The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-07-03
ALL OVER THB union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
Reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Thursday, june 25,

Six human skeletons have been found
In hole washed out by the water just
west OF North Topeka, Kansas. They
are not the remains of food victims,
and how they came tosbe there is a mys.
terry to ali W ho have seen them.
A mob of so masked men hanged
Jack Harris, negro, to the porch OF
building in Clarendon, Ark. Harris
mad assaulted and seriously injured John
Coburn, white farmer.
United States Commissioner Wilson
has fixed the bond OF C. II. Winter. who
ls charged with keeping Nellie Fields, a
negress in involuntary servitude near
Brookside, Ala, at $4,000 for his an
pearance before the federal grand jury.
Judge Townsend has announced that
the trial of j. H. Til!man, former lieu
tenant governor of South Carolina. will
be held in September. Tillman shot and
Killed n. Ii. Gonzales, who was the edi-
tor OF paper in that state.
According to information which Cir
cult Attorney Folk has secured $4,000
was spent in Jefferson City, Mo, to pass
the bill legalizing outstanding county
warrants which were Issued with deficien-
cIes in the treasury. 1t is said that
there are now more than $1,OOO,O0O of
these warrants in the hands of the specu
latOrs.
The special session of the legislature
OF Kansas has adjourned after passing
a number OF bills for the relief of the suf
ferers in the recent floods. Some of the
bills enlarged the duties and ability OF
the cities and OF the boards of county
commissioners.
Friday, June 20.
Sir Thomas Upton, challenger for
Americas cup. has lunched with Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the White House.
There were number OF prominent men
present. Upon conclusion OF the lunch
con Sir Thomas departed for New York.
The danger of further lawlessnes as a
result OF the lynching of the negro fiend
at Wilmington, Del, seems to have
passed. While there is no evidence that
an outbreak will occur between the
blacks and whites, the police are much
in fear, and are using every effort to
prevent riots. At present the town ia
quiet.
Mrs. Mary Patterson is under arrest
at new IOerla, ILL.,, charged with murder.
She became enraged at her little STEP
child, girl four years old, and after
beating her, tied the child in a corn sack
and suspended her to the limb of q tree.
Size then made a FIRE beneath the tree
and piled lot of paper on it to intensity
the heat. The child was burned to a
crisp.
Three negroes, Garfield Mccoy, George
Mckinney and Wiley, were taken from
the jail of Newton, Ca, and lynched.
The three men were in jail charged with
the killing of W. S. Bullard, "a white man,
who had been called to quell row at
negro dance.
1t seems that the report that the
hOmeseekers' rates would be off after the
first OF July was erroneous, and that
they will continue until sometime in Oc
tOber. Tickets are sold in st. Paul every
Tuesday for all points in the northwest
at the hOmeseekers' rate.
Postmaster General Payne will not
resign. 1t is understood that President
Roosevelt has the utmost confidence in
the postmaster general and believes that
he will assist in every way possible in
ferreting out the pOstoftice.