The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-04-11
NEWS OF THR STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information OF
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, April 2.

Wednesday, April 2.
Great Northern train bearing $50
passengers was snowbound and COM
pletely lost to the world for four days
and five nights on the prairie between
Wllliston and Minot, North Dakota, in
the worst blizzard for many years, with
only food enough for two frugal meals a
day and scarcely any fuel. The pass
engers were almost famished when
rescued. While the train was stalled
Prof. COlegrOve of the University of
Washington, who was en- route east on
a vacation trip, being i'll from too close
application to work, became despondent
and attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor. He was taken to
st. Paul and will recover.
Because of the prevalence of cholera in
the Philippines, the government will ex-
pedlte the return home of troops, and
by June l all that have been there since
1899 will be back in the United States.
The governor of Louisiana reports to
the state department his opinion that
the British government is maintaining
military camp in the United States, the
camp IN question being the one a few
miles below New Orleans, from where
horses and mules for South Africa are
shipped.
Chicago quotation OF $3.50 per 100
pounds for cattle is the highest April
price since 1882. Hogs sold at record
price for the year, 81 O5.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage is dangerous
lv i'll at Washington.
Fourteen widows and So orphans we're
left by the 16 miners killed by the ex-
| ploslon in the Nelson mine at Dayton,
| Tenn.
Thursday, April 8.
Paderewski rendered a select program
at a musicale given at the White House
| by President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Fire at Atlantic City, N. J., DESTROYED
twelve summer resort hotels and more
than a score of small adjoining build
| ings, entailing a loss OF $750,OOO or
more. No lives were lost.
The amount to be paid the surgeons
who attended President Mckinley will
not exceed $25 1000. The surgeons de-
cllned to send in any bills, saying the
question OF compensation must be set
tied entirely apart from any bills rem
dered by them.
ln the supreme court, Brooklyn, JUS
tlce Gaynor handed down a decision de
clarlng that the picket line employed nv
strikers is not unlawful.
Tomas Estrada Palma. nras;5aa+ 4
elect Of Cuba, addressed the New Yo,ssu
chamber of commerce, soliciting help to
secure greater tariff reduction than 30
per cent on sugar and tobacco, which he
said would not afford any relief.
Della Tansey of Buffalo jumped over
the railing of Goat island bridge, Mag
ara, and went over the falls to her
death, in sight OF 200 people.
Friday, April 4.
The state of Minnesota today began
it's suit against the railroad merger at
home. The recital in this case is almost
identical with that in the former case
before the United States supreme court.
The Virginia constitutional conven-
tion adopts suffrage clause, the effect
of which will be to admit every white
man to the registration lists and keep
| out large part of the colored vote.
The seventy y-second annual conference
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, which convened in the
| tabernacle at Salt Lake today, proved
to be the largest gathering in recent
years.
Clinton Dotson was hanged at Butte,
Mont, fol participation in the murder
OF his father, confessing to the crime Just
before the trap was sprung.
Frank Sargent, president of the
| Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen,
has accepted the position of commits
sioner general of immigration, rendered
| him by the president.
Saturday, April. s.
The New York chamber OF commerce
will invite the Prince of Wales. King
Edwards oldest son, to attend the
| dedication OF it's new home in August or
September.
A contract has been closed with Miss
Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, for
series OF 100 lectures to be given in the
principal cities of the United States.
Notices have been posted warning all
negroes to leave the town OF Lawton, o.
L. The trouble results from the city
election, held April l, when attempts
were made to keep the negroes from
voting.
Twelve hundred men in Wisconsin
paper mills are out on strike.
H. c. Hrschy of Minneapolis won the
Grand American handicap shoot at
Kansas City, not missing pigeon.
According to decision made by the
Kansas supreme court, express agents
may deliver liquor in c. o. D. packages
without violating the prohibitory law.
In three months the industrial sec
ton of the Civic Federation has settled
several strikes and prevented two which
would have made more than 100000
men idle.
Congress will not be asked for an ap-
preparation to defray the expenses of
the United States special embassy to the
coronation of King Edward, the mem
bers paying the bills out of their own
pockets.
The state bank at Ruskin, Neb., was
robbed of SIG, 900 in cash at midnight.
The robbers, five in number, blew of the
safe doors with nitro glycerne. They
we're traced some distance with blood