The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-08-17

secretary of Agriculture Wilson, speak
ing OF wheat, said THE outlook for
good prices was never better. We have
shortage in the American wheat crop
TINS year which will probably amount to
| 1Oo,OOO, 900 bushels. This alone would
serve to make the present yield more
valuable. There are additional reasons.
| however, which incline me to believe
that wheat will make market advance
before the end of the present year. The
primary cause for an advance is the
condition and outlook of the home
market"
Inc navy department rejected all bids
ohered Tor armor plate, $40 ton.
Sunday, August IL.
Kosslyn II. Ferrell was arrested at
Columbus, Ohio, and confessed the afro
| cious murder OF Messenger Lane in an
express car. He said he was to be mar
| ried to Miss Lillian Costlow in a few
days and did it to get money. He was
with his sweetheart when arrested and
$1,000 he had given her was recovered.
lie was former employe of the express
| company, and Lane knowing him as
such admitted him to the car. He shot
Lane In the back, and after emptying
his own gun into the fallen man took his
and continued shooting. He left the
train at Plain City.
Seventeen deaths and . prostrations
resulted from the heat at PHILADELPHIA.
Temperature, 80.
Joseph Philpot and Frank Craig, both
wealthy stockmen, were fatally shot
near their homes, three miles from Nord-
way, Mo-, in a holdup.
Col. Grassa, with 175 men, 100 rifles
and 90 bolOs, surrendered to Col. Free
man OF the TWenty-fOurth infantry, near
Tauig, Philippine Islands.
Monday, August ID.
Delegates to the national party con-
YentlOD begin to arrive at Indianapolis.
The platform will oppose both free coin
age OF silver and imperialism. A
ticket will probably be nominated.
The July statement OF the imports
and exports of the United States, issued
by the bureau of statistics, shows the
imports of merchandise to have been
$63, ,536, ,253, of which $21 1854, ,O6S was
Tree OF duty. The total amount is over
$3,OO0,O00 in excess OF July, 1899. The
exports of merchandise during the month
aggregated 500, Alb, sol, an increase
over the corresponding month last year
OF more than $5,500,000. The gold i'm
ports for the month we're $4, 4,944, ,764, |
an increase OF about $2,000,OOO. The |
exports of gold amounted to SO ,269, ,159, |
an increase of about $663,OOO The |
silver imports aggreg ated $3,311, ,O33, |
an increase Of about $50O,O00, and the |
exports $4,913,65S, an increase of |
100000. During the last seven months |
the exports OF merchandise exceeded the |
imports by $70,093,792.
The salmon pack of the Columbia |
river for the season was 100000 cases, |
an increase of 10000 cases over last |
season.
Transport Sumner, with a battalion |
OF the Fifteenth infantry, arrived at |
Nagasaki on the way to China.
A frightful explosion of nitroglycprine
occurred today three miles east of Mont |
peIier, Indiana. The Gaithwait nitro |
glycerine factory was demolished and |
two men injured. There was 1900 quarts |
OF the stun in the explosion and the |
country was shaken for miles around.
Homer and Walter Bittle and Will |
Lanier were killed at Monroe Prairie,
Miss, in fight on the public street, in |
which j. 5. Lanier and his sons, George,
VIII and jeff took part.
The Illinois state board of agriculture
issued bulletin stating that the winter
wheat crop of IlinOs amounts to 90 |
6T 900 bushels. the largest since 1896. |
The quality is excellent and at price of |
August l (6S cente) its value is $14,- |
10000, the best returns since 1894.
Tuesday, August IA.
e. p. Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific Railway Company, died |
suddenly from heart disease at his camp
IN the Adirondack mountains. His for |
tune is estimated at $20,0O0,000.
When arraigned for the murder OF Ex- |
press Messenger Lane in his car at
Marysville, Ohio, RossIyn Fl. FerrelI, de- |
spite his confession of the deed, pleaded |
not guilty. Ferrel collapsed after being
taken back to jail, and is moaning and |
crying for his mother. physician was
called to attend him and endeavor to |
quiet him. A special guard has been |
placed over him to keep him from COM
mitting suicide, as be stated he would do. |
Chairman Butler OF the populist ma
tlOnal committee said: 81 am for Bryan |
and the peoples party nominee for vice |
president. Il am in favor of the COM
mittee nominating a candidate on
August 81. l am not a democrat, am
not a republican, | am a populist.
was not for Stevenson in 1892 and am
not for him now"
John L. Wilson is named by Chair
man Hanna as the Washington member |
of the advisory committee to the ma
tional committee.
Twelve heat prostrations, OF which |
one will prove fatal, is the days record |
at st. Joseph, Mo. Temperature, 101.
August wheat at Chicago, 74%%. Port
land, cash, 55; Tacoma, Sc.
Fitz Knocked Him
New York, Aug. 10.-Robert Fitzsim-
mons, ex-champion pugilist OF the world,