The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-12-16
Sunday. December IL

Two little girls, Ruby and Bernice
Warren, aged 8 and 3 years. daughters
of Richard Warren, a rancher who re-
sides six miles east of Billings, Mont.
were drowned in slough near the family
residence. The children were skating on
the slough and when together their com
blned weight, it is supposed, caused the
Ice to break, and they we're precicipated
into the icy waters.
A force of policemen, deputy sheriffs
and detectives have been securing the
Missouri river bottom lands north OF st.
Joseph, Mo-, today for the hiding place
OF Pat Grove and Sam, alias Horse
thIet, Johnson, who met Detectives
Wilson and Wheeler, and exchanged a
iusllade OF shots with the outlaws. Both
officers are confident that one Of the men
was wounded during the exchange of
shots.
The ToDOpah club gambling house at
TonOpah, Nevada, was robbed Of $1,000
last night while the large crowd was at
play, by an unknown man who crawled
under the building and with large
auger bored a hole through the floor
The money from roulette wheel was in
box under the lookout chair. The
man reached his hand through, taking
the money. The loss was not discovered
for hours. The man had crawled 300
feet. There is no clew to the rObber.
Monday, December ~.
Senator Stewart has introduced a bill
IN congress to fix presidential and con-
gressiOnal salaries. 1t proposes to raise
the salary Of the president to 100000
a year, of vice president and speaker OF
the house OF representatives to $4,000
each, and each senator, representative
and delegate to $4,000. 1t ia provided
that the bill shall take effect on March
4, 1909.
Collector Ide of Washington is urging
the passage of a bill making Spokane
and the other cities of eastern Wash
ingtOn SUPPORTS Of entry. The civil
service commission today designated
North Yakima as one of the places where
civil service examinations will be held in
the future.
At a secret conference Of the great
mOnied interests of the country held at
the Hotel Waldorf, New York, gigantic
pool With unlimited capital was formed
to back up the market and carry on the
fight against Thomas w Lawson. VIM.
bearer of this great combination. Among
the interests mentioned as being repre-
sented at this meeting are the Standard
Oil, United States Steel and Amalgam-
ated Copper.
Julius hTutschnitt, director OF main
tenance and transportation for the Har-
riman lines, has just placed orders for
the construction of 100 locomotives for
among the Southern Pacific,
the Union Pacific, the Oregon Short line
and the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company.
Hearings of the protest against the
seating of Reed Smoot, junior senator
rom Utah, were resumed in the commit
tee on privileges and elections, at the
national capital The room was crowd
ID, women predominating among the
spectators, az was the case last session.
Tuesday, December I3
fire in which three men were killed,
and S3,O0O,OO0 worth of property de-
stroyed occurred in Minneapolis. Zero
weather prevailed. The fire destroyed
several Of the largest and richest retail
stores in the city. Notable among them
we're the Boutele Bros building, Peck's
supply house, the Irene
Hale building, and the Powers Mercan-
tile cOmpany's building.
John D. Rockefeller has given between
81 100000 and $3,000,O00 as a Christ
mas gift to the University of Chicago.
This report was today declared to be
true by a member of the advisory COM
nittee of the Baptist Theological union.
The money, it is understood, is to be
lsed for the creation of a school of en-
at the university.
Thomas W. Davis was acquitted in
he United States circuit court at San
f francisco, on the charge of assaulting
Mrs. A. H. Ames of Marshfeld, Ore, in
ber staterOOm on the steamer Alliance,
October Is, 1903 This was Davis
third trial, former iuries having dis
agreed.
The Humble oil fields at Houston,
Tex, we're completely wrecked by a ter
rife subteranean disturban nee that turned
deep wells into active volcanoes. blew
pipes that were thousand feet fn the
ground high into the air aud hurled
stones and thousands OF barrels of mud
and lava over a great stretch of terri
tory. Derricks and wells were ruined
and machinery practically demolished
and houses built on the fields were
crushed into kindling wood. In the
opinion Of experienced operators the
field is practically ruined.
Arthur Hallin, deputy auditor of Lin
coin county, Wash, while working at his
desk at the court house Monday night
was brutally assaulted by masked high
waymen. He was then bound and left
insensible On the floor, where be lay
throughout the cold winter night. In
this condition he was found on the floor
by Janitor Burge.
The coldest weather OF the winter was
this morning, at Des Moines,
Iowa, when the thermometer registered
4 degrees below zero.
Revolution Imminent.