The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-12-18
Wednesday. December o

"Crn' Iue senator condition is not
considered serious, however.
The cruiser Tacoma, which made such
q me showing on her recent trial trip in
Santa Barbara channel, has been ac.
cepted by the government and will be
turned over to the navy department al
the end of the month.
The shipbuilding trust hearing is on in
New York and many startling disclos-
nres are being made
A brief in behalf of j. Pierpont Nor
gan, Robert Bacon and Daniel Lamont.
appellants, in the case OF the United
States vs. the Northern Sureties Com
pany, has been fled in the u. S. supreme
court.
Butler, Pa, where the typhoid cpl
demlc is raging, is in great need OF help
An address has been Issued to the
American public asking for 100000.
1t Is announced in railroad circles that
| the Ogden 4 Northwestern will build
from Ogden, Utah, to Coos Bay, Oregon.
work to commence soon Such a line
would open an immense territory to
transportation.
The republican national committee
men are arriving at Washington CITY.
where meeting will be held for the pur-
pose OF determining the date and place
foF holding the national convention next
year
The war department is prepared to
dispatch troops to the Isthmus of PaDa-
ma on short notice, should the occasion
ARISE. The department, however, does
not consider that such a course will be
necessary.
Thursday, December 10.
Fifteen persons were in jured and Frank
A. Lasalle was killed at New Cumberland
junction, Ohio, when a Panhandle ex-
press train ran into a locomotive on an
open switch.
The total number of eases of typhoid
fever at Butler, Pa, are reported as
1906. Fifty-one deaths have occurred.
The United States grand ;ury at
Omaha. investigating pOstoffice bribery
cases has returned % indictments, one
OF which is against United States Sena-
tor Chas. H Dietrich.
step toward the suggested union of
the various Presby terian churches in the
United States was taken at New York at
joint meeting of committees from the
governing bodies of four such denOmi
national organizations
DR.. j. S. Wentz, father Of f. L. Wentz
the young Philadelphia millionaire who
has been missing for some time. saws
that he has no news of the reported
rescue OF his son from the Tennessee
mountain bandits.
Lew Perham, aged 10 years, aided
Mrs. Mary Rodgers murder her husband
so that she might get $500 insurance on
bis lie. Perham was Mrs. Rodgers
lover and threw the body in the river
after the woman had chlOrOformed her
husband. The deed was committed near
bennington, Vt, and Perham has con.
fessed
Girls to the number of 2OOO, employed
IN the manufacture of petticOats, have
formed union in New York aud demand
an increase in wages. Officers think
strike will be necessary to,enforce the de
mands and preparations are being made
to call one next week.
Friday, December IL.
The entire republican national com
mittee, excepting Perry Heath, called up
on the president at the White House.
The committee was headed by Chairman
Mark Hanna, who presented the dis
tinguished gentlemen TO the chief ex-
ecutive.
A mammoth coal vein, 40 feet thick
and regular, has been struck at new
shaft of the Reading CUmpany's Locust
Gap collieTy at ShamOkin, Pa, after a
search covering two years. The find
is the most important in many years in
the anthracite fields.
David r. Francis, president OF the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, VIM H
Thompson, treasurer and D. NJ. House,
proprietor of the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat, accompanied by Representative
BarthOldt of Missouri, have called up
on President Roosevelt and invited him
70 st. Louis during the progress of the
fair
Counsel for Mrs Bennett, widow of
Philo s Bennett, has filed notices OF an
appeal in the will case, alleging that w
j. Bryan induced and persuaded" Mr.
Bennett to sigh paper conveying $780,
600 to himself and family.
Seven persons we're seriously burned
and number of others sustained slight
injuries in fire and explosion in Ander-
sons cork factory at Pittsburg. Pa
Over 100 girls were carried by the pO-
lice and firemen dawn ladders from the
second story.
Saturday, December IL
The president has named ". |. Bu-
channan OF New York to be the first
United States minister to Panama.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has met to outline policy
to be pursued in investigating the pro-
tests filed against Senator Reed Sm0ot
being permitted to retain his seat in the
| senate.
John R. Proctor of Kentucky, presi-
dent OF the civil service commission and
an intimate friend of President Roose
welt, rs dead at the Cosmos club in
Washington, aged 80 years.
Miss Clara Barton and her assistants
have arrived at Butler, Pa, to direct
the Red Cross work in the typhoid
stricken city.
The torpedo boats Perry and Paul
Jones have been ordered from the Mare
Island, Calf, navy yard to Panama, to
augment Admiral Glass feet.
One thousand dollars fine for illegal
acts as corporate BODY, has been i'm
posed upon Franklin Union No. 4,
Pressfeeders, by Judge Jesse Holden OF
| Chicago. The union was found guilty
of contempt of court.