The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-11-04

OF the interior, shows that 16,009, ,631,
or per cent of the entire population oil
the country, attended the public schools
during that year.
Three persons were killed and % in
Jnred in a tail-end collision on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway near Topson, Mo.
Ihe crews OF the trains are blamed for
the accident.
| Officials OF the Southern Pacific COM
pany say that road is saving $25O0
every day by its Lucin cutoff. This will
effect saving of 100000 annually.
Steve Borok, employed by Bessemer
coke plant. reports that he saw a man
| thrown into coke oven and cremated
at Masontown, Pa. Two men who are
supposed to have committed the crime
have disappeared.
bearing the name of a man known in
many cities for years through connec-
tion with criminal annals.
1t is announced that Judge Parker,
the democratic nominee for president,
will make several public speeches before
election.
A report just made public by the CEN
service constitutes a force of 1876, rs
employees, OF which all but Ia, ,SOS are
native born American citizens.
The Rocky Mountain Coal. & Iron
Company's mine No, 3, 40 miles west of
Trinidad, Colo, was SO badly wrecked
by the explosion yesterday that the
rescuers have not succeeded in penetra-
ting TO the point where the miners were
working.
Forest fires are raging in the timber
OF the Blue mountains, near Belvidere,
N. j., and 10000 acre OF fine timber has
been destroyed.
The California Photographers Asso-
citation, at it's closing session in San
Francisco, decided to meet in conven-
tiOn next year in Portland during the
Lewis and Clark fair.
Sunday, October 80.
No bodies have yet been taken out OF
the mine at Tercio, Colo, where an ex-
plosion entombed 40 miners Friday.
Huge boulders block the progress of the
rescuers and make blasting necessary.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair in
st. Louis during the past week totalled
TAO. 1868. The total since April l is
5,933, 500.
The report of the commissioner OF
education for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1904, made public by the secretary
Monday. October 81.
After circlng in every direction, at
height 200 feet above the cascades, in
sight of thousands OF cheering spec
tators on the worlds fair grounds, A.
u ,E n~Io
command of the airship, California Ar
row, returned to the place from which he
started, over the same course he had
come, covering three miles and half OF
the round trip under his own power,
thereby demonstrating Captain Thos.
Baldwin's invention.
Jimmy Britt of California lost the
light weight championship of the world
at the fight in San Francisco when he
fought Joe Cans.
The building occupied by the Conti-
mental Savings Bank at Memphis, Tenn,
has collapsed, burying a number OF per
sons. Eight have 80 far been rescued
without serious injury.
Four men have been severely hurt by
the falling of the ceiling in Lyric hall,
New York. A score were trampled up
on and panic narrowly averted.
The fourth trial of former Mayor
Ames, charged with grating, has re-
suited in disagreement OF the jury at
Minneapolis. 1t is likely that all the
indictments will be nolled.
Tuesday, November L.
bold daylight raid by bandits from
the mountain regions was made upon
the First National Bank at Cody,
Wyo., |. o. Middaugh, the csshier, being
instantly killed.
A fire which cost the lives of two men
and property loss of $40, 900 destroyed
the City hotel, cheap lodging house.
at Modesto. Cal.
President Roosevelt has issued his
annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation.
Thursday, November "a. will be OBJ
served this year.
The second successful fight OF the
Baldwin airship has been made at the
exposition grounds in st. Louis.
Secretary Hay and Ambassador JUS
serand have signed treaty providing
for the settlement by arbitration of any
possible disputes between the United
States and France. 1t was drawn on
the lines OF the Anglo-French treaty.