The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-11-23
NORTHWE EST NEWS.

The Waitsburg Gazette reports that
red squirrels are coming out ia Spring
valley after alternating 2h months.
Two men of Albany, Oregon. while
hunting for game, killed large hawk
which had two live chickens in it's pos
session. The chickens were unframed
and were given their liberty.
Lin Foo, a Chinaman, is in Jail at
New WhatcOm, charged with smuggling
his cOuntrymen into the United States.
He is held under $500 bonds.
The Church of Our Saviour OF the
Norwegian Lutheran Society at Tacoma
was robbed Of 90 chairs They we're
taken away in a wagon in broad day
light.
A mass meeting Of the equal auffrag-
lists of Washington has just convened in
Seattle Nov. 20, for the purpose Of re
ceiving the reports of officers and of dis
cussing county organization.
The safe in the postOttlce at Fremont.
a suburb of Seattle, was cracked by rob
bers early Wednesday morning and 5000
in money and $500 in stamps taken
The burglars were experts and used
black powder. The building was
wrecked. There ia no clue to the rob
beTs
The residence of Colonel ". S. Mckee,
at Seattle, was robbed of $1,000 worth
OF articles Sunday afternoon while the
family was absent.
at Wilbur a few days ago David
Speegle was murdered on his wagon bv
WIN. Penix. Two years ago Speegle
paid too much attention to the wife of
one Of the Penix boys. 4 quarrel en-
sued and Speegle shot the husband dead
His brother has been laying for SpeegIe
ever since.
Colonel f. f. BabcOck, of Waitsburg,
has won another gold medal for prize
apples at the Paris exposition.
The new infrmary for the hospital for
insane at Medical Lake is almost com
pleted, and will soon be ready for occu-
pancy
Complete returns from the Idaho cleo
tlOn show an average plurality of 1899
for the Bryan electors Hunt, fusion,
has a plurality of 1923 for governor,
and Glen, fusion, for congress, beats
Morrison by 1893.
Snow fell Sunday. November 10, to
the depth of five inches over the Puget
Sound country. This was the date of
the first general snow over the Palouae
country. Snow also fell at Portland,
Oregon.
The quartermaster' department at
Seattle wants male packers for service in
the Philippines. The present call is for
thirty men experienced in this work to
go on the animal transport Kintuck,
which will sail for Seattle earfv in De-
cember. The demand is not, however.
limited to this number, as there is con
tinual need for experienced help at the
corrals, and it will be necessary TO send
further shipments to the Philippines
with other animal transports.
During the month of October there
were shipped from Harrington, Lincoln
county, 1l9 cars of wheat to West Sn-
periOr, Wis
The Washington apple crop for 1900
is record breaker. Probably over
1000 cars have been shipped out of the
leading producing sections of the state,
PalOuse, Yakima and Walla WalIa are
shipping apples east in large quantities
and large cOnsIgnments are also going
to the coast.
Tom,a Chinese storekeeper and banker,
has disappeared from Baker Citv. Ore
gon, with $14, 900 on deposit with him,
besides large bills owing Baker CITY
merchants and the last clean I'D OF
placer mine OF which he was lessee. He
is believed to have gone to China.
The local land office at Spokane hos
received copy Of a land patent issued
to the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany by the United States government.
covering about $4,000 acres of land in
the Spokane district.