The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-04-26
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 II.

wednesday, April II.
Deputy Sheriff Hicks OF Gem, Idaho
10 the COeur d'Alenes, was told that ht
was being hunted by dynamiters with 6
rope. He armed himself with a rife and
went cunning for his enemies, but they
all hid away.
It Is considered now that the govern
ments OF Denmark and the United States
are nearer than ever before to bargain
Tor sale of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
The Union from works of San Fran
cisco signed a contract with the nayy
department to build the protectef
cruiser Milwaukee, % knots speed. 70,
S2,o2o, 900, to be completed in threa
years.
The United States Treasury report
shows that the governments aggregate
gold holdings for the first time in his-
tory have passed the half billion dollar
mark. The actual total was $5OO.278,-
oO6, OF which $252.O78, 959 was held
against certificates in the hands of the
outside public, and $15O,0OO,OOO as a
reserve against outstanding United
states notes, the balance being free as
sets. This is the largest amount of gold
now held by any single financial institu-
ton in the world, and it is the largest
ever held by any institution, with one
eXception-the Imperial bank of Russia
which in February, 1898, raised it's
total holdings to $59O3OO,OOO. At
present, however, the Russian bank
holds only $371, 100000. France is
IN second place, with $472,271, 900.
Thomas j. Ward, vice president of the
First National Bank of Lemars. Iowa,
is self confessed embezzler of $50, 900
and has fled. The bank is closed.
Al Davidson of White Sulphur Springs,
Montana, went cunning for another
man, but was persuaded by his wife to
deslst. He killed himself instead.
Thursday, April 1S.
Thirty-third and Thirty fourth volun-
teer regiments we're mustered out of
service at San Francisco.
Andrew Miller, a wealthy farmer near
Minerva, Ohio, was shot from anbpsh
and killed. His farm adioins that of
President Mckinley.
There will be no strike in the plants Of
the American Sheet Steel company. The
trouble that broke out in the Devices
Wood plant in McKeesport last week
which Tor time threatened to ceuse q
general strike Of all union iron and steel
"oFKhrR IN the cnnntrp- h~~ Lou.4 9uouICs1
IN an amicable manner.
Two engines, with their crews. buck
ing snow between Ward and Boulder.
colorado, were struck by huge snow
slide and buried in a canyon
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana
were swept by a violent wind and rain
storm.
General Macarthur cables the war de-
partment that the reported frauds in
the cOmmlssary departments have been
grossly exaggerated by the press reports.
The itinerary of the presidents tour
to the Pacific coast is now complete and
no further appeals for changes in route
or stops will be considered.
Friday, April 10.
Twenty ninth and Thirty-second vol
unteer regiments arrived at San Fran
cisco from the Philippines.
In a row among partners in a mining
claim at Marysville, Montana, Charles
Gels was shot in the back by Matthew
Hager and will probably die. Hager ac-
cused Gels and two other pal thers in
the Bell Boy mine of trying to freeze him
| out because they wanted him to sell and
he refused.
FINAL arrangements we're made at the
Russell house for the building of a steel
and iron plant at Sault Ste Marie
| Canadian side), which will employ TO-
| 900 men and be capitalized at $5O,OOO,-
600. The plant will be operated
in connection with the great power
canal being constructed at the
Canadian 500 by Fl. F. Clergue
and his associates of the 500 Power
corporation. The financing of the
project is in the hands of A. R.
| Harvey of Liverpool, who has enlisted
American, English and Canadian capital
| of the desired amount.
| Favorable crop reports, heavy bank
clearings, record breaking railroad earn
ings, large distribution of spring and
summer goods and easy collections give
TIE business situation an encouraging
aspect. Wall street speculation does
not yet discount any approaching reac-
tiOn in commercial lines, and the money
market seems to have turned the corner
at least for the present.
At Chicago a rather brisk trade was
enjoyed by the wheat market during the
first hour largely because the news was
any thing but clearly indicative one way
or the other. Argentine shipments, ac-
cording to the board OF trade cable, we're
much less than they were a year ago,
but Liverpool completely ignored the
figures and registered decline.
Saturday, April 20.
Frank W. Merrill, former public ad.
ministrator OF Cascade county, Montana,
is accused Of being $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Pittsburg, Pa, is the center of wide.
spread and disastrous storm. For a
radius of $50 miles in western Pennsyl-
vania and eastern Ohio and northern
West Virginia rain or snow has been
falling almost without intermission for
three days. Mountain streams have be
come torrents, creeks are swollen and
out of their banks, and the big rivers
are oceans of turbulent water. Flood
records, it is expected, will be broken be
fore the water subsidies. The fnancia
loss cen not be estimated. In addition
to the hundreds of thousands and per
haps OF millions of dollars it will cost tc
put large manufacturing plants in com
mission again, tens of thousands o
skilled wOrkmen are thrown out of EN-
plOyment and lose their wages lust q
a time when all the iron and steel mill