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The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
NORTHW EST NEWS

saturday, April II, is the date an
nounced Tor driving the last spike and
formally opening the Kettle Valley rail.
way lines connecting Grand Forks
b. T., aud Republic, Wash.
IL. G. Baker, president OF the Bnildino
Trades Council at Seattle, has been ex,
PEELED from the Organization for cnrro1,
.loh, 10 that be misused funds supplied
By politicians. p'''O
A survey of the bar at the month of
the Columbia river has just been com.
pleted Tor the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
gation company, and it is found that
there Is water depth Of twenty one feet
az low tide over the shallowest part Of
the bar
Eilensburg is to have new tbeater
costing $4,000 to be built by a Joint
stock company.
what will probably be the first,exe.
cutlon under the law compelling the
hanging OF murderers at the state Deni.
tentlary will be that of Alfred Hamilton
Tor killing ID. NJ. Woodbury.. at Ana,
cortes, September Z, 1899.
Walla Walla will GOT nave : eompanv
IN the National Guard o; Washington.
Only twenty-five men appeared when
the hOur came to be mustered in.
iorce oi thlrty-twO men and three officers
is the minimum, 40 the matter was
suffered to go by default.
Timber cruisers ars said to he con-
Quoting a buncO game in the portion of
the olympic reserve recently thrown
open by the government. The cruiser
shows his intended victim a piece of land
thickly timbered, but gives them a
description of vacant land on which
there is no timber. After paving the
cruiser from $50 to 800, they proceed
10 the land Office and file on the land
from the description given them.
Patternmakers in the iron works OF
Spokane have given notice that on Nav
they will demand day of nine hours.
with pay, $3 90 per day, as for the pres,
ent 10 hour day. If their demand is NOT
granted, 1T Is claimed that the pattern
makers OF the principal towps of Idaho
and Montana will also walk out.
At Walla Walla an ordinance is being
drafted which will require saloonmen to
remove all ObstructiOns between the bar
and street that binder uninterrupted
vision from the outside.
The contract has been let for the build
ing OF new Episcopal church at Wana
Walla TO cost $l1 500.
Waitsburg is raising $1,000 with which
TO entertain the tiremen at u tournament
to be held there in June.
-Four cases of smallpox have developed
at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla.
A 12-inch gun has been received and
ls being mounted at Fort Casey, near
Port Townsend.
A section of school land under the
kennewick irrigating ditch was bid in
at North Yakima Saturday for $4,000
by j. W. johnson OF Oakesdale, r.
Fullerton, 2. FL. Johnson and Z. l..
johnson. Three quarters OF it went for
Sl6.5O an acre and the remainder at
$18.
A party of distinguished Japanese
citizens, representing official and CON-
Inercial life in Japan, arrived at Seattle
tuesday by steamer. They come to
study economic conditions and will
later visit Europe.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
The Vice Of NaeRin1

clouds the happiness OF the home, but a
nagging woman often needs help. She
may be so nervous and rundown in
health that trifles annoy her. II she ia
melancholy, excitable, troubled with loss
of appetite, headache, sleepIessness, con.
stipation or fainting and dizzy spells, she
needs Electric Bitters, the most wonder
full remedy for ailing women. Thou
sands Of sufferers from female troubles,
nervous troubles, backache and weak
kidneys have used it, and become
healthy and happy. Try it. Only soc
F. j. Stone guarantees satisfaction.
Take your poultry to Moore.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
Chronic Diarrhoea.

Mr.. c: B. Wingfeld of Fair Play, Mo-,
who suffered from chronic dysentery for
thlrty-hve years, says Chamberlain 3
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
did him more good than any other
medicine he had ever used. For sale by
F. j. Stone.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
UNDER A TRUCE FLAG
BOer Leaders Confer With Lord
Kitchener.
Their Visit Construed To Indicate
Desire for Cessation
of Hostilities.

Pretoria, March % Acting President
Schalkburger, F. ". Reitz. ex, secretary
of state for the Transvaal, and Com
mandants Lucius Meyers and Krigb. ar
rived here yesterday on a special train
from Balmoral, about 500 miles east of
here, under flag of truce. The party
drove Immediately to Lord Kitchener's
headquarters, where they had an inter
view with the British general. The
Beers afterwards proceeded to Kroon-
stad under a safe conduct.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28
Possibility of Peace.

