Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, January 6, 1899 HEAD ROLLED AWAY Conductor Gilbert Decapitated By a Car Wheel Fell With His Neck Across a Rail and Was Caughty by a Wheel Conductor Henry L. Gilbert of the Spokane & Palouse train from Pullman to Genessee, was beheaded at the Pullman yards about 10 o’clock Saturday morning by a car wheel of his train. His head was cut as squarely off as it would have been possible with a guillotine. His son, Emery Gilbert, who was a brakeman on the same train, was standing near and witnessed the t...
7 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, April 8, 1898 OFF FOR THE KLONDIKE Colfax Route is the Popular Way to the Gold Fields. The boom for the Colfax route to the Klondike has been taken up where the hullabaloo for the Psoaken cinder path was dropped. The Spokane cinder path was dropped. The Spokane route stood the test while winter lasted, but the Colfax trail is remembered when people start in the spring. With a pack train of 25 cayuses and half a dozen saddle horses G. W. Cole, a white haired pionner from near Pendleton, left this...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, January 14, 1898 A Disgraceful Act The duty of chronicling as deplorable an affair as was the tragedy enacted at the Whitman county court house in the early hours of Saturday morning is a painful one to The Gazette. As coldblooded as was the murder of Orville Hayden on that dark Octover night, it was not mroe brutal than the crime enacted in the early hours of Saturday, when Chadwick Marshall was made to pay the penalty of either his guilt or...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, December 31, 1897 IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE Archie McGilvery Gets Six Years at Walla Walla Archie McGilvery, the notorious man from Pullman, is safe from the wiles of captivating females for six years to come. Judge McDonald banished him for that time when he came up for sentence upon the verdict of the jury in his case, Wednesday afternoon. Pale and worn with his two weeks' confinement, the guilty stepfather sat back and watched Symes squirm...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, November 26, 1897 AN INSANE WOMAN Roaming the Country Through the Rain and Snow An apparently demented woman appeared at the Northern Pacific section house at Garfield at daylight Sunday morning, bedraggled, wet and cold from the stormy night. See could give no account of herself and her actions were such that J. Kidwell, the special deputy sheriff at Garfield, was sent for. The officer took her in charge and wired the sheriff's office for instructi...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, November 19, 1897 Three Palouse Youths of Tender Years in Trouble In the female department of the county jail three youths of tender years lie awaiting the action of the court. They were brought down from Palouse Sunday by Constable Callison. On the night of November 5 the store of the W.S. Willis Co. Was entered through a broken window and a quantity of canned salmon, sardines and other eatables stolen. Three nights later the house of Heistand &...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, November 12, 1897 LOST FOR TWO NIGHTS John F. Fisher, a Cook, Wanders Aimlessly About the Fields A sudden and unaccountable disappearance of John F. Fisher and dold resident of Colfax, created consternation in his family and among his many friends on Thursday evening of last week. After wandering about for two cold, stormy nights and a day in the fields and bluffs north of town, Fishwer was found and returned to his home, uninjured except from a...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, March 26, 1897 Kicked by a Horse. Tuesday forenoon the 17-year-old son of James Small, living 11 miles south-east of Colfax on Spring Flat, was kicked by a horse and badly injured. The boy was in the barn and passing behind the horse, the animal lashed out with its hind feet, both hoofs striking the boy in the head, a deep three inch gash being cut in the forehead above the right eye, and another deep gash just above the point of the chin. Drs....
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette March 19, 1897 All Home Talent Opera to be Produced by Colfax Amateurs Next Week What promises to be by far the best amatuer performance ever given in Colfax will be put on at the opera house Thursday and Friday nights of next week, March 25 and 26. It is the original comic opera entitled "The Merry Students," or "Tit for Tat." The words of the opera were written by Bert Hargrave and the music composed by Prof. L. C. Read. It is a masterpiece and over...
8 Years Ago The Colfax Gazette Friday, Feb. 26, 1897 THE RAILROAD BILL Discussion In the House Decidedly Acrimonious Hooper's Passenger Rate Bill Loaded Down With Amendments- Dispensary Law Olympia, Feb. 24.- The Canutt railroad bill or rather the substitute for the Canutt bill, which is practically the same, caused some heated debate in the house Saturday and came near being the means of bringing Geraghty of Spokane and Williams of King to blows. When the present legislature was elected it...
8 years ago Colfax Gazette Friday, Jan. 15, 1897 All Whitman County Officials Are Now Populists The county is now under populist guidance and control. Monday noon, January 11, the last remnant of republicanism in officialism in this county were relegated to private life with the retiring of Superior Judge Sullivan and Sherrif John Lathrum and the installation of their successors. The change in the janitors will not occur until February 1, when Henry Miller and M.E. Scantlin made way for Wm....
8 years ago The Commoner July 24, 1896 News from Farmington: Miss Ella Canty returned from Oakesdale Wednesday last. T.S. Hutchinson returned from Priest Lake Wednesday last. Mr. Joe and Miss Lillie Mitchell returned from St. Maries Thursday. A.R. Downs and W.N. Bellinger of Colfax were in town Friday. F.J. Harris made a trip to Palouse Friday. Joe Schnurr and H.G. Taylor returned from Meadow Creek Friday. B.F. Price has built a barn on his property this week. The politicians of this town and vicinity have organized a silver club and it is to...
8 years ago The Commoner June 5, 1896 Tekoa is talking of organizing a fire department. Rosalia will have a harness and saddlery establishment in the near future. J.T. Lobaugh, ex-postmaster of Pullman, is going into the grocery business in that city. The remains of A.L. Tays, who killed his wife and himself at Palouse last week, were buried at the expense of the county. An Indian named Charley Frank was brought up from the Snake River Tuesday night charged with horse stealing, says the Colton News-Letter. He was lodged in the city jail and...
