The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-10-11

aL: ouItcC the suppression of an
alchisCc literature and speech in this
country. Mr.. Shattuck said that the
proposed measure would be made as
orasoic as possible and strong effort
"ouiu oe made to secure for it the SUD-
port OF all parties.
j.. u. W. DIckey, with $4,000 worth of
diamonds nht on his person, suicided at a
Chicago hotel.
me oan francisco strike is thorough
y broken and vessels are rapidly leav-
ing the harbOr. Three, grain laden. got
away, and half a dozen are nearly
loaded
Interior points are drawing heavily on
we" 1ork banks for money to move
crops; The shipments for the week
were $9,757, 300.
doyvernor Murphy of Arizona has
issued semi official proclamation call
ing a statehood convention, to convene
at Phoenix October 26.
Sunday, October 9.
Two newspaper reporters. one unem
pioyed, stenographer and barber are
uhder arrest at Philadelphia for abduc.
tion OF woman of the town and rob
ping her OF $4,000 worth of Jewels and
forcing her to sign checks for a large
amount, only $3.50 of which thev had
cashed. They kept her in an abandoned
mouse Tor three days without food or
water. All have confessed. The penalty
Tor kidnapping is life Imprisonment.
Freddy Gebhardt, the one-time hus-
Dand OF Lily Langtry, has applied for
niVorce in South Dakota from a second
wiie, who was formerly Louise Z. Morris
OF Boston.
Z. e. Deforest died at Salt Lake. Had
ne lived ten days longer he would have
come into an inheritance of 100000.
Captain W. C. Andrews and young
bride left Atlantic City, N. j., in IA,
loot boat fOrEurOpe, on a wedding trip.
ihls ls the captain s seventh trip across
the Atlantic in an open boat.
Monday, October z.
Nearly half the money needed co ran
som Miss Ellen NJ Stone, the missionary.
from the Bulgarian brigands has been
placed in the hands Of Kidder, Peabody
d 20. OF Boston. The exact figures at
midnight we're $45, ,5434O cash and
$1,000 in pledges. OF this amount the
firm this afternoon sent $35,OOO to the |
state department to be forwarded to it's |
consular agent at the place where it |
can be used most expedtiOusly. There |
is said to be no doubt that Miss Stone |
was abducted under orders from the |
Macedonian committee.
A new Eldorado is reported near the |
shores OF Good Hope bay, the most |
southern extension of KOtZebue sound |
and is the northern boundary of Seward |
peninsula. The center Of attraction is |
Candle creek, tributary of the Ke- |
Waulik river. This location is almost |
directly north of Nome and to go there |
from the latter place necessitates a voy-
age OF 300 miles around the coast to |
BeTing straits and through into the
Arctic ocean.
Mrs. j. A. Wilmer is under arrest at |
Dayton, Ohio. She is suspected of four
teen murders by poison, including four
husbands, five children, one sister and |
fOur members of different families in |
which she has been employed as house |
keeper. Her sister died a week ago.
Joseph Westwood, an associate of
Brigham Young in the founding of the
Mormon church, member of the first
party that went west to Salt Lake and |
one OF the earliest missionaries in Eng
land, died at Independence, Mo-, in his
Goth year.
The second trial of Former Secretary
OF State Caleb Powers, accused of com
plicity in the assassina ton of Governor
Goebel OF Kentucky, opened.
Tuesday, October 8.
The war department has issued a gen
-. I
of coast artillery, which are needed to
complete the organization of the ar
tillery corps, as provided for by act of
congress.
At Galveston, Texas, there was the |
heaviest rainstorm in history, 14.OS |
inches fell in IL hours.
Gen. Chaffee cabled list of three off |
GERS and 80 non-cOmmissiOned officers |
and privates uf the Ninth infantry killed |
in the fight in Samar, and 8 missing; |
also three who have died from wounds, |
46 in all
Carrie Nation is in jail at Wheeling, |
W. Va, because she will not pay fine |
OF $50, give a peace bond or leave town
She entered saloon here last night, ac- |
compaDied by 400 men and women, but |
the police arrested her before she could |
do anything. She was given the aterna-
tive OF getting out OF town or going to
jail for 80 days. Habeas corpus pro-
ceedings will be brought for her release.
Indianapolis republicans carried the
city by pluralities of 800 to 1900.
October wheat at Chicago, 6815; De-
cember, 7OK Portland, cash, So; Ia
coma, 52a; Colfax, 3714 for club, 80 for
bluestem.