The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-09-05
ALL OVER THB Union
The Important News of a Week
Ill Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interes+
reported from all Sections
OF the Country.
Wednesday, August 81.


inirty thousand Navajo Indians are
saiu TO be In starving condition in
southern Utah, New Mexico and Ari-
1ona, caused by several years of drouth.
many OF these Indians have killed their
iast pony to feed the squaws and pap.
DoOses.
Bill Sewell, an old guide for President
roosevelt on his various hunting trims.
was honored by the president by being
invited to sit upon the platform during
the speech at Bangor, Me, and later to
dine with him and his party.
The spot where General Miles defeated
the Indians of Chief Joseph's band in
Montana in 1877 is to be set aside bv
the government as a national park and
monument is to be erected bv the
government over the graves of the two
ofhcers and 21 soldiers who fell in the
nghC, and whose remains were buried
there.
Grand Duke Boris of Russia, who is
visitor at Buffalo, n. Y. was elected
from the Star theater in that city for an
iniraction of the rules against smoking
IN the lobby. The duke seemed undis,
turbed by the occurrence.
Great excitement exists in the vicinity
OF Red Ash and Beury, w. Va, caused
0y constabes removing the strikers
families from the company houses.
When the officers began to move house
hold goods vOlley of shots was fired at
them from the opposite sids of the river,
The officers returned the fire with rifles.
and about 800 shots we're exchanged
A OF
was hurt.
7. E. Barker, a San Francisco man.
shot Mrs. NJ. j. Moss in her apartments
at the Platter block, and then committed
suicide. Barker was jealous of Mrs.
Moss, to whom he had been paying at
tentiOn.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the
American Bar Association is in session
at Saratoga, N. Y.
Thursday, August 2S.
A wonderful strike has been made in
the Tonopah mines, situated in Nye
county, New. The strike was made at g
depth OF 4SO feet on the Mizpah exten-
sion ledge about mile and a quarter
east OF the original workings. The
Tonopah ledge is now shown to be over
TWO miles long.
President Roosevelt is the guest of
Secretary of State Hay, whose summer
home is situated a few miles from New
hs'ry, n. ii along the shores of Lake
ounapee. Everywhere the president
travels he is met by great crowds.
The state department will begin at
once the distribution of the first Install
ment OF the Chinese indemnity funds,
amounting to $48O,0O0, among the mis-
slonary societies and individuals who
suffered from the Boxer uprising.
The concentration of the Montana Ore
Purchasing company at Butte, was to-
tally destroyed by fire. The loss is
500, 900 and 600 men are thrown out
of employment.
The Chinese minister to the United
States, WI Ting Fang, it is reported
will not be superseded in office at Wash
ingtOn.
bold attempt to murder an entire
family happened at Blackwell, O. T., by
arsenic poison being placed by unknown
parties IN coffee can, and as a result of
drinking the liquid Mrs. Alice Combs and
son, Ernest, are lying near death.
ooeopH "a. LduSuIG vi 1lCtSDurg, IA,
past supreme regent of the Royal Ar
canum, was elected president of the Ma
tional Fraternal Congress in session in
Denver.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., left New York
today in company with H. R. McCuI-
Tough, vice president of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway. He goes west for
a three weeks hunting and fishing trip
as the guest OF Mr.. Mccullough.
Friday, August 20.
President Roosevelt today enjoyed
divergence from the regular routine of
speechmaking and handshaking, and, in