The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-03-01
sunday, February 24

io1 vi Une prohIbltOry law. No
speclhc time was set for the jointists to
close their places, and doubt is expressed
that the citizens will ever adopt hatchets.
". W. WIlmot, whose parents are said
TO De wealthy residents of Tasmania
committed suicide at Portland, Oregon,
by taxing cyanide of potassium. He
had shipped on board the American shin
hennebec bound for Australia. After
asking the captain to release him and
belng refused ne took his life.
A Washington dispatch saws: Our
government has now received assurances
| from nearly all the powers represented
Dy military forces at Pekin of their en-
Tire agreement with the United States
| government as to the inexpediency of
rtsulnlng military operations in China
Whlle the peace negotiations are in pro-
| gress.
The federal authorities are much
worried over the possible attitude of
| Governor Gage of California in case the
! special commission appointed to 90 to
San Francisco and examine conditions
there should report that the plague does
exist in San Francisco The secretary
OF the treasury has wired Governor GAGE
/
ties full charge of the situation and the
stamping out of the disease if it should
he declared to exist.
Newspaper editors throughout Kansas
we're commended at a meeting held in
Kansas City by Kansas and Missouri
negroes Tor their comments on the lynch
ing at Leavenworth in January of
Alexander, the alleged rapist.
The South Africa of Oregon" ia the
name given to that mining district of
Baker county contained in the triangle
lying between the Powder river, Snake
river and the 0. R. & n. railroad track
running from Huntington to North
Powder Large bodies Of both high and
low grade ore are found in every direc-
ton.
The transport SOlace arrived from
Manila with 6 officers and II privates
SICK and wounded. She also brought l3
military prisoners, among whom is
Frederick NJ. Baker, a deserter, who was
captured while serving as an officer in
the Filipino army. He is under sentence
OF life Imprisonment.
DR.. Thomas O'Reilly, for SO years a
prominent physician of St. Louis, and
notable home rule advocate, died sud
denly from grip. DR.. O'Reilly was "A
years old and born in Ireland. One of
his ancestors, Count Alexander O'Reilly,
was the first governor of Louisiana,
under Spanish rule.
Monday, February 20.
The dead body of Maggie Hoel the
young woman who mysteriOuslv disan-
peared Dec. %, and was supposed to
have been kidnapped, was found in the
Arkansas river below Pueblo, Col. The
girls right arm was shattered, and this
TACT, in conjunction with other circum-
stances connected with her disappear
ance, leads to the belief she was mur-
dered.
The date for the execution of Tom
Ketchum, better known as "Black Jack"
who terrOrized the territory of New
Mexico for long time, has been fixed
by the territorial supreme court for
March %. Although accused of several
murders and other felonies, Ketchum
was only tried for the robbery of train
near Folsom, n. NJ, the penalty for
which in that territory is death.
John Yocum, Tim Stevens and John
Regan, employed in the Rose Mine, Butte,
Mont, had the most remarkable escape
from death in the history of mining ac
cidents in the camp. They entered the
bucket to descend the shaft, $50 feet
deep, the bucket was swung clear and
the brakes on the hoisting apparatus re-
fused to work. The men descended at
lightning speed to the bottom. YOcum
had one of his legs broken, and the
Others were cut and bruised.
Mrs. Carrie Nation arrived at Peoria.
ILL.,, from Topeka, Kan, but her arrival
was not attended with a demonstration.
She will remain three days. She will
edit paper and deliver an address. The
rest of her plans are not vet outlined.
The Grand Rapids, Mich, common
council will take steps toward officially
investigating the alleged waterwOrks
deal, which has resulted in the indict-
ment of City Attorney L. K. Salisbury
by the grand jury in Chicago for the al
legged embezzlement OF $4,000. 1t is
said Salisbury is only one OF several
prominent local persons who are in
volved in the matter.
Ida Finklestein, aged 20, a school
teacher, while walking through lonely
strip of woods from the school house
where she taught to the Interurban line,
three miles east of Terre Haute, Ind,
was assaulted and killed by an unknown
negro, who shot her in the back of the
head and cut her throat. Several sus-
poets have been arrested and public
feeling is aroused to a high pitch.
The vote for .. S. senator at Helena,
Mont, stands: Mantle, 26; Frank, "a;
MacGinnis, IS; Cooper, 6; Conrad, 2;
Toole, l; Clements, 1.
Frank H. Hamilton, convicted of
manslaughter in the first degree, was
sentenced to seven years hard labor at
the state penitentiary at Saltwater,
Minn.
Tuesday, February 20
In accordance with caucus decision,
republicans in the Montana legislature
voted for Carter instead of Mantle for
senator. He received %, Frank 26 and
MacGinniss 19, the others of the Sc
present scattering. The object in SPRING
ing Carter again is that the republicans
hope to capture enough fusion votes to
elect him.
The Centennial bank of Ashley, ILL.,,
closed it's doors and there is great ex-
citement among the depositors. No
statement is obtainable. The bank
carried $50, 900 deposits.
On and after April /, says San Fran
cisco dispatch, the price of transporting
hops from all Pacific coast points to
paGtprn markets will no raicod