The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-11-17


ployed as teller in a bank in Jersey
City. The rooms he had occupied in the
hotel were fnmigated and every pre-
caution was taken against the spread OF
the infection.
Contrary TO all expectations, Secretary
Hitchcock at Washington, ID. c., rejected
| the Ileton and Okanogan irrigation pro
Iects IN Washington. Secretary Hitch
cock refused To approve the projects on
the ground that the cost of reclamation
would be 81, 800, 600, which is more than
| the reclamation fund could stand at this
| time.
Andrew Carnegie upon disembarkipp
| today from the steamer Baltic on which
| he arrived last night talked on American
| politics he spent the summer at his
castle in Scotland.
December wheat closed at 92&c az
| Chicago today.
Saturday, November
The assistant attorney general in an
opinion today at Washington, held that
| the recent cOntiscation in the New York
postoftlce of 27O000 postal cards car
tooning William Hearst was justified.
Dan Patch, the pacing champion. in
an exhibition mile today on the track of
the Memphis Trotting association. low.
cred the worlds pacing record without a
wind shield by II seconds. covering the
mile in 1:5S fiat.
Edward q. Cunliffe, the Adams express
robber. was sentenced at PittsburR to
serve six years in the pennitentiary to.
day. Cunllffe, who was an empiove Of
the express company and abstracted
SlOO,OOO In big bills, disappeared, hut
was captured and all but a few Thousand
dollars OF the money was recovered.
Word has been received at the war de
partment, Washington, that Secretary
TAFT and party left Guantanamo yester.
day on the cruiser Columbia bound for
Hampton roads.
An examination today Of Spaniard
who is Ill in a hospita! at Havana, de.
velOped the fact that he has yellow
fever. Another case developed later. and
there are now three cases under treat
ment.
President Roosevelt was requested to.
day to Use his influence to prevent the
insertion in the statehood charters of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory of "a
provision for the absolute prohibition of
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing beverages. The question was precip-
ltated during the discussion of the state.
hood measures in congress has aroused
considerable comment throughout the
country.
Dec. wheat closed at 92% cents at
Chicago today.
Sunday, November IL
Portland will rank among the first 10
cities Of the United States in it's cOntribu-
tiOns to the fund for the relief of the Rus
sian Jews, with a fund that will approxi-
mate $4,000.
Seattle Hebrews at meeting held in
Christensen hall pledged themselves for
$500 TO be forwarded to Jacob Schiff,
treasurer in the United States for the
Russian Jew relief fund.
Seeking revenge upon the man who he
declares had alienated the affections of
bis vile, Morris Jacobs, a physical in.
structOr in Chicago shot and perhaps
fatally wounded f. Fl. Force, a painter
and paperhanger, besides accidentally
shooting two other persons.
Monday. Nov. IS.
Martial law was proclaimed through
out all Poland, and regiment after regi-
ment OF troops upon whom the czar be.
leves he can depend are now rushed on
special trains TO put down the move
ment tor freedom ia that ancient king
dom. Should the citizens continue IN
their demands that autonomy be grant
ed them the next lew weeks will witness
scenes OF massacre and bloOdshed such
as have not been witnessed since the last
general uprising for free Poland"
William Fish is under arrest at Butte,
charged with committing forgery at
Wallace over year ago. He is being
held while the affair is being investi-
gated. If it is learned that a warrant
was ever issued for Fish's arrest an
officer will take him TO Wallace for trial.
W. p. Ditmore, a miner at the Stand
ard, was tried at Gem, Idaho, before
Judge Baer upon the charge of shooting
and attempting to kill his wife, Maud
Ditmore, at the Black Bear hotel Thurs
day morning. After examining mum.
Der of witnesses the justice dismissed the
action.
At Mexico City the remark kably hot
weather lasting into November attracts
the attention OF meteorologists, some of
whom attribute it to an immense sun
spot. Earthquake shocks, severe in
some cases, continue to be reported from
various parts of the country.
At Athens, Ga, fire destroyed large
cotton warehouse belonging to D1adwler
& Co., 1900 bales of cotton aud $4,000
worth of fax. Loss $4,000.
Tuesday,Nov. IA.
Two 60-car circus trains are wrecked
near Northleet, Ark. One lioness, a black
named lion and 10 huge snakes escaped
into the swamps and are killing horses,
cows and pigs and terrOrizng the people.
Total loss, 1000.
Mrs. Frank Hubbel, wife OF the Seattle
capitalist who committed suicide after
making will leaving 100000 out of a
$500, 900 estate TO the widow, brought
suit for the remainder of the property on
behalf OF her unborn babe. The birth of
the child will prevent three brothers OF
Hubbel from collecting a share of the
| estate.
At Anaconda, Mont, William Semper
| had a narrow escape from instant death,
| and had it not been due to the fact that
| the bullet was DETECTED by false teeth be
would now be a subject for the coroner
! Semper was attacked by Swan Anderson,
| a gambler in the Turf Exchange saloon.
| County Fruit Inspector Brown of
| North Yakima. destroyed 825 boxes OF
/ apples that had been loaded on a car at
I Toppenich BY K W. Stafford Of Parker