The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-02-15
NEWS Oh 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, February g.


At Topeka, Kansas, Mrs. Nation spent
most OF the day in visiting the different
lalls and praying and talking with the
inmates. The drunken prisoners were
the objects of her special solicitude and
she talked to them all in a motherly
fashion. Some of them sobbed while
she exhOrted them to live a better life.
and many OF them promised in the fu
ture they would not drink any more
liquor
trying out that drugs were agents o
the devil, half dozen women followers
OF Dowie, the faith cure leader, adopted
the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation and
wrecked number of drug stores al
ChlcagO. ln some instances there wert
hand to hand fights with the druggists
NO arrests were made.
AT Savannah, Georgia, the COnfeder-
ate Veterans association passed resolu
tlons against the invitation to President
Mckinley to attend the reunion of con-
federate veterans in Memphis.
At Helena, Montana, Frank Lind
muth died in the hospital of blood
poisoning caused by the bite of a horse
above the eye Is years ago. He neg
lected the wound and it gradually took
away his sight and finally wasted him
away.
Thursday, February 7.
Mrs. Carrie Nation addressed both
houses of the Kansas legislature
on the evils of the saloon
traffic. Among other things she said:
Now, men, | am pleading with you. |
have been forced to do this smashing
business | am going to tell you the
truth. You have been not doing your
duty. A good vote is the best thing in
the world to smash saloons. You re-
fused me the vote and [ had to use
rock. The saloon man." said Mrs. Ma
ton theoretically, sis a malicious
pauper. He thrives off the lifebIoOd of
the men of the nation. Whisky makes
peTjurers. [ would not believe a Joint
keeper on oath, even if it was only about
a dog fight"
Z. NJ. Hale, secretary of the state |
o. 0 F., dropped dead at Tacoma while
taking part in initiatOry ceremonies at
lodge. Several doctors we're summoned
and announced that death was from
heart disease.
Mrs. Nation displayed the white feather
at Topeka, with 80 followers behind her.
She refused to get out and smash Joints.
and several women with hatchets IN
hand told her she was cOwardly.
A railway project is now reported
under way by which the Northern Pacific
and Burlington, which now have a track
age arrangement covering several hun
dred miles OF territory, may be con-
sOlidated, and it has been said that the
Great Northern will be in this tranecon-
tinental combine.
At Auburn, Indiana, Mrs. Tom Creal.
whose husband is foreman in the Balti
more & Ohio shops at Garret, demolished
the handsome new plate glass front OF
Peter Behler's saloon with a hatchet.
She had repeatedly warned Mr.. Behler
not to sell to her husband, who was in
jail at the time.
Mrs. G. BromweIl led 20 women in a
crusade at Clearwater, Kansas. All the
lOlntists purchased immunity by prom
Using to abandon their business, which
they did. But the women now demand
that they give up their billiard and pool
tables also. This they refuse to do and
the women threaten to smash them.
Saturday, February o.
At Manila, Iowa, transfer safe sup
posed to contain $4,000, wac stolen
from an express truck on the depot plat
form.
At Topeka, Kansas, Attorney General
Goddard appointed Judge Bedden as
assistant attorney general for the
county to enforce the prohibition law.
1t is understood that an aggressive
campaign will be started at once.
Senator Mcbride was retired from the
race before the Oregon Legislature, all
Sunday, February 10.
Three men, believed to have been i'm
plicated in the theft at Manila. Iowa, of
a United States Express company safe,
said to contain $4,000, were arrested
at that place this morning. They we're
traced by their tracks in the snow. The
men are John Jackson, John Stovall
and Charles Hayes. All live at Manila
and are well known. Their regulations
heretofore have not been bad. They
stoutly protested their innocence.
lypOgrdpnlcdl union, NO. IL, at BO6-
ton, will call strike in every book and
job printing plant in the city in case
master printers refuse to sign the union
scale immediately. They demand that
women typesetters shall be treated as
''journeymen compositors" and receive
the same wages as men for doing the
same work.
Monday, February IL.
At Boston Representative Mcpherson
OF Framingham was examined by the
house committee, relative to the allega-
tion he made at a hearing last week
that 81 1,OOO,000 had been set aside on
the books of the New England Gas &
Coke company for legislative purposes,
and also that many securities of doubt
full nature had been sold to banks in
the state. Mr.. Mcpherson repeated his
charges, somewhat modified.
The town of Rochester, on the Ohio
river, about 25 miles from Pittsburg
suffered the greatest fire in it's history
The loss is estimated at 81 100000,
At Topeka, Kansas, as result of g
meeting of citizens, all saloons were
closed. The citizens made the perefnp