The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-23
IN the last two months is reported by
the authorities in New York City.

the turpentine ignited.
just at the close of banking hours 6
man in the lobby OF the First Nationa
Bank of San Francisco, observing the
cage door leading behind the counter
alar, walked in and picked up bag con
| tanning $4,000 in gold coin and made @
rapid exit. He was followed by an EN-
ploye of the bank, who overlook hin
and recovered the money, the thief max
ing bis escape.
Six people we're hurt in a wreck in Chi
cago, when a Lake Shore passenger
train ran into an open switch.
More prominent people are being ar
rested daily at Huntsville, Ala, charged
with being connected with the lynching
OF Horace Naples, negro. Two COM
panies OF militia guard the Jail.
The autumn tour of the veteran actor
Joseph Jefferson, has been abandoned
on account of Mr.. Jefferson's illness.
Sunday, September 1S.
The battleship Kearsar2e, the flagship
OF Rear Admiral Baker, commander in
chief OF the North Atlantic squadron,
and the battleships Maine, Alabama and
Missouri, have arrived in New York har-
The strike OF 500 marble workers at
Rutland, Vt, which begun in July, has
been ended and the men will resume work
under the same conditions that prevailed
when the strike was declared.
Three hundred and fifty Indians, COW
boys and men, representing the troops
OF the various nations, employed by a
wild west show on The Pike at the
Worlds fair, have gone on a strike, the
show having gone into the hands of a
receiver.
Last week, for the first time in the
history Of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position, the attendance for six days ex
ceeded 100000. The total for the
week was 1,O27,91S.
The grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and auxiliary or
ganizations are ready to convene in San
Francisco. Representatives from all
parts OF the United States are present
and the city has assumed gala attire.
Without ceremonies OF any kind the
great Ogden-Lucin cutoff OF the Harri-
man system, running across the north
ern arm OF Great Salt Lake, has been
opened for passenger traffic. This cut
of will save two hours time between
Chicago and San Francisco.
One person was killed and two seri-
ously injured by an explosion of dyna-
mite under house In Martinsburg, W.
Va.
Monday. September I9
The steamship Northland, Captain
Samuel Bonni6eld, from Portland to
San Pedro, has gone on the rocks south
of Point Pinos, Calf.
The Iroquois theater in Chicago, where
nearly 600 persons we're burned to death
last December has been reopened as a
vaudeville playhouse.
The special grand jury which investi-
gated the Horace Naples lynching has
made it's report, recommending the i'm
peachment OF Sheriff Rodgers, Mayor
Smith and Chief OF Police Overton OF
Huntsville, Ala, and also that the police
force of that city be reorganized.
Many of the foremost scientists in the
world are among the men OF letters who
are in St. Louis to attend the interna-
tional congress of arts and sciences, the
opening session OF which has been held
in Festival ball.
Robert Treat, twice the democratic
candidate for governor OF Massachusetts,
has made a statement in which he says
he will support Theodore Roosevelt for
president.
Delegates to the democratic state con
ventiOn Of New York are gathering at
Saratoga. Whom the convention will
nominate for governor has not yet been
decided.
Heinze interests are buying Amalga-
mated copper stock on the New York
market and as result the stock has un-
usual strength.
Two men were killed and another shot
and seriously injured in battle with
hOldup men at Riverdale, small town
Is miles south of Chicago. The robbers
searched the house where the affray oc-
Cured and then set it on fire.
Tuesday. September 20.
The first intimation of the settlement
of the strike in the cotton mills in Fall
River, Mass, which began on July 25,
came when it was known that one OF the
manufacturers had bought a large
quantity OF raw material, to be delivered
the latter part of October and that
other manufacturers were trying to
place similar orders.
Dissatisfied with John Alexander
Dowie's assumption Of new dignities, 35
persons have left Zion City. near Chi
cago, for their former homes in Wash
ington and Oregon.
The first killing frost OF the season
has visited the Dakotas. The tempera-
ture was at the freezing point and ice
formed on all exposed water.
Sworn to put an end to the existence
OF gangs OF street hoodlums, lawless
organizations OF foreigners, stop the
carrying of concealed weapons, and to
protect women from insult and annoy
ance by rowdies, "a business men OF
Brooklyn, N. T., have become incorpo-
rated as the Citizens Protective league
for law and order.
Wheat and corn are both advancing
on the Chicago market. Predictions
that the cold wave in the northwest
would swoop down on the corn fields of
Iowa and Nebraska gave the shorts" q
fright.
Application upon behalf OF the secre-
tary OF the interior has been filed with
the state engineer OF Nebraska, whereby
the government asks the right to tap
the North Platte river in one OF its irri.