The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-02-22

lke nend tnen returned TO the hOnsp
and and slew Mrs. Bourgeois and two
0ables. Two boys visiting the family
escaped. They brought q mob and
jackson was lynched before the sheriff
arrived. -
Inc executors of the will of C. P
dduntlngton paid to New York stat,
$ooI 200, that being the amount they
estimate as due to the state as an in
nerltance tax on the property left by
Mr.. Huntington.
Monday, February 1S.
-Four firemen and one citizen wnre
Killed by the falling wall of Il burnino
building at New Haven, Conn. Jackson
Tenn, had a 100000 fire. the Pvthiar
opera house Second National Bank and
Southern express buildings burning. The
Union Railroad Company's barns and
~ trolley cars burned at Elmwood
Il l. Loss, $162,OOO.
Judge Hazen, before whom Mrs. Ma.
ton came at Topeka for forciblv enter
ing cold storage plant, refuses to
admit her to bond unless she promises
to return home aud behave herself. This
she refuses 70 do. The Judge placed Cal
Mcdonald, Ross Crist and Miss Madeline
SOuthard under peace bonds, delivering
scathing address to the three Nation
leaders. He expressed the opinion that
Mrs. Nation was insane, and said that
those who encouraged her methods
ought to be ashamed of themselves.
The warrants Tor the arrest of the three
were sworn out by William MOeser, He
has also begun suits for malicious tres
pass against Mrs. Nation, Mrs. Crist,
Miss SOuthard, Cal Mcdonald, Frank
Murphy, DR.. Eva Harding, Mrs. A. B.
Chadwick and Rev. F. W. Emerson.
Somewhat of a sensation was produced
IN the saloon wreckers' camp when it
became known that three Of their mem
bers bad been put under bonds and
Others were to be sued. Interesting de-
velOpments are looked for.
A class OF 73 took their graduating
exercises from West Point and will at
once be assigned to the army,
Chas. E. Bent mortally shot his wife
and suicided at st. Louis. They were
young and separated.
Heavy storms are reported from
Alaska.
General Macarthur has informed the
var department that the transports
HanCUCk nnd Fitzpatrick left Manila YES
terday for the United States. The Han
cock has the Thirtieth volunteer in
fantry on board and the Kilpatrick
carries 400 sick soldiers.
Tuesday, February 10.
Five hundred homeseekers left st.
Paul for the west, nearly all for Wash
ingtOn. They came from a radius of
800 miles of st. Paul Iowa, Wisconsin
and South Dakota contributing the
greatest number
At Winfield, Kansas, this morning,
joint was smashed by 30 men and
women with axes. A friend of the Joint
ist tried to protect the property with
shotgun. A raider named GOrrilI, in
trying to get possession of the gun, was
struck on the head with it and seriously
injured.
All of the big silk thread manufactur-
ing concerns in the United States are to
be consolidated. The money is to be
furnished by the Coates Thread COM
pany, an English corporation, 1t will,
it is said, be q cash transaction, and the
capitalization will be $12, 100000.
James Callahan, close friend of the
badly wanted Pat Grove, was arrested
at Omaha and positively identified by
Edward Cudahy, the kidnapped boy, as
the man who first approached him on
the street the day of his abduction.
February wheat at Chicago, 734; May,
75%. Portland, cash, 5512; Tacoma, 55;
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