The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-05-03
NEWS OF THB 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 "a.

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1t is evident that the So foot mark in
| the Ohio river flood, which Cincinnati
business men and manufacturers along
the river front have been preparing for,
will be exceeded by the food
| tomorrow, and losses in consequence
will be much greater than at first looked
| for. At 6 p. N. the stage of the Ohio
river was 81 5 feet.
At Chicago Richard D. Houghtelling
was arrested by Policeman Messenger,
on complaint of two women, who
claimed Houghtelling had been follow
ing them. The man had been taken in
to court and released, and as he was
leaving began shooting at the officer,
who was struck twice, but drew his re-
volver, shot Houghtelling and fell un-
| conscious. Other policemen joined in
the shooting and Houghteling fell with
five bullets in him. Both men will die.
The mosquito fleet of four small ves-
sells arrived at Cavite after a long Jour
ney from the Atlantic coast. They will
patrol the coasts of LuZon.
Samuel Karns and Alise Misner. en-
plOyes of John Frazier, prominent Cas-
cade county, Montana, sheepman, were
burned to death on Six Mile cOulee. The
bodies OF the men were found under the
dirt roof of their cabin. 1t is supposed
the cabin caught fire while the men were
asleep and the roof in falling penned
them inside the blazing walls.
Stephen A. Weltmer and Joseph 81.
Kelly OF the Weltmer institute of mag
netic healing at Nevada, Mo, pleaded
guilty to using the mails to defraud.
The institute advertised to heal all dis
eases known to man or woman, giving
more businesslike way fR9u did dfGi such a
done heretofore. They have recently got
two or three outfits from the Ohio oil
district with experienced men in charge
The timber for the derricks and the ma
chinery is already on the ground at Ro-
salia, near which place the first test vel
will be sunk as soon as possible. The
engines are SO-hOrse power and the
machinery is capable of drilling to q
depth of 1000 feet and over.
| 8i~e Do-e.s-ok ITiI.n bape.
ever become candidate again it will be
because it seems necessary for the ad-
Vancement OF the principles to which |
adhere and that does not now seem
probable. | shall, however, continue to
take an interest in politics for several
years yet, if live"
In a row over change at a roadhouse
Is miles south of Billings, Montana, ".
A. Wells, the proprietor, was killed 5v
Seth Dix, a cowboy.
James Leatheman, deputy game
warden OF Wyoming, claims to have dis
covered in the Yellowstone National
Park a waterfall 800 feet high.
The high water mark of the food
passed down the Ohio valley earlier
than was expected. The river became
almost stationary from to 10 O'Clock
at fraction above 5S1 feet, and after
ward at SO 2 feet. The end of the flood
is in sight as far down as Cincinnati. but
is not on the lower river.
At Peru, Indiana, Henry Huffman, a
trainer, was drowned by "Big Charley"
an elephant, while the animal was bath
ing in the river. He first grabbed Huff
man and threw him far out in the
stream. When the man returned the
elephant seized him and held him under
foot beneath the water until dead. Then
the animal stampeded, broke down
fences and rOamed over big field. He
was given apples loaded with strych-
nine, which be ate and died in agony
This was his fourth victim. The ple-
phant was valued at $4,000.
Young Cudahy positively identified
James Callahan, on trial at Omaha, as
one OF his abductOrs, but the prisoner
was acquitted by the jury.
Friday, April 26.
Anaconda, Montana, burglars robbed
Frank Miller's saloon of $1,000. They
carried the safe weighing 800 pounds
out and hauled it away on hand cart
Above and below Cincinnati along the
Ohio river flood stricken people are ask
ing for aid.
For the sixth time Diamond Field
jack Davis has been sentenced to hang
at Albion, Idaho, for the murder of
Cummins and Wilson, sheepherders on
the Cassia county ranges, in 1896.
Five men were buried 10 feet under
ground and 70 feet from the main shaft
of the Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo.
They are still alive, but it will take three
days to reach them.
special from Selgman, Mo, saws a
terrible rain and hail storm visited north
Arkansas. Six trestles and four miles
of track on the st. Louis & North
Arkansas railroad are out.
Thos. E. Ketchum, alias "Black Jack ,"
was hanged at Clayton, N. M, for train
robbery. His head was jerked off.
though the rope broke. He was
heavy man and the drop was seven feet.
Chicago wheat opened for May at
%Q5sc higher at 1890 under a rush of
buying orders occasioned by sharp ad-
vance at Liverpool and the good cash
business done yesterday.
The heaviest rain on record fell around
Topeka Kansas, the precipitation in one
hour being 1.67 inches. Lightning tore
the German Evangelical church and
killed John c. Cooper, a gardener. At
Anthony, so miles south, three inches of
rain fell within two hours, and congested
| the streams.
Saturday, April 27.
One of the last cases argued in the
/ United States supreme court, before the
suspension of the call of the docket
raises the question whether the constitu.
tion of the United States has ever been
properly extended to Alaska, and also
attacks the criminal code of that terri
tory which was enacted by congress in
1899.
Engineer Morris, with Great Northern
engine No 279 left kalspell, Montana,
and ran over and killed a man lVinp Or