The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-22
Monday, January 1S

Twelve hundred feet of the Ogden
Lucien cutoff across Great Salt Lake
has collapsed. The damage il near
camp 10 at midlake By reason of this
sinking all trains must 60 around the
head OF the lake as heretofore.
A formal welcome to W. J. Bryan on
his return from Europe, in the form of a
dollar dinner" has been held at
Lincoln and attended by 700 democrats.
The house committee on military af-
| fairs has concluded it's work on the
army appropriation bill 1t carries ap-
preparations aggregating SIS, ,00O,O 900.
The United States fleet at Panama
has been augmented by the gunboat
Bennington and the torpedo boat de-
stroyers Preble and Paul Jones which
have arrived there from San Francisco.
Secretary Hay and Baron Garyais
minister OF The Netherlands, have signed
an extradltlon treaty which will be i'm
| mediately sent to the senate
j. P. Jones and C. A. Walsh. chair.
man and secretary of the national demo
cratic committee, have issued the call
Tor the convention to be held in st
Louis, July 6, 1904.
The executive committee Of the ma
tlonat socialist party has issued q call
lot the convention OF that party to meet
IN Chicago May l. 1904, to nominate q
national ticket.
The fifteenth annual convention of the
United MinewOrkers Of America il in
session at Indianapolis, Ind, with 1000
delegates from various parts OF the
United States present.
The striking street railway EMPLOYEES
OF Bloomington, Ill.,, who went out on
January /, for increased wages, have
Inaugurated a competitive automobile
system.
Encased within the body of man %
years old, the doctors Of the Lincoln
hospital in New York have found vital
organs that belong to an OctOgenarian.
The discovery Is regarded as one of the
most surprising in the history OF post
mortem examinations, and, so far as
known, stands alone, although it bears
some resemblance to the case of the
peasant girl, Jannea Uni, who aroused
interest among French anatomists
about 10 years ago.
Tuesday, January 10.
lD his inaugural address,, delivered be
fore a joint session of the Mississippi
legislature, Governor James K. Varda-
man declared that the growing tendency
OF the negro TO commit assaults on
white women is nothing more nor less
than the manifestations of the racial de
sire for social equality.
By q cave in Of earth in the East Grav
Rock mine Of Butte, Mont, one of the
amalgamated properties, four men were
killed and two injured.
Chicago theatrical managers take an
extremely pessimistic view OF the situa-
tlOn created by the action Of the city
council, which has finally adopted q
stringent theater law. Without the
galleries, it is claