The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-08-24
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, August 10.

"SNiCSddgs mug ust To-
Secretary Gage was asked if the out
ward gold movement was adversely
affecting the treasury interests, or was
likely to trouble or impair the gold re-
serve. The secretary replied that he was
suffering no anxiety at all on that score.
The movement" he said, sis entirely
natural and nature always tends to es-
tabllsh just equilibriums The negotia-
ton on this side of so large a part Of the
English loan fully explains the move
ment. We have gold to spare and it
VIII go, and ought to go, where it can be
most protitably employed. We have a
large supply of the yellow metal, an in
creaslng supply, when our domestic pro-
ductlOn is considered. Beside this, we
are buying at our assay Offices on the
Pacific coast almost the entire product
OF the British KlOndike region. With
| our great resources we can, as long as
we maintain the gold standard and keep
the public credit good, retain for our
own use all the gold we need"
The first days session of the liberty
| congress OF the National Anti-Imperialist
league was somewhat disappointing so
lar as attendance of delegates was con
cerned. About 300 we're present.
Governor Beckham of Kentucky issued
proclamation cOnvening the general
assembly IN extra session on Tuesday.
August %, 1900. The only subject to
be considered is the modification of the
GOebel election law.
About st. Thomas, North Dakota, a
severe hailstOrm destroyed 10000 acres
of the finest grain in North Dakota this
year, even that cut and in the shock be-
ing DESTROYED. Many of the hailstOnes
were from three to four inches in diam
eter.
Thursday, August 10.
John j. Ingalls,, former United States
senator from Kansas, national figure
in his day, died at Las Vegas, n. NJ.
At Portland two women committed
suicide. Mrs. f. b. Woodwork, the
wife OF a locomotive fireman, shot her
sell through the heart, and Mrs. Mary
richards, widow, took poison. The
former suicide is said to nave been due
to sickness and the latter to love affairs.
FitzsimmOns says Jeffries is afraid to
meet him, and that he will claim the
championship through default.
In the case OF the Chesapeake & Ohio
Fuel company, charged by the govern
ment with being trust in violation of
the united States statute, Judge ThOmp-
son decided IN favor of the government,
finding that the company is conducting
It's business 10 violation of the antitrust
statutes. The fuel company includes
some Il coal companies, mostly in West
Virginia.
The liberty congress of the American
League OF Anti lmperialsts emphaticallv
indorsed the candidacy of W. j. BRYAN
for president. Less than a score we're
against.
Wind and hail storms of unusual
severity visited Nebraska. Seward,
southern Lancaster and Jefferson coun-
ties suffered most, Crops we're ruined
by the nail, and in some cases buildings
we're blown down and wrecked. The hail
broke hall the window glasses in the
towns Of Ruby, Beaver Crossing. Pana
ma and Fairbury. The area covered is
OF considerable extent, and the damage
to crops will reach high in the hundreds
of thousands of dollars. No fatalities
are reported, although houses in almost
every town in the path OF the storm
were struck by lightning.
A sensation has been caused by the
| discovery that Wharton Barker, middle
| OF the-rOad candidate for president on
the pOpulst ticket, is ineligible for the
office to which he aspires. 1t is said
that while experimenting some improve
ments in Russia some years ago Mr..
Barker was made lord of st. Wieceslass'
| by the car. Before accepting the title
l.
the privilege, and he is therefore Ineligible
because he forfeited his citizenship by ac-
| ceptlng the honor without permission of
| the United States authorities.
| The census Office announced the popu-
| lation OF Greater New York Manhattan
and Bronx bOroughs) as 2,050,600
Friday, August II.
Congressman Frank Cusbman received
letter from Il. c. Payne, in charge of
| the Chicago headquarters of the national
| republican committee, stating that Gov
ernOr ROOsevelt's western tour had not
| been abandoned. Mr.. Payne writes that
| the program for ROOsevelt's tour is
westward over the Northern Pacific to
| the coast and return by way of California
and the Union Pacific. The itinerary
| does not give Roosevelt much time in
New York, but an effort will be made to
| hold it intact.
Steamer Roanoke arrived from Nome
with $3,O0O,OO0 in dust, mostly from
! Dawson.
| Kansas township assessors place the
population OF the state at l A, ,7OS.
Great bodies of Colorado timber. fred
| by incendiaries, are burning.
The total wheat crop of Oregon,
| Washington and Idaho for 1900 is now
estimated at from 32,0OO,OOO to 35.-
100000 bushels. This is reduction oil
about 5000, 900 bushels from the earlier
estimates. The wheat is of very fine
quality.
Saturday, August 1S.
The exhibit of cereals made by the
Oregon Railway and Navigation com
pany at the Paris exposition, which was
awarded gold medal, was collected il
Oregon, Idaho and Washington.
Caleb Powers, former secretary of state
of Kentucky, on trial for the last siz
weeks on charge OF completely in th,
murder OF Goebel, was found guilty anC
sentenced by the jury to life imprison
ment. The jury was composed of eigh
democrats, three anti-Goebel democrat
and one republican. They were out bu
so minutes.
r A story of mob law comes from Port