The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-08
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS Ii Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, February 27.


Louis Burch and Addie Taylor, love.
lorn couple, suicided by shooting at La
Junta, Col, and we're found dead locked
IN each others arms, pistol between
them.
Il. A. Cudahy, the Omaha packer
whose son was kidnapped to secure a re-
ward of $25, 200, is in receipt of an an
onymOus letter declaring that upon his
assurance that the kidnapers will not be
punished, all but $4,000 of the ransom
would be returned to him.
At Bonner Springs, Kansas. NJ. D.
Beardon, a respected citizen, is under ar
rest for connection with an attempt to
force $1,000 from Frank Warner, cashier
and principal owner of the bank, under
pain OF death to himself and wife. or the
kidnapping of their child. Beardon was
| arrested while making off with a bag OF
slugs supposed to contain money. and
which was left at a point designated in a
threatened letter received by the banker
Twenty-siX lives were lost in the mine
disaster at Diamondville, Wyo. The
bodies have been recovered.
The American Steel Sheet Co. ad-
vanced prices of all guages of sheet steel
81 ton.
At Gryce, Texas. two women with
hatchets, axes and rocks went to the
postOftice and store run by J. J. Gryce.
IN which bitters are sold and taking the
bottles outside, broke them all.
Thursday, February %.
Roslyn Ferrell, who murdered Chas.
Lane, express messenger, in his car near
Marysville, Ohio, and robbed it, was
electrocuted at Columbus He dis
played wonderful nerve.
Some one in party charivaring VIM.
Herrell and bride at Rocky, Oklahoma.
fired shot which passed entirely
through the body of Geo Herrell brother
OF the groom, who was asleep on bed,
killing him instantly.
Rev. F. W. Emerson, pastor of the
First Christian church, and DR.. NJ. R.
Mitchell, were arrested this afternoon on
a state warrant charging them with be-
ing accessories in the smashing of the
Curtis cold storage plant at Topeka
They were at the head of a mob of go
persons.
Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth regi-
ments OF volunteer infantry sailed from
Manila for home on the Logan.
Secretary Gage submitted to the
house reply to the resolution OF in
qulry as to whether our ports or waters
have been used for the expectation OF
horses, mules or other supplies for use
in South Africa. Mr.. Gage says: Our
ports have been used for the exporta-
ton Of horses, mules and other supplies
for use in South Africa Between Oc-
tOber 10, 1899, and January 81, 1901,
horses, mules and other supplies to the
extent OF $26, ,595, 692 went to South
Africa. No steps have been taken to
prevent the lawful expectation of horses.
etc. The number Of horses and mules
shipped from our ports during this per-
iOd was 1862.
VIM. Evarts, attorney general under
President Johnson, died at New York,
aged 80.
Friday, March 1.
After being cut on bail long enough
to edit paper for one day at Peoria.
ILL.,, Mrs. Nation surrendered herself to
the sheriff at Topeka, and went back to
her martyr cell.
AdOlph BietZ, a wealthy eastern man,
killed a woman known as Rose Temple
and himself in a San Francisco lodging
house.
Oil was struck in New Mexico, near the
Texas line, 30 miles from Carlsbad.
1t is reported that the price of window
glass will be advanced 25 per cent for
March and April delivery and that an
other advance will probably be made in
May.
The Nebraska state penitentiary is in
ruins and one convict, George Pfunger,
is dead. Fire which started at midnight
destroyed the entire main building and
the loss probably exceeds 100000. The
building was practically new. The only
building saved was the east wing, occu-
pied by the warden, the chapel and a
small reserve cellrOom.
Saturday, March 2.
Thirty-sixth volunteer infantry, 5O4
men, recruited at Manila from Washing
ton, Idaho and Oregon volunteers, ar
rived at San Francisco. On board was
Editor Rice, ordered depOrted from the
islands.
For killing Chester Stanley, a white
miner, Dewey Smith, a negro, was taken
from the sheriff at Camden, Mo-, and
hung.
Mis-. Henry Wortansky of Secaucus,
n. Y, smashed the saloon of William
Rose in that town, wOunding the pro-
prietOr She was finally arrested and
held in 5000 bail. The reason that she
went on the crusade was that she could
not get her husband to stop frequenting
the place.
Five Thousand letters on the i'll fated