The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-12-21
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Bolied Down As 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Tuesday, December IL.


! cine sent committee to General Mana.
ger kendrlck to present several matters
OF Importance to the operators. They
'say there Is no irritation and that they
have been we'll treated.
Myron Y. Herrick, president of the
! Society for savings at Cleveland, Ohio,
/ Is being prominently mentioned as a
! successor to Secretary OF the Treasury
! Gage IN case of the latters retirement
from the cabinet.
| The estimate of appropriation bills
/ Tor the government next year is as fol-
lows: Agriculture, $4,669, ,O5O; army,
/ Sll3,Ol9,O ,O44; diplomatic and consular,
SlS97, ,63S; District OF Columbia, $50. :
| 06O, ,IO3; fortifications, $12, 2,461 1913;
Indians, S9,25O,751; legislative, etc,
$50, 800 500; military academy, ST, ,O45,-
100; navy, $S7, ,172, ,430; pensions $l45,-
243,2 ,23O; pOstOffice, $121 ,267, ,349; river
and harbor, S25, 5,130,00O; sundry civil,
S63, BIS, 113; permanent annual appro-
pnations, $124, ,35S, ,22O.
Cornelius AlvOrd, the defaulting teller
OF the First National Bank OF New York
who stole $500, 900, was indicted by the
grand jury on 81 counts
Official vote of North Dakota: Nc
kinley, 35, ,891; Bryan, 20,519; Woolley,
73l; Debs, SIS; Barker, 10.
Recruits are arriving at San Francisco
from various enlistment points at the
rate Of 2oO week.
The senate confirmed the presidents
nominations of Brigadier General Lloyd
Wheaton and Brigadier General A. R.
Chatfee to be major generals.
December wheat at Chicago, 7OA.
Portland, cash, 81; Tacoma, "a.
Wednesday, December
In the wreck of Great Northern pas.
senger train near Brockton, Montana,
three women passengers and a child
were killed.
The Northern Pacific announces that
a reduction OF fares from cents to 3
cents a mile will be made in Montana.
making the rate at the lower figure over
the entire system.
With imposing ceremonies the national
capital TO-DAY celebrated the centennial
ann survey made duf1ing of the seat
o. t. tn. .o. 81 tou5e in Washing
ton. SOFe~nr,o2IP
John Fl. Mccullough paid $47, 500 for
a membership in the New York Stock
exchange.
Santa Fe railroad officials say thev
have plenty Of new men to take the
places OF striking operators.
Thursday, December 13.
The report given out few DAYS ago
by the Associated Press that the trans
port Hancock had arrived at San Fran
cisco with 1900 bodies of soldiers and
sailors was an error The ship ONLY
brought IL bodies and ten of them died
on the way over.
A lone robber held up a train in the
outskirts of New Orleans. The con-
ductor was shot and severely wounded
by the rObber, who stole several regis
tered mail pouches and express packages.
The jury in the trial of Jessie Morri
son, who killed her rival, Mrs. Oin Cas-
tie, with razor at Eldorado, Kansas,
disagreed and was discharged. Nine
were for acquittal and three for man.
slaughter in the fourth degree.
Wheat has grown so rank in Kansas
that farmers are Offering free pasturage
to stock to eat it down.
Friday, December IL
Wind blew so miles an hour at San
Francisco and along the coast. accom-
panied by thunder and lightning, hail
and rain, Much damage was caused in
many sections of the city.
Commencing January l the Calumet
\ Hecla Mining company of Michigan,
will increase the wages of it's 1000 en-
plOyes 1-2 per cent. Last March the
company raised the mems wages 10 per
cent.
The FredOnia state normal school at
Dunkirk, n. Y, burned and six young
women perished.
Paddy Ryan, pugilist, died at Albany,
Ny.
Gen. NJ. j. Bulger of Birmingham, Ala,
the Oldest confederate officer, died.
Saturday, December 10.
For selling bogus diplomas DR.. James
Armstrong, president of the MetrOpoli-
tan medical college, was given a year in
jail and $500 fine.
Five men disguised as tramps asked
the town marshal at Brighton, ILL.,. to
sleep in the calabOOse. When he accom-
panied them to th e jail the marshal was
seized and locked up. Then they at
tempted to blow up bank, but we're
unsuccessful, but robbed a store of S1OO.
W. B. Coppinger died at Springfield,
ILL.,, from injuries received in a football
game.
Four people are dead and several
Others in a dangerous condition from
mysterious poisoning at Marietta, Ohio.
They were taken i'll after dinner.
Sunday, December 10.