8 years ago The Commoner May 22, 1896 Mrs. Julia E. McClung died near Palouse May 7 of quick consumption. Edward Powe and Winnifred Chapin were married Near Kamiak May 13. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. McQueen of Farmington died Sunday May 10. Palouse will celebrate decoration day, the exercises to be conducted under the auspices of G.A.R. The Hull case at Pullman has been settled, says the Herald, by Hull paying his fine and the whiskey being returned to him. Uniontown is now without an exclusive harness shop, the entire stock of Hof...
Warden Mosgrove has issued the following circular letter to the wheat growers: STATE PENITENTIARY, WALLA WALLA-WASH., May 5, 1896 – To Wheat Growers: – The price of grain bags manufactured at the state penitentiary has been reduced from $49 per thousand, last season’s figure to $46 per thousand, f.o.b. Walla Walla. At this extremely low price, we expect to supply the farmers of the wheat raising sections of the state with their grain bags and meet the competition of outside dealers in Calcutta sacks. Our grain bags have not been reduced at al...
8 years ago The Commoner April 24, 1896 A case of wholesale horse stealing is reported by J.C. Lloyd of Rebel flat, which, although not exactly a local affair, is nevertheless of much interest. Saturday evening when Mr. Lloyd went home from this city he met a number of men on Rebel flat driving a band of about 30 or 40 head of fine horses. One of the men asked Mr. Lloyd where they could procure hay to feed the animals, and after hay had been procured with the assistance of Mr. Lloyd the latter was told the following story by the man in...
The former Hubbard school house five miles north of Colfax on Highway 195 was struck by fire Sunday. Much of the roof section of the building and the east end were damaged by the blaze which started from grass burning in the area. Built in 1882, the building was used as a school until 1942. It has been used as a meeting and polling center for several years since. Volunteer firemen from Colfax and Steptoe received the alarm at about 10 a.m. and were able to salvage the building. Del Mitchell, Steptoe volunteer, said the fire started in the...
That he will enforce the state anti-gambling laws by stopping the playing of slot machines, punch boards and other games of chance is evidenced in the following statement by County Prosecutor Claude Irwin, issued Wednesday: “I have been asked to clarify the policy of the prosecuting attorney’s office toward the enforcement of state laws relating to gambling and operation of bottle clubs. “I have just returned from a meeting of the prosecuting attorneys of the state who met with the state attorney general in Olympia Friday last week, at which...
A crowd, estimated at 1,000 people packed every corner of the community hall and over-flowed to the entrance and stairs Tuesday evening when Collins and Harlan, well-known Metropolitan entertainers, presented a “Miracle Concert.” Mr. Harlan sang the initial number on the program. In the midst of the number, his lips ceased to move but the song went on. Slowly it dawned on the audience that the artist was no longer singing, though his voice came forth to them as clear and sweet as before. Again, he sang and the audience only knew it was the livi...
An old charge of crime, and one that will probably be made highly interesting when it comes to trial was renewed March 30, on complaint of Solomon Walters of Farmington, charging Chas. W. Walters with burglary and larceny. The crime is alleged to have been committed in July, 1894, and at that time the case was up for hearing before the then justice of the peace, John F. Dillon, but the matter was dropped because it was believed not sufficient evidence could be secured to ensure conviction. Since that time, however, new proof has been found,...
The jury term of superior court this week finally settled down to three charges, the first one being that of the state vs. Richard Hamblen on the charge of having intoxicating liquor in his possession. The state showed that deputy sheriffs went to the Hamblen ranch near Winona about a month ago with a search warrant and found three ten-gallon containers filled with a fermenting liquid. The containers, one keg and two crocks, were covered over in a box in the granary and a lighted lantern setting in the box. Samples of the liquid were taken to...
Two new grade school buildings in the Colfax system, on or near the present sites, were strongly advocated by a group representing the Parent-Teacher Association in attendance at the school board’s organization meeting Monday afternoon. The plan presented was in opposition to the proposal for one central building on the site of the present high school building, said to be favored by some of the board members and other school patrons of the district. Urging the two-building plan were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Looney, Mrs. Wm. T. Nowel, Mrs. Guy W. S...
Baseball will undergo a revival at Palouse this year after being off the Falcons sports menu for the past five years. James Nickens, in his third year of teaching at Palouse, will be coaching the new Falcon team. First baseball game at Palouse since 1966 has been scheduled Monday at 4 p.m. against LaCrosse. Nickens said the Falcons have invested over $600 to equip the new ball team. Uniforms have been brought out of retirement and appear to be good condition, he said. A graduate of Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, Nickens played for two...
8 years ago The Commoner Feb. 21, 1896 The city of Pullman has a good-sized sensation which has kept the town all agog for several weeks. The excitement and agitation is caused by an assault, and by one of the most peculiar judicial transactions on record. The story is as follows: On Tuesday morning of last week Irvin Griffith, an old man, came to town and soon became intoxicated. In the evening while in a saloon he annoyed justice of the peace Gammon by continually calling the latter’s name, and as the two had previously had trouble G...
8 years ago The Commoner November 15, 1895 (continued from Dec. 17, 2020 issue of The Gazette) The jailbreak was a well-planned one, showing that the originators were men with a genius for that kind of thing. The jail proper is in the northeast corner of the courthouse, directly beneath the prosecuting attorney’s office. The walls are very heavy, the ceiling is of steel, floor of cement and the windows, which are ten or twelve feet from the ground, are heavily barred. Inside the jail, and surrounded on all sides by an open corridor, is a s...
