The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
NEWS Oh THB STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, March 10.

Wednesday, March 10.
Traffic conditions in Boston have re-
turned to their normal condition, all
but about 200 OF the 10000 strikers
having returned to work.
The railroad blockade on the North
ern Pacific, caused by the dreadful biz
zald which has prevailed in the Dakotas,
Is broken. The Great Northern is still
blockaded east of Minot, N. D.
The Coils P. Huntington estate, now
oelng lnVentoried by the New York state
tax appraisers, will amount to $29, ,00O,-
900.
The trust clause in the will of the late
James u. Fair of San Francisco, has
been declared invalid, and the personal
property will go to the heirs.
Several lives were lost in a great fire
on the HobOken peir, New York. The
money loss will amount to about ST,
125, 900.
The Kentucky reform school near
lexington is destroyed by fire. The
00lldlngs we're erected at a cost of $780,
| 900.
Rear Admiral Kempff, who was re-
Gently relieved on the Chinese station.
has returned from the orient and il at
MS nome III Oakland, Cal, awaiting
orders from Washington.
Thursday, March 90.
A great gathering OF Knights of
Fytnlas takes place in Chicago, over
$4,000 members of the order being in
attendance
Mrs. Julia D. French, known as the
bottom of the elevator shaft in her Bos-
Ton residence. She was seventy years
| old, very wealthy and eccentric. having
mania for litigation, having appeared
IN conrE as lltigant oftener than any
other person.
Chicago meat packers have decided to
ignore the German market COMPLETELY.
owing to the announcement that after
the first OF October no meat preserved
IN bOracic acid or bOrax will be admitted
to that country.
Inc second attempt at wireless tele.
graphy on the Lakes has been a success.
1he trial was made at Cleveland, Ohio.
Z. II. Delaney, a prominent cattleman
OF near Bismarck, N. D., was found dead.
having perished from cold in the blizzard
About thousand head of cattle and
several thousand head OF sheep were lost
during the storm.
Jose Andrade, for six years Venezuelan
minister to this country, died in New
York OF pneumonia, aged 81 years. He
had occupied nearly every high office in
venezuela, having at one time been
president OF the republic.
Friday, March Fl.
Robert M. Morse, attorney for Mrs
Julia French, the wealthy Boston wo-
man who was found dead In the elevator
shalt OF her residence, believes she was
murdered and will probably investigate
the case.
President Roosevelt expresses his on
position to the plan OF making extensive
alterations to the White House. beliey
ing that the historic structure should be
preserved as it is.
The Aroostook, Maches and Union
rivers, ID Maine, are on the rampage, the
Hood news being very alarming. The
new mill at Ashland is in danger of be-
ing carried out.
1t is stated on good authority that
ex Senator Clark of Montana, has ac-
quired control of the Los Angeles street
railway system.
A challenge for balloon race in Chi
cago, to be held as a preliminary event
to the 100000 aerial steeplechases at
the st. Louis worlds fair of 1903, was
sent tonight to Santos-Dumont at
Paris, France, by Toppilus Williams OF
Chicago.
AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Stewart Fife was
foH Of
Richardson.
Several buildings on Park avenue New
York, collapsed because of the under
mining OF their foundations for the rapid
transit tunnel.
Bozeman, Mont, is to have q Car
negie library, to cost $4,000.
The convention OF United Mine Work
ers is in session at Shamokin, Pa.
A great ice gorge has formed in the
Missouri river near Chamberlain, S. D.
The channel has been changed to the
west side OF American island, where it is
likely to remain permanently.
The blockade on the Great Northern
is broken, three hundred passengers
from the blOckaded trains having reach
ed st. Paul. They tell of great priva-
ton.
About 800 students of the Omaha
medical and dental college engaged in a
pitched battle in one of the lecture
rooms OF the institution. Furniture was
broken, and the faculty was powerless to
stop the fight, which lasted for three
hours.
Saturday, March %.
Efforts are being made by San Fran
cisco capitalists to take advantage of
the low railroad rates from the east, to
send colonists to Manila The promoters
OF the scheme hope to create great
rush there and fill thousands of acres in
the islands which are now idle with
American farmers and miners.
Boston police officials state that there
is no reason to believe that Mrs. Julia
M. French, whose body was found on
the top of the elevator of her home, was
murdered
The Spanish steamer Ea stranded and
went to pieces off Cape Lookout, Va.
The captain and crew of thirty three men
were rescued by wrecking tug and a
crew of life savers. The Spaniards we're
almost dead from hunger and cold.
Elnroraao Aho