The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-02-21


burned. The safe was taken from tba
RUNS and the door pried omen Sudden.
ly the papers burst into fame and were
reduced to ashes. II is snnnosad COS
had generated inside the safe 4mong
the papers were eight tunrepistered honds
each OF a face value of $1,000.
Seven men were killed and IA serious
| y Injured oy huge boulder weighing
10 tons rolling down a hillside and
| crdshlEg INTO the caboose OF a work
eraih' ~ miles west of Little Rock, Ark.
oeTerdl other men are missing, believed
10 De buried under cars of sand.
saturday, February I5
mrs, Jefferson Davis appeared before
tne mississippi legislature and said. in
response TO speech euIogizing the con-
leuerate president: 81 shall ALWAYS
tender,ly love the people of Mississippi.
man." " U'0''0ou
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, Senators Allison.
Aiorlch and Spooner, Speaker Hender-
son ana Representatives Cannon and
urosVehor held an important conference.
| out on an unknown subject. A coinci,
uehce Is that with the exception of the
president and Senator Spooner they are
tue same men who held the great con-
ference at which it was decided to place
SoO'oOO, 900 in the hands of the presi-
uehC 10 prepare for war with Spain.
Mr.. Lucy Black has been sentenced to
IO years in prison at Bozeman, Mont
Tor poisoning her husband.
Robert Fitzsimmons and James 7
Jenrles signed articles to meet in q 20
round glove contest on some dav he
tween May 10 and 20 for the champion
ship OF the world. The contest ia 10
take place before the club offering the
Ilghest purse. The winner is to receive
oO per cent and the loser 40 per cent of
the purse.
Billy West, the well known minstrel
man. dled at Chicago, leaving an estate
OF about 100000.
Snow covers the south. Charlotte. N.
T., reports Is inches; Nashville. Tenn.
IL inches. Atlanta, Ga, 3 inches:
Biacksburg, s. c., Is inches. Freezing
weather extends as far south as Vicks-
burg, Miss.
Sunday, February 10.
Harold NJ. Cole, assistant superintend.
ent OF the East Helena smelter, mortally
shot his wife and killed himself at
Helena, Mont. The woman was young
and handsome and domestic infelicities
led to the tragedy.
Annie Anderson, a Swedish servant
girl at San Francisco, was held up by
footpad at San Francisco. She ran and
was mOrtally shot.
Thirteen young men have been con-
vlcted OF the murder of Jack Osborne in
Russell county, Virginia, last Christmas,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
from one to Is years.
At Wheatland, Indiana where ne
groes work for white farmers, the follow
;2g, signed 'Firebugs" was found posted
conspicuously: "Notice is hereby given
tsat aEy man who employs negro labor
after the first day of March, or harbors,
leases, or rents to any negro lands.
their houses will be burned after the first
day of April"
Cornelius Roosevelt, a cousin OF the
president, died from heart disease at
New York, aged 81.
Monday, February II.
c. R. Mains, Michigan LAWYER WAS
mails IN swindling. He represented him
sell as agent for concerns with an aggre-
gate capital of $4,O00,0OO,OOO.
New York city bore the brunt of the
tercest snoWstOrm that has struck that
section of the country since the great
blizzard of 1888. The whole city was
showed under.
The president sent to the senate a
message recommending the retirement
OF Naval Constructor Richard P, Hob
SOD, and in accordance with this recon-
mendatlOn Senator Galinger immedi-
ately introduced bill providing for Mr..
hobsOn's transfer to the retired list. In
his message the president gives as his
reason the trouble that Hobson has had
since 1900 with his eyes and recites the
history of the trouble
The First National bank of Chicago
will build at Dearborn and Monroe
streets the largest building in the world.
1t will accommodate 5000 people and
cost $3,0O0,000.
Through the Kansas City traneporta-
tlon bureau, the Kansas City board of
trade has brought suit before the inter
state commerce commission to secure
relief from the alleged unjust freight
rates which it is asserted have seriously
crippled Kansas City as a grain market.
The defendants are the Santa Fe, the
Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific and
the Rock island railroads.
Tuesday, February 1S.
Gen. Funston was DISCHARGED from
hospital at Kansas City, where he under
went second operation for appendicitis.
The great TreadwelI mine in Alaska
was assailed by fire, the compressor
burned and much of the other property
above ground destroyed. One hundred
men in the mine narrowly escaped
through the old workings.
Wheat had dull and narrow market
at Chicago, May closing at 7S%. Port
land, cash, steady at 65h to 66; Ia
coma, 651a; Colfax, so.
While the Short Hand
of the clock travels twice around the
dial Perry Davis Painkiller will cure
cold; will ease the tightness across the
chest and hence will Danish the fear of
pneumonia. Just little cold" does