London, March 23.-The news of the
entering OF the British lines by the Boer
leaders is regarded here as indicating
that they are anxious for peace, and the
TACT that the censor passed the news of
the movement is accepted as eonfirma-
tory OF this opinion. No extravaganza
hopes OF peace are entertained, however,
as Dewet and Delarey are still in the
ileid and show no signs of submitting to
BRITISH authority. 1t is believed that
Lord Kitchener has agreed to withdraw
the banishment proclamation if the Boer
leaders surrender
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-03-28

The ladies of the Episcopal guild will
hold sale OF fancy and useful articles,
made by the members, and also conduct
an exchange table, at The Gazette Office,
Saturday afternoon, April 5, commencing
at 2 O'Clock.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
THE THREE SICK BOYS.
Howard Potter Had a Spell of Restlessness.

Groton, Feb. 1.-The three sick boys in the Groton school infirmary had a very quiet Sunday, and from medical point of view a satisfactory one, although in the morning there was some uneasiness about Howard Potter. Dr. l.. C. Shattucll of Boston, was recalled by Dr. Warren for con sultation in his case, and later it was stated that young Potter had not had setback, but simply spell of restlessness. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and William Gammell, Jr., con- tinued to show much improvement.
 Mrs. Roosevelt spent the greater part of the day at the infirmary with her son and did not leave for the Gardner house until late in the af- ternoon. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt went for a ride in the morning with MT. Grafton D. Cushing, of Boston. who spent Sunday here. She lunched later at the home of Mr. John Lawrence, and afterward spent considerable time at the infirmary. Mrs. James Roosevelt, an aunt, arrived here Sat- urday night.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
BLESSINGS OF CONFINEMENT.
Each Woman should Fill Her Own Sphere mad Therein Will Find
 Peace of Mind.

In former times woman's domain was limited to the walls which made her home. The great things of life were considered beyond her, and her work was centered in the manner in which she "kept her house." But a Christian civilization has given to woman the advantages of learning and culture. and from her pen flow as helpful words and kindly thoughts as ever encouraged humanity. It has given to the home better wife. a nobler mother and far more help ful sister. says the Housekeeper.
 Do we appreciate our advantages? If so, let us show that appreciation by filling each her own sphere no matter how humble, to the best of her ability, by keeping from her heart the canker of envy and malice. and being content with her lot. The virtue we must need to cultivate is contentment; the thing most difficult to control and keep in subiugation is our own restless will.
 The difficulties and trials of life. viewed in the dusky twilight and the solemn hour of night, seem insur- mountable; yet when we wake re- freshed from sweet sleep, and in the broad daylight of the beautiful day again view our trials and joys. our sorrows, heartaches and conn forts, then life takes on new charm; hope springs unbidden in the heart and there comes a sweet content ment, born of love, for the beauty of nature, the blessings of life, and for the great Creator who made them all
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
AIR INDUCED COMBUSTION.
Papers that Went Through the Paterson Fire Intact.

New York, Feb. 16. Former At torney General John w. Griggs saw many thousand dollars worth of his bonds and valuable papers destroyed in Paterson, J., just as he had seen them taken, still intact, from the ruins of the big fire.
 These papers were in his private safe in his office, where his splendid law library was burned. The safe was taken from the ruins and the door pried open. Suddenly the papers burst into flames and were reduced to ashes. It is supposed gas had gem erated inside the safe. Among the papers were eight unregistered bonds each of face value of $1 900. Cart ner Stewart, having offices near those of Mir. Griggs, lost S10,000 in the same manner. In an adjoining build- ing were the offices of Katz Bros., brewers. In their safe were bonds valued at $150,OOO, Waen the safe was opened it's contents were found to be in ashes.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
DEvoURED BY .cANNIBALs.
Twenty Five of French Scientific Party Massacreed and Are Roasted
 and Eaten.


