The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-11-16
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, October Z.

p'oOS1' Nc" hlCuulOuu, WIS, Reports
five inches, with the snow still falling
and the wind blowing a gale.
The dead body of Pearl Forbes, a
young woman of 90 was found in a ra
vine near her home near Leavenworth
Kansas. She had been strangled.
The White house wires and mails were
loaded with congratulations to Presi-
dent Mckinley from friends all over the
world.
The Portland mine at Cripple Creek,
Colorado, is said to have been sold to an
English syndicate for 100000.
Senator Pettigrew who was repudi-
ated by the people of South Dakota, pre-
diets the formation of "a new party.
based on the protests of the outraged
against repubicanism as taught by
Hanna"
Thursday, November 8.
Spanish speaking cigar-makers in
Tampa, Fla, have started a strike
against American wOrkmen, and official
reports received at headquarters of the
international union Indicate that the
trouble is assuming serious proportions.
Nearly 1000 Englishs speaking workmen
have been made idle in consequence OF
the position of their opponents.
The Piqua roller mills st Piqua, Ohio,
will resume work Monday after an idle
npss of three months. Two hundred men
will be employed.
McKinley's plurality in Iowa about
100000; in Illinois 95,093 Yates, re-
publican, for governor in Illinois, 65,-
O49. Indiana gives Mckinley at least
10000, possibly more, while Ohio's
plurality is raised to 7O,117. Mime
sofa elected Van SAINT, republican, for
governor over John Lind. Bryan
carried Idaho by about 1900. Ken
tucky is surely democratic by 1000 to
5000, though the face of the returns is
disputed by republicans
From Porto Rico the official returns
OF Tuesdays election are nearly all at
hand from the various parts of the
island. They show, as was anticipated
and forecasted, the election by the re
puhlIcans OF the entire house of delegates
and OF Senor FREDERICK Degaton as com
missioner Of congress. Only 151 federals
went to the polls, the total republican
vote being about 5000.
An official statement from Nome bank
ers gives the gold output of that district
as s., 200, 900 for the past season, as
compared with $4,000, 900 for 1899.
Semi -officiaI figures of President Nc
kinley's home county of Stark show
that he gained nearly 2OOO over his
plurality of 800 in 1896, and ran 700
ahead OF the state ticket in the county.
Returns from 80 counties show the
constitutional amendment providing for
holding biennial instead OF annual cleo
tlons IN Iowa has undoubtedly been
adopted by $4,000 plurality.
Quay says he has secured enough
Pennsylvania legislators to insure his
election to the senate.
Nearly complete returns show that
California gives Mckinley almost 40, 900
plurality. The legislature will be phen-
omenaily republican, about 90 to 21 on
Joint ballot. Bryan carried Montana
by 5000, to over $4,000 in 1896, and
the legislature is largely Clark demo-
cratic. Mckinley took Delaware by
4Ol3 in total vote of less than 10000.
W est Virginia legislature is republican.
Virginia went Bryan 5000. Lentz. the
notorious democratic Ohio congressman,
is defeated by 8, in a district $50 demo
cratic.
One death and one new case OF yellow
fever at Jackson, Miss.
Friday, November o.
Biloxi. Miss, was swept by a terrific
fire. Over 100 bOuses we're DESTROYED.
Hundreds of people we're rendered home
less.
The president has issued an order
pl acing under the control of the secre
tary of the interior for disposition under
the law all OF the land included within
the limits of the military reservation of
Fort Sherman, Idaho, reserved under
previous executive orders. The land is
situated on the Coeur d'Alene lake, at
the outlet of the Spokane river in Koote-
mai county, Idaho, comprising in all
nearly 900 acres.
At Redding, Calf, fire, the origin of
which is attributed to chemical action, is
burning In the Peck tunnel of the great
iron mine. The drift has been closed and
100 men employed there have been laid
off.
A fat increase of 1 cent a pound was
Pul upoh oetI, pork anu mutton DV ChI-
cagO packers. In the adjustment of
prices to the consumers choice cuts of
beef have gone up as much as ) cents.
Pork tenderlOin jumped the same
amount and mutton went up cents.
Packers claim they have been sellin Q
dressed meats at loss for several years.
A child of Mrs. Alice Thramer, divine
healer of Anoka, Minn., visiting at Roy
alton, having died, the coroner's Jury
found her and Mrs. J. P. Thramer and
B. W. Branner guilty of criminal negli-
gence.
New England had bad weather, and
there was a terrific gale on the lakes
and the Atlantic off New York.
Bryan's plurality in Missouri is indi-
Gated by almost complete returns to be
between 10000 and $4,000, against 58,-
257 in 1896.
At Butte, Mont, Sheriff Young oil
Park county was shot dead and his
deputy, Frank Beller, fatally wounded by
a stranger whom they were attempting
to arrest. The murderer escaped.
Mckinley carried Nebraska by about
1000.
Saturday, November 10.