The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-10-12

/ tniougu tne Sdn fernando valley. South
ern California, destroying ranch houses,
crematlng cattle, reducing $50, 700 worth
OF standard Oil property to ashes,
threatening towns, wiping out 10 miles
oi fences and leaving the district a
| blackened waste.
a combined movement of the western
Canadian boards of trade has inaugu-
rated a campaign to urge on the pro
vlnclal and dominion governments the
necessity OF preparing the Hudson's bay
route to England for navigation.
Daniel TarbOx Jewett, former United
States senator from Missouri, died at st.
Louis, aged 80 years. In earlier wears
ne was prominent attorney in st.
Louis and opposed Abraham Lincoln in
several suits at law, defeating him in
three Of them.
The race war in Arkansas has almost
reached the climax. Several blacks have
been hanged and shot, the last one to
stretch supposed to be innocent of any
crime. Many OF the negroes are fleeing.
At Macon and Mobile all is quiet Sew
eral other places are threatened with
mob violence.
Monday, October 3
1t has been definitely decided at Wash
ingtOn that the Panama canal shall be
completed by contract. This change in
building will in no way affect the en-
plOyment OF Chinese labor.
Secretary Hitchcock has laid before
the president q memorandum contain.
lug data to be used by him in his forth.
coming proclamation withdrawing from
public entry all lands supposed to con
tain coal. This will he done to prevent
such lands from falling into the hands
Of spectators.
Minneapolis experienced her first snow
fall, with the temperature ranging be-
tween 30 and 40 above zero the greater
part of the day.
The Columbus, Ohio, board of educa-
ton, upon the recommendation of the
superintendent OF schools, decided to
adopt the simplified spelling so far as it
is practicable in the schools OF the city.
The printed notice on the back OF
passes that the holder agrees to hold the
railroad company issuing it exempt from
all claims for damages in case of injury
does not confer the expected immunity,
according to decision rendered by the
appellate court at Chicago.
After months vacation the supreme
court OF the United States convened in
Washington for the term of 1867.
According to custom an adjournment
was taken to permit the members to call
on the president, which they did in a
body.
Secretary Root is to make a campaign
speech in New York October %. He will
speak in Carnegie hall.
Tuesday, October o.
President Roosevelt issued a procIa-
nation today fixing II O'Clock noon on
the 26th inst.as the date for opening the
Walker river Indian reservation in Ne
vada to settlement. There are 26S, 900
acres of land to be disposed Of and the
law permits it's acquisition under the
general land laws. The reservation is in
the Carson City land district.
1t is learned that party of surveyors
in the employ ofJ. j. Hill have left South
McAlister, |. T., to obtain right of way
for new line to the gulf. The engineer
is in charge OF surveying party.
The Missouri River & Gulf railroad, a
Hartman line, which will run from Kan
sas City to Denison, Texas, will be
built soon. A survey has been nearly
completed for the entrance of the road
into Kansas City from the south.
Stephen A. Grove, brother Of Pat Grove.
is on trial at Chicago charged with at
tempting to bribe T. Carr, juror at the
trial OF former Circuit Court Clerk Cook,
recently convicted of embezzling public
money. Grove keeps a hotel, at which
the jurors get meals and lodging. Carr
says the hotel man approached him with
an offer of $1,000 to insure a disagree
ment.
The total registration today in Great.
er New York was 1872, ,052, and the grand
total for the two days 353, ,428. The
total first two days registration last
year was 344 $40.