The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-12-30

Florida, and will live in temperature oi
six degrees below zero. has been devel-
oped by the plant experts Of the U s.
department of agriculture. 1t is the re-
suit OF crossing a Japan tree with some
Florida varieties.
In a battle between four negroes and
some citizens and policemen at North
Plaintield. n. j., two policemen were
fatally hurt and one seriously injured by
razor cuts. The negroes were drunk and
boIsterous, and the policemen attempted
to arrest them.
In crash OF two ice boats speeding
before gale on Lake Onondaga, n. Y,
three men were killed in sight of the 1900
people assembled to watch the races of
tbe ice yachts at regatta.
Fire Of an unknown origin DESTROYED
large part OF the cargo Of the German
Lloyd steamer Bradenborg in the harbor
at Baltimore. Two hundred bales of
cotton and many hogsheads of tobacco
were thrown overheard. The vessel
sailed fOr Germany as soon as the fire
was extinguished.
A fire following a Christmas celebra-
tion and caused by an overturned lamp
In an Allen street house at New York re-
suited in the death of Mrs. Fountain
and Miss Skelley.
Captain Baldwin's airship "California
Arrow" which made several flights at
the st. Louis fair grounds made another
flight from the Chutes park grounds at
Los Angeles. The airship was in the air
for over an hour and in that time sailed
about 20 miles and made a speed OF 6
in nf
gale. 1t responded readily to the rudder,
turning, rising and dipping as the oper-
atur directed.
Monday, December %.
Miss Daisy Letter of Chicago, ILL.,, has
been married to Henry Molyneaux Paget
Howard, nineteenth earl of Suffolk and
Berkshire, at Washington, d. G.
Reports to the national weather bu-
reau show that the first cold wave of the
season is spreading ra pidly over the south
east slope OF the Rocky mountains.
The British steamer Drumelzier, which
sailed from New York yesterday for
Havre, Dunkirk and Swansea, went
ashore on shoal off the point OF Fire
Island bar and has not been fioated. The
crews OF the Fire island and Oak island
iffesavlng stations went to the aid OF the
steamer as soon as her predicament was
discovered, about daylight today.
Corporal Solomon Cook OF the Elev-
enth calvary committed suicide at Des
Moines, Iowa, today by turning on the
gas in his room. He was found by the
chambermaid. Cook had served in the
regular army many years and had seen
service in the Philippines.
The steamer Harold Dollar, CAPTAIN
Thwing, arrived at San Francisco from
PetropavlOrsk via Bering sea and Copper
island, With cargo of furs. Her cargo
consisted OF 81 sea otter, worth at least
$4,000; 3O9 salted seal skins. worth
about $4,000; one box of furs. one
sack OF sable skins, four sacks of fox
skins, 317 bundles of bear skins, one
box Of sable skins and 15s drv seal
skins. The cargo is very valuable in the
aggregate.
Beaten into insensibiity by four
masked robbers who entered the dry
goods store of 0. l.. Larson e Co. at
Chicago, A. q. Krogsted, partner in
the firm, was compelled to lie with bis
bands and feet tied while safe on an
upper floor was blown open and $500
in money taken.
Tuesday, December 27
Horace G. Mckinley the convicted land
fraud man of Oregon, has declared in an
authorized interview that he and Others
are merely scapegoats for the "big guns"
at Washington, D. C. He said that the
federal grand jury would indite both
Senator Mitchell and Congressman Her
man.
The dead body of an unknown woman
was found in the snow on a road north
OF New York city. The police are un-
able to find any clew to her identity.
A rich strike Of gold has been made in
one OF the mines at Goldfeld, Nevada.
By heavy shot in a drift a cave was
opened up which contains over 10000
tons OF gold ore 0hich averages 500 per
ton.
Attorney General Moody, acting for
the u. 5. government has filed petition
in the district court at st. Paul, Mimi,
asking that the General Paper company
be enioined from doing business in VIC.
lation OF the provisions of the act OF
congress to protect trade and com
merce against unlawful monopolies."
The cylinder head OF the great power
engine at the iute mill at Brooklyn, NY,
blew out, instantly killing Engineer Hebe
and his assistant Daniel FerrO. The ex-
plosion threw the 1900 young women
employed in the mills into a manic