The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-05-04
NORTH w EST NEWS.

Warren $. Gill, special agent for the
American Fire Insurance company of
Philadelphia received word at Spokane
that t. e company had suspended the
writing of any more business So far as
IS known this is the first of the big com
panies to suspend on account of the San
Francisco disaster.
The Bank Of Kettle Falls was burglar
lied last Saturday. The safe was blown
open and all the cash and papers of
value were taken. The loss in cash is
placed at $110O.
dispatch from Lewiston, Mont SAYS
the Milwaukee railroad engineers in order
to avoid numerous bridges across the
Musselshell river, a large stream along
the settled route between Harlowton and
the Yellowstone river, have decided to
change the course OF the MusselIshell for
several miles.
Robert Burns, general agent of the o.
x. n. has been promoted to district
freight and passenger agent of the o. K
< n, with headquarters at Wala Walla
Mr.. Burns territory will include all
south OF Snake river to Umatilla, Pen
dletOn and the main line points east as
far as Huntington.
1t s expected that Major Rankin, the
government allOttlng agent, will arrive
in Missoua within a few days, prepara-
tory to beginning his work on the Flat
head Indian reservation, says the Mis-
sOulian. At present Major Rankin is on
the Crow reservation, but he has been
directed by the commissioners OF Indian
affairs to proceed at once to the Flat
head to begin the work of parcelliDg out
the lands to the Indians.
With the double purpose of accom-
pllshlng saving in the cost of clothing
at the several state institutions and to
provide additional work for the inmates
OF the penitentiary, the state board OF
| control has arranged for great increase
10 the output of the tailor shop at the
Walla Walla prison, and is now also ar
ranging to install knitting machines in
the women's ward there.
A warrant has been issued at Lewis
| ton for the arrest of Lee Gibson of Cul-
desac on the charge OF shooting his son,
James. The two have had great deal
OF trouble, which resulted in the shoot
ing in which young Gibson was shot in
| the hand. The father has not yet been
| arrested.
Eleven thousand dollars in gold and
| currency is stated to have been unearth
ed in an old cellar here by j. Fl. Ander-
son, who was accompanied by an elderly
woman and a young woman, said to be
Anderson's daughter, says Pilot Rock,
| Ore, report.
There is reported to be new eruption
of Holy Rollerism, with half dozen of
the former victims affected, in the vicin-
ity OF Corvallis, Ore. An exodus of these
people has taken place, with a spot not
far from WaldyOrt, 20 miles south OF
Newport, Lincoln county, Oregon, as
the objective point. Creffeld is the lead
er of the band.
The Colville river in Stevens county is
bank full, and in the low valley lands
the overflow covers several thousand
acres The high water is coming unusu-
ally early this season.
Baron Won Schlosser, whose right
name is said to be Milton M. Spears,
who was arrested in Seattle last October
for Detroit, Mich. officers. on the charge
of forgery, has just been convicted oi
the crime at Detroit. He has not yet
been sentenced.
By the explosion Of donkey engine
at logging camp near Bryan, Wash.