The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-03-06

OF the marines.
One of the notable pieces OF railroad
construction in the west has been com
pieted at Stockton (Utab) when a cut
on on the Oregon Short Line was com
pieted. The cut is through a natural
dyke, the former rim of the Great Salt
lake.
Eleven leading attorneys of Louisville,
ny, have been arrested on warrants
charging them with failing to paw a
license to practice law. They will con.
test the matter through the appellate
court.
Sunday, March {.
Thirty-eight thousand men are tenn
porarllly thrown out OF employment by
the Hoods in the upper Ohio river valley
the mills and factories in and around
Plttsburg, Pa, being under water. River
men fear much greater rise as the tribu.
tarles OF the large rivers are constantly
rising.
A movement to establish in Louisville,
Ky, a Hebrew hospital, has ended in
success and at a mass meeting to be
held Wednesday night an organization
will be effected. Contributions amount
ing to over $4,000 have been secured
This will be the second of it's kind estab-
lished in the United States.
A woman who gave her name as Char
lotte q. Wellington committed suicide
by inhaling chloroform in fashionable
boarding house at HaddonieId, N. J.
She left note and $75 to pay her burial
expenses.
carrie Nation has again been arrested,
this time in San Francisco, charged with
mlllclous mischief. She entered a saloon
on Montgomery street and broke a
bottle OF Whiskey. She spent the night
in the city prison.
The Potter case of Schenectady, N. Y.
has been settled by the painters union
abandoning it's position and William
Potter Will be allowed to go to work as
a union painter and at the same time
remain a member of the militia. These
are exactly the terms which he has been
standing out for the last three months.
At Hamilton. Ohio, Alfred Knapp, ar
rested for the murder OF his wife. has for
the first time exhibited remOrse. His
relatives say that he is insane. He has
been in states prison several times be
fore but always charged with smaller
criminal offenses.
Monday, March
In the past 4S hours the Mississipni
river at Memphis has risen three e-tenths
OF foot and the water now stands a
loot and two tenths above the danger
line. There has been another rise in the
Ohio, Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.
1t is predicted that the waters will reach
the highest stage ever known before
they recede.
Justice Fitzpatrick of the United States
circuit court of New Jersey has ap-
pointed Thomas G. McGovern OF New
York and George B. MalIock of New
Jersey, receivers for the Pacific Packing
i Navigation company of Seattle.
The Montana house OF representatives
has killed the bill to license gambling.
Only four days ago the house, in its com
mittee of the whole, ordered a favorable
report on it. The first anti gambling
law was passed in Montana in 1895, and
was declared unconstitutional.
Unless certain demands for an increase
in wages on the Wabash system east of
the Mississippi are granted it is probable
that general strike will be instituted,
Six men are missing and thought to
be dead and 25 or 30 Others are injured,
several OF them seriously, from the effects
OF an explosion at the Edison Cement
plant at New Village, N. j. large part
OF the plant was burned and it is feared
that the missing men are in the ruins.
The roulette dealer in the Abbey saloon
at Douglas, Ariz., was held up by a lone
The robber entered
through the remembrance and command
ed all in the saloon to line up against
the wall. The amount taken by the
is said to he over $4,000.
Tuesday. March 8.
Rear Admiral A. S. CrowninshieId.
commanding the European squadron.
has cabled the navy department his de-
sire to be relieved from active duty and
placed upon the retired list. Secretary
Moody at once decided to relieve the
and Rear Admiral Charles S.
Cotton hos been assigned to that post.
The jury in the Mott murder trial at
MissOula has brought in a verdict of
murder in the first degree against Louis
FL. Mott, who killed his wife last Decem.-
ber by shooting her to death in their
own home.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Her
bert have exchanged ratifcations of the
Alaska boundary treaty. The prepara
tion Of the cases for the two sides will
proceed with all speed, as under the
treaty they must be submitted to the
arbitrators within 60 days.
General Crozier, chief of ordinance, has
made preliminary arrangements for arm
ing the entire orga nized MALTA of the
United States with the Krag-J orgensen
musket of the regular service, in compli-
ance with the provisions OF the new
militia law.
Governor Bailey OF Kansas has issued
proclamation calling upon the people
of that state for contributions to aid
the famine sufferers in Sweden.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Harvey
Lille, charged with the murder of her
husband last October at David Citv.
Neb., has rendered verdict OF murder in
the first degree and recommended lie
imprisonment.
Well Again.