The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-21
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, September12

Conditions at Galveston are fully as
bad as reported. Communication with
tne mainland has been re-established and
transportation OF supplies is less diff
cult. During the day the contributions
nave larry deluged the governor, more
than SlOO,OOO having been received.
Among the large contributors are to be
noted the Standard Oil company of $1O,-
OOO, the st. Louis Commercial club for a
IKE amount, and the Huntington inter-
ests for $4,000. Three thousand corpses
have already been buried and there are
25,OOO helpless to feed.
Governor Roosevelt spoke at Brook
lngs and Chamberlain, South Dakota. to
large crowds.
After long and hard struggle fusion
was ef1ected in way in Colorado.
The sheriff and police were called into
the Arizona territorial convention to
queli factional and personal fight.
shipping on Lake Erie was roughly
handled by big windstOrm. The blow
at Buffalo was terrific, y miles an hour
The one hundred and twenty-third an
nlversary of the battle of Brandvwine
was celebrated on the battlefield, where.
on September II, 1777, for the first
time the continental army carried the
stars and stripes into battle, it having
been adopted as the national flag by
congress few months before.
Thursday, September 13.
There were over 1000 present at the national
reunion of Mexican veterans. at Cincinnati
The ages of the members of the Mexican di
vision IN the parade averaged over 20 wears,
Dom Paul Kruger has left his country and
IS at Lorenzo Marquee. He is going to
Europe.
From all parts of the United States and
some portions of England many thousands of
dollars are pouring in for the relief of Texas
destitute storm sufferers. Train loads of pro-
Visions and clothing are also hurrying toward
Houston and Galveston. Estimates of the
number of dead still vary, Mayor Jones of
Galveston maintaining his opinion that the
number will be no less than 5000. Propertv
losses are mounting higher as details arrive,
and some estimates of the city of Galveston
reach as high as 500 600 00O
The people of Fort Wayne. Indiana. dedi-
Gated to the memory of General Henry w.
Lawton monument crowned by a cannon
captured by him and christened the principal
city park in honor of Lawton.
Friday, September IA.
Ohio democrats opened their campaign with
Bryan speech at Columbus.
Idaho democrats and populists effected
partial fusion. The democratic committee
filed designations Of its candidates for acn
gFess, auditor and mine inspector and popu-
lists were named in their places. Three popu-
list candidates refuse to Withdraw.
The negotiations which have been under
way for some days at New York for the plac-
ing of German loan in the United States
have been concluded. They cover purchase
by kuhn, Loeb y Co. and the National City
bank Of 50 OOO,CCJ marks per cent treasury
notes of the German empire.
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard died
from apoplexy at Rome, n. Y. He was in
command of the North Atlantic station at
opening of the Spanish war.
Saturday, September 15.
Bryan spoke at st. Louis to an estimated
crowd of 5000 people. Roosevelt had a mag
nlhcent reception at Bismarck, North De-
kota. ~
The DOwneyville stage was held up near
Niger Tent, Calf, and w. f. Eachbacher,
editor OF Downeyville paper, was robbed of
$50.
At Des Moines, Iowa, the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen adopted resolutions de-
nounclng the governor of Idaho for maintain
ing martial law In the Occur d'Alene district,
the government for using government troops
and congress tor making testimony taken at
the investigation by the house committee last
winter.
Sunday, September 10.
Governor Roosevelt made public his letter
accepting the republican nomination for the
vice presidency.
The Merchants and Planters Oil mill. one
OF the largest manufacturing and refining con-
Germs in Texas, burned at Houston. Loss.
SAC D. 600. half insured
Cotton is again liking" in the export record
of the United States. Dollar wheat in 1898
brought the expectation of breadstuffs far
above that of cotton, but 10 cent cotton in
100 brings that agricultural product again into
hrst place in the record of exports by single
articles. The seven months ending with July,
1900, showed an exl 'rtston of cotton amount
ing to Sl42,576, ,097, while of breadstuffs the
total expectation during the same period was
$l3S, ,3O4, ,520 The average export price of cot
ton in August, 1909, was 9.7c per pound. as
against an average of 56c during the wear
1899, and Csc in 1895, and is higher than the
average of any year since 1891.
Monday, September II.
James Stubblefeld deputy sheriff of Claw