The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-03-30

cent isede authorized by the new cur.
Tency law up to date aggregate S14S..
oV3,4oQ. Of this sum SI3O,55 .75o
were offered by the national banks and
l3,29O,SGO by individuals.
Information received at the pOstOfficp
department indicates that the efforts to
get mail through to the gold fields
through the Alaskan mountains are
meeting with success. Mail was recently
transmitted from Skagway to Circle
City IN 10 days, which broke all records
ana the dispatch of letter from Circle
Clty to Washington in 80 days as was
recently done would have been impossible
last year.
Sunday, March 20.
Republicans of the Seventh West Vir-
glDla congressional district instructed
for Mckinley.
james Cummings, a railway postal
clerk, under arrest at Virginia Citv.
Nevada, for theft of a registered pack
age valued at S140, suicided with laudu-
mum.
Mr.. and Mrs Paul Flemrey, an aged
couple, quarreled at Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing, while intoxicated. The man set
fire to the wOman's clothes and she was
The Berwind-White Coal Mining Com
pany OF Pennsylvania notified it's miners
OF a general average advance of 20 per
cent, making the wages the highest
paid during the last 20 years.
Extensive preparations are being
MADE at the United States naval Obser-
vatory for photographing and observ-
ing the total eclipse of the sun which
occurs on May %. Two government
stations will observe the eclipse, one in
South Carolina and one in Georgia.
Monday, March 20.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco re-
ports that city safe from bubonic plague.
j. Z: LurhOm shot and killed his part
ner, v u. Weiman, at Sumpter, Oregon.
Ihey had quarreled for several DAYS.
Democrats carried Des MOines, Iowa,
by 800 to 800, and also captured the
burlington mayor. Republicans took
Clinton by 1000 and Sioux City by 100.
Officers and crew of the Charleston
were vindicated by a court Of inquiry
looking into the loss of the vessel on an
uncbarted rock off the north coast of
Luzon.
Chas. W, Mussey, cashier of the Merch-
ants National Bank at Rutland, Yer
mont, is in Jail for embezzlementU of $145,-
ooO OF the banks funds. The institu-
tion is wrecked.
Tuesday, March %.
March wheat at Chicago, 654; MAY,
654. Portland, cash, 50 to 81; Tacoma,
SOY.
Representative Chas H. Grosvenor was
nominated for the sixth time for con-
gress by the republicans at Athens, Ohio.
Resolutions we're adopted endorsing the
acts OF the administration in regard to
the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
The new Philippine commission held a
preliminary meeting today at the head
quarters of the old commission at
Washington. Judge Taft, the president,
called the body to order and the plans
Tor the committee movements were thor
oughly canvassed.
Secretary Root took a step long con-
tempiated in the administration Of the
Philippines by directing the creation of
an entirely new military division, to be
known as the division of the Pacific,
embracing all of the Philippine archi-
pelago. The division, in turn, is to be
divided into four military departments,
as follows: The department of northern
Luzon, commanded by General Mac
Arthur; the department of southern
Luzon, commanded by General Bates;
the department of the Viscayas, com
manded by General Hughes, and the
department OF Mindanao and JOlo, com
manded by General KObbe Major Gen
eral Otis will retain the supreme com
mand over these departments as division
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