The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-03-11
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Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, March 9.

Wednesday, March 9.
Difficulties between the mill and
smetermen and the mill owners have
again broken out at Colorado City,
Colo, and union men are being arrested
for attempting to intimidate nonunion
wOrkmen
Senator Ankeny has received the
promise of the war department that
Fort Walla Walla will be rebuilt and
made an infantry post.
1t is said that the westbound move
ment of homeseekers is very satisfactory
to the railway lines running out of St.
Paul.
Daniel Cushing, q prominent and
wealthy young man of Columbus, Miss,
has been kidnapped by four unknown
men and is being held for a ransom of
10000. Texas rangers and sheriff's
posses are securing the country.
An effort to unearth secrets of the
Mormon faith was manifested in the first
days proceedings before the senate com
mittee on privileges and elections, which
is investigating the protests against
Reed Smoot retaining his seat as
senator from Utah.
Fourteen persons are believed to have
.
through the collapse Of the steel skele-
ton OF the Hotel Darlington, a 12-story
apartment house in course of cOnstruc
tiOn in New York City.
A conclusion of the negotiations for
the title of the Panama Canal Company
property is in sight. 1t is expected that
within 80 days the United States will be
in absolute possession of the property
and that the money consideration will
have been paid.
Thursday. March 8.
Driven by a terrific gale from the
/ north, which at times reached velocity
Of 80 miles an hour, prairie fire swept
/ over Is, 900 acres in COmanche county,
Okla, nfiicting damage estimated at
: 100000. Many farm homes were
/ blotted out and number OF lives lost.
! Three white men and one negro were
killed in a battle between negroes and
! whites at BokOshe, |. T., mining town.
! The coIored men had been ordered to
leave.
! The secretary OF the treasury has
called on the depository banks OF New
York City to deposit 90 per cent of their
government holdings in he subtreasury,
the money to be paid to ]. p. Morgan
& Co, as the financial renresen tati9es
of the republic of Panama. The amount
will aggregate about 100000.
In the Texas panhandle a hurricane
blew freight cars off the track and dam
aged many ranch buildings. A Colo
RADIO & Southern passenger train was
brought to a standstil, being unable to
proceed against the wind
! A blizzard is raging throughout Ne
braska, Kansas and Oklahoma and high
winds prevail Many prairie fires are re-
| ported on the western plains.
| President Smith Of the Mormon church
| has confessed before the senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections that
| he supports FIVE wives. The investiga
| tion Of Reed SmoOt is causing consider
| able commOtiOn at the national capital.
| William J. O'Brien. an insane dis
| charged soldier, visited the war depart
/ nent at Washington and shot r. j.
/ Manning, a messenger, and Arthur
| Wilker, clerk, before he could be ar
rested. The men are not wounded
| dangerously.
Friday, March 4.
Senator Fairbanks will not resist a
movement to make him the vice presi-
| Dental nominee of the republican party,
so his friends say.
Socorro, n NJ, has been visited by 3S
earthquakes since January i. The last
| disturbance caused the Rio Grande river
to overflow and inundate the lower pOr-
tiOn OF the city.
Heavy selling of Northern Sureties
shares on the decline by New York
brokers usually employed by James }.
Hill is considered as evidence of the be
lief that the supreme court decision will
be against the merger railroads.
The complete form Of a mastodon has
been discovered on Quartz creek, Alaska,
imbedded 3S feet deep The hair and
skin of the beast are in perfect preserva-
ton. 1t is estimated that the skeleton
is worth $50, 900, as there are but one
or two of them in existence in as good
state of preservation. 1t was found in
the zone of perpetual frost, which ac
counts for it's good shape.
1t is now known that three persons
persisted in the Oklahoma prairie fire.
Estimates of losses will reach $500, 600
After living more than 80 hours under
the mass of steel beams and other debris
of the collapsed Hotel Darlington in
New York, Chas. Lasek, a cement worker,
Saturday, March s.
The rivers of the eastern and middle
st ates are rising rapidly as the warm
weather and continued rains melt the
accumulated snow in the mountains.
Two more bodies, the sixteenth and
seventeenth victims of the Darlington
hotel collapse, have been removed from
the ruins.
Fire has destroyed the principal por-
tion of the business section of Mason,
Neb.
After deliberating for almost three
hours the jury in the case OF "Lord"
Frederick Seymour Darlington, tried for
the murder of J. P. McCann, st. Louis
horseman, returned verdict of murder
in the first degree. The penalty is
death.
Advices from Fort Sill, Okla, state
that the military reservation is burning
and a strong north wind blowing. The
Apache Indians. who are prisoners OF
war on this reservation, have been
ordered to the front as fire fighters.
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