The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-04
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.
Thursday, December 27.


At What Cheer, Iowa, 40 school chill
dren drowned by breaking through ice
so 1t is both reported and denied.
John W. Tinsley murdered his wife al
Los Angeles and suicided.
Northern Pacific operators talk strike
Nearly 1000 men are involved.
The $500 employees OF the Lehigh Val
ley Coal company at the Heidelburp
Dorratio, Prospect and Falkin colleries
went back to work, after being on strike
since last Friday. The men struck be
cause they were not receiving their ma Y
every two weeks. They have beer
assured that the company will hereaftp,
pay wages semi monthly.
Friday, December %.
EX-Secretary of War Alger, in an
article in the North American Review on
the Food of the Army During the Span
ism War, makes bitter attack on Gen.
eral Miles and defends ex-Commissarv
General Eagan.
Secretary Long has purchased for the
United States government another Pa.
citic island, AYERS the Washington cor.
respondent OF the Herald The island is
under the American flag and lies in the
harbOr OF San Luis d'Apra, Guam. It il
proposed TO use it as the site for a coal.
ing station. The price for the island
was $500 in American gold. 1t is 100
acres IN extent, is healthy and, it is be-
leved, will make an admirable site for
the projected station.
Twenty women at LoDgview, Iowa,
raided "blind pig" and poured the
liquor into the streets
The general board of the navy pre-
sided over by Admiral Dewey, has taken
up the question of the transfer of the
United States naval station from Cavite
aud it's permanent fixture on Subig bay.
Saturday, December 20.
Samuel Macdonald, who murdered
Auditor Morris in the war department,
died from self-infiicted wounds.
At st. Louis, members of the mid,
road pOpulist national cOmmitte and
other leaders debated all day over ad-
visibility of forming a combination with
the social democratic and union reform
parties. The tenor of the speeches made
by the committeeman was practically
unanimous in opposition to the plan
and in favor of carrying on the work of
the pOpulist party strictly along it's own
lines.
g. Stacker and his entire family, NOV
ing from Oklahoma, were caught in a
prairie fire near Rogers, Kansas, and
horribly burned.
Sunday, December 30.
Governor Roosevelt spoke at Carnegie
ball, New York, before an audience of
young men that completely filled the
house. 1t was mass meeting arranged
by the 7. NJ. c. A. of the city, but it was
somewhat unique in the fact that the
chief speaker was in way addressing
more than a hundred other audiences
throughout the country. Copies of Gov
ernor ROOsevelt's address had been Sc
cured in advance and sent to associa-
tions throughout the country, and it
was said that the address was read
aloud at more than a hundred other
meetings at the same hour that he ad-
dressed his audience.
S. j. DeFrance, noted forger, was
pardoned from the Michigan prison by
Gov. Pingree.
Sheriff Kennedy, John Dansby, a
United states marshal, and VIM. Kyle
Tell into row over a game of cards at
Asheville, n. C.. They used pistols, and
all are dead.
A heavy blizzard visited Colorado and
Nebraska.
Four men have been killed and 10
wounded in Clay county, KY, fights
within the past two weeks, while two
other Clay county men we're killed and
two wounded in a fight just over Clay
county line during the same period,
making a total of six killed and u
wounded within two weeks. The fac
tons are again becoming hostile and
soldiers may have to be taken there
soon to quell the trouble.
Monday, December 81.
Smallpox broke out at Kansas sol
diers' home at Leavenworth. More than
300 veterans are in danger.
Years wheat shipments from Port
land and the Sound were nearly 26, 000,-
600 bushels.
Henry S. Eastman, the only surviving
member of Commodore Perry's squad
ron that opened the Japanese ports
many years ago, died at Berkeley, Cal.
Colorado coal miners threaten to
strike.