The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-04-12
NEWS OF 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, April 3.


City council at Fargo, North Dakota,
formally accepted a donation OF 500
OOO from Andrew Carnegie for library
The biennial report of the Seventh
Day Adventists shows a membership for
the world of rs, 763.
General Macarthur cables that the
number of sick in the Philippines is 1888
IN hospitals and 90S IN quarters, the
percentage being $50.
City Marshal McBeth of Gillette. Colo
RADIO, ran up against two masked hold
up men who were retreating from a sa-
loon. He killed one and wounded the
other.
Thursday, April 4.
Mrs. Ella Zeiglin and Mrs. Daugbson.
living near Newkirk, Oklahoma, fought
duel with revolvers and Mrs. Zeiglin is
now in a hospital, dangerously but not
necessarily fatally wounded. Two of
her opponents shots lodged in her
breast, but she is able to talk volubIy
and is anxious to recover that she NAV
again fight Mrs. Daughson. The duel
grew out OF long standing feud be-
tween the women, jealousy being the
original cause.
This was a day of violent excitement
on Wall street, New York. Millions were
tossed in stocks without concern, mostly
in railroad stocks.
At Lisbon, Ohio, L. p. Metzger, city
solicitor OF Salem, was convicted of NAL
feasance in office and sentenced to re-
mOval. The specific charges against him
were travelling to New York on q pass
and charging railroad fare to his ex-
pense account with the city, and accept
ing fee of $1,000 in railroad deal in
lmlcal to the interests of the city.
Friday, April
Chicken tamales and caaned pigs feet
are to be added to the menu for the SOL
diers in the Philippines.
Harley Lamb, II years old, cut the
throat of Walter Correll, aged %, in a
fight at OdOn, Indiana. Correll is dead
and Lamb under arrest.
Saturday, April 6.
The sixth gusher oil we'll was struck at
Beaumont, Texas, at depth of 1O4O
feet. 1t is the best of all.
Harrison, democrat, was elected nav
or OF Chicago with plurality of 23,-
343. 1t is his third term.
1t is said a movement is on foot in
the United States looking to the con-
soIdatiOn OF all the great packing in
terests of Chicago, Omaha and Kanras
City. Cudahy says he knows nothing OF it.
Twenty-Five cars of grain were de-
strOyed in a warehouse fire at Wichita,
Kansas.
Sunday, April z.
John Warne, a railroad watchman
aged II, at Butte, Montana, is under
arrest for the murder of Evelyn Blewett,
aged 8, whom he enticed to his room.
The girls skull was crushed and the
house burned
The officials of the agricultural de-
partment are watching closely all re-
ports from abroad regarding the extent
OF the foot and mouth disease, a fatal
malady that is raging among live stock
IN almost every country throughout
Europe. For the last three years the
outbreak has been general on the Euro
pean continent and the recent reports
from various foreign ports do not indi-
cate any dimunitiOn in it's extent.
Monday, April 8
Frank Burt was appointed chief of po-
lice at Wichita. Kansas. He is the
original joint smasher, although a
friend of the "wide open" policy. Under
the regulation system, five years ago,
when he was chief, he took an ak one
night and smashed $4,000 worth of fix
lures in saloon that tried to run with
out permission of the mayor and
council.
Former Governor Powers, republican,
was chosen to succeed Congressman
Boutelle in the Fourth Maine district at
special election, by 1000 over Thos.
White, democrat.
Ten new cases of smallpox we're re-
ported at Kansas City.
Many cattle died on the ranges about
Chadron, Nebraska, in the blizzard of a
few days ago.