded in getting away.
Mrs. Henry Glover, formerly a society
belle OF Montgomery, Ala, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the breast
at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago
LOOsing money on the races made her
despondent and caused the deed.
Rizzie Aiken, negress, has been com
united to jail at Columbia, Ohio, for be-
heading her two children, and 5 years
old. Their heads were severed with an
axe and thrown into the fire.
Five more deaths have occurred in
Philadelphia as the result of the accident
at the ball park when board walk fell
with 200 people.
In fight between deputy marshals
ana gang OF outlaws in the Indian
Territory, one outlaw is reported killed.
another seriously wounded and WILEY
Halns, deputy marshal, is said to have
been fatally wounded.
Nearly all OF the officers OF the Ma
tional Building Trades council have ar
rived in Denver, Colo for the annual
convention which will meet in that city.
They expect the most successful cOnven-
ton ever held by that organization.
Heavy rains in the eastern and central
parts OF Kansas have caused the streams
to rise rapidly. Many persons in North
Topeka are moving out Of their homes
for fear OF repetition of the May floods.
Monday, August 10.
Thirty persons we're injured by de-
rallment OF Missouri, Kansas & Texas
fast passenger train near Sedala, No.
As a result Of a neighborhood feud
near Guthrie, Okla, ". Cooper and hia
son James are dead and Sam Barrett
severely wounded.
The forty ninth session OF the Inter
national Typographical union is 10 con.
vention in Washington City, with 315
delegates present. The organization
has nearly $4,000 in the treasury.
The two members of the Martin gang
of outlaws who engaged in a fight with
a posse Saturday in the Indian terri
tory are dead and their bodies are be-
ing taken TO Guthrie, Okla.
The civil war veterans are now on
their way to San Francisco to the ma
tiOnal encampment. They are going
from every portion OF the United States.
Princess Ariimahinihini Pomare.
daughter of the late King Pomare OF
Tahiti, has arrived at San Francisco
and will make the United States her
home.
Kent T. Stowe shot bis young wife
dead in their home in Buffalo. n. Y. and
then turned the revolver on himself The
family is well connected and no cause
is known for the tragedy.
The rains and subsequent rising OF the
streams in Kansas have caused grave
apprehensiOns on the part OF people
living along the rivers and many are
moving to higher ground.
Tuesday. August II.
Before Secretary Root shall sail for
London to sit with the Alaskan commits
sion, he will place his resignation in the
hands OF the president in order that a
secretary OF war may be appointed if it
shall be deemed necessary during Mr.
Roots absence.
John K. Brown, cashier Of the Union
bank OF New Holland, o., is missing and
it is said that his accounts are short
nearly $4,000. Brown was a very
prominent man in his community.
The two outlaws killed in the Indian
Territory have been identified as Sam
and Will Martin. There was over $12,-
900 reward for their capture, either dead
or alive.
Three suits have been filed in the
United States district court at Topeka,
Kansas, against big cattle ranch firms
in western Kansas, charging them with
having government land under fence.
James J. Hills assessment has been
raised from $138,000 to 100000 in
St. Paul by the board OF equalization
Mayor Smith was the only one who did
not care to act hastily in raising Mr..
Hills assessment.
Much interest is being taken by the
sporting world in the coming fight be-
tween Corbett and Jeffries, which is to
be pulled off in San Francisco Friday
evening.
Dysentery Cured without the Aid
of Doctor.
81 am just up from a hard spell Of the
fux" (dysentery) says Mr.. I. A. Pinner,
a well known merchant Of Drummond,