The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-25
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, January 16

| submitted to arrest and was placed in
his brothers grocery store under guard
| Shotwel's friends blew the house up with
dynamite, killing and wounding several
| people. Bullets also flew, and Susan
Cox was killed on the street. The feudists
gathered from every direction and a
hundred or so on a side are under arms.
The governor was forced to call out the
militia.
A half dozen statesmen want to be
senator from Utah. The list includes 0.
j. Salisbury, Arthur Brown, Thos
kerens, A. L. Thomas, W. S. McCor-
mack and George NJ. Cannon.
Governor Mount of Indiana died from
heart disease the day after leaving Office.
Fred Dubois, silverite and populist,
| elected senator from Idaho, Joined the
democrats in formal speech before the
Idaho Legislature.
Thursday, January II.
Marvin Kuhns, the desperate. who
has terrorized northern Indiana for two
weeks and defed the officers of two
states, was captured last night at Green
hill and is now in Logansport jail.
kuhns and his brother, who were re-
leased from the Columbus prison shortly
after Marvin escaped, we're taken after g.
desperate fight. Before the outlaw was
OverpOwered he shot two men and was
himself shot in the head, but not seri-
ously.
Although the presidents progress to-
ward recovery from his recent attack of
grip has been uninterrupted, it is now
probable that, acting upon the advice
of his physician, the official receptions
announced for the winter, as we'll as the
cabinet dinners, will be Cancelled
Torpedo boat Bailey made 3O.8 knots
an hour on official trial
Battleship Wisconsin was accepted by
the navy department, subject to the
usual three months reservation.
Friday, January IS.
The jury in the case of Walter Nc
Alister, Andrew Campbell and VIM.
Death, charged at Paterson, n. j., with
the murder OF Jennie Bosscheter, a mill
girl, found a verdict of murder in the
second degree.
Gales were general on the Pacific
ocean,
The American board has received q
cable dispatch from COnstantinOple an
nOuncing the death of Rev. Elias Riggs.
January 16, the oldest member of the
missionary board. He was 90 years old
and had been in the service for 50 years.
The Federal Steel companys interests
have bought outright or by options and
proxies practically the entire common
stock issue OF the American Steel & Wire
company. Arrangements have been
made for the underwriting of Federal
Steel bond issue large enough to pay for
the stock, much of it subscribed in Chi
cagO.
Outlaws looted the bank at Bristow.
L. l., and shot the president five times,
mOrtally wounding him.
Prices on all grades of refined sugar
we're reduced 10 points by the American
Sugar Refining Company.
Saturday, January 10.
Seventeen states and territories were
represented at National Woolgrowers'
Association meeting at Salt Lake
Among the subjects discussed were:
Sheep raising in forest reserves; freight
rates; the skirting clause; government
inspection of sheep; leasing of govern
ment lands and the tariff question as
affecting the sheep industry.
John E. Dix, we'll known philan-
thropist, died at New York.
The Marcus Daily estate is estimated
at $20,O00,O0O.
Joseph Shaw, a miner, was found
dead In his cabin at Wolf creek, Mon
tana. He starved to death and had
apparently been dead a month.
Moses E. Clapp OF st. Paul was Sc
lected by republican legislators to sue
ceed the late Senator Davis of Mime
sofa.
Two hundred masked men armed with
guns, stood off the guards and police
and burned the pesthouse at South
Omaha. The building was a small one,
recently purchased by the city as an
emergency hospital for the reception of
smallpox patients. The citizens became
enraged at the location of the building
within the city limits.
More than $4,000 pension claims in
the office OF Milo B. Stevens & Co. at
Washington were destroyed by fire.
Hermann Schrieber, a wealthy St.
Louis banker, was threatened with
ooodpSlpdClOu IL ue uIu not leave SZOUU
at certain spot for the writer.
Sunday, January 20.
The Nebraska legislature is in a dead
lock over the election of senator.
At La Porte, Indiana, J. W. Brill shot
and killed E. E. Weir, a lawyer whom
BrilPs wife consulted about divorce.
A son of N. n. Frazer of Union
Springs, Ala, was kidnapped The father
was notified that if he would place $500
in gold in sack with potatoes and
drive out certain road he would be
met by negro, to whom he was to give
the sack, when his boy would come
home. The instructions we're followed
and the negro met and given the
money, but the boy has failed to appear
At Hamilton, Ohio, Marcus Sauer
afflicted with dropsy. who was revived
after apparent death by injection of 6
salt solution on January IL, is still
alive. He is gaining in vigor and the
acute symptoms of his disease are dis
appearing. He bids fair to live fol
some time.
Monday, January 21.
| Mrs. Carrie Nation went on a seconC