The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-02-07

iIFo, 0he total expenditures $3S. .54S. PIT
naa iea sing ny surplus for the month OF 49,.
opo'ooS. The surplus for the CORE
00O. ' ''"' was P''3o0'
Sunday, February 2.
oon waterbury, Conn.,, suffered a $4,000.
oOo IRE IN its business district.
W. Z. Whitney, secretary of the nayy
| curing the Cleveland administration
announced his retirement from business
aiter 20 years OF far-reaching activity in
tne world OF affairs He also intimated
tnat he could not again be tempted to
enter politics.
New York, Pennsylvania. New Eng
land and Michigan suffered from gales
and blizzardss
1ne org western Montana lumber CON-
panIes, controlling the lumber output of
tue western section of the state, amount
ing TO millions of feet annually, have
formed an organization and adopted a
resolution pledging themselves not to
recognize any labor union. During the
winter the lumber jacks have organized
union and it comprises in it's member
snlp all OF the men employed at the mills,
numbering several thousand.
Monday, February 3.
Judge Hawley OF the United States
court OF appeals at San Francisco grant
ed George Allen, son of Former Senator
John b. Allen OF Washington state, a
reversal on conviction at Nome of high
way robbery and sentenced to IA wears
imprisonment.
Mails from Nome, Alaska, say that
scurVy is prevailing in and about Nome
to an alarming degree. There were but
few potatoes left in the district and a
great lack of all kinds of vegetables
was apparent. Many of the poor pros
pect0rs VINO were unable to get out in
the fall are "hlbernating" in their cabins
ana 1t is among this class that the most
pronounced cases OF scurvy are found
Inc poor OF Nome are proving a heavy
tax on the charity of the camp. Desti-
tuition is general.
A proposition by Senator Stewart to
increase the salaries of senators and
congressman was defeated in the senate,
Is to Al
a dispatch from Rampant gives some
wonderful accounts Of the new KOyukuk
district, of which BEETLES City is at
present the commercial center. -Four
creeks in the district have attracted
great prominence from their rich returns.
They are Lane, Olsen, HogIund and
Glen. OF the four Glen is the more note
worthy. One miner there picked out
nugget weighing $601 and other men
are taking out pans averaging from 81
to $40. Baker Flats, on which thes9
creeks are located, it is claimed will
prove as rich as the Klondike.
A gale which has been sweeping the
coasts of Long Island and New jersey
for 2l hours at so to 70 miles an hour
has wrecked a number of vessels and
several bodies have drifted ashore.
Representative Dick of Ohio, chair
man of the committee on militia, has
introduced o bill for the reorganization
OF the national guard of the several
states, which provides that the militia
shall be organized, equipped and disci-
plined the same as the regular army.
The government is to furnish rifles other
equipment and ammunition free. The
bill provides that companies are to be
called into service when needed in order
OF organization, and no volunteer force
shall be accepted until the regular
militia force is exhausted.
Harman Hartrodt, better known as
Brownie" accused OF being one of the
burglars who killed Policeman Robin
son at San Francisco three weeks ago,
was captured at Portland.
NJ, c. Lawler and H. F. Pancake OF
Wall Lake, Iowa; Chris Ferndon of
oE
Charles City, Iowa, all stockmen riding
in a freight caboOse, we're killed in rear
end collision on the Illinois Central at
Apple river, 27 miles west of Dubuque
Three Others we're seriously and three
slightly injured.
Tuesday, February 4.
Governor ToOe of Montana has been
notified by Binger Hermann, commits
sioner of the general land office, of the
approval by the secretary of the interior
OF the lands selected for the state school
OF mines and the agricultural college, a
total OF over II 900 acres
Nine fremen we're killed at st. Louis
by the unlocked for collapse of burn
ing five story stone and brick building.
Senator Hoar presented a petition
signed by number of distinguished
citizens of this country for the suspen-
sion OF hostilities in the Philippines, and
asking that an opportunity be given for
discussion OF the situation between the
government and the Filipino leaders.
The great laboratory of the Kelley
institute at Dwight, ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire, together with the Livingston
hotel, owned by the Kelley company.
General Fred Funston underwent
second operation for appendicitis at
Kansas City and is resting we'll. The
first operation was made at Manila.
Ad Paugh, Manville, Wyoming
stockman, was sentenced to one day in
jail and to pay fine of $50 and costs
for illegally fencing government lands.
February wheat at Chicago, 75H:May,
78A Portland, cash, 64KH; Tao oma,
63h; Colfax, 40.
Bilious Collie.