The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-12-27
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.
Wednesday, December 1S.

lt ls announced that President Roose-
Velt will come to the Pacific coast before
the end OF bis term. probably covering
that part OF the trip which President
Mckinley had to abandon because ol
the illness OF Mrs. Mckinley.
The chairman of the house committee
on judiciary introduced bill which pro-
vldes the death penalty for assaults on
the president or other executive officers,
also Tor conspiracies leading to the kill
ing of foreign rulers.
The bill to provide revenue temporari,
ly for the Philippine islands passed the
house. 1t imposes the Dingley rates on
goods entering the islands from the
United States. The duties and taxes
collected are to be expended for the use
and benefit OF the islands.
The navy department has been in
formed by the Union Iron Works Ship.
building company at San Francisco that
the strike which has prevailed at the
yards for over half a year past has
been declared off by a number OF classes
OF Workmen. 1t is expected that those
men who still hold out will soon return
to work.
Owing to temporary depression in
the demand for -four from abroad, Min.
neaDois mills are closing down.
In the st. Louis circuit court Judge
Talty decided that strikes are lawful and
that any number of men may band to-
gether for the purpose of enforcing de-
mand for an increase of wages by leav-
ing the service of their employers.
Thursday, December 10
The training school of the University
OF Utah, at Salt Lake, built within the
past year, is destroyed by fire. Loss,
SSO, 900; insurance, $4,000.
Chicago faces a coal famine, having
only 30 hours supply on hand.
Affairs on the isthmus are approach
ing crisis and the cruiser PHILADELPHIA
is ordered from San Francisco to Pana-
ma with all speed.
William Marconi, OF wireless telegraph
lame, predicts cent a word messages to
Europe, as against 25 cents a word by
cable.
BY unanimous consent of the house OF
representatives, the Nicaragua canal
bill is made a special order for Tuesday,
January Z, and to continue as such un-
til disposed Of
Senator Hanna today introduced a
bill granting pension of $4,000 a wear
to Mrs. Mckinley, wife of the late presi-
dent.
British capitalists have acquired sub
stantlal interests in the Texas oil fields
and will ship large quantities of oil to
Europe in tank steamers, the oil being
carried by pipe line about 20 miles to
Port Arthur. 1t is claimed that the oil
can be carried to Europe at a cheaper
rate than it can be at present shipped to
New York.
A bill was introduced in the senate
today by Senator Mitchell, fixing 50 as
the minimum rate of wages to be paid
to women in the employ of the govern
ment.
Friday, December 20.
The appointment of Breckons of Wyo-
ming to be attorney general of Hawaii
was disappointment to the Washing
ton delegation, who had strongly recon-
mended Ralf Mauffman of Ellensburg.
Charles M. Sweeney of Spokane, who
was expelled from West Point last No
vember for hazing, is in Washington,
endeavoring to secure reinstatement.
A Guthrie, 0. T.. dispatch saws that
every road leading into the new country
is still lined with prospective settlers.
Without food and generally without
money and in country sparsely settled,
they have starved and frozen, in many
cases death resulting among the chill
dren.
Secretary Wilson today stated that
dlscOntinuance OF the microscopic in
spectiOn of meat sent abroad, owing to
lack OF funds for the purpose, would
mean the entire suspension of exports
and lose us the $2O,0OO,OOO worth OF
meats annually sold to Germany. The
secretary has asked congress to make
part OF the appropriation for the com
ing year Immediately available, which
will probably be done.
Lyman S. Gage, secretary of the treas
ury, has notified the president that he
will release the portfolio as soon as a
suitable successor can be found.
W. F. Wakeman, appraiser of mer.
chandise at the port of New York, has
been removed by the president at the
suggestion of Secretary Gage, to whom
Wakeman wrote an offensive letter
George W. Whitehead, late collector O
customs of Porto Rico, will be given the
| place.
The south is experiencing the coldest
weather since 1884.
The bodies of two shepherds, partly
burned, were found today at Cabra
Springs, near Canon Blanco, Santa Fl
county, N. M. 1t is believed the shep
herds were murdered and their flockl
stolen.
Ground was broken today on the sit,
OF the Worlds fair at st. Louis.
Saturday, December 21
Chicago has passed the most seriou
aspect of the coal shortage and is prom
ised fuel Monday.
A seat on the New York stock ex
change sold for SIS, 900, the highes
price ever paid.
All records for December weather il
Mobile. Ala, were broken early thi
morning, when the thermometer regis
tered ! 5 below zero.
A fast freight train on the Louisyill
& Nashville jumped the track ON a tres
tie near Ridgetop, Tenn, and was pre-
cipitated 40 feet into the valley. Th
engineer and two brakemen were killed
The proposed meeting of the govern
ors end attorneys general of northwest
: ern states to discuss plan OF prevent