The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-04-18

AC]A al NIL 10, lSU
nected with the laying of the corner
stohe OF the new home for aged ortho-
uo1 Jews. A large part of the cost OF
Tue nome was realized from the sale OF
these privileges.
1he United States district attorney at
hahsas City has been instructed by the
attorney general to Immediately take
steps to dissolve the go called beef trust.
ana federal grand jury will be called to
start the ball rolling.
Matters have reached such a stage
that the compulsory retirement of Gen.
erai Miles has been decided upon and is
not denied at the White House.
flans are on foot for the formation of
gigantic trust of all the cotton yarn
niiiis OF the southern states.
by the death OF follower from New
Zealand, John Alexander DOwie, head of
Tue Aionlsts, who styles himself Elijah
IL Tails heir to an estate of $4,000.
AS result of the enforcement of the
excise law, New Workers who wanted a
drink OF Intoxicating liquor had to buv
sandwich also. The arrests for viola
tlons OF the law numbered Il, against
III last Sunday.
messages of sympathy from nearly
every state in the Union, and from Eng
land, Russia and other European coun-
tries came to the family of Rev. DR.. Tai
madge who died yesterday at Wash
ingtOn.
horace Resley, aged 81 years, the in-
Vent0r of the locomotive pilot in 1910,
ana other railroad appliances, died at
Cumberland, Md.
Monday, April Ii.
One OF the miracles of western rail
roadlng occurred near Terry, Montana,
when Northern Pacific passenger train
ran into burned bridge, ditching the
mail express, baggage and. two day
coaches without the loss OF single life.
Inc mail car burned and four cars re-
malned On the track.
savage duel with butcher knives.
which will probably be followed by two
deaths, took place in the kitchen OF the
Union League club at Chicago The
partlcipants-tbe chef and butcher-were
expert swordsmen, each having served
IN European armies, and they did battle
according to the code with a determina-
tIon that it should be to the death, each
finally falling from loss of blood.
The United States attorney at Chica-
go, following instructions given by Pres
ldent Roosevelt and Attorney General
Knox, will make a searching inquiry
into the workings Of the so-called beef
trust in Chicago, in relation to the
Sherman antitrust law The investiga-
ton will be secret.
Western Wyoming sheepmen are buy
ing large tracts of land along the Union
Pacific railroad, the purchases being
part of plan to force the cattlemen
out of the district over which there has
been 80 much strife.
The presbytery of New York goes on
record as opposed to the production Of
the passion play, and condemns any
effort to produce on the public stage any
scenes from Christ's life.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved several patents of land in the
state of Washington, to the Northern
Pacific Railroad company.
Mrs. Hannah Bartlow, who would
have been 1O6 years old on May l, died
at Brunswick, N. J.
The president has decided to appoint
James s. Clarkson OF Iowa to the posi-
ton of surveyor OF customs Of the port
OF New York.
Tuesday, April Is.
The twenty seventh annual cOnven-
tiOn of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers opened at
Wheeling, W. Va.
Henry L. Wilson of Spokane, minister
to Chile, arrived in Washington on his
way home. He desires to be transferred
from his present position, preferably to
Cuba, and has hopes OF success.
The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor asks the senate to
pass the Chinese exclusion bill already
passed by the house, claiming that the
senate measure as it now stands would
be inadequate.
Secretary OF War Root has ordered
that General Jacob FL. Smith, who told
Major Waller TO kill and burn FiIipinos,
be courtmartialed. Major Edwin F.
Glenn and Captain Charles A. Ryan will
also be tried.
Tomas Estrada Palma, president
elect of Cuba, took leave today OF his
friends of Central Valley, New York,
among whom be has lived during 18
years of exile from his country.
The president has appointed Arch
bishop Ryan OF Philadelphia a member
of the board of Indian commissioners.
He succeeds Bishop Whipple, the emf
nent Episcopalian who died recently and
is the first Catholic prelate appointed on