The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-02-27
ALL OVER THB union
Ihe Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
Of the Country.
Wednesday, February Is.

wednesday, February Is.
Two unmasked highwaymen held ul
an electric car on the Los Angeles an(
Pasadena line and forced thirty-twt
passengers TO yield up their cash anC
va!uRbles. The robbera secured between
5000 and 500. 1t was one of the mos
daring robberies ever committed in tha
city.
+ The "beef trust" case has been dis
posed OF in the United States circui
court at Chicago. Judge Grosscup over
ruled the demurrer of the trust anC
GRANTED an Injunction against them
Inc attorneys for the packers make nc
announcement OF their future intentions
Thomas J. Navin, who served q tern
in the Michigan penitentiary for forgery
mas been appointed by Gov. Bliss to bt
d member OF the prison board and his
appointment has been confirmed by the
| senate OF that state. MIR. Navin has
stated that his term in prison has giver
MN ideas OF prison reform which he il
anxious to work out.
Chicago is to have the finest museum
IN the world and Marshall Field ia tC
provide the funds to build it, according
| 60 plans now under discussion by the
| South Park commission The lake front
ls to be the site and the maximum cost
is to be $1O,O0O,OOO.
In the absence Of the fireman of the
Ursullne convent at Miles City, Mont.
| one OF the sisters undertook to look
alter the fires of the heating plant. The
boiler blew up, badly damaging the
building. No one was hurt and there
was no panic.
-Four indictments have been found in
the United States court at Tampa, Fla.
against Mrs. Charles C. Post, Colonel
Charles c. Post and Charles Burgham
the Sea Breeze mental science healers,
charging them with frauduiently using
the United States mails.
Owing to the scarcity of coal the Four
Courts, which contains the Jail. police
headquarters and criminal courts of st.
Louis, is closed. Not pound of coal is
to be found in the engine room,
Thursday, February 10.
A fast express on the Lackawanna
railroad cut down a troIly car loaded
with school children in Newark, n. J.
Eight OF the children were killed and
score or more injured. The mOtOrmaD,
who stuck to his post until the car col
ided with the express, was so badly hurt
that there is little hope OF his recovery
Miss Alice Roosevelt is attending the
brilliant Mardi Gras festivities at New
Orleans and is the recipient of much
nonOr at the hands 0i the chiyeirous
SOutherners. Admiral Schley is also
present and received a great ovation.
Miss Lillian Wilson, the IS-yeer.old
daughter OF one of the wealthy families
of Omaha, was held up by negro foot
pad on the streets of that CITY. She
drew revolver and shot him, infiictipg
a wound that crippled him. A few hours
later he was located and captured.
Three men are dead as g result OF a
fire which destroyed 1925, 900 worth OF
property at Springfield, Ill.
President John Mitchell OF the United
MinewOrkers has refused an offer of
$4,000 to appear this year on the Cbau-
tauque circuit. MIR Mitchell said he did
not feel justified in making eny engage
ment that might conflict with his work
for the miners organization.
A bill has been introduced into the
Montana legislature making successful
train robbery or train wrecking punish
able, in case Of conviction, with death,
and attempts at either punishable with
not less than 10 years imprisonment.
President Roosevelt will call an extra
ordinary session of the senate OF the
Fifty eighth congress unless both the
Panama canal and the Cuban reci-
procity treaties are ratified at the
present session. The president has
made this declaration of his intention to
several senators and he made it as en-
phatically and unequivocally as he was
capable of making it.
Friday, February 20.
Charles ". Fulton of Clateop has been
elected United States senator from Ore
gOn, after the Legislature in that state
had taken 43 ballots.
Two men are under arrest on the
charge of holding up and robhing an
electric car between Los Angeles and
Pasadena last Wednesday night. They
gave their names as Frank Metzgar and
James Burk.
Conrad n. johnson, assistant treasurer
Of the United States, is dangerously i'll
in New York. He is 73 years of age.
The police of Los Angeles have arrest.
ed Elton NJ. Wood, wanted in Chicago
for the embezziement of $32 2,O25 on Jan
nary 27, 1902.
The transcOntinental trains are again
running between Omaha and the Pacific
coast, after one of the worst battles
with snow blockades ever experienced.
The Chicago and Minneapolis north
bound passenger train collided head or
with a freight train on the Illinois Cen
trail at Galena, ILL.,, but no one was hurt
Jack Glynds, a laborer at Salt LAX,
city, poured quantity of carbolic aciC
into beer glass and, laughing, dranE
it. He died in agony shortly after. 4
quarrel with his wife is said to have beer
the cause.
Andrew Carnegie has added S125,O ,OO(
to the endowment of the Carnegie labra
tory OF engineering at the Stevens Insti
tute OF Technology in New York city.
Saturday, February Fl.
George F. Bailey, who was famous a
circus man, and was first the rival thel
the partner of P. T. Barnum, is dead a
his home in New York city, aged 8.
years. Death was due to paralysis.
Two members of party OF four hav
met death from cold in the Tensas rive