The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-12-02

using the mails with intent to promote
a gigantic mining swinGle, was sentenced
TO three months in the county Jail and
70 pay a fine Of $500, at Des Moines,
| Iowa.
Sunday, November -.
| The money, amounting to $4,000, OF
| which the Placer county bank last May
was robbed, has been found in a cow
shed on the Weber place near Auburn,
| Cal. The money was buried in an old
five pound lard can. Adolph Weber,
| who is under arrest on the charge OF
| numbering bis parents, brother and sis
| ter, has been formally charged with hav-
ing also held up the bank.
Mrs. L. ]. Stanley drank the entire
contents of two ounce bottle of car
| bolic acid at Butte, Mont. She died six
hours later in terrible agony. She and
| her husband had quarreled upon retir-
| ing early in the evening.
An illicit whiskey plant in New York
| City blew up and caused a serious fire in
the tenement house where it was located
Internal revenue officers are making a
search for the owners of the still.
| Sir William Laurier, premier of Can
ada, IN an interview at Salt Lake, Utah,
where he is stopping for recreation, said
| that there was no question of the Grand
Trunk Pacific railroad and that the
| terminus would be Simpson, b. @.
While driving with friend at Alber-
querque, N. NJ, Col r. F. Chaves was
killed by shot which was fired through
a window. 1t is supposed to have been
fred by some political enemy, as Col.
Chayes was prominent politician. He
, was a veteran OF the Indian wars of New
Mexico and served under Kit Carson.
Mary Cortes, IL year old girl of Ho-
bOken, n. T., drank carbolic acid be-
cause man kissed her. She had been
taught by her parents that kissing was
wrong. William Striebenger, young
man visiting at her home, met her on
the stairs and laughingly told her he
was going to kiss her. She said Don't
you dare" but Striebenger took the
chance. The girl tainted and the youth
raised her to her feet, when she ran to
her room and took poison.
Monday, November %.
While the pilot train preceding the
President Roosevelt train, was pass
ing near Brazil, Ind, four men threw
stones, breaking several windows Sc
CIcb sci NICc Ultn CudHCu Luc
Of the deed, but they escaped.
gang of train robbers are operating
in Chaffee county, Col. Two attempted
holdups have been reported since Satur-
day. The first attempt was on the
California limited and the second on the
Denver L Ogden express. Both were un.
successful.
One man was killed and several in
iured at st. Lonis by street car Jump
ing the track and over turning. Charles
J. Warner, passenger, was thrown off
the platform and struck head foremost
on pile Of rails.
In battle between a posse of citizens
and three robbers at Fonda, Ia, one
rObber, whose name ia unknown, was
shot and fatally wounded. The other
two escaped, but posse is in pursuit.
A small amount of booty was found on
the wounded man.
Three laborers employed in the dig
ging of trench for the laying OF water
mains in Southwestern st. Louis were
| buried by cave in and it is believed all
| have perished The men were working
| close together when, without warning,
| tons OF clay fell on top of them. A
bursting water pipe caused the cave in.
Rev Isaac Selby of Australia shot at
Superior Judge Hebbard, while the
| latter was on the bench at San Fran
cisco. Selby was suing a man named D.
| McRae for alternating his wife's affections
and was conducting his own case. Judge
| Hebbard ruled against him on a law
point, when Selby quickly drew his re-
| volver and fired point blank at the
Judge. The bullet struck in the back OF
a chair not an inch from the judges head.
Tuesday, November 20
According to the report of State Bank
| Examiner Siebert, the accounts of A. F.
| Mishpagel, former cashier OF the st.
| Charles Savings Bank of st. Louis are
short $4,000.
At mass meeting Of citizens of Muir
ray, Utah, called to consider means for
| getting rid OF the foreign laborers en-
| plOyed at the smelters, who are held re-
| spODsible for the recent series Of crimes,
including two murders, it was voted to
| have committee confer with the immi-
grafton bureau of the Mormon church in
an effort to bring in more desirable
class of laborers to supersede the Greeks
and AustriaDs now employed.
The New York state court OF appeals
| declared unconstitutional the labor law
which prohibits a contractor from EN-
ploying his men more than eight hours
day on city, county or state work.
The will of Richard NJ. Scruggs, the
prominent merchant and philanthropist
who died recently at st. Louis, provides
for the distribution of STAT 900 among
religious institutions, including $4,000
to each OF the bishops of the Methodist
church for use in foreign missionary
work.
The Vanderbilt and Rockefeller hold
ings in the great railroad interests have
been pooled and placed in the hands o.
James Stiliman as trustee. Stillmar
is president Of the National City bank
the head of the Rockefeller chain o
banks, and he is also first of the Rocke
Teller leutenants in railroad and Other
investments.
A letter has been received from lee
Abe, superintendent of the athletic de
partment OF Wasenda university, Japan
expressing desire to arrange an inter
national baseball match between Stan
ford and the Japanese university.