 Paris, Feb. 17.-La Patria pub fishes a letter received from it's cor respondent, M. Rouyer, a survivor of the massacre of a French scientii fife mission, by cannibals at Sileral<a, New Guinea, January l. NJ. Rouyer related that the yacht Saivatti. with the mission on board, had anchored off the coast of New Guinea. and that several of the explorers landed. Alter an apparently friendly recep- tlon from the natives the latter treacherously attacked them during the night. murdering 9 of the party, including Baron Villars, Count de Saint Romy and NM. Hagenbecx and Nries, and wounding 33, including the writer of the letter. NJ. Rover. the chief of the mission and another Frenchman named Reimer.
 M. Rouyer writes:
 We were all sleeping peacefully when there was a great uproar. and we were attacked by hundreds of na- tives carrying torches. Several of us were felled to the ground with clubs, hatchets and spears. Others were overpowered, carried away and bound to trees. I was among this number. l received a blow on tho head from club and tainted. When l recovered consciousness at five o'clock in the morning, I found my self tied hand and foot and surround ca by savages who, believing me to be dead, were keeping me for them selves. l saw the body of Baron Nlliars near me bound to a tree. His body was naked, his head had been split open. his eyes had been gouged out and his groin was horribly mu- tllated. The Count de Saint Remv had been decapitated and his head stuck on the end of a spear as a trophy. NJ. Hagenbeck was spitted on bamboo and was being roasted over fire. The savages were about to cut him up. l waited my fate. was afraid to move. My head hurt me dreadfully. All around me the ground was strewn with corpses. Suddenly a great clamor arose. fol lowed by a fusilade I opened my eyes and saw pr. Foriter and the re- mainder of the mission from the yacht firing on the cannibals. I shouted and the rescuers ran to me and cut the bonds which bound me to the tree. The cannibal> fled. leav- ing 32 dead The clothes of NJ Neyes were found but his body was missing. lie had evidently been devoured bythe savages during the nioht''
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
G.owfng Debts of Cities.

Six years ago the debt of Chicago was $17,7OO,0O0, now it is $26,70o, ,000. Six years ago the debt of Boston was $35,o00,000; now it is $56,0o0,000. The debt of Cleveland was then $6, 100, ,00O; now it is S9,3oo,0o0. The debt of Kansas City then, $9oo,oo0 is now $4,- 5OO,O00. Buffalo owed $11, ,500, ,OOO: now it owes $15,000,0O0. Detroit has increased it's debt in the same perlod from $2,10o,00o to $4,7O0,Oo0, Denver from $2,0o0,ooo to $3,0oo,o ,ooo, Indianap- oils from $1,9oo,0o0 to $3,oo0 ,oo0, Louisville from $3,800,000 to $s,3Oo,- 900, New Haven from $2, 400,0 ,000 to $3,- 5oo,Ooo, Pittsburg from $s,4oo,0O to $10,6oO,oo0, Hartford from S930,O00 to $3,0O0,0oO, Jersey City from S4,600,- 900 to $16,3oo,ooo, Providence from $12,0o0,000 to S14,Oo0,000, Salt Lake City from $2,4oo,ooo to S3, 100000, and Worcester from s2, 5oO.ooo to 6,ooo,- 000.--N. Y. Sun.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
THE ERODE RELIEF FUND.
Raised to Secure Justice for n Brave Soldier Who Claims He Was
 Unfairly Convicted.

New York, Feb. 17. Mayor Egbert Seymour of Bayonne was yesterday elected president of the Edwin IT Brodie relief fund.- Over one hun dred prominent residents of Bayonne were present at a meeting, and a committee was appointed to consult Congressman McDermott, of New Jer- sey, as to the best means of obtain ing the release of Brodie, who is confined for life in the penitentidry at Fort Leavenworth, Kas.
 Brodie, after serving through the war with Spain, enlisted in Troop c, Third United States cavalry, for service in the Philippines. He was mentioned for meritorious conduct in both Cuba and the Philippines. One night he and a man named Coffey, who is also serving a life sentence at Fort Leavenworth. were just out side the camp near Manila when a Filipino girl was shot and killed They were accused of the crime and convicted. Brodie claims that his trial was unfair.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
Four Separate Railway Collisions Make Sabbath Days Quota
 Throughout the Country.
MANY PERSONS KILLED AND INJURED.
Two Occurred in Illinois, One in New York and the Other in Iowa-In One of the Former Passenger Train Was Rear Ended By a Freight, the Passenger Lo- eomotive Being Disabled.

