The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-10-19

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government will take up the fight, using
the evidence adduced in the FindIay
court. The United States is LAYING il
wait for the oil trust.
Twelve inches OF snow fell in Crippl,
Greek, and was drifted badly by a HIGH
wind.
Maxim Gorky and his female ''com-
| panlon" sailed for home under assumed
| names.
Sunday, October ii
Two men we're murdered early this
morning at Oakland, Cal, by highway.
man. Murders and holdups are 80 ire
| quent at San Francisco and all the near.
| 0y towns that strong talk has been in
dulged IN to organize vigilance com
mittees.
Speaker Cannon and Representative
Watson OF Indiana had an hours talk
with the president at Washington, with
the result that they consider the next
| mouse safe for the republicans.
Charles Fl. Grosvenor, the veteran re-
publican from Ohio, comes out for
Roosevelt for another term. He saws
the demands OF the people should not be
disregarded.
Rockefeller gives the negro branch OF
the I. NJ. Z. A. OF Washington City S25,-
OOO, on condition that they raise $25,-
900 for the site and building.
At the Hotel Majestic, N. Y, it was
stated that the condition of Mrs. Jeffer.
son Davis, who is seriously i'll in her
apartments there, is slightly improved.
The new Madison Square Presbyterian
church, New York, of which Rev Charles
A. Parkhnrst is pastor, was dedicated
with impressive ceremonies In his dedi
catory sermon DR.. Parkhurst paid high
tribute to the genius Of Stanford White,
the architect, whose final achievement
was the designing OF this church He
made no reference to the tragic death Of
v hite
Postmaster COrtelyOu's advance state.
ment OF the receipts and expenditures of
the postal service for the fiscal year end
ed June 30 shows d reduction of rhe an
nual deficit from $14. 572 5S4 13 for
1905 to $10,516, 1854, or y 50 per
cent.
Alfred W. Hulse, under life sentence for
the murder of Deputy Sheriff William E.
Ilbbett and awaiting the outcome Of an
appeal 10 the supreme court, killed him
self in the county jail at Bakersfield, Cal.
by cutting his throat with razor
Monday, October 10
Count John A. Creighton, one Of the
founders OF Creighton university, today
decided to that institution two buildings
in the wholesale district of Omaha, Neb
worth about 100000. They are leased
for long term of years, and will pay
the University about 5 per cent net on
the valuation.
Seldom has a more desperate battle
with nature been waged than that for
the turning of the Colorado river. When
lockwood gate went out last Thursday
great disappointment was occasioned,
but the outlook is much brighter. Fresh
efforts are being made to stem the nigh
ty rivers flow.
Sam Jones, the noted evangelist, pass
ed away on a Southern train near Perry,
Arkansas.
Tuesday, October
1t is understood that the president will
assign General J. J. Pershing to com
mand the aTmv in Cuba. He is the
youngest brigadier in the army.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president Of the Confederacy, died in New
York at 1925 D. m. Death was due to
pneumonia induced by a severe cold
which Mrs. Davis contracted upon her
return from the AdirOnd8cks, where she
had spent the summer months.
Frank A. Miller has secured a conces-
sion to build a million dollar hotel in the
Yosemite valley, Cal. The Southern Pa
cifc, Santa Fe and Salt Lake railways
are all said to be interestedin in the project.
More than 5000 uniformed Pythians.
many Of them mounted, paraded in mill
tary formation in New Orleans in honor
of the biennial encampment which be
gan yesterday. About 10000 visitors
came to New Orleans by train to see the
pageant.