The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-11-02
kWS Oh THE STATES
tathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, October "a

An explosion which shook the country fol-
20 miles around occurred at the government
proving grounds at Indian Head, % miles
down the Potomac from Washington City
where big guns and armor plate tested.
The wreck of the battleship Maine is to be
removed from Havana harbor, as it is consld
cred an obstruction to navigation.
Cornelius L. Alvord, for 20 years note teller
of the First National Bank of New York, has
disappeared, a detauter to the tune of $780,.
600.
The Chicago Marquette club held ''pros.
perity harvest home festival" Twenty i've
hundred people sat at the banquet tables on
the main floor, besides a number of specta-
tors IN the galleries. The immense hall was
decorated with grain, fruits. pumpkins and
other products of the farm, giving the appear
ance to the floral building of an old-fashioned
country fair. Two columns II feet high
stood behind the platform wreathed with corn
and oats. The menu consisted of pork and
BEANS cider and other rural food.
Miss Clara Barton. president of the Red
Cross, is seriously Ill at Galveston, Texas,
where she went on mission of mercy at the
time of the great disaster to that city.
The Georgia legislature convened In his
message Governor Gambler says: "In the in
terest of good government and in the interest
of the negro race | recommend that an amend.
ment to the constitution be submitted to the
people providing for a qualified suffrage based
on an educational or property qualification, or
both"
Population of California, ], ass, ,053; IN 1890,
1905 l30.
Governor Beckham of Kentucky approved
the non-partisan election bill passed by the
legislature TO succeed the Goebel law
A million and half in gold left English
ports consigned to one New York firm.
Thursday, October 20
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers officially called the big strike off in
the anthracite regions Of Pennsylvania
The miners secure a 10 per cent increase in
pay, after 80 days out
At Brockton, Mass, Willie Stinson placed
the worlds bicycle record in an even hour at
40 miles, $50 yards.
Grover Cleveland said: 81 am surprised
that my opinions and intentions as relating to
the pending canvass should at this stage so
suddenly be deemed important. [ am daily
and nightly sought out by newspaper repre-
sentatives and piled with all sorts of ques-
tIons, some of them quite senseless. If, in
good nature, | say few harmless words they
are so padded before publication as to be un-
recognlz able or are made the pretext for
utterly unauthorized presumptions 1t seems
" he InaC my SITUATION ought TO De sufficient
ly understood and appreciated by thoughtful
friends to justify in their minds my determin-
alton to remain silent during this exceptional
and distressing campaign"
The United States grand jury has returned
IL indictments against former postmssters and
carriers In Polk, Harrison and Paulding coun-
ties, Georgia, charging conspiracy to defraud
the government 1t is claimed by the post
office authorities that the 13defepdants formed
combination to defraud the government. 1t
Is charged that they went so far as to give
away stamps in order to cancel them and sent
bulky packages through the Offices 1t is
said that dog was sent in this way and
pieces of pine bark were stamped and mailed.