The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-29
NEWS OF THR 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 20.

Wednesday, March 20.
Seven trains laden with homeseekers
! lett st. Paul for the west. The four
trains on the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific carried about 1000 pass
engers, aggregating for two days a
movement OF about 2400 persons to-
ward the northwest. Among the home
seekers it was said that there was not a
single foreign born person, the move
ment comprising native born Americans
from the southern, middle and eastern
states. Missouri gave up the largest
| portion OF the settlers bound for North
Dakota, while Michigan, Indiana and
lllnOls sent large contingent for
Washington. Nearly all OF the trains
| from the south and east were held up
by the great storm, and the Missouri
| party came in late after 10 hours delay
IN northern Missouri, where a terrific
| blizzard was encountered which praCti-
cally stalled the trains. But for the
| storm it is thought two additional
trains would have been required to ac-
commodate the Washington homeseek-
| ers.
Jerry Bell, a negro, was found in a
young wOman's room at Terry, Miss.
y
Contracts for furnishing the United
| States army with nearly 100000
| pounds OF meat for use in the Philip
pines we're awarded to Chicago packers
| 1t is said that Andrew Carnegie will
soon give $5,O0O,000 for libraries at
Philadelphia. He has offered AtchisOp.
Kansas, $4,000.
The severe blizzard which has prevail
ed throughout western Wisconsin for
the past 36 hours is the worst seen for
years. All freights have been aban-
dOned and passenger trains are running
with double headers. Country roads
are impossible and numbering opera
tiOns at a standstill. The stave and
heading mills are shut down on account
OF the storm, which is still raging.
At Guthrie, Oklahoma, Miss Pearl
COIleasure was shot at a charavari and
probably fatally wounded.
Thursday, March 21,
There have been 3772 enlistments in
the regular army since the enactment of
the army reorganization law.
II. &. Henderson confessed to the
sheriff at Dallas, Texas, that he was one
OF the Cudahy kidnapers and that Pat
Grove had nothing to do with it,
Though he asked to be taken to Omaha,
where he said the boy would recognize
him, the Omaha police refuse to believe
his story.
Mrs. Lizzie NarramOre, in a fit Of i
sanity, slew her six children, aged from
ten years to ten months, with an ak
and club and dangerously cut her own
throat at Coldbrook, Mass. 1t is thought
che will die. When discovered she was
in the bed on which the bodies of four
of the children were.
Jacob D. Mari killed his three children,
two girls aged 13 and Z and a bov
aged 8 at Clinton, Maine The work was
done with an ak in a maniacal frenzy.
"BulF' Flaherty, a Chicago saloon
keeper, who had bet $500 against jeff
ries and lost, undertook to mani the
champion. Jeffries Rugged him until
two ribs we're broken.
Appraisement of the estate of Benia-
min Harrison places it's value at $780,
900. He left $40, 900 in life insurance.
The Chicago provisions market opened
strong on light hog receipts and higher
prices at the stock yards Nav pork
15d2Oc higher at $17,O7H017.1O. Sell
ing by brokers said to be acting for
Armour, who is popularity believed to be
IN position to control the market,
started realizing by other longs and
May broke on an excited market to
Sl6 ~. Armour was an open buyer OF
ribs IN the meantime, has purchases be-
ing apprOXlmated at 100000 pounds.
This, together with the readiness of the
market to absorb pork at the decline,
caused gradual reaction in May pork
to SIG 40. The close was sc under YES
terday at $1635.
Friday, March %
United States inspectors of hulls and
boilers, who held an investigation, Law
the blame for wreck of the steamer Rio
de Janeiro in the Golden Gate upon
Captain Ward, who went down with his
vessel, and the pilot for attempting to
run in during a heavy fog.
The Twenty-ninth and Thirty. second
regiments left Manila for San Francisco.
At Chicago Armour sold May pork
heavily through brokers and bought
ribs. The close was steady, 35c lower
for May pork, 12H@15c higher for ribs
and 212c lower for lard.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor ordered the deportation of / :
Spanish, who landed at New York March
4, en- route to Boise, Idaho, where thew
were to engage in sheep herding. They
were refused admission on the ground
that they came in violation OF the alien
contract labor law.
Saturday, March %.
Through j. [. Marchands, it's special
agent, the interstate commerce commits
sion is said to have come into possess
sion OF absolute proof that rebates have
been made regularly by railroads on
eastbound shipments of packing house
products from Kansas City and criminal
proceedings for violation of the inter
state commerce act may result. 1t is
alleged that the commission intends to
prosecute for perjury some of the agents
who testified at the Kansas City hear
| ing.
Mrs. Nation has dissolved partnership
with Nick Chiies, the cOlored publisher.
| She will hereafter endeavor to edit and
have printed her paper, The Smasher's g
Mail, without his assistance. The
trouble grew out of the suppression by
Chiles OF an editorial written by Mrs.
Nation scoring District Judge Hazen.
before W HON she has appeared a num-
Der of times. Mrs. Nation saws she has
turned over to him the sum of S247 in
cash, beside what he has collected to
maintain the paper, and she proposes
to have it as she wants it.
A treasury warrant for 100000 was