The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-05-04
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains Of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, April 20.

In Chicago labor riot one man wal
killed and six injured.
Only q of 81 Colorado counties were
represented at the populist state con
ventlon. A committee of Is was ap
pointed to name delegates to the BRYAN
convention at Sioux Falls.
Addressing the Sunfower league Of
Wichita, Kansas, Allen 0. Myers, Ohio
democrat, following W. j. Bryan'e
speech, said: The country is fast go
ing 10 destruction, and Mark Hanna
Wm. Mckinley and Great Britain are
driving it." Pointing to Bryan, he
continued: "You may be elected, sir, by
million majority, but they will not
permit you to take the presidential
chaIr. Look at the fate of William Goe-
bel in Kentucky. Men whose pastime is
bribery find in murder an amusement
Ohio was bought in 1896, the country
was bought and it will be bought again
IN 1900, and MarkssHanna's reward for
1t is seat in the United States senate.
The masses of the country would per-
nit the encrOachments of the classes.
until finally too late for a restoration
OF rights by the ballot. Then the sword
and gun, violence, with revolution-a
new order of things"
Thursday, April 20.
Alabama democrats named W. d.
SANFORD for governor.
Engagement Of General Joe Wheeler
and Mrs. Geo. W. Childs of Philadelphia
is reported.
Foreign wheat shipments from Port
land for the week ending today were
137 1873 bushels.
Twenty-Five hundred employees Of the
New York Central railroad at Buffalo
struck for higher wages.
Theodore Roosevelt for president in
1904, was the slogan of the Chicago
Marquette club at banquet.
Chief Joseph Of the Nez Perce Indians
was introduced to the secretary of the
interior by General Miles. Chief JOsepb
asked if his band would be returned to
their old reservation in Oregon. The
secretary stated that the Indian bureau
had made an adverse report on this De-
tltlon, but he would personally investi-
gate the subject.
The house committee on Indian affairs
directed favorable report On the bill
allowing Indians in the Indian Territory
TO emIgrate to Mexico, the emigration
to be under the direction of the secre-
tary OF the interior and in bands of 300.
Mexico gives the Indians an opportunity
to return to their tribal relations and
nomadic habits and they prefer this to
the restrictions now imposed upon them
and also as means of avoiding the
spread OF tuberculosis and other dis
eases which have decimated them of
late.
Friday, April 81.
Gold begins to go abroad, and prices
OF iron products break sharply.
Two men were badly hurt in a Chica-
go labor riot, being hit with bricks.
Shingle mills on the Sound abandoned
the effort to keep up association prices
and they fell II cents thousand.
Lebanon Banking Company at Leb-
anon, Oregon, closed doors owing $4,000.
They say they will pay out with little
time.
The senate voted upon the resolution
declaring Nathan B. Scott to be entitled
to his seat in the senate from West Vir-
glnla. The number Of votes in the mega
tive was only three.
The first detachment of regular troops
that have served two years active ser
vice IN the Philippines to be returned to
this country arrived at San Francisco.
They are the home battalion of the
Fourteenth regiment.
The senate in executive session ratified
the treaty with Spain extending for six
months the time in which Spanish resi-
dents of the Philippines may decide
whether they will remain subjects of
Spain or become citizens of the PhiliD
pines.
Saturday, April %.
Valley of the Brazos river in Texas ia
almost a lake. Damage is immense.
Thirty thousand persons took part in
a socialist May-day parade at New York.
Governor Taylor's appeal was filed in
the supreme court over the Kentucky
office.
M. Prislein beat the worlds record at
broad jump, at Philadelphia, clearing
24sfeet X inches. Former record was
"a feet AZ inches, made by A. C. Kraenz-
lein.
An important decision of the inter
state commerce commission was filed re-
ducing the rail rates on sugar shipments
from California east. The rate to Kear.
ney, Nebraska, was made 60 cents a
ton instead OF 80 cents.
Admiral Dewey says he sees no reason
for hurrying his political statement de-
timing his views; but he says he has an
nounced he is democrat, and the fact
that 1T is known he will be an opponent
of Bryan at the Kansas City convention
should suggest plainly where he stands.
The excess reserve reported by the
New York clearing house banks now
amounts to $1O,074,275, a gain of So
179,9O0 during the week. The per capita
circulation of the United States is now
at the highest point of it's history and
is increasing. AS business is not ex-
pending proportionately there is nothing
strange in the spectacle of a small per-
centage OF idle capital seeking better in
vestment returned elsewhere. 1t will be
useless to predict the volume which the
present export movement will assume, il
indeed, it continues, but since money
commands better terms abroad, and
there is certainly surplus beyond pres
ent needs here, there would be nothing
surprising in a continued movement for
some time to come. But this does not