The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-02-21
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information OF
Busy Readers.
Wednesday. FebruarY t2.

wednesday, February t2.
Frank James was granted an iniunc
ton in the Kansas City circuit court
stopping the production of the drama
The James Boys in Missouri" depict
ing the James boys as robbers and bank
looters. 1t was alleged that the play
was harmful to the youth of the country
IN that 1T gloritied outlawry and made
| heroes OF outlaws, and that it unjustly
revived a reputation which Frank
James had been trying to live down for
20 years.
A sherif's posse of Is men attempted
to arrest Lee Turner at his Quarter
house saloon, near MiddleborO, KY
Turner and Is men fortified the log
building, and at the first approach
Deputy Sheriff Chas. Cecil was shot dead
from his horse. The posse, undeterred
by Whlzzing bullets, applied the torch to
the house, shooting several OF the
mOuntaineers as they came to the win
doWs. Others perished in the flames,
but Turner escaped Ten men are
known to be dead. The house is famous
Tor the number of men killed there-63-
while twice that number have been
wounded.
The imperial yacht Hohen2ollern, sent
from this country for the use of Prince
Henry of Prussia, arrived at New York.
The house passed the oleomargarine
bill placing 10 per cent tax upon any
imitation OF butter made in any shade
OF yellow; when not in such imitation,
one-fourth of per cent pound.
At the national Lincoln monument at
r n f1nld Il
veterans OF the Union army assembled
and laid floral offerings on the sar-
cOphagus.
Thursday, February IS.
An enterprise of international import
ance was lnaugurated at San Francisco
by the filing OF articles of incorporation
OF the Philippine Exploration company,
with q capital stock of $5O0,OOO. of
which S1SO,OO0 has been subscribed. 1t
ls stated that the Incorporation is mere
~ preliminary to the formation of q
company OF milliOnaires with a capital
OF 2O,OOO,OOO. The objects are to
colOnize the island of Mindanao, after
Luzon the largest of the Philippine
group, build trading posts, acquire lands
ior agricultural and mining purposes,
build railways, erect sugar mills and
other manufactures, construct water
works and, lastly, to inaugurate a
steamship line between SanFrancisco and
the islands.
The trouble between the Victor Fuel
company and miners employed at their
coal mines at Chandler, Colorado, cul-
minated in an attack on the Japanese
miners who had taken the places of the
strikers and the demolition of the board
ing house occupied by the Japanese.
The mob drove the Japanese out of the
camp.
The completed Indian appropriation
bill carries $7S,844,50O.
Captain William Swain of the First
Infantry, in an engagement with insur-
gents at Paranas, captured 80 bolomen
and tOur rit1emen. There we're no Ameri-
can casualties. The enemy's loss is not
known. 1t has been learned that two
hours before the fight Lukban, the in
surgent leader, was with the natives en-
gagged by Captain Swain's command.
DR.. c. c. Calhoun, a travelling cancer
specialist, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree for killing his wife at
Oswego, Kansas.
Within the last three days a number
OF insurance companies which have been
doing business in Texas have informed
Secretary OF State Tom that they have
withdrawn from the state owing to the
operation OF the antitrust act, which
requires that the executive officers OF
each company shall make affidavit that
1t does not belong to any bureau or or
ganization which has for it's object the
liking or the maintenance OF insurance
rates. Nearly all of these companies are
European concerns.
Friday, February IL.
Dennis Leahy, who weighed 700
pounds, died at New York.
- Former Attorney General John W.
Griggs saw many thousand dolIa RS
worth of his bonds and valuable papers
destroyed in Paterson, n j., just as he
had seen them taken, still intact from
the ruins of the big fire. Those papers
we're in his private safe in his Office,
M mn ~ - Amz