The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-09-13
NEWS Oh 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, sentember 4.

vi oLHcers 10 take into consideration the
recommendation for brevets and medals
OF honor that have been submitted, COW
erlng the period of military operations
IN the Philippines and to make such
recommendations as shall seem to them
merlted with special reference to the
circumstances in each case.
James Howard and ex-Secretary OF
State Powers, convicted as GOebel MUIR
der cOnspIratOrs, quarreIed in jail at
frankfort, Ky. Howard threw heavy
INK stand at Powers, striking him on
the head. Powers was knocked over
and bled profusely and slight paraly-
SIS OF the left arm and side appeared.
The men quarreled over division of a
sum OF money raised in eastern Ken
tucky for their defense.
Six train robbers held up a Cotton
Belt train near Texarkana, Texas, and
1t is estimated they made haul of $50
600.
Two noted Klondikers, Clarence Berry
and William Stanley, arrived in Seattle
from Dawson. Both men are Eldorado
creek mine owners, and as the result OF
the summers sluicing brought out near
ly 5000 in bank drafts.
Thursday, September 5.
Iowa socialists nominated James Bax.
ter OF Hiteman for governor and W. A.
Jacobs OF Davenport for lieutenant gov
ernOr. Fifteen counties were represented
by Is delegates.
The prevailing opinion at Pittsburg,
Pa, is that the great steel strike is
practically settled, but nothing can be
learned authorativeIy from either side.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $4,000
to Riverside, Cal, for a free public
library.
DR.. Caldas, the Brazilian physician
whose serum for the prevention of yellow
lever tailed to satisfy the United States
military surgeons in Cuba, will soon be
released from Hoffman island, where he
has been In quarantine, and will return
to Brazil to continue his experiments.
The war department has ordered the
Twenty third infantry home from the
Philippines.
Friday, September 6.
The police dispersed q meeting of So
ciallsts at Omaha becauce of the utter
ances of two public speakers who de-
nOunced the administration in unmeas.
ured terms. Two men, George Baird
and G. McCaffrey, were arrested and bus-
tied off to police station on the charge
OF Obstructing q street. Several hun
dred persons were gathered in the crowd
and it was feared for a time that thew
would do violence to the two speakers.
1t required a squad of 10 policemen to
disperse them
James Macarthur was hanged at Deer
Lodge, Mont, for the murder of Can't.
Oliver Boston last February.
Snow fell in Western Montana.
A cloudburst at Gebo, Montana, did
damage of $4,000. Hail fell to a depth
OF a loot IN places and drifted in other
places four or five feet deep. A bebv
was drowned.
Saturday, September Z.
A United States grand jury returned
indictments on two counts against
Pedro Sanchez, census supervisor for
New Mexico, for signing false accounts
and returns, and against his chief clerk
MarinO Sen, for signing fraudulent sc-
counts and vouchers.
Arrangements have been COMPLETED
for the consolidation of the laundry ma
chine manufacturers of the country
under one head, to be called the Ameri-
can Laundry Machine Manufacturing
company, with capital of SIG, 500. 900.
President McKinley's recovery will
mean that his assassin can be confined
IN prison for 10 years, the maximum
penalty under the penal code of New
York state.
No change in the steel strike situation
is reported.
At the telephone request OF Secretary
Cortelyou Thomas A. Edison shipped an
A-ray apparatus to be used to locate
the bullet remaining in President Nc
kinley's body.
An elderly lady dressed in deep mourn
ing threw herself on her knees opposite
the entrance to the Miburn residence.
and with uplifted hands offered up a
silent but fervent prayer that the life of
the president might be spared
Miss Wagernfuehr is supposed to
have swept through the whirlpool rapids
at Niagara in the barrel used by Car
lisle Graham in his trips over the falls
and subsequently met her death in the
attempt. Miss Wagernfuehr in the bar
rel vas set adrift in the rapids. She at
once disappeared from view in the whirl
of waters and the mist.
Sunday, September 8.
In all churches of the nation sermons
were preached touching upon the at
tempted assassination OF the president.
The general tenor of the talks from the
pulpits was that all anarchists must be
driven from the country.
George B. CorteIyou, secretary to the
president, announced that the truth az