The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-11-18
BETWRRN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important happenings and Things
OF Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, November 8.

! Harvey Logan, the famous bandit
has again outwitted the posse which
was pursuing him in Wyoming. Dis
gnlsed as prOspector he tramped out
| OF the HOle-in-u the Wall country and
| took train at Casper.
Secretary Hay has received assurances
from Great Britain and Mexico that
they stand prepared to negotiate arbi.
tration treaties on the lines of that
recently concluded between France and
the United States.
W. j. Bryan denies that he will co
| operate with W. r. Hearst and Tom E.
Watson in the formation of new party.
Thursday, November 10.
! President Roosevelt has promised to
attend the st. Louis exposition on Sat
urday, November 26.
| Alfred Lakeland, we'll known horse.
man, is dead at Brigheon Beach.
The New Jersey, one of the i've large
battleships authorized by congress in
1900, has been successfully launched at
Quincy, Mass. The New Jersey was
built for speed Of 19 knots.
Governor Peabody has conceded his
defeat at the polls.
The bodies Of Robert McCanp end wife
we're found in their home four miles
south OF Ocean Park, near Los Angeles
They had been dead several days and
from the position of the bodies, McCann
evidently had shot his wife and then
killed himself.
Ambassador Porter has presented to
Foreign Minister Delcasse at Paris the
American proposition OF reassembling
The Hague Peace Conference. No def
mate response was made. The tendency
in governmental circles is apparently
favorable to the proposition.
The handsome home OF Julius Weber
at Auburn, Cal, has been burned and
with it Mrs Weber, Miss Bertha Weber
and Paul Weber perished. 1t is thought
the remains of Mrs. Weber will be found
in the debris. Suspicious wounds were
found on the little boy in the shape OF
cuts on the head and a bullet wound
was found in the mothers breast. Il
the husband and father was burned, no
one is left to tell the tale, as the only
surviving member of the family, Adolph
Weber, aged 20, was not at home.
Friday, November II.
James D. Ferrish, chairman OF the ma
tionai committee OF the peoples party.
has issued a call for a meeting to be held
in Chicago some time during November
.or the purpose of forming a new Ea-
tional party.
One result OF Tuesdays election will
be the appointment by the president OF
Cornelius Vanderbilt to be first secre-
tary OF the American legation at Berlin.
Colonel D. r. Anthony, the noted
editor of the Leavenworth Times, and
brother of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the
woman suffragist, died at his home at
Leavenworth, Kan, OF heart disease,
aged 80 years.
Chicago is to have an underground
street railway which will cost over $18,-
100000.
| Because he had run over and killed an
| Italian woman with an automobile,
| William Vanderheyden, a Chauffeur, was
attacked by a mob of bystanders and
narrowly escaped with his life. The
accident occurred on Seventh avenue,
New York City.
Mrs. c. A. Curry, 33 years old, was
shot and killed and her husband is prob
ably fatally wounded, having a bullet
| through his head. They were shot, Curry
claims, in a pistol duel at their home in
East Pueblo. Col, resulting from a
family quarrel.
One man was killed and 10 seriously
injured as the result OF wreck OF the
northbound Missouri, Kansas < Texas
passenger train at South Mound, Kan
sas. The train was running at the rate
of 40 miles an hour. The tender jumped
| the track carrying the engine with it.
The 100000 damage suit brought
| by Mrs. SolOn j. Vlesto against Senator
". A. Clark's daughter, has been settled
out of court.