The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-09-14

Inc preliminary season Of football il
the eastern colleges beging on Saturday
September D. with a few contests hy
MINOR colleges On September 20 Prince
ton VIII bump shoulders with Villa Nova
"hlIe Harvard and Yale will enter the
arena on october 3, when they engage
Bowdoin and Wesleyan respectively
Sunday September o.
note that il regarded with suspicion
hy District Attorney Bell and Receiver
Earle has been found among the papers
oi the wrecked Real Estate Trust com
pany at Philadelphia. Ii il for SIT, 900
ana bears the signature of Joseph A
baker, who has been dead three years.
Inc loan is secured by Sl20.00O in fiji
preferred per cent bonds Of the Cham
pion Iron ( Separator company, one
OF Adolph Segals many enterprises
As result cf the overturping Of an
automobile while rounding sharp curve
near Milpitas, Cal, Mrs Camille B Miner
nt Oakland is dead and Miss Marian
tanhorn OF Berkeley, is in a serious con
ditiOn.
Delegates and visitors TO the number
OF 10000 were present at the opening
session OF the national convention of
derman Catholic societies of the United
states, held at Springfield ILL.,
Two San Francisco electric cars were
held up and the conductors robbed Of
their collections laat night. The high
"ayman, Harry W. Merton, was sur
prlsed and captured by the police while
holding M the second car.
Silas Johnson, colored, prisonerin the
all "a 7
ness charge, was cremated in the build
ing. Johnson attempted to burn biz
way out, the fire getting beyond his cop.
troll, unnoticed bv the officers. Tie
prison door was locked and the turnkey
could not be found until too late to free
the doomed m8n.
Monday September no.
The will OF Hermann Oelricha. who died
at sea, September l. was filed for pro-
bate Mr. Oelrichs leaves money bequesta
If 1892, 900. The vile. Theresa Alice
Fair Oelrichs, is cut eff on the plea that
she has an ample fortune Of her own.
The son, Hermann Oalrichs, Jr., il left
jewelry, guns and other personal effects,
Mrs. Oelrichs, who is daughter OF the
late Senator Fair Of California. il ia San
francisco for the purpose OF cOntesting
the will.
A serious labor situation affecting the
entire Burlington system has developed.
following the adoption of a new ana
RADICAL rule BY the company. The rule,
which affects the engineers, est8b blishes q
standard for evesight, Men obliged to
wear glasses, by the provision OF the
rule, are reduced in rank and assigned
to unimpOrtant and unremuneratiyp
runs. The reduction applies to all en-.
glneers, regardless of length Of service
for the company. The engineers may
call big strike as a result of the de
cision.
The biennial convention IF tie
brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
o1ened at Milwaukee, Wis, with about
100 delegates present.
A disturbance that at times assumed
the proportions Of a riot marked the de
parture from San Francisco Of $50 strike
breakers imported to break the strike Of
the United Railroads employees Sur
rounded By armed guards and members
OF the police department, the men were
marched hall way across the city, pur-
sued by 8 mob of strike sympathizers,
who hurled bricks and abuse. Reports
from the hospitals Indicate that half a
dozen persons have been wounded The
mob was dispersed by the police after
the strike breakers had been hurried on
departing ferryboat
Tuesday, September IL.
For some unknown reason some Of the
dPpOsltOTs Of the Hibernia Savings bank
OF San Francisco, started a run on the
bank. The Hibernia is the biggest saw
ings Institution on the coast. At &
O'Clock in the evening all depOsitors in
line had been paid off. Many who with
drew their money afterwards deposit
ed it,
The grand jury at Chicago voted in
dictments against Paul o. Stensland,
former president Of the Milwaukee Ave
nue. bank and now under arrest in Tan
gier, and Henry w. Herring, the ex-
cashier, now confined in the Cook county
jail.
The Burlington Railroad company has
issued statement regarding the differ
eDCe between the company and its en-
gineers over the use OF spectaclea, which
says that the only question at issue ia
the adoption of some standard as to
eyesight of passenger engineers in GER
tain specified service. The committee
for the men admits that the safety of
the travelling public requires that some
standard, tested either scientifically or
by field trials, is necessary, the only diff
ference being as to what it shall be, and
where it shall apply. The company
offered to lay the matter before the inter
state commerce commission but the com