Ldtchfield, H., Feb 1.-Two per- fons met death and five were injured. yesterday. in rear-end collision be- tween the Diamond Special on the illinois Central road and d freight train at point five miles north of Litchfield. The collision was re- markable in that the fast passenger was ahead of the freight, and that both train were moving The dead:
 F. S Burns. fireman on freight To- comotive.
 Frank Mcintyre, brakeman on freight train
 The injured were: c. w. Castles, conductor; left hip injured and two ribs fractured; also hurt about the chest. Jack Dean, II years old, son of assistant Superintendent Dean of the Pullman company; severe cut on left leg. Michael Donnelly, Chicago; cnt about face and head. A. M Dear born, Chicago; one foot bruised. E. Eaton, Pullman porter, St. Louis; cut about head and injured internal ly.
 The Diamond special was moving at rate of 12 miles an hour when the freight crashed into the rear sleeper. It is said the passenger would have been .traveling faster had there not been some trouble with the locomotives mechanism The engineer on the freight engine de- ciared that the fog was so thick that he could not see 100 feet ahead.
 Two Pullman coaches were badly wrecked and the freight engine is almost q total loss, while several freight cars loaded with baled hay were ditched
 No passengers were hurt, because there were few in the rear ear, and these were not seated far enough back to be caught.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
Tragic Continuation of Fued Be- tween "Gangs" of Respecta-
 ble Boys at St. Louis.
TEN-YEAR BOY BECOMES A MURDERER.
The PistoI-Carrying Habit Led to Fretwel Shock Resepting mn In- dignity by One of Rival Gang With shot, Which Killed Willie Ledger, Aged sixteen.

St. Louis, Feb. 16. Willie Ledger, Is years old, was shot and instantly killed at nine o'clock Friday night by Fretwel Shock, a ten-year-old lad in Bartmer and Goodfellow avenue, in the western part of the city He ad-
 mits that he killed Ledger, but says he aimed at one of Ledger's compan- ions.
 The killing was the culmination of feud that has long existed between two factions composed of the boys of
 that section of the city. Ledger be- longed to what is known as the De Hodiamont gang" and Shock be- longed to the s'Cabanne gang" The boys of both factions are the sons of well-to-do and respectable parents. Floyd Shock the father of the boy
 under arrest, is director of George D. Barnard Co.,, and is now travelling for the firm in Texas
 Willie Ledger's father is dead. He made his home with his mother and his uncle, G. s. Servant. Mir. Servant is employed in the mechanical depart ment of one of the daily papers. Young Shock related the story of the shooting to the officers as calmly as though he were detailing his par- ticipation in a harmless snow-balling bout.
 Yes, l shot Ledger" he said; 'but l didn't intend to shoot him. aimed at that other fellow there" he said, indicating one of Ledger's compan- ions, who was standing in the crowd some distance away He knocked me down and was going to do me up, and l didn't intend to get the worst of it.. Those fellows were all bigger than me, and they've been beating us ev- cry time they run into us.
 "That fellow had me down, and the gang of them would have beat me to death if I hadn't shot.
 Il raised upon my knees and pulled the revolver and blazed away. I didn't mean to shoot Eedger, but the other fellow, who knocked me down.
 I'm sorry if Ledger's dead, but J couldn't help it.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
coLLIDED AT A CROSSING.
One Train Struck by Another and
 Cut fin Two.

Rochester, N. Y.. Feb. TIA train crossing from the Buffalo, Rochester x Pittsburg tracks to No. 3 track on the New ! orl1 Central at Lincoln Park was struck and cut in two by the east-bound Continental limited, on the West Shore, yester- day. Both the engineer and fireman on the limited jumped before the col lision Engineer Nichol, of this city, escaped injury, but his fireman, E. Eitzel, of Buffalo, sustained dislo- cated shoulder. Fireman Charles Twist, of Rochester. had an arm broken. These were the only persons injured. Three freight cars were reduced to kindling wood, and the en- zines of the limited and the freight were completely wrecked.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
THREE PERSONS INJURED.
Passenger and Extra Freight Come
 Together at Texas Junction.

