The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-06-01
ticket. Coogan is a ten times million
aire.
Sunday Nav

Lucy Hidden was killed and her sister
stunned by lightning at Chicago.
San Francisco is preparing a big re-
ception for General Otis when he lands.
Eddie Tebault, colored pugiIist, in
lured in a prize fight with VIM. Forsyth,
at Bridgeport, Conn, died. Forsyth is
in jail.
Powers of attorney have been used SO
extensively at Cape Nome this winter
that it is doubtful il any OF the 10000
men now rushing nOrthward will be able
to secure claims in Nome, York or the
contiguous districts.
Expansion sentiment was rife at the
missionary mass meeting at Detroit as
one OF the features of the American Bap-
tIst missionary anniversaries. DR..
Harvey L. HOyt quoted from q speech
by Senator HOar in Massachusetts five
years ago, at which time the anti
lmperialist statesman is reported to
have said that the tree of liberty and
self-gOvernment set out by the fathers
OF the republic having spread across the
continent its roots would in good time
thrust themselves beneath the waves and
spread to the isles of the sea-" "Tbis
prediction" said DR.. Hoyt, "came true
more quickly than the senator expected
and evidently more quickly than he de-
sired. 1t is true that he made the elo-
quent statement in 1895 and hundreds
OF anti-expansion statements in 1900
could not efface the effect of that truth
ful prediction"
Monday, ..MayE2s
Rev. William Joseph Beecher, a Nor
mon missionary, blew out the gas at
Los Angeles and was asphyxiated.
Judge John P Rea, commander,in-
chief of the &. A. r. in 1S87-SS, died at
Minneapolis from disease pronounced
hardening of the brain.
James Smith, the American district
messenger, who is carrying a message
of sympathy from Philadelphia and New
York schoolboys to President Kruger.
has arrived at Lorenzo Marquee, and
Kruger has sent private car to convey
him to Pretoria.
AdVices received at the naval Observa-
tory from its agents in various points
in the south show that favorable
weather prevailed for observing the
SUMS eclipse today, that the contact oc-
Cured very close to schedule time, and
that the program arranged was carried
out without a hitch. Three parties we're
sent out from the observatory, viz: One
to Pinehurst, n. c., in charge of Pro
lessor Aaron n. Skinner; one to Barnes
vile, Ca, in charge of Professor Milton
Updegraff; and one to Griffin, Ca, in
charge OF Professor s. j. Brown. Many
valuable photographs we're taken.
Tuesday, May 20.
May wheat at Chicago, &c; July, 677..
Portland, cash, 81; Tacoma, 81.
A quarantine Gordon was tightly
drawn about Chinatown, San Francisco,
because OF the plague scare.
In the street car strike riots at st.
Louis fully a dozen people, some innO-
cent bystanders, were shot Or.injured by
flying missiles. Over 200 shots we're
fired and three men are probably fatally
shot.
After an exciting contest, lasting
many months, the advocates OF the
Grout bill, placing an almost prohibit
i've tax on OleOmargOrine and like imita-
tiOn buffers, succeeded in having that
measure favOrably reported from the
house committee On agriculture. The
vote was 10 to in favor of the bill.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections, through its chairman,
Senator Chandler, made an adverse re-
port upon the house joint resolution
providing for the election of United
States senators by direct vote OF the
people. The same committee made a
favorable report on Senator Hoar's bill,
amending the law relative to the cleo
tion of senators so as to permit election
by plurality OF members of the legisla-
ture in cases where a majority can not
be secured bV anV one candidate