The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-01-24
NEWS OF 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, January is.

oPpIicu W bu6 OnlUeu States court a
San Francisco for limitation of liability
IN the matter of the wreck Limitation
to 1895 SO. prepaid freight, is asked
for.
Both houses of the Mississippi legisla
ture adopted unanimously a resolution
declaring Admiral Schley to be the right
ful hero of the battle OF Santiago, and
entitled to the unfailing gratitude O
his country"
| The Great Northern, 500 and Northern
Pacific lines leading into the northwest
are preparing, and hope to issue, taking
| effect at the earliest practicable date, not
later than February l, tariffs covering
merchandise and general shipment from
| the Twin Cities and the head of the lakes
| to all points in Minnesota and North
Dakota, and new distance tariffs cover
ing all traffic in both states, making re-
! ductlOns in merchandise rates that will
average II per cent.
United States Senator Joseph B. For.
aker was reelected by the Ohio legisla.
ture by the solid republican vote. The
democrats supported Chas. W. Baker oil
Cincinnati. Kentucky democrats elected
James B. McCreary, gold standard
democrat, to succeed United States
Senator W. J. Deboe, republican. Iowa
elected Allison and Dolliver.
Henry c. Payne of Wisconsin was
sworn in as postmaster general.
A Lisbon, Ohio, grand jury indicted D.
5. BrOOkman, manager of the Wellsville
plant OF the American Sheet Steel COM
pany on the charge of discharging Leon
ard Shaffer, union employe at the
mills. The Amalgamated association
took up Shaffer's case. 1t will be bitter
~ contested.
Thursday, January 10.
Frank Rakowski, degraded soldier,
arrived at Alcatraz prison, near San
Francisco, where he will spend ten years
for threatening the life of President
Roosevelt.
The executors of the late E. W. Ment-
zer, coal operator, filed suit against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company for
$769, 95S. 1t is alleged that from 1880
to 1899 the company granted secret re-
bates to Mentzer's competitors in the
coal business, to his damage. The suit
is for treble damages, as provided hy
law.
Myrtle ana Blythe Diller, two lJtic
Denver girls, are missing, and it is be-
lieved have been kidnapped. They started
for school, few blocks from home
The secretary of the interior has asked
that the appropriation OF 100000 for
guarding and protecting forest reserves
be raised to $5OO,000
Census bureau employees are being dis
charged in hundreds, and many Others
must go to bring the present force OF
$500 down to 600 or 700, as contem-
plated i'll the permanent census move
ment.
Pickle packers of the middle west are
considering an advance in prices. 1t is
declared there may be a pickle famine
before summer.
Senator Harris introduced a bill in
the senate providing for government
ownership of the telegraph lines of the
United States.
The Baltimore taxpayers convention
placed ban on any text book which
does not give Rear Admiral W. S. Schley
credit for the naval victory at Santiago
and calling upon the legislature to pro-
hibit the use of such text books in the
schools.
The Kentucky house, after a spirited
debate, adopted a resolution commenda-
tory of Admiral Schley. The republicans
| opposed that part of the resolution
which condemned the court OF inquiry
! that sat in the Schley case, and refused
| to vote when the roll was called. All oil
the 70 democrats present voted for the
| resolution.
Fri0ay January II
The unmarried male employees of the
| Deseret News at Salt Lake, officia
I organ of the Mormon church, after 6
| conference between the church authori
4 ties and the management, we're giveI
designations. The order affects about
| 25 young men.
! Rev. Nj. Gidding stabbed his stepson
| Harry Higfeld, to death in fight over
| family troubles near Shipman, ILL.,, anC
himself received injuries which may
prove fatal. Higfeld had just returned
! from three years service in the Philip.
| pines.
| A diamond field is reported to hav,
! been found on Blood creek, in the north
! eastern part of Fergus county, Mon
tana, by Cliff Deo. hunter. 1t is sale
| Tiffany, the New York jeweler, to whom
| some OF the stones we're submitted hat
pronounced them diamonds of the frs
water. VIM. Crandall is said to hav
found a diamond in this locality 81
years ago, but kept the stone for severa
years before learning it's character ant
was afterward unable to locate tn
ground.
Tom Sharkey and Peter Maher Tough
a fake at San Francisco. They hat
previously been placed under bonds Q
| $4,000 to keep the peace The 400
spectators we're worked up to a frenz
and broke chairs and benches to shoN
their feelings.
Saturday, January 1S
Otto Bola, an elevator boy, by max
ing several trips through smoke an
flames, saved 80 women and childre
from the seventh floor of the burning L
Strain hotel at Chicago. The last wa
a paralytic, whom he carried to his cal
President Roosevelt has addressed th
following to each executive department
of the government, calling attention t
the laws giving preference to veteran
] in appointment and retention: "Tt
president desires that, wherever tt
needs of the service will justify and tt