The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-15
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, March g

POrtla Knight, an Oregon actress,
oorn at Salem, sued the Duke of Man
chester Tor breach of promise. The duke
was recently married to Miss thinner
man, Cincinnati heiress.
There is much suffering at Lancaster.
ONO, as result of failing natural gas
supply, and factories and schools have
been forced to close and the Lancaster
traction company is unable to run it's
cars owing to the lack of gas for fuel.
The burial place Of General Nathaniel
Green OF revolutionary fame, lost for
over 100 years, has been found near
Savannah, Georgia.
Mrs Carrie Nation was found guilty
by Barber county, Kansas, Jury of
slandering County Attorney Griffin of
Medicine Lodge in speech in which she
accused him of receiving S. a month
from each of the saloons of KiOWa to
keep him from prosecuting. Mrs. Nation
was fined S1 and appealed to the su-
preme court. Rev. Z. f. EmmersOn,
arrested for taking part in the raid on
the curtis Joint two weeks ago, was in
the police court on the charge of carry
ing concealed weapons and resisting an
officer. Mr.. Emerson pleaded guilty on
the charge of carrying concealed
weapons and the other charge was with
drawn. He was fined IS.
Thursday, March Z.
Paris Gibson of Great Falls was
elected United States Senator from Mon
tana for the short term
Ernest j. Wolter, merchant of
Schuyler, Neb., has been arrested for
threatening United States Senator
kearns and wife Of Utah with death un-
less they sent him $500 to a postoffice
box named.
A statement prepared at the bureau
OF statistics shows that during the last
year the export value of American goods
exported to Russia not affected by the
recent decree OF the Russian government
IN retaliation for the cOuntervailing
duties imposed by this government on
Russian sugar was STOPS, ,07O, while
that affected amounted to $2,S72 ,429.
Secretary Long made a distribution
among the shipbuiders of the vessels re-
Gently contracted for. OF the battle
chips Newport News gets No. 13, the
Virginia; Moran Bros, of Seattle, No.
IA, the Nebraska; Bath Iron Works. No.
5, the Georgia; Fore River Works, Nos.
l6 and II, respectively the New Jersey
and Rhode Island.
Friday, March 8.
The contract for the building of the
battleship Nebraska at Seattle was
signed at Washington.
With bullets from two revolvers iving
about him the young son of VIM. Nc
Laughlin, millionaire coffee dealer of
Chicago, stood on the front porch and
wounded and almost captured one of
three burglars who had entered the
house.
Two highwaymen entered the village
OF Olpe, Kansas, and held up a dozen
people. They made a rich haul out OF
stores.
The adjutant generals Office reports
satisfactory progress in the recruitment
OF the five new infantry regiments
authorized by congress. In addition to
the recruits recently assigned to the
Twenty eighth infantry there are now
nearly 600 unassigned infantry recruits
at the PresidiO at San Francisco. Both
battaliOns of the Tenth infantry, now
under orders for service in the Philip
pines, have been filled to the maximum
OF 105 men to each company.
j. F. Cook of Omaha, agent for the
British government, is buying horses in
Oregon. He has already purchased 200
and expects to take 500 more from the
state.
Saturday, March q