The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-02-17
BErWhEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country
Wednesday, February ..

The startling news was given to the
world BY Joint session of congress, sit
ting as board to canvass the electoral
vote, that Theodore Roosevelt was
elected president, and Charles W. FAIR
banks vice president, of these United
States of America.
Burglars entered the Bank OF Leba-
non, Oregon, and got away with $4,000
IN cash. No clew has as yet developed
as to who were the perpetrators of the
robbery.
Ten thousand pounds of dynamite
stored at the 9th level No. B shaft of the
OsceOla Consolidated mine at Kearsarge,
Mich, exploded. Three men are all the
known killed; but their bodies were
blown to atoms. The shock was felt for
miles.
Frank ID. COmerfOrd was expelled from
the general assembly of Illinois 10.
day. The expulsion was the climax OF
charges OF corruption against certain
members of the legislature made by
ComerfOrd in a lecture before the law
college at Chicago.
The price of May wheat ct Chicago
was 81. .16A01 16H
Thursday. February 8.
Jones valley, Ala, was shaken up
from one end 70 the other Of its 25 miles
Of length by the explosion Of the Dupont
powder mill located there. So lar as
KnOwn no one was killed.
Mrs. Kate Edwards, colOrpd, under
sentence TO be hung Feb IA, along with
Samuel Gleason at Reading, Pa, has
confessed that she alone is responsible
for the murder of her husband
The house committee on Indian affairs
today authorized u favorable report on
! the Lacey bill providing for the al0t
| Inents and distribution Of Iudian tribal
funds from time to time, whenever the
president sees lit.
Both houses OF Arizona legislature 10
8 concurrent resolution thanked the
U0it ed States senate for eliminating
Arizona from the statehood bill and ask
ing the hOuee Of representatives to con
cur in the amendments affecting this
territory.
Today's statement of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, SAL
61l, 1905; gold, $48 236, ,932.
The price OF May wheat at Chicago
was $1I6b01.16&
Friday, February 10
j. Samuel McCue, ex-mayOr Of Char
!Otte, Va, politician, etc. was hanged il
this city for the murder of his wife
The Arizona legislature have forward
ed to congress a memorial protesting
against taking from Arizona and an
nexing to Utah that portion Of the
territory lying north Of the Colorado
river.
Because of alleged hostile legislation
or fear of it in Kansas the Standard Oil
company ordered the closing of it's var
iOus industries III that state.
A man and two boys we're killed, two
boys are dying and three more were
slightly injured as the result of bob
sled dsshing into q train tonight at
New Brighton, Pa. Eight other boys
were on the sled.
AS result Of rear-end collision on
the Mexican Central five persons lost
their lives.
Governor Higgins OF New York has
c0mmuted the sentence W. f. Miller,
and he was set at liberty Monday
Miller was the head of the defunct 1920
per cent" Franklyn syndicate and re-
ceived a sentence of 10 years at the con,
clusiOn OF the prosecution which put the
syndicate out Of business. The syndi-
cate swindled over a million dollars from
credulous persons throughout the United
States.
May wheat closed at $1.16H at Chi
cagO.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee has notified the
Dominican government that If any harm
is done to Commander Leiper, who is in
command of the customs house in Monte
Christi, they will be held responsible for
the consequences. He landed alone,
without arms, and has been threatened
by natives.
The Goth ballot for successor Of
Senator COckrell, taken at Jefferson Citv,
Mo, was about the same as the other
10. No end of the deadlock is in sight.
Saturday, February III.
Frank Bill, sailor on the steamer
Orizaba, who was removed as sus-
pjcious case to the Swhburne islani
hospital Oh the arrival OF the steamer at
New York from Colon, was found to be
suffering from yellow lever.
May wheat closed at 16I 10 Chicago.
Nine persons were punished at the
whipping post in Wilmington n, Del. spci
four were pilorjed for an hour each
The crimes for which the culprits we're
punished ranged all the way from steal
ing Il foot stove to swiDdiDg.
Figaro's editor engages in his usual
duel at Paris today with the usual re
suit Pistols we're used at 25 PAGES and
two shots fred 1t is unnecessary TO
state that neither participant was in
iured.
The Brooklyn bridge has been closed
to pedestrians on account of the falling
icicles from the cables overhead. TooaV
a falling chunk of ice struck a horse
being ferried on the river below, causing