The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-01
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, February 20

Wednesday, February 20
A copy of the new charter of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Company, with it's
capital stock placed at $500, 900,
was taken to the office of the county
clerk IN Jersey City this afternoon. The
leW list of officers shows John W. Gates
still at the head
The senatorial deadlock in Montana
continues. The bill providing that all
executions take place at the state peni-
| tentlary instead of county seats passed
the house committee of the whole. All
| sheriffs favor it.
During the discussion in the house on
the question of hazing, Mr.. Hepburn OF
| Iowa created a sensation by declaring
| that the large number of deserters from
| the army and the lack of men in the
navy were due to the fact that Ameri-
can citizens refuse to serve under men
''schooled in tyranny and oppression"
Mr.. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts offers
an amendment to appropriate $4,000
for the entertainment of President
Kruger upon the occasion of his visit to
this country.
Thursday, February 21.
The jury in the second trial of DR..
Kennedy, under Indictment at New York
for the murder of Dolly Reynolds, dis
agreed and the accused is again in the
TOOmbs.
The police situation in New York
reached a climax when Colonel Michael
c. Murphy, president of the board OF
health, walked into the Office of Chief
Devery and announced that he had been
appointed chief commissioner of police.
Chief Devery made a written protest to
Mr. Murphy, declaring that the law
under which he was removed was. void.
Steve Wells, better known as missouri
Steve" proprietor of a faro game. was
shot and instantly killed shortly before
midnight in his place in Park alley,
Butte, Montana. Jack Cox and John
StaytOn, the only two men known to
have been in the place at the time of the
shooting, say it was a hOldup on the
part OF two men.
Minister WI Ting Fang addressed
large audience at Cleveland composed of
Western Reserve University students
and their friends. Mr.. Wu's subject was
washington and Education"
Pat Grove, the alleged Omaha kid
naper, has been heard from. In a letter
to Mr.. Cudaby he maintains that he had
nothing to do with the kidnapping,
but kept away from Omaha because he
feared the hot tempered people would
lynch him.
An Erie and Pittsburg freight train
ran into a crowd of men on their way to
work. Five men were killed outright,
being cut to pieces.
Friday, February %.
A bill has been introduced in the
United States senate to prevent miners
from locating for other people. The bill
also authorizes the purchase from the
government of land believed to contain
oil at the price OF $3.50 per acre.
Haden's opera house at Columbia,
Mo. was destroyed by fire. The fire was
caused by a defective furnace and start
ed while a matinee performance was in
progress. The audience was largely
composed of children, but all escaped
injury. Loss, $6O,OOO insurance,
$40,
Announcement is made by the Trades
League OF Philadelphia that new line
OF American steamers will ply from that
port to Manchester, England.
John Daily, lord mayor of Limerick,
Ireland, arrived in Chicago to attend the
Emmett day celebration on March 2.
Speaking Of the Irish members of paria-
ment, he said "Some of them had
better be fighting with the Beers. am
parliament will not do their country anv
nnn6 ho
Africa will last until the English are all
driven from the country"
General Dudley, U, S. A, retired, an
old Indian fighter, is dangerously ill.
The State Epworth League of Mar
ietta, Wis, adopted resolutions in
dorsing the work OF Mrs. Carrie Nation.
DR.. g. H. Farman, a dentist of the
Napa, Cal, Antisaloon league, emulated
Mrs. Nation by smashing some of the
| fixtures in local saloon. The doctor
was arrested.
Saturday, February 23.
District Attorney Philbin OF New York
states that he has not vet decided
whether Samuel ]. Kennedy would be
put on trial for the third time for the
murder OF Dolly Reynolds. He will be
guided by the weight of evidence brought
| forward.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine OF Chicago has
turned over to the Chicago University
the Chicago Institute of Pedagogy,
which will represent an addition to the
university endowment of nearly ST ,OOO,-
600. The institute was started by her
some time ago by an appropriation of
three quarters of a million dollars and
since that time has made additional
| gifts to it.
Minister Conger at Pekin cables that
he is not a candidate for governor of
Iowa.
Rhode Redmond, a former Omaha
salOOnkeeper, arrested in Kansas City
as suspect in the Cudaby KIDNAPPING
case, was released by Chief of Police
Donahue. Redmond convinced Donahue
that he knew nothing about the case.
A blizzard has prevailed north of
jamestown, n. D., and extended into
Canada for 48 hours. Trains have been
abandoned north of Darlington. Snow
in some places is higher than box cars.
1t is feared ranchmen will lose heavily.
Three persons we're killed and several
injured near Wakaruss, Ind, by a Wa
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