The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-01-09
ALL OVER THE union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, December 81.


Joseph Wilfrid Blondin, convicted OF
murder in the second degree for killing
his wife at Boston, Mass, has received
his sentence OF life Imprisonment in states
! prison.
A petition OF writ of error in the case
OF Tom Horn, the stOckman of Cheyenne,
! WyO., who was sentenced to be hanged
January for the murder of Willie
Nickel was made to the supreme court
and stay of execution granted.
Judge Rufus S. Smith OF the superior
court of Cincinnati has handed down q
decision in which he comedies to striking
wOrkmen the right to picket a factory
when they are seeking to accomplish a
lawful purpose and do not in any manner
1ntlmidate or cOerce nOn-strikers.
Suits have been brought by % resi-
dents of New York who claim that dar-
ing the recent coal strike they were de-
coyed to the mines in Pennsylvania by
agents of the Erie railroad and of the
| Pennsylvania coal company. Damages
for $50. 900 each, amounting to 81 100,
| 900 in all are sued for.
To endeavOr to prove it's charge Of a
southern railroad meyer made some
months ago before the interstate ccm-
merce commission by the Kentucky r4il-
| road commission, the latter body has
had subpOenas served on leading finan-
ciers OF the country and on high officials
OF the corporations alleged to have been
merged.
Thursday, January 1.
The Pacific cable is connected at Hon
Olulu and the first message was from
| Governor Dole to President Roosevelt.
Offering New Years cOngratulatiOn up
on the connection of the islands with
the United States.
The rush for claims in the Uipta.
| Wyoming oil fields still continues and
| from the present outlook more than q
week will elapse before the locating will
be complete.
The members of the Houston, Texas.
| fire department who went on q strike
have called it off, having found that
public sentiment was entirely against
| them. Since the strike was called off
| the council has agreed to consider the
matter OF higher wages.
Rev. DR.. j. B. McMichaeI, formerly
president of Monmouth college, Mon
mouth, H., fell dead shortly after he
entered the pulpit OF the United Pres5y-
terrain church, near Aenia, Ill.
The Pipe Line company has rnste4
bulletin at CoEsicanB. Texas, advarc46e
crude petroleum of high grade from l OF
to $1.O6 per barrel
Construction is in progress on the
Orient road in Kansas, Oklahoma.
Texas and Mexico, and the road is to
be completed as rapidly as possible,
says President Stillwel. The track con-
tractors in Woods county, Oklahoma,
are laying more than a mile Of rails per
day.
Friday, January 2
Abandoned workings of the Eddy
creek cOlliery of the Delaware & Hudson
company, beneath the very heart of
| Oliphant, Pa, have caved ia and en-
| gufed four frame buildings covering an
| aggregate ground space Of 5000 square
| feet
Until the citizens of IndianOla, Miss,
accept Mrs. Minnie W. Cox, col0red, as
| pOstmistress and protect her in her
work, lndlanOla is off the pOst0fice map
and the office there will remain closed.
W. G. Hughes, employed as a fireman
|
been arrested as a result OF his COMES,
sion that on December Is he permitted
| two unknown men to place the body of
an infant in one OF the furnaces of the
boiler room, where it was consumed.
A iackrabbit hunt by the farmers and
ranchers OF Juba county, Utah, in which
scores of expert shots from other parts
OF the state took part, has just been
concluded, resulting in the slaughter OF
over 5000 Of the pests.
After waiting for nearly seven davs
for favorable weather, the shore conpec-
| ton of the cable between Honolulu and
San Francisco has been completed and
connection with the outside world es-
tablished.
A quantity of dynamite exploded in
one OF the gangways of the Oak Hill
cOlliery, one mile north of Minersville.
Pa, instantly killing three miners and
severely iniuring a dozen Others
Owing to the disappearance of the
president, James H. Robin, the bank OF
Siiverton, Colo, has been closed.
Saturday, January s.
| Through a strike of the machine and
iron riggers, work on nearly all of the
| big buildings now in the course of con-
structiOn in New York is at a standstill.
| The riggers, who now receive So per day
for foremen and 1926 for helpers, and a
nine hour day, demand S. per dav for
foremen and $3.50 for helpers, with an
eight hour day.
W. Fl. Reeves, manager OF the Zion
Printing and Publishing house, and E.
W. NewcOm Of Chicago have been ar.
rested, charged with the kidpapping oI
Harry Boor, Is year old boy.
Friday was celebrated by all Homo.
lulu as cable day. 1t was observed as a
general holiday. Five thousand people
gathered around the governmental
buildings and listened to addresses made
by prominent citizens and government
officials.
Secretary Hay gave the first dinner o.
the year in honor of President Roose
welt. Covers we're laid for 81. The
table was decorated with pink roses.
A lone highwayman held up the Calls
toga and Clear Lake stage on Mount st
Helena, Calf. The express box wal
taken and the passengers we're relieved
of a few dollars.
The Pelee club, composed of naval of
ficers, newspaper men, scientists, artists
and others who accompanied the relie
ovpodjtiop RI Mo rtipioua after tha orun