The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-11-29

securities company to the last ditch.
| ne oas decided to call an extra session
o. the legislature for the purpose of pro-
Vidlng funds for the legal battle, and
| says mat should the legislature fail to
pro'ioe funds necessary, he will use his
o"n private fortune to carry on the
NJ A: Rogers, formerly a Judge OF the
Colorado supreme court. laid down on a
SUCK or dynamite at Steamboat Springs,
calmly lit cigar and with this fred the
fuse. He was blown to pieces.
Judge Rayner of Maryland, chief coun-
sci LOT Admiral Schley at his investiga-
tloh' refuses to accept fee for his ser
vices.
While duck hunting on Columbia
slough near Portland, Sidney Spread
Doroagh was accidentally shot and
Killed by companion, S. B. Banks.
Inc grand jury of Lincoln county.
New, returned indictments against II of
the leading citizens OF Fay, New, who, 1t
Is alleged. participated in the ''stringing
up OF George Ellis, colored, in an effort
to make him confess the numerous
thefts which had taken place in that
vicinity during the past few weeks. All
OF the men indicted are now in jail, with
the exception of Superintendent Gayford
OF the Horseshoe Mining company, Post
master Defrelse and Il. FL. Cooper, who
were released on bonds of $4,000 each.
Monday, November 20.
A Washington dispatch says Secretary
Gage has received from an unknown Der
son, through the collector of customs at
New York, a conscience contribution
OF SIS,669. At the customs in New
YORK 1T is explained that this came from
ID. 5. Black of New York, whose wife re-
Gently returned from abroad with a val
liable necklace upon which the duty was
not paid when she stepped from the
steamer.
There will be absolutely no change in
the management and operation of the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
railways under the Northern Securities
Company" said Henry White Cannon,
president of the Chase National bank of
New York, who, as a director of the
Great Northern and 0. R. & n. compa-
Mes, Is close in the cOunsels of President
James j. Hill and e. Fl. Hartman of
the Hartman syndicate. Mr.. Cannon.
aside from his railroad affiliations, is
power IN the financial world, being at
the head OF one of the largest banking
institutions OF the country.
David Nation, husband of the nOrtori-
Gus Carrie, began suit for divorce at
their home at Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
Mr.. Nation claims his wife took away his
feather bed, drew 5000 from the bank
and refused to live with him. Mrs. Ma
tion will have her inning tomorrow.
Switchmen on seven railroads center
ing at PitUsburg decided to strike. 1t
will involve about 700 men. They de-
mand an increase of 2 to cents an hour
in wages.
James Alvord, a New Mexico des-
perGuo, VAS shot and killed while trying
to hold up I. L. Vandeventer, a messen-
ger carrying the payroll money for a
mine. Vandeventer was shot twice, but
escaped.
Tuesday, November 26.
Twentysix men dead and 27 others in
hospitals suffering from all manner of
injuries is the result of the explosion of
boiler in the works of the Pemberthy
Injector Company at Detroit. brick
building of three stories, 54x1OO feet,
was blown up.
Rear Admiral Schley was wildly
cheered by 1000 people upon alighting
from train at Philadelphia.
The annual report of the superintend.
ent of the life saving station for the year
1901 shows the smallest loss of life from
vessels suffering disaster since the gen.
eral extension of the service. The aver
age number of lives lost annually during
the entire period of establishment, 25
years, was 81, one life having been lost
in every l3 casualties, while the number
lost during the past year was II, or one
in every 43 casualties.
Amos Book, aged II, pointed a shot
gun at his friend, Harry Burwell, at
Helena, Montana, and laughingly told
him to hold up his hands. The gun was
loaded and Burwell is dead.
Governor Toole of Montana signifed
his intention of backing up Governor
Van SAINT of Minnesota in his fight
against the Northern Securities Com
pany, seeking to consolidate the inter-
ests of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railroads. Governor Hunt OF
Idaho says he is in sympathy with the
ton is nOn-cOmmittal.
The Alaska winter is reported to be
unusually rough and stormy.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts an
nOunces that he supports the Chinese
exclusion sentiment and intends to sup
port bill for extension of the law now
in force.
Appraisers found the personal proper
ty estate of the late President Mckinley
to be $135. 800, of which $6O,132 10
was life insurance. The real estate was
not appraised, as under the will it goes
to Mrs. Mckinley for life, and at her
death to his family. 1t is believed to be
worth from 100000 to SIS 1000.
November wheat at Chicago, Tx
Portland, cash, So; Tacoma, 57A Col
fax, As.
A Great Statesman's Secret.
The secret, of a celebrated statesman's
long life was his systematic way of eat
ing. Every bite of food was chewed