Carbondale, IT., Feb. IT. Three persons were seriously injured yes terday in a collision at Texas Juno tion, six miles west of this city, on the Illinois Central railroad. Passen- ges train No. 26, Conductor Bryan, collided with an extra freight under Conductor Donahue. The passenger engineer, Robert Allen; Baggageman Charles Ashley and Mrs. J. s. Lewis, all of this city, were those injured. The trainmen on the passenger jumped, saving their lives.
 The cause of the collision is sup posed to have been the absence of a fagman from the freight, as the pas senger was running on schedule time
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28

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Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
ONLY MEANT FOR A HOAX.
but its Publication IS Claimed to. Have Injured the University
 of the South

Nashville, Tenn, Feb 16.-A story recently sent over the country to the effect that Chancellor Wio'gins and some members of the faculty of the University of the South had left Sewanee because of anonymous notes from supposed mountaineers warn ing them to leave on pain of death has drawn from the university au- thorities a Statement in which they say the publication has done much injustice to the university and given an unfair and erroneous estimate ot the character of the people surround ing it. The statement continues:
 The native population of the Cum berland plateau and in the valleys and coves near the university are on terms of good feeling with the uni versity, and the country people are its friends. The single anonymous letter picked up on the street alarmed no one.
 ''The newspaper in which the sen sational article first appeared has, m response to request of the uni versity, given the source of its in- formation, and it appears that it came from persons who do not live in Sewanee and who were simply per petrating a hoax or a joke, not ex- T
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
Steamers in Collision.

Liverpool, Feb. F. The Fueness Allen Line steamer Dalton Hall, Capt Gordon, bound to St. Louis, N. F., and Halifax, N S., from this port, was in collision at the month of ;he Mersey with the steamers Marpcssa and Sutherland, both of this port. The Dalton Hall was cut down t. her bilge on the starboard side and mad to be bcached off Seaforth. The dam age to the other steamers has not yet been ascertained.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
FOUR PERSONS KILLED.
Many Also Injured in a Collision on
 the Iowa Central.

slarshalltown, la, Feb 17.-Four lives were lost in collision on iLo ]o.a Central railroad one mile ncrtl, of Clifford, yesterday, light engine, north-bound, crashing into passen- get train. A number of passengers were slightly injured.
 Engineer Frew of the light engine should have cleared the passenger train at Clifford, but for some reason failed to do SO.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
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 ting or Lung Trouble ot any kind by taking remedy grown where Lnng Trouble is unknown. Send e1O0 for
Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-28
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-08
INFORMATION FOR VETS
A USEFUL GRAND ARMY BUREAU
Through Its Workings Pension
Claims Are Established or
Old Comrades Found.

1t Is fact perhaps not generally known
that the Grand Army Of the Republic
conducts an information bureau for COM
rades. This bureau has been in opera
ton for years, and has proved of great
utility. It's principal object is to secure
evidence for old soldiers seeking pen
sions; but 1t also has it's sentimental side,
and through it's workings comrades,
friends and brothers who have lost track
of each other for years, are frequently re-
united.
An order issued from the national head
quarters usually carries with it section
headed Information wanted" Here are
printed requests for information as to
missing friends, as to men whose testi-
mony Is desired in pension matters, or as
to the whereabouts of heirs of comrades
who have died. In fact, the bureau is
put to many uses, and is usually success
full from the fact that it's requests for in
formation are at once published in every
G. A. R. post all over the country.
AS an illustration of the utility of the
department, the following request for in
formation appears in a recent order:
BY Martha E. Young, 259 Sixtyflrst street,
Chicago, H., of l. H. Mills, wounded at Siege
of Vicksburgh. Papers burned at time OF
Chicago fire Widow trying to get pension
The following inquiry has evidently
been dictated by sentimental motives:
Information Is wanted of commissioned
officer named Martin who befriended con-
federate officer, Captain Robert j. Murphy
captured at Fort Fisher, N. C. Said Martin
was afterward stationed temporarily, In 1855
at Magnolia, N. c. Any information con
corning him will greatly oblige J. T. Murphy
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