The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-23
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, Septem ber IL.

Wednesday, September IL.
The United States navy department is
making another inspection OF the Rus
sian cruiser Lena, now at San Francisco.
The vessel will probably be dismantled
and compelled to remain in the harbor
until the end OF the Russo Japanese war.
Charles Carr, owner of the Carr mine
at Redding, Calf. was seated in his Office
at the mine ready to pay off the crew
when a masked man appeared end de-
maDded all the money on hand. He Sc
cured $597.
James H. Peabody has been re-nom-
mated by acclamation at Denver, Col
OradO, to succeed himself as governor OF
that state.
The supreme court Of Wisconsin is
hearing the contest over the regularity
OF the republican ticket in that state
The question is: Which set of names
shall the secretary of state place on the
ballot under the party name.
The report that a. Hartman had
given an order for the delivery OF 1O0,-
600 tons of steel rails is premature. An
order for 55, 200 tons at $2S had been
given earlier in the year.
Robert W. McWade, United States
consul general at Canton, China, has
been removed from office by President
Roosevelt, certain charges against him
having been investigated and found to
be true.
Three masked men held up a saloon at
LathrOp, Mont and secured $500 and
escaped into the woods. The robbery
was we'll planned and we'll executed.
When the robbers entered the saloon
doors they bolted them as a means OF
precautiOn.
The government has ordered the with
drawal from entry of large area OF
lands coming under the Boise Payette
irrigation project.
Thursday, September 10
The great council OF the United I'm
proved Order of Red Men, which has
been in session in st. Joseph, Mo-, since
last Monday, has closed.
| A storm which passed over Horny
county, South Carolina, damaged
property to the amount Of 100000.
The jail Of Madison county, Alabama,
| is guarded by two companies of Ala
bama infantry, because threats have
been made that persons indicted by the
grand jury for connection with the lynch
ing of Horace Naples would be taken
out by their friends and set a liberty.
"St. Louis Day." the most imposing
OF all the special days in the history of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. has
been celebrated and it is expected the
record of admissions will show the
largest number of visitors OF any one
day during the entire fair.
The United States cruiser Boston has
left San Francisco under sealed orders.
1t is thought that she will cruise the
Pacific a few hundred miles from the
coast to ascertain il Russian cruisers
are looking for American merchantmen.
A storm of wind and rain of almost
unprecedented violence ragged over New
York City and vicinity for two days and
caused much damage to property both
on sea and shore.
The Soho blast furnace of Jones &
Laughlin Steel Company at Pittsburg,
Pa, has been ordered in blast at once.
The resumption will give employment to
600 men who have been idle for months.
Friday, September 10.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
has been taken to the government naval
station at Mare Island, San Francisco,
| and will be dismautled.
The fifth annual convention of the
grand aerie OF Eagles, meeting in Balti
more, has adjourned to meet in Denver
in August, 1905.
A large number of prominent citizens
OF Huntsville, Ala, are under arrest,
| having been indicted by the grand jury,
charged with participation in the lynch
| ing of Horace Naples, a negro.
OF hn foil
grounds on est. Louis day" has been
announced. There we're 404, ,45O admis-
sions, the largest single day since the ex-
| position opened.
The federal government is suing the
estate of William Yeatman, late dis
| bursting officer Of the war department,
| for S64 oil. said to be the amount OF
| government money for which Yeatman
failed to account.
| President Roosevelt is making prepar-
ations to leave his summer home at
| Oyster Bay, L. l., and return to Wash
| ington City.
AS a consequence of domestic troubles
0. E. Monroe, laborer, shot to death
his year old baby girl, attempted to
murder his wife, his mother in law and
his sister in law, and then committed
suicide at Ashland, Oregon.
Fierce forest fires are raging in Mon.
tana and much valuable mining property
is in danger of being destroyed.
Saturday, September II.
Official orders have been issued by
| Captain Drake, ordnance officer at the
Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco,
to commence dismantling the Russian
cruiser Lena, Monday.
An unusual influx OF Irish immigrants
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