The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-01-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings All Over the Union
Briefly Told.
news of Many States Collected and
Compiled in Short
Form.
Wednesday. December q

Congressman Boutelle of Maine is
| seriously ill.
The proposed combine OF British Co.
lumbia canneries has fallen through.
Mail advices from Japan state war is
imminent in the spring between Russia
and Japan.
A military reservation will be created
near Point Spencer, Alaska, where San
FRANCISCO people are now planning to
found q tOwnsite. The reservation
would extend from the north end OF
Point Spencer south 20 miles, thence
| three miles west across Point Spencer
from Port Clarence harbor to Behring
sea. Secretary Root, who favors per.
maDent occupation by the government,
has been informed there is ample room
for a townsite south of the line.
General Otis issued a decree author
| lzng the celebration of civil marriages
in the Philippines. He cabed Secretary
Root to that effect today and the secre-
tary promptly approved the action.
Heretofore marriages we're celebrated bv
the Catholic church, SO that protestants
and non-christians were prohibited from
marrying. The Sdecree does not inter
fere with the Catholics who NAV be mar
rled according to their own rites, but
extends the privilege of civil marriage to
those who desire it, just as practiced in
the United States.
Elliott DanfOrth, chairman OF the
democratic state committee, returned to
New York after trip through the south,
during which he talked with Senator
James X. Jones, chairman of the demo
cratic national committee, and most of
the chairmen of the democratic state
committees. Mr.. Danforth said: "In
my trip through the south | observed
one thing which will be considered of
particular interest in New York, namely.
that none of the leaders -emed disposed
to insist on free silver as the main issue
OF the campaign next year"
Thursday, December 2S
The viceroy Of India, Lord Curzon of
keddlestOn, telegraphs from Calcutta
that there has been no increase of rain
and that 81 900 natives suffering from
famine are now receiving relief.
At special election it was decided to
bond the city of San Francisco in the
sum of $4,000, 900 for public park pur-
poses. About 10000 votes were cast,
and the proposition carried by vote OF
four to one.
BY the unanimous action OF Local
Assembly No. AGO. Knights of Labor.
Chicago, the ranks of that organization
were reduced nearly 500. At meeting
the members of the assembly which is
composed OF letter carriers decided to
withdraw from the national organiza-
ton.
The privy council held a meeting at
Windsor castle, at which Queen Victoria
proclaimed a warning to all British sub
Jects not to assist inhabitants Of the
Transvaal or Orange Free State or to
sell or transport merchandise there,
under penalty of the law. The prOcla-
nation was gazetted.
+. G. Hodges & Co., brokers at Boston
suspended business today. The firm is
one OF the largest in the city. It's deal
ings have been principally in municipal
bonds. 1t is a member of the Boston
and New York stock exchanges and
Chicago board of trade. Hodges said
that the trouble was caused by a refusal
OF the Boston banks to give the firm
credit on United States mining shares.
The failure was no surprise.
Friday, December 20.
San Francisco, by special election,
voted to issue $6,750,00 bonds to build
new school houses, new hospital and a
new sewer system. Tuesday last $4,-
100000 were voted for parks, making
f11,25O,000.
Boer report: "On Monday morning
the enemy from Mafeking attacked one
OF our forts in force with cannon and an
armored train, and SO persistently that
there was fighting right on the walls OF
the fort. But we have retained our fort.
The British loss is reported as 55."
Under a plan recommended to the
stockholders of the Great Northern rail-
way by President James j. Hill and the
management, the capital stock of the
road will be increased 10 per cent in
February and the employees of the road
given an opportunity to invest in the
issue at par. Stock is now worth SITS
a share.
The insurgents who evacuated the
coast towns between Dagupan and Vi
gan, heeing to the mountains before the
advancing Americans, are returning in
small bands to the towns the Americans
do not occupy and terrorizing the ma
tlves and Cinnamon who showed friend
ship for the Americans. The natives and
Cinnamon are seeking the protection Of
the American garrisOns.
Pool Grinslead, editor of the Wathena,
Kansas, Star, was sentenced in the dis
trict court today to II months i'm
prisonment in the county Jail under a
conviction of criminal libel. The con-
viction is an Outgrowth of a legislative
scandal, the editor having accused State
Senator John Fulton of Brown county
OF accepting bribe in connection with
the location of a new state insane
asylum. Grinslead will edit his paper
from the county Jail.
Saturday, December 80.
San Francisco is suffering a coal
| famine.
Andrew Carnegie presented city oil
Cheyenne, Wyoming, with $4,000 for a
free library.
A dispatch to the Herald from Manila
says: Six men of the signal corps were
attacked Thursday at Talevera, east oil
Tarlac, by force OF 200 insurgents and
| four OF them we're either killed or cap
| tured.
Colonel Lockett has had q second en-.
gagement with the insurgents north.
west OF Montalban, and by a brilliant
charge drove the enemy from their
position. Only one American officer