The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-02-14
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Busy Readers.
Wednesday, February Is.

gas explosion in a Twenty-second
street store at Chicago killed Is and
injured about 100 persons.
crisis was reached in the woolgrow-
ers' convention at Helena, Mont, when
a resolution was adopted indorsing oleO-
margarine and pledging the support of
the association to assist in tbe defeat of
the McCleary bill now before congress.
This bill provides tax of 10 cents a
pound on all Oleomargarine colored in
imitation OF butter. The National Live
Stock association, as the representa-
tive of the live stock interests OF the
country, cattle as we'll as sheep, is work
ing for the defeat OF this measure. Some
time ago it was determined that the
wool and sheep men should work to-
gether for the defeat of the measure and
Tor the passage of bill requiring the
marking OF goods containing shoddy.
At ClarksVille, johnson county, Ar
kansas, Sheriff Powers attacked band
OF burglars who we're dynamiting q
bank and was killed by them.
Representative Newlands of Nevada,
author OF the resolution annexing Ha-
wan, introduced a joint resolution in.
vltlDg the republic of Cuba into the
union, first as a territory, then as a
state.
John Murphy, an old offending foot
pad, was sent up to San Quentin for life
by Judge Cook at San Francisco.
Thursday, February 8.
Consideration of the Philippine tariff
measure was interrupted in the senate
today to permit the sedition laws in
force In the Philippine islands to be laid
before the senate.
Tom Brown, a negro, who assaulted
Miss Della Powell, was taken from
officers and lynched at Nicholasville, Ky.
The whole city turned out and all the
women applauded at the end.
The Pacific Northwest Woolgrowers'
association, in session at Helena, Mont
in resolution addressed to President
Roosevelt and congress, attacks S. N. D.
North, statistician of the department of
manufacturers in the census bureau. Mr..
North, as secretary OF the National AS
sociatiOn of Wool Manufacturers, is
leading the fight at Washington against
the tariff on wool.
Friday, February 2.
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr, eldest son of the
president, is attacked dangerously by
pneumonia at Groton, Mass.
Frank Fennell. hostler, shot Annie
Johnson, domestic, FIVE times fatally
and then killed himself at Great Falls,
Mont. They had quarreled.
Fire destroyed the big car works of
the Rock Island road at Horton, Kan
sas; loss, $250.O00. P. H. McKeon,
president Of the board of education, and
W. A. Davis, an employe OF the works,
lost their lives in the fire.
Middle west lumber dealers complained
before the senate committee on inter
state commerce of excessive freight rates
on lumber.
The mayor Of Gunnison, Utah, has
appealed to the state board of health
for assistance in checking the spread of
diphtheria at that place. The disease
has gained such headway that it has
been found necessary to quarantine the
stores. Even the health officer has con-
tracted the disease.
Prince Henry of Prussia has expressed
desire to honor the memory of Presi-
dent Lincoln during his stay in Chicago