The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-21
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
0oiIeu Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, March IL.

against the alleged merger of the Iron
hange railroads. The same question as
Is involved in the states complaint
| against the Northern Securities company
Is at issue in the present action.
| The steamer Providence, plying be
tween Vicksburg and Lake Palmyra, was
overturned by a sudden squalI of cy-
| clonlc proportions and 21 of her pass
engers and crew were drowned.
The International convention of the
| United Society of Christian Endeavor
VIII be held at Denver in July, 1908.
The senate committee on isthmian
canals has decided by a vote of 7 to to
report the Hepburn bill providing for
tne construction of an isthmian canal
via the Nlcaraguan route.
In lecture at New York, Martin A.
KNAPP, chairman of the Interstate com.
merce commission. advocated govern
ment ownership of all railroads.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the
president, is visiting Havana with a
party of friends.
Thursday, March IS.
By direction of the president, General
). B. M. Young has been relieved of the
department of California and ordered to
Washington to take the presidency OF
the army war college.
Senator Turner's bill granting $4,000
acres OF unappropriated nonmineral
public land to the state of Washington
for the benefit of the soldiers and sail
ors' home at Orting was passed by the
senate
Andrew Carnegie has arranged to en-
dow about 40 libraries in small com
munltles in the west. The announce
ment was made at the seventh annual
dinner of the Library club at New York
The strike of freight handlers and
kindred trades at Boston, involving 90
OOO men, has been declared off, the rail-
ways granting concessions.
1t is expected that congress will ad-
journ for the season about June 10.
Indictments in three cases against
Mrs. Catherine Soffel, wife of Warden
Peter Soffel, growing out of the escape
OF the Biddle brothers January 20, were
considered by the grand jury at Pitts
burg and true bills returned.
Friday, March IA.
The house committee on territories
has decided on an Omnibus" territorial
bill, which will provide statehood
for Arizona, NewIMexicO and Oklahoma,
instead OF separate statehood bills
for each territory.
The secretary of the treasury has an
nOunced that he will discontinue for the
present the purchase of United States
bonds. The secretary believes the price
OF bonds is unreasOnabIy high and that
the effect Of the government being per-
manently in the market stimulates and
helps to maintain this price, to the
prejudice of national bank circulation.
A legal point has been raised in the
district court, at Butte, Montana,
which, if sustained in the upper
court, will make it possible for
the people of Butte to repudiate about
100000 OF debts. The district court
held that dealers in goods that have to
be weighed who do not conform with the
law requiring scales to be tested and
stamped can not collect through the
courts. A debtor was upheld in refusing
to pay a debt of $118 on that ground.
Between 1900 and 1000 operators in
the WOODEN mills of Providence, R. Land
vicinity are out on strike.
Washington having no democratic
representation in the house, Senator
George Turner has been made a member
OF the democratic congressional cam
paign committee.
A strike of the textile workers at Fall
River Mass, is imminent.
SATURDAY., March TO-
The worst blizzard which has visited
the section for ten years, swept North
and South Dakota. Business is prac
tically suspended and trains are all
snow bound. At Bismarck the wind is
blowing 45 miles an hour and the tenn
perature is below zero.
Jack O'Brien of Philadelphia, cham
pion middleweight and heavyweight
pugilist of England, signs an agreement
to meet Tommy Ryan of Kansas City
for middleweight championship of the
world. The fight will occur in Louisville
on May 3.
The threatened strike of cotton mill
operators at Fall River, Mass, has ap-
parently been averted, the asked for ad-
vance in wages being granted.
The labor situation in Boston, after a
week of agitation, is assuming normal
conditions and the great majority of the
striking teamsters and expressmen, who
had joined the strike out OF sympathy
| for the freight handlers, have returned
to work, and there is a feeling that the
worst is over.
A secret organization has been formed
of all the laborers employed in the mines
in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa. The OBJ
| iect of this organization, which starts
with membership of 5000, is to com
pei miners to give the laborers as much
as they receive. At present the miners
work about 4 hours, while their labor
ers work hours, the miners receiving
twice as much pay as the laborers.
In New York, after two days hare
playing, the American chess team van
quished the British team. this being tn
seventh series of matches for the Newne
cup.
There are now over $4,000, ,00(
standard silver dollars in the vaults o
the San Francisco subtreasury, and th,
assistant treasurer there has notified
the secretary Of the treasury that b.
cannot longer exchange silver certif
Gates for the coin for want of vaul
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