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

Awards made by the state board of
audit and control for the state insttu
tions for the next six months are as fol
lows: One hundred and fifty-six thou
sand pounds of potatoes for the state
penitentiary, at 500 so per ton, Bart
lett Bros, North Yakima; meat for the
| Western Washington hospital for the
insane, $6 SO per 100 pounds of beef
and 400 pounds Of mutton weekly, Con
molly q Chambers, Olympia; 1900
| pounds OF beef and mutton for the sol
! dier's home, at So per 100 pounds, Frye
Bruhn Company of Tacoma; Eastern
creamery butter for Western Washing
ton hospital for the insane, at 25c per
pound, Miller Bros, Tacoma; butter for
soldiers home, 30c a pound, Miller
Bros, of Tacoma; butter for reform
school at 27c per pound, Mrs. Summer
vile, Centralia; 5000 pounds Of Wash
ington creamery butter for school for
d fective youth, at 2Sc per pound, John
B. Agen, Tacoma.
| A sheep dealer in Fremont county,
Idaho, recently disposed of $4,000 sheep.
1t will take 1875 cars to move them.
Henry Anthony fell IS feet from a
railroad bridge near Olympia Friday,
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arose and walked away practically IN
hurt
Donald ". McKpracher, accused of
embeZzling 5000 from the Seattle Ma
tional bank, of which he was paying
teller, was arrested at Seattle Monday
afternoon, by United States officials.
Mckeracher was suspected two months
ago.
| PnG2pnOnrC hn Off npQnnn on
her last trip from Nome, instituted libel
proceedings for damages against her in
the federal court at Seattle, Monday
The aggregate amount asked is $215,-
500. The chief causes alleged for the
suit are that the rudder of the vessel was
in detective condition when she sailed;
that the supply of provisions was in
sufficient and that she carried more than
the allowed number of passengers. Stress
is laid on the allegation that permission
was refused the passengers to be trans
ferred to the steamship Empress of China
made as to the food and water supplied
on the trip. The vessel was bel pless
with a broken rudder in heavy sea for
10 days and carried 400 passengers.
K. l.. Marvin OF Spokane has filed on
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miles northeast of Collins, Idaho, for the
Northern Pacific He also offered to file
on 10, 100 acres more, the latter Offering
being rejected by the local land officials
on the ground that the filing was in con-
fiict with the right of the state under a
letter OF the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office withdrawing certain
lands for the benefit of the state. The
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Rainier scrip and Northern Pacific lieu
land scrip. The lands have just been
cruised by the railroad company.
Fire destroyed the $4,000 plant of
the Spokane & Idaho Lumber Company
at Spokane, Friday. Fully insured.
Davis Levy, a Hebrew miser of Boise,
Idaho, was murdered Friday night in a
room of one of his business blocks, where
he lived alone, presumably for money ,as
he usually collected about $500 about
of about $75, 1000 Twelve years ago
the soles of his feet were burned to a
crisp by tOTturers in an effort to force
him to tell where his money was, but he
would not.
lice Sergeant Sullivan was shot in one
| vs. oub hOO Ouc udu WIS
captured.
Three shoplifters were captured at
Walla Walla Saturday and a large
quantity of stolen goods found in their
possession. Ali were men.
A. A. Mcdaniel, near Pendleton, Ore
gon, has an S0acre potato patch Oh
summer fallowed land and expects to
realize $4,000 from it. He tried it as an
experiment.
In head end collision between freight
trains on the Great Northern near
Wenatchee Monday Sam StaIIcup, fire
man, and H. Dickinson, brakeman, we're
killed. Both engineers and another
brakeman were injured.
A trolley ferry, affording short cut
for the Washtucna country to Walla
Walla and meaning much for the de-
velopment of that district, is TO be con-
structed Immediately across Snake river.