The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-11-29
NEWS OF THB STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Thursday, November Fl

Thursday, November Fl
W. H. Klusmire was found guilty OF
numbering his wife near Oskaloosa, Kan
sas. She was found buried in the barn
yard. klusmire went to Texas, from
where he wired his children that their
mother had died there. He is a wealthy
farmer.
Col. j. W. Jones, commander of the
Idaho regiment in the Philippines, died
at Boise, aged 81.
A jury at Sioux Falls, S. D., awarded
Mary Garrigan verdict of $500 dam
ages against Samuel Kennedy, a saloon
keeper, for selling liquor to her husband.
Evidence was introduced to show that
Garrigan became intoxicated on liquor
bought of Kennedy, and that he later
committed suicide. Mrs. Garrigan has
similar suits pending against two other
liquor dealers. This is the first cOnvic-
ton under the new license law prohibit
ing the sale of liquor to inebriates.
Letters we're sent out from the Mime
sofa governors Office addressed to the
governors of North Dakota, Montana
Washington, Idaho and Oregon, sug-
gesting cooperation in the fight against
the railroad merger and asking the state
executives to suggest plans for concerted
action. 1t is not likely that there will
be formal meeting for a conference, but
by correspondence plan may be agreed
upon.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Mckinley National Memoir
ial Association, held in Cleveland, the
secretary, RyersOn Ritchie, submitted re-
ports from many states of the Union
showing gratifying progress, and that
the appeal to the people to provide
funds for memorial at Canton is meet
ing with very general and hearty re-
spOnse.
". d. Buchanan Of troop D, Four
teenth cavalry, located at Fort Riley,
kaneas, who killed Policemen White and
Cooper on Tuesday night, committed
suicide in his cell last night by hanging,
having made rope of a towel.
Friday, November %.
A party of eight mine officials, who
entered a mine near Blueield, W. Va, to
learn the cause of recent explosion,
failed to return, and a searching
party found their dead bodies. They
were overcome by gases.
Grover Cleveland was attacked by a
chill after return from a hunting trip.
A Mobile dispatch says: The British
bark BirnamwOod, from Rio Janeiro,
came into port in charge of the mate,
who reported a double tragedy at sea.
On November IS Captain Morris killed
the steward and this morning the cap
tain jumped overheard and was
drowned.
The fatalities at the burning OF the
Union mine at Telluride, Colo
RADIO, is placed at 25.
About3OO homeseekers left st. Paul
for the west, principally Washington.
Fire destroyed Armour & Co.'s pack
ing house at Huntington, W. Va, and a
number of cars loaded with merchandise.
Loss, $4,000.
Saturday, November 28.
Five members OF the Webb City, Kan
sas, Athletic Club, including a banker,
were indicted for swindling at their foot
racing track. They do not deny having
won 5000, 900 in the last 1S months.
The strike of the freight handlers of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad at Harlem river has been de-
clared off. The company will reinstate
all the men that went out so far and as
fast as it can use them, but the new men
will not be discharged to make places
for the strikers.
A Madisonville, KY, dispatch says:
The striking union miners continue de-
tiant and remain under arms in their
camp near the Providence coal mines.
They hold that the order of Judge Hall
is illegal and treat it with contempt.
They maintain that the action of Adiu-
tant General Murray in making the
necessary preparations to enforce Judge
Halls order was unauthoritative. The
strikers are in camp in greater numbers
than before. Notwithstanding that the
time limit of Judge Halls order that
the camp should be disbanded and
moved out of the county expired more
than II hours ago.
The official count shows that demo-
Gratis have maiorities in both branches
of the Maryland legislature.
In.the United States court at Chyenne,
Wyo., A. A. Spaugh, the Meanwhile
cattle man, was found guilty of the
charge of illegally fencing several hun
dred acres of government land in the
vicinity of Mannville. The maximum
penalty is fine of $1,000 or imprison-
ment in the county Jail or both.
Helen Wilman Post, c. c. Post and
Charles Burgman OF Seabreeze, Fla,
were indicted by the grand jury of the
United States for alleged fraudulent use
of the mails in sending letters and
pamphlets advocating their science of
mental healing.
Trading in the corn pit was the heav-
lest in weeks, Notwithstanding it was
Saturday The demand was good all
around, both for cash and options. De-
cember advanced steadily to a firm
close, lie higher at 80 lie. Wheat was
dull and narrow. December opened
1 S@1-4c higher at 70 1-S@72 lac on
better cables than had been expected
and huctuated between those prices un-
til just before the close. Receipts were
liberal, particularly in the northwest.
Late reports stated that the rains in the
southwest had not brought relief from
the drought, but clearances we're light
and the probability of world shipments
to be reported Monday steadied the
market. December closed firm, La
higher at 70 1-4@72 Sc.
Sunday, November "a.
New York City and adjacent waters
suffered from terrific gale, which die
great damage to piers, wharves, boats
and wires.
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