The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-12-09
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of 8 Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, November 80.

william Arnold and Ill. Il. Newell
prominent business men of Cody, Wy
oming, engaged in pistol duel at that
place, Arnold was shot in the thigh
but not seriously hurt. Newell was
placed under arrest. The trouble is the
outgrowth of an old feud.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
has been offered the position of adju-
tant general of Massachusetts by gov
ernor-elect Douglas.
Twenty nine dead and Is seriously
injured is the record of the deer hunting
season, which began November II and
closed today in Wisconsin. Each case
was a repetition OF the old story. Every
death and injury is believed to have
been accidental, but each man or boy
killed or hurt was mistaken for a deer
An explosion and fire in the Swiss
laundry at New Orleans resulted in the
death OF two young girls, Georgia
Bereher and Mary Nelson.
| Six weeks secret work in Chicago by
immigration inspectors from New York
and local detectives in an endeavOr TO
break up ring of Frenchmen alleged to
be importing French women to the
| United States, has resulted in thearrest
of five women and one man.
A fifty million dollar syndicate has
been formed to start gas and electric
! light company in San Francisco to fight
the company that controls the business
there now.
The sentence of Pleasant Draper,
cOlored, who was given % years in the
| Montana penitentiary for killing Nina
| Turner in 1884, has been reduced by six
| hoI hryT MT
| Higgins, actings during the absence of
Governor Toole. Draper was once under
sentence of death for the crime. He will
| be released in 1906.
At cost of over $250,000, the Great
| Northern railway has purchased six
blocks of property within the business
district OF Sioux City, Iowa, being the
| first move toward the construction in
the city Of an independent terminal sys-
| tenn.
Thursday, December 4.
! The Louisiana Purchase exposition
came to successful close. 1t passed
| into history as having comprised the
largest and most representative cOllec-
| ton of the resources, industries, art,
peoples and customs of the world ever
assembled. The duration of the fair
aas sevan months.
| Harry Nissen OF Chicago, ILL.,, met his
death on Lake Michigan by being suffo-
Gated in an acquatic balloon of his own
| invention which he had christened Fool
Killer No. 81 He left note which
stated, with a mechanics exactness that
an air hose had broken and that be was
about TO suffocate and-good bye.
j. M. Williams, who committed q
triple murder by killing Steve Mckinney,
his father and a hired man on their farm
near AlvaradO, Texas, was shot through
the brain by posse of enraged citizens.
| Williams had barricaded himself in his
own house and returned the fire, but
without effect.
The bag containing. $4,000 in gold
consigned to San Jose by the London
and San Francisco bank, through Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s express offices, which mys-
teriously disappeared after it had been
prepared for shipment on Monday, has
not vet been found. The officers of the
company say they believe that it has
been improperly waybilled and will be
found at some point to which sealed
safes were sent.
Friday, December z
Fashiorably attired and wearing ex-
pensive Jewels, the body of a girl 19
years OF age was found tonight in a
room in a hotel at One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth street and Park avenue,
New York. The cause of death was
strangulation by means OF a towel
placed around her neck, one end OF
which had been fastened carefully with q
safety pin, while the other end was tied
to bedpost. She came to the hotel
with a man who has since disappeared
The eighteenth wedding anniversary
OF President and Mrs. Roosevelt was
quietly celebrated by family dinner
party at the White House.
After driving his employer and Others
from candy chop in Brooklyn, Cara
bad Krikorian, an Armenian, barricaded
himself in the place and resisted arrest
until he had been shot to death by de
tail of policemen summoned to the
scene. The Armenian mad been acting
strangely for some time.
Harry S. New and Congressman
Charles B. Lands, Of Indiana, who have
been making a canvass of recently elect
ed members of the legislature for tht
United States senate, tonight Withdrew
from the race, conceding the election. 0
Congressman Hemenway.
A fire broke out on "the Pike" at th
St. Louis exposition grounds at mid
night, destroying several show buildings
In addition to the loss OF the buildings
collection OF oil paintings, depictin.
scenes in the novel "Quo Vadis,'' values
at $4,000, were burned. They wer
painted by Jan Styka, a polish artist
and were brought to this country unde
a bond OF $4,000.
Senator Levi Ankeny and Senator Ad
= Olson 6. Foster of Washington arrive
at the national capital to be present a
D the opening session of congress. Fac
was accompanied by his family.
Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, the oldes
q actress on the American stage, died j
, her rooms at the Sherman house, Oh
cago, shortly after she had suffered
stroke of apoplexy.
: Saturday, December 3.
g Rather than suffer the ignominy OF o.
cupying rooms in the rear of a saloOI
Mrs Mary Lindquist set fire TO the
= little home in Williamsburg, suburb (
Butte, Mont, securely locked all tt
n dooro on1 cot dom OD pOuph an