The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-12-28

cAhu lutdDt were un0uTt.
A lone highwayman held up the stage
oetWeen Lakeview and Parsley, Oregon,
and robbed the mails.
+. ii. Morris of Ohio, auditor of thp
war department, was shot and killed at
'he bureau by clerk named Mcdonald
VINO then attempted suicide. but still
ilVes. Mcdonald accused Morris Of he.
ing responsible for his reduction in the
clerkship line, with consequent loss oI
pay.
Burglars dynamited the vault of the
Dalton City, ILL.,, bank and got away
with $4,000 or $4,000. At Manchester.
Tenn, the vaults of the Coffee county
ohnh nh were blownsOpen and $4,000 stolen.
Onlcers captured one, who had all the
money.
Sunday, December 23.
At Mitchell, s. D., n. j. Nelson, treas
uref OF the Workmen's lodge of that city,
was held up by fOOtpads at midnight
last night, bound and gagged, his pock
cts rlt1ed OF $3.50 and left in an aliev to
ireeze. When found by a night watch
| man Nelson's hands and feet were badly
| frozen and he was unconscious.
| 10 shield his mother from abuse and
| himself from beating with a poker. | Z
! ye6r-Old Albert Anderson shot and killed
his father at Chicago. He was arrested
The officials of the Lehigh Coal &
Navigation company are jubilant over
| the TACT that the fire in the celebrated
! burning mine at Summit hill, Pa. which
started ~ years ago, is now under con-
CrOl, and 1t is said that the next two
years Will see it extinguished The fire
mas consumed about 30 acres of the
finest coal land in the anthracite coal
| region.
Every one OF the 800 car and barn
employees OF the Scranton, Pa Railroad
company Obeyed the strike order. which
went into effect at O'Clock this morn.
ing, and as consequence only two cars
were run IN all OF the Lackawanna val
ley; although rain fell a great part of the
Day, the two cars seldom had a passen
ger. The tied up region extends from
dIttstOWn to Forest City, distance of
81 miles, aud includes 50 miles of track
Monday, December "a.
Thirty cars, forming part OF the
United States government exhibit at the
recent Paris exposition, were suddenly
lald under embargo at Havre, the rail
road company declining to surrender
them pending payment OF a claim of
lIIO francs. This extraordinary action.
seriously delaying the departure of the
united States auxiliary cruiser Prairie
rom Havre for New York with the gov
ernment exhibits, was made the subject
sot formal protest to the French gov
fernment by United States Ambassador
Porter. The company bases it's claim
3on demurrage charges on freight in the
cars when the goods were brought to
the exposition for installation.
Ships arriving at Pacific ports still re-
ni'2-+ loo ora los --A-
The British ship Glenl0chy, now in the
harbOr at Tacoma, is 10 establish a
precedent in the expectation OF Pacific
coast wheat. She is to load with 221,-
600 bushels in sacks, and will sail for
Liverpool via the Suez canal, being the
first steam vessel to go from Tacoma to
Europe over that route with wheat
There is a difference in favor of the Cape
Horn route of 1900 miles, but the price
OF fuel at the coaling ports in South
America is 80 much higher that it is be
lleved it will be economy to steam the
additional 1900 miles.
w. F. Meyer, banker and republican
state senator-tlect at Red Lodge, Mon
tana, was arrested upon warrant for
assault in the third degree. Miss Dora
Fullerton accuses him of an attempt to
forcibly kiss her
Jessie Morrison, who murdered Mrs
DIN Castle with d razor at EldOradO,
Kansas, and in whose case the jury dis
agreed was released on $4,000 bonds.
The monthly statement of the collec-
tiOns of internal revenues shows that
during November, 1900, the total re-
ceipts were $25, ,344, ,2S5. an increase as
compared with November of last year of
$S86,S51.
The Southwestern Agricultural works
at Louisville, KY, went under.
Tuesday, December 20.
At Eufala, Indian Territory, John
Tiger, a fullblOOded Indian, ferryman
on the Arkansas river, two miles south
of Eufala, went to Eufala with his wife
this afternoon aud while intoxicated met
l.. b. Roper and threatened to kill him
Roper Immediately struck the Indian
with a board, no words passing between
them. Tiger went to his buggy, got a
| Winchester and came back TO kill Roper,
| but failed to find him on his return. En-
ragged he proceeded to shoot at every
one he saw, killing four men and a boy.
| He was captured.
| At Great Falls, Mont, James Werten
shot and fatally wounded his son. Wer-
ten treated his wife badly and the son
| iDterfered to protect the mother. The
| father drew revolver and fired a bullet
| into the boys neck. The son is paral-
yzed and will die. Werten surrendered
| A race war is on at Cementville, Ind,
and serious trouble is expected at any
moment. The negroes are all armed and
| the whites are keeping within doors to
avoid them. The outbreak began when
Lee Ranger and John Redmond, negroes,
| both drunk, started in to intimidate
whites. When,ther insults were resented
other negroes jumped in.
| In trying to collect a bill for saving
the life of cowboy named Hamm at
| Ponca City, o. T., DR.. Hawkins was
killed by Hamm dancing on his stomach.
An attempt to blow up a hotel at
| Alva, 0. t., was made by placing a
wagon thimble loaded with dynamite
under a corner. The veranda was blown
$50 feet high. No one was injured
Joseph Elliott is under arrest.
The Oregon & Oriental Co. will place a
line Of direct steamers from Portland to
Manila in February.