The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-01-04
YEARS LOCAL EVENTS
County Happenings Arranged
In Chronological Order.
Dates BY Days of Every Important
Event of the Old Year of
1900.

tant events happening throughout the Palouse
and chroDicled from week to week by The
Gazette. It is index which will prove
valuable to those interested in events:
JANUARY.
l.. NJ. Smith, engineer at Codds sswmilj,
died.
Chas Pierce was fatally injured at Down
ing gulch by falling horse.
| Hogs sold at cents pound, live weight.
| State Senator Carper fell dangerously ILL.,
| 2. Judge Mcdonald directed the prosecu.
| ting attorney to file informations againse
Nessly and Ruble for alleged misdeeds
| while public officers.
| 3. Former Prosecuting Attorney Mathews
| in published statement, disputed the word
OF Judge Mcdonald in his statement against
| Nessly.
| 4. P w. Lawrence won before the supreme
court in suit against j. G. Potter for LAND
near Garfield.
| 5. G. E. Cline made a failure in an attempt
to organize direct legislation league az
| Colfax.
| 6. Treasurer Windus reported the Whitman
| county income for 1899 as $343, 754, 81, and
| total disbursements 1866, 1888 40, with total
| tax delinquencies S37, ,1348S
Wheat sold at SO cents.
| s. Three hundred names for service aa
| jurors were selected by the commissioners
from the tax rolls
9 Whitman County Medical Society met
at Colfax and raised fund of $40 to prose
cute unlicensed doctors.
10. Fred Waymire accidentally shot himself
in tOot at Wilcox
State Senator Carper of Pennington was
sent i'll TO Spokane hospital
II. North Palouse river flooded Poverty fat
at Colfax.
Adsm Stoneberger sold $4,000 bushels of
wheat at 80 cents.
13 Roland Ray, aged IS, died.
Smallpox appeared in the Brownlee and
Bunch families near Palouse
IA. John Weston wanted for burglary at
Johnson, was arrested at Spokane by Sheriff
Canutt.
Is Robert Mills resigned as a member of the
Colfax school board and removed to Los
Angeles
16 Mrs Hannah Inman died at Colfax,
aged 81.
II. Kid lie Bros bought 100000 pounds of
chopped barley at Colfax to feed cattle at
Grand Ronde, Oregon.
Is. Max Miller died. aged 20.
Jack Diamond died suddenly at Hotel
Blnnard
Pork sold at "a. 10 hundred and beef at
$275 to 1925.
Fruit trees reported budding.
Spencer Gragg sold fine farm near Gar
field at $22. so an acre.
19. A midnight assassin made an unsuccess-
full attempt to murder Mrs. Moses Saxon in
her bed at Penawawa creek
70 5. Z. Lyle sold his cigar store to O. Slate I.
Il Co., preparatory to removal to Seattle.
81 Audrey, two-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Stanfeld, fell in a water trough
near Endicott and was drowned
% Old line populists held meeting at Col
fax to organize direct legislation league.
About 10 were present, and all other party
affiliations, it was resolved, would be dis
carded
23 Logging on the upper Palouse at q stand.
still from lack of snow.
"a Government began purchase of many
thousands of tons of hay in Washington and
Oregon for the cavalry animals in the Philip
pines
%. James Jones, aged %. died at Dry creek.
Wheat prices ranged at 80 to 40 cents
throughout the Palouse
20 George Boland murdered near Pampa by
Samuel Clemens, who escaped.
r. Inland telephone Office was removed to
First National Bank annex.
Law firm of Chadwick & Bryant was
dissolved.
rs. Samuel Clemens, murderer of George
Boland reported seen at Sprague, but
officers could get no trace.
29 Weather was warm, barely coating the
streams with ice.
80. Fred Metz received news of his mothers
death at Baltimore, Maryland.
81 Thomas Benton and Effe Mathus
married.
FEBRUARY.
l John G. Andrews was badly hurt at the
Scott place on Union fiat. Dogs frightened
his team.
2. Assessor Siler appointed % field deputies
to take assessment
First blanket OF snow fell over the Pa.
louse country.
4 Wind blew down H. 81. Mobiles barn
near Tekoa, killing one horse.
5. Personal taxes became collectible.
+. George Allen passed forged checks on
Pullman business men.
Z. Agricultural college professors and o. R.
y y. lecturers opened farmers institute at
Tekoa.
8. Second annual poultry show opened at
Colfax with 400 birds.
10. Farmers institute held at Colfax
II. Warden Catron of the Walla Walla peni-
tentlsry set price of grain bags at S.. 80 a
hundred.
II. Horse ridden by Murderer Clemens was
found near Riparia.
Ii. Poultry show of Whitman county was
most successful
IA. Call was issued for republican state con-
vention.
Is. Annual meeting of the Whitman County
Horticultural Association called
16. County Surveyor Murray finds Whitman
county area to be 2116 square miles.
IL. Big wheat steal at Shawnee warehouse
came to light and VIM. Clifford arrested
Is. School money was apportioned to Whit
man county to amount of $19,7S425.
2l No snow to cover the wheat fields
%. DR.. Csrper of Pennington, populist state
senator, died.
"a. George Henry's fine barn burned near
26. John Weston, accused of BURGLARY at
johnson, was acquitted in court
2S. Popullst county convention called for
May II.
MARCH.
l. Spring opened and mud began TO drv.
2. Trustees of Colfax college decided to
continue the school.
4. Fall wheat reported unhurt.
| 8. Weather bureau reports annual Palouse
rainfall at 20 inches in the west and 40 on
| the east side.
| Z. Spring weather.
| s. Colfax republicans organized club.
| February income of county reported by
| treasurer as S6i,79S 09; disbursements.
SIG, $50 49, ~
g. Bryan announced his coming in April.
TO- Stock cattle sold at S18 head.
IL Weather is delightful.
13 Because of trouble among themselves
Colfax college was closed.
IA. Chas Mcdonald escaped from Jail.
10. Repuohcan primaries were held with a
big vote.
16. COntrollinv intsraSt E;rs+ No.:1 D.,