The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-12-20
NEWS Oh 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, December IL.

| Owing to scarcity OF cars to carry
coal from the mines, a coal famine ex-
lists at Philadelphia and cOestwise and
! West Indies commerce is almost COM
pletely crippled. The situation is daily
becoming more serious.
The Omaha Loan & Trust Co., with
large liabilities, has gone into the hands
OF receiver.
Ben Fitzpatrick, the alleged train
rObber arrested in st. Louis after pass
ing Helena National bank bills stolen in
the Great Northern train robbery, has
been identified as one of three men who,
over year ago, held up a bank at
WInnemucca, New, securing at the muz-
zles OF revolvers over $32, $40 cash.
General Funston, who captured
AguinaldO, is en- route home from the
Philippines on sick leave.
1t is cOnservatively estimated that
the MOrmOns have made 5000 CONVEX
| slons IN the mountain counties OF West
| Virginia this year.
AS result of statements made in Il
| recently published interview regarding
| the ability OF the Cubans to govern
| themselves, which have been deemed in
discreet, Lieutenant Commander Lucien
Yonng has been relieved by Secretary
Long OF his present post as captain OF
the port OF Havana.
REGISTRARS to register voters under the
provisions of the new Alabama constitu-
tion have been appointed, which means
the beginning of disfranchisement of ne
grOes IN that state.
Thursday, December IL
Mrs Roosevelt, assisted by the ladies
OF the cabinet, will hold a public recep-
ton for ladies ON Saturday. This will
be the first OF the public receptions bv
the mistress OF the White House since
the Cleveland administration.
Shamrock II, Lipton's cup challenger,
narrowI y escaped being destroyed by
fire at Erie Basin, Brooklyn, where she
is laid up for the winter. One side was
badly scOrched and one of her launches
WaB consumed.
At a meeting held in Chicago, the ex-
ecutive committee of the national cOun-
Gil OF the g. A. R. decided to hold the
next annual encampment at Washing
ton, ID. C., next fall.
Billiards. are raging in Colorado and
the snow fall has been quite heavy. A
woman was frozen to death on the
prairie near Cheyenne. .
Ben Fitzpatrick, the Montana train
robber suspect, was found guilty by a
jury in the United States district court
at st. Louis and sentenced to Is years
imprisonment. Laura Bullion, indicted
Jointly with fitzpatrick, was also found
guilty, but was not sentenced.
Friday, December 13
The convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in session at Scran-
ton, Pa, decided to increase the per
capita tax of national and international
unions from one third to one half of l
per cent per member per month, and
also to raise the per capita tax of fed
eral and local trade unions from 5 to 10
cents month for each member, the in
crease OF cents to go toward the rails
ing OF defense fund for those unions.
Two measures designed to secure the
extraditiOn OF ex-Gov. Taylor of Ken
tucky from Indiana to Kentucky, where
he is wanted in connection with the
GOebel tragedy, have been introduced in
congress.
Zero weather prevails in the middle
west and southwest.
Daniel Colt Gilman of Baltimore was
reelected president of the civil reform
league, in session at Boston.
Saturday, December IA.
The Virginia legislature has taken up
the Schley matter, proposing to go to
congress with it.
Protests against the confirmation of
Attorney General Knox are being filed
because there has not been a prOsecu-
tion OF the trusts by the department of
justice.
Thirteen people were burned in
wreck on the Illinois Central railroad
near Rockford, Ill. A passenger train
collided with freight train carrying oil
and both trains we're burned
The cold wave in the middle west is
spreading over large area, the tenn
perature falling 40 to SO degrees in "a
hours. At several points people have
frozen to death and herds on the plains
are perlshlng. The Mississippi river at
Burlington, Iowa, is frozen over.
Samuel Gompers was reelected presi-
| dent OF the American Federation of
Labor and New Orleans was selected as
the next meeting place. An anti-socialist
plank was adopted.
Senator Hanna has appointed as
members of the national republican COM
mittee ID. W. Standrod of Pocatello,
Idaho, vice George L. Shoup, resigned,
| and Colonel Samuel Parker OF Honolulu,
Hawaii, vice Harold M. Sewall, resigned.
1t is said that President Roosevelt will
not accept the offer of Andrew Carnegie
OF $1O,000,O00 bonds OF the United
Steel corporation for the purpose OF
founding an institution for higher edu-
cation in Washington. The provision
attached to the offer that the govern
ment shall hold the bonds for a term OF
years is considered especially objection
able. The president, however, is very
hopeful that an adjustment can be made
| by which Mr.. Carnegie can convert the
bonds into cash or United States bonds
and that the gift can then be accepted in
that form.
Sunday, December is.
A storm, which for severity and de-
structiveness has not been egualled in
that section for 25 years, visited eastern
and central Pennsylvania last night,
causing almost unprecedented damage
and resulting in the loss of at least four
human lives. The havoc in the coal
regions is enormous and the loss to rail
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