The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-04-04
NEWS Oh THR STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
bo1ied Down As 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, March 20.

Wednesday, March 20.
Miners in the Wichita mountains, o
L. have unearthed an 50 pound nugget
% per cent OF which is pure gold
There is now no likelihood of strike
10 the anthracite coal districts this year
Ihls result was brought about largely
Oy Senator Hanna, who is an earnest
advocate OF the cause of arbitration
end ne presented the matter with such
force that j. P. Morgan, who controls
the operators through ownership OF coal
ROADS, was convinced that the operators
should yield point.
Albert T. Patrick, LAWYER. is convicted
at New York of the murder on Septem-
Der %, 1900, of William Marsh Rice, an
aged millionaire recluse. 1t was estab-
lished that Patrick conspired with
Charles +. Jones, Rice's valet, to obtain
possession of the aged Texans estate,
estimated at 100000, and that Jones
killed his employer by administering
chlorOtorm at the direct instigation OF
Patrick. The sensational trial was pro-
longed nine weeks and the jury reached
verdict in scant three hours.
Nearly 1000 homeseekers, bound for
the northwest, passed through Mime
| apOlis in "a hours.
General Leonard Wood left Washing
ton on his last visit to Havana in the
capacity OF military governor of Cuba
+ he will leave the island the day the new
government is installed.
Thursday, March 2z.
Discovery of smallpox in the building
t'hIR0Tn h. IL L
Dowle as college, chapel, hotel, and
publication office of Leaves of Healing,
resulted in 173 of his followers and g.
score OF servants being quarantined
Even II no new cases develop, they will
be held for 90 days.
Melting SHOWS and heavy spring rains
have transformed stretches of prairie in
North Dakota into lakes which cover
railroad tracks and stop traffic on the
Northern Pacific.
Justice Anderson, in the district
criminal court at Washington, directed
the jury to return a verdict of not guilty
IN case where II year old boy killed
playmate, pointing out that the law
presumes that child between the ages
OF and 10 years has no intention to
commit crime.
The coal miners have decided To not
strike, agreeing to continue work pend
ing settlement of dispute.
Commissioner General OF Immigra-
tion POwderly, whose term of Office ex
pires soon, will, it is said, be rendered
some other position in the government
service.
The Textile council votes to order a
strike in Lowell, Mass, cotton mills be-
cause of the refusal to grant a 10 per
cent Increase in wages, in conformity
with the increase at Fall River. About
10000 operatives will be directly
affected.
Friday, March 28.
District Attorney Jerome promises to
stop gambling in New York if the city
will pay the bill, and the expense would
be heavy.
The city of Chicago has started 200
suits against the Chicago Union Trac
ton 20, Tor refusal to transfer pass
engers from one line to another without
charging extra fare.
Great damage is caused by floods in
the country between Tennessee and
Alabama. Rivers are bank full, bridges
washed out and trains tied up.
Chicago bod carriers, numbering 1000
men, have voted to strike to enforce
demand for an advance of cents an
hour in pay. They now receive 80 cents
an hour.
New York city will put in voting ma
chimes at cost of about 100000.
The glucose plant at Waukegan, which
employs over 500 hands, will be closed
as soon as the supplies on hand are ex-
hausted. How long the shut down will
last is not known. The plant is owned
by the National Starch company.
Charles Woodward, convicted at
Casper, Wyo., and sentenced to hang
for the murder of Sheriff William C.
Kicker, was taken from jail and lynched
by mob because of reprieve granted
him by the supreme court.
New Bedford, Mass, mill operatives
have been granted a 10 per cent advance
in wages.
Streetcar strikers at Leavenworth,
Kan, conceded everything on condition
that they be taken back, and giving up
the union.
That the 16, 900 employees of seven
cotton manufacturing corporations of
Lowell who have demanded an advance
OF 10 per cent in wages, with strike on
next Monday as the alternative, will be
locked out unless a settlement is reach
ed, became apparent today, when the
agents OF all the cotton mills caused to
be posted notices that after tomorrow
the mills would be closed until further
notice.
Commander in Chief Terrence of the
Grand Army lunched with the president
today.
Reports from Orchard, Col, say that
many cattle on the plains are in pitt
able condition for want of water.
Saturday, March 20.
At the conclusion OF an all night con
terence between a committee of citizens
and representatives of the Textile coun-
Gil OF Lowell, it was announced that the
strike of the 10000 cotton mill opera
tives had been averted for the present.
A Denver company proposes to es-
tablish system of wireless telegraphy
with points on the Pacific coast, includ
ing cities in Washington, and hopes to
be sending messages within so days.
The management of the Charleston.
s. C., exposition is endeavoring to Sc