The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-05-17
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, May 8.

summated was announced by the Far
well ranch syndicate of Chicago. The
deal conveys to George W. Littlefeld,
president of the Austin (Texas) Nation
al bank 284, 900 acres of land in Hook
ley and Lamb counties, Texas. 1t will
be used for ranch purposes.
r The president and party had their
first taste of the hospitality of California
The introduction to the land of sun
shine, fruit and flowers as like dream
OF paradise after the three days spent in
the alkali deserts of New Mexico and
Arizona. Los Angeles was the last
stopping place of the day.
; A big oil strike was made near Flor
ence, Colorado. Another gusher was
also struck at Beaumont, Texas.
Thursday, May 8.
R. n. Pollock, the missing president of
a Cleveland, Ohio, bank, which failed,
suicided at Seattle.
A pickpocket in the presidential crowd
at Los Angeles robbed Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson and Col. Chas. A.
Moore of their pocketbooks. The sec
retary's contained $175. The thief was
caught.
American capitalists may be asked by
the Chinese government to subscribe to
the loan it will have to negotiate to pay
!. the indemnity to be exacted by the
powers WI Ting Fang, the Chinese
minister, and New York financiers have
been in communication on this subject.
The communications are entirely un-
official.
Friday, May TO-
President Mckinley and party reached |
San Luis ObispO, Calf. While waiting /!
for the parade the residence of the fire |
chief caught fire. He was told of it and !
said: LET it burn. | will wait and see |
the president. | can build another
house, but [ may never have another |
opportunity to see the president of the |
United States" He remained and the |
house burned to the ground.
Everything is quiet at Jacksonville,
Florida and tile work of rehabilitation
after the great fire is progressing
smoothly.
Chicago banks shipped $40, 900, 900 of
currency to New York last night, as
result OF the fall in stocks.
Saturday, May IL.
At Wichita, Kansas, Mrs. Nick Mark
and her daughter, Mary Mark, the wife
and daughter of a prominent farmer.
took Mary Marks illegitimate child
from a hospital on pretense of taking it |
to their home, and an hour afterward it
was found chOked and buried in the |
sands OF the Arkansas river. Mary |
confessed.
The presidential party arrived at Del |
Monte, Calf. They saw a big whale |
while travelling up the coast.
1t is expected at the war department |
that the hOmeward movement OF the 10 |
volunteer regiments in the Philippines
VIII begin today or tomorrow by the de- |
parture from Manila of the transports |
Hancock, Pennsylvania and BufOrd |
carrying the Thirty-frst, Fortieth and |
Forty first infantry. The remaining |
seven regiments will be forwared by |
other transports between now and the |
Goth.
Attorney General Donovan of Mon |
tana issued an edict to stop all gamb- |
ling in the state.
Samuel Flower, paying teller of the
Hibernia National Bank at New Or
leans is $36, 700 short in his accounts.
Secret service agents of the govern
ment have detected William Davis Will |
IIams, war department clerk, in an at
tempt to sell important papers in the
Neely case to Neely's counsel. He was
discharged.
Pittsburg capitalists purchased g.
600 acres of lands in the oil fields near
Beaumont, Texas, paying more than
$1,250,000.
Sunday, May IL.
horse doctor named Zeigler and
Frank Browner we're fighting at Fair
bury n. j., when a switch engine backed
| nd off 0f Vo; e.
and BrOwner's right hand. ZeigIer died.
At st. Louis the 600 and more en-
plOyes OF the brick and terra Gotta max
ers, who have been on a strike for an ad-
vance in wages, will return to work Mon:
day morning, their demands having been
acceded to. The common laborers will
be paid $1.5O day instead of 81 .35 as
formerly, and all skilled laborers have
been advanced 10 per cent of their for
mer pay.
Famed by a 35-mile wind, fire de-
strOyed lumber yards at Detroit. Mich,
to the extent of $800,0OO.
After few days closing, Omaha sal
oOns and gambling houses opened for
regular business again.
On a farm near Bloomington, ILL.,,
Merritt Chism quarreIed with his wife as
oue was III d DuSSy SGdFIln& TO cnurcn.
He jumped in and repeatedly stabbed
her, then dragged her to the road, con-
tinuing to stab her. The woman's r.
year old son tried to strike Chism with
a ball bat, but he took it away from the
lad and braiDed the woman. The boy
also grabbed the infuriated stepfather's
arm and the knife was drawn through
the little fellows hand, almost severing
the fingers. Chsm was afterward pre-
vented from taking his own life by son,
to whose home he went for the purpose.
/, Nearly the whole business portion of
!. Dumont, Iowa, was destroyed by fire.
u Loss, $4,000.
Monday, May 13
An immense battle is on for control of
the Union Pacific, the fight being retalia-
tory by Morgan against the Hartman
syndicate for the latter's struggle to
- wrest the Northern Pacific from the Hill
: Morgan crowd.
At the monthly meeting of the Meth
odist ministers in Trinity church at
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