The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-12-28
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains Of the Union.
Bolieu Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, December 10.


1t is rumored that Senator j. K.
Jones intends to resign the chairman
ship OF the national democratic com
mlCtee.
Former President Cleveland con
tributes TO the Saturday Evening Post
| OF Philadelphia an article on the plight
! OF democracy and the remedy. Mr..
Cleveland begins by reviewing the his
| tory OF the party and he discusses it's
defeats since 1864 in detail la taking
up the question of the present conditions
OF democracy he says that the success of
| that party in 1892 was so decisive and
overwhelming that a long continuance
OF lts supremacy was anticipated, Then
came the 'fallacy of free silver and
populism." He breaches a return of
democracy to its old faith.
The 15-year-od son Of Edward
Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer of
Omaha, was kidnapped from street near
his home. Soon after his disappearance
a letter was thrown in the family ward
notifying the father that the boy was
held Tor $4,000 ransom; that unless
the father took the money, all in gold
and left his home at certain hour after
dark, with a red lantern on his buggy,
drove to certain point about five miles
out of town and left the money near a
white lantern which he would find and
then returned, the boys eyes would be
burned out with acids and he sent home.
when the kidnapers would steal another
mIIlIOnalre's son and hold him for S1OO.-
600. MIR. Cudahy did as directed. and
tive hours later his boy came home with
nf b
offers S25, 200 for the men, of whom it
Is thought there were three. Their head
quarters and lantern, with some other
clews, have been found.
The subcommittee OF the senate com
mIttee on military affairs has completed
It's work on the army reorganization
bill and reported the result to the
special committee of the senate. The
subcommittee reported a complete sub
stltute for the house bill, ,and while much
OF the language is the same as that of
the house measure, there are numerous
changes. The house anti-canteen bill
was amended so as to permit the sale of
beer at the army canteens.
Terrific gales have for days beeEF
sweeping the Pacific coast and ocean.
AhuESudys DeCemD6r 20.
Marshal Richardson of Gulfport, Miss,
was murdered by a negro. Citizens pur-
was the wrong man.
Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, Ohio,
is reported to be negotiating for 40 900
acres of land in Kiowa and Clark coun-
ties, Kansas, upon which to raise blood
ed stock.
One of two hold ups arrested at Sal
mas, Cal, gave his name as VIM. Porter
of PalOuse, Wash.
At the trial at COrsicana, Texas. of
Andrew Morris, negro charged with
the murder of the wife of j. L. French,
a white fan mer, mob led by the dead
wOman's husband attempted to take
the prisoner from the courtroom and
lynch bin. The sheriff's forces saved
the prisoner.
Two hundred negroes left Nashville,
Tenn, for Hawaii to work on sugar
plantations.
Friday, December 21.
Former Governor Roger WOlcott OF
Massachusetts died at Boston from ty-
phOid fever.
Numbers OF vessels arriving at North
Pacific ports report the worst gales and
voyages ever experienced. There we're
several narrow escapes from wrecks.
Senator Foster and Representative
Jones of Washington called at the White
House and invited the PRECEDENT to ex-
tend his trip to San Francisco in Nav so
as to include Portland, Spokane, Ia
coma. Seattle, North Yakima and other
in i
readily consented, providing nothing oc-
Cured to prevent.
American Express Company gave as a
Christmas present to each of it's 10000
employees who had been with the com
pany year IS gold piece as a Christ
mas present, distributing about $50, 900
The Great Northern Railroad com
pany increased its capital stock 10000
shares at 500 a share, making 81 ,OOO,-
900.
A bill introducing the jury system into
Porto Rico has passed both houses of
the island Legislature.
Supreme court of Ohio dismissed, at
cost of the etate, upon motion OF Attor-
ney General MOnett against the follow
ing companies under the trust laws of
OuAO' COldl 1GtnnlDS company, O1lO
Oil company, Buckeye Pipe Line com
pany, Standard Oil company of Ohio
and the Continental Tobacco company.
Saturday, December %.
Allen Long, p years old, of Wilbur,
Wash, suicided near Dayton by shoot
! ing. No reason known.
! A suit involving several million dol
| lars, the value of the telegraph lines
along the route of the Great Northern
| road from st. Paul to the Pacific coast,
was decided by Judge Lochren in the
/ United States district court in favor of
the defendant, the Western Union Tele-
graph company. It's Importance, how
ever, was not alone in the amount of
money involved, for it was the general
understanding that should the railroad
company have won all the great rail-
road systems of the country would, at
the expiration of their contracts with
the Western Union Telegraph company
have claimed the ownership of the tele,
graph lines along their rights of way.
Roosevelt joined a Masonic lodge at
Oyster Bay, L. l., his home.
The residence of Conrad Ruff, a dairy
man near San Jose, Calf, burned