The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-09-21

establish line of packets between til,
two places in | > years
Robbers blew open the safes ia the two
banks at Underwood. N ID, secured about
/ SIO,uUO and escaped. posse is after
them
I W. K. Mcheen, superintendent of mo
Y tive power OF the Union Pacific. has an.
\ nounced that tine experiments Of his
/ company in the use Of gasoline for pro.
! peiling passenger cars have at last
! proved successful. The branch lines OF
the system will be equipped with these
I ears.
| On the historic battlefield OF
Gettysburg, where they clashed for
| supremacy, the survivors of Gen
eral Pickett's division of the con
iederate army met 10 fraternal reunion
the survivors of the Philadelphia bri
gade, which was composed of four regi-
ments OF Pennsylvania volunteers. The
| reunion was held at the Bloody angle, :"
where General Pickett made his famous
charge feature of the gathering was
the presentation of General Armisstead's =
sword to tie men of the south.
Slx bodies have been recovered from
the Maumee river, az a result of Friday 3
accident, when hand car loaded with
section labOrers plunged through an
open draw.
BY direction OF President Roosevelt
commissions have been prepared for
Major General Macarthur to be lieuten.
ant general OF the army, Brigadier Gen.
eral Jesse N. Lee as major general, and
Captain John j. Pershng as brigadier
general. These promotions are made to
MI vacancies incident to the retirement
OF Lieutenant General Corbin.
Sunday September rs.
Secretary Taft and Assistant Secre-
tary OF state Bacon left Washington for
Tampa, Fla, to embark on naval yes
sci there for Havana, in accordance with
the instructions OF President Roosevelt,
70 ascertain the exact political situa-
tion in Cuba.
Two persons are dead, three seriously
injured, five sustained minor injuries and
over score received bruises and cuts in
a collision OF two heavily loaded cleo
trlc cars in San Francisco.
Mrs. Ira Miller is in critical condi
tlOn at Liberty, Ind, as result OF an
attack By two masked robbers. An
auction sale had been held at the Miller
home and that evening two masked men
entered the house and demanded the
money obtained from the sale OF the
goods. Red hot irons were placed
against the wOman's toes in an effort to
compel her to reveal the place where the
money was secreted. The robbers did
not obtain the money.
Thomas W. Alexander, head of the
largest cotton firm in Augusta, Ga. who
two months ago disappeared, has been
arrested in Pittsburg, Pa, and has
agreed to come to Augusta without
requisitiOn papers. Among the losers
were three Of the principal banks, TO
which Alexander owed about S16O,OO
An International and Great Northern
freight train from eastern points was de-
rallied near Palestine, Texas. One OF the
cars was half filled with matches These
became ignited and the flames spread to
IA OF the % derailed cars The cargo
Of merchandise was very valuable and
the loss will be heavy.
Monday, September IL.
J. H. Bone, the veteran associate
editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, died
from cancer.
The tremendous rain which fell in and |
damage, particularly il the country. |
where hogs we're drowned. haystacka
tiOated away and railroad tracks washed |
out.
The 276th anniversary OF the founding |
oF Boston was informally observed
William r. Hearst opened his cam. |
paign for governor Of New York, with |
mass meeting held in Cooper Union.
Philip B. Stewart, recently nominated |
for governor of Colorado on the repubi- |
can ticket, has sent a letter to the re-
publican state chairman declining the |
nomination. The reason Mr.. Stewart |
declines to run is the placing of Justice |
William Gabbert as a candidate for re- |
election to the supreme bench. Before |
the convention Mr.. Stewart advised |
against the nomination of Gabbert.
1t is said that Mrs. Alice Roosevelt |
LOngWOrth will chaperone party Of |
young ladies on a bear hunt, near the |
town OF Bovey, Mimi, early in October. |
John Harvey, coal mine operator,
is dead as a result Of falling into bath. |
tub of scalding water at Los Angeles.
He was rescued, but not in time to save
his life.
Tuesday, September Is.
Charles NJ. Floyd was nominated for
governor OF New Hampshire at the close
of the hardest contest ever waged in
republican convention in that state.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, was
Floyd's closest competitor in the final
vote.
Elston Elliott, a Hammond, Ind, high
school boy, was crippled for life in
football match between two school
teams.
Wilbur Yoliya was chosen general
overseer by the people of Zion City, ILL.,, |
by the overwhelming majority of 1911 |
to 6. The action Of the Iionists practi-
callY makes John Alexander Dnwie q n