The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-01-10
NEWS Oh 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. January L

| mIIllOnalre, O1ered 81 100000 for tie
establishment of a French industrial
school in connection with the University
OF Chicago. President Harper promptly
accepted, adding that it was the very
thing desired by the university, and the
prellminaries were settled at once. Six
hundred French students will be sent.
An increase Of from to II per cent
IN the wages of about $4,000 trainmen
will be announced soon by the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad company to take effect
January l. 1t will apply to all the
trainmen on the lines owned by or oper-
| ated by the company. The clerical force
Is not included in the plan.
William j. Work, night clerk at the
st. Paul pOstOffice, is arrested for alb
| stracting money from letters. Inspect
ors had been working on the case for
| three years.
Patrick Sullivan, an old miner at Jen-
nings, Mont, killed his wife with an ak
and pistOl, seriously shot his 6-year
old granddaughter in an arm, hunted
two other children, but failed to find
them, and then suicided. A special train
| carrying physicians to the scene from
kallspell vas wrecked and Engineer
HersOn killed and Fireman Wilcox badly
scalded.
1t is stated that the Burlington road
will begin work January 10 on it's
branch from Billings to Great Falls,
Montana, to connect with the Great
Northern.
Upward of $60,OOO,OOO of the $75,-
100000 of Northern Pacific preferred
stock was received, paid for and can
celled at the head offices at New York.
This did not include that retired abroad
President ROOsevelt's first annual re-
ceptiOn was attended more largely than
any New Years reception in a number of
years. In all 800 persons filed through
the White House and shook hands with
the president.
Five OF the general prisoners at tue
government prison on Alcatraz island
drank wood alcohol and Edward Can
field and Wm. Mitchell are dead. They
were all TRUSTEES.
The San Francisco mint completed a
coinage record breaker. During 1901,
$8l, ,O72, $50 was converted from bullion
into coin.
Reports to R. G. Dun & Co show
that the failures for 1901 were 11,OO2l
in number and $113,092 ,376 in amount
OF liabilities, while in banking and other
fiduciary institutions there were Il IN.
sOlvencies, involving $1S,01S,77 q
total of 11,O76 defaults and $131,111,-
$50 liabilities. These figures compare
very favOrably with the 1911 failures
in 1900, with liabilities of STA, ,113,236
OF which % were banks, for $35, ,617, ,563
Thursday .Iannarv
Experimenters at the Memphis Medi-
cal College assert that they have dis
covered an embalming fluid which will
discount that used by the ancient
Egyptians and will preserve bodies for
all time, humanity speaking.
The monthly statement of the publ.
debt issued today shows that at the
close OF business December 81, 1901, the
national debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to SLOT, ,62S, 1856, decrease
for the month OF IS, 8,643,19
Miss Beulah Wheeler, a young society
woman, swallowed arsenic by mistake
and died at Detroit, Mich.
Wild horse meat is the principal
article of food for the section men on
the desert districts Of the railroad in
southern Utah, according to the reports
which come from there. The men say
that other meats are too expensive after
freight or express charges are paid.
Mrs. Bullock, lessee of hotel at
Searchilght, New, and two adopted
children, boy and girl, we're burned
to death in fire which destroyed the
building.
At a meeting of the anatomical So
ciety at Chicago DR.. Speitzka of New
York read paper declaring that the
brain of Leon Czolgosz, President Nc
KinleY's murderer, was normal. He
had studied the brain with considerable
thoroughness.
Perry Belmont is the regular demo-
cratic nominee for congress in the
Seventh New York district.
One hundred families canned on the
knolls at Chattanooga, Tenn, as a re-
suit OF high water. Many houses are
submerged.
Judge Cant has decided for the settlers
in the case of Frederick Weyerhauser
and the Northern Pacific railway
against stttlers on the famous second
indemnity strip in Minnesota.
Friday, January 8.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the
president, made her debut at grand
ball given at the White House. Five
hundred guests we're present, many from
outside OF Washington.
The civil service commission today
called for the removal of Joseph Per-
| rault as surveyor general of Idaho, for
persistently and frequently violating the
civil service laws. His term expires
January u, when he will probably be
dismissed.
Sheriff W. G. Kicker of Caspar Wyo.,
was fatally shot from ambush
after chasing four outlaws, Clarence and
Charles Woodward, David Foote and C..
B. Franklin, rs miles west of Caspar,
where they broke Jail.
Governor Shaw OF Iowa arrived in
Washington to formally accept the
treasury portfolio.
c. B. Lamborn, formerly land COM
missioner OF the Northern Pacific. died
at New York.
Citizens of Camden Point, Mo, at
tackled gang of burglars who dyna
mited bank vault and routed them
before they could secure any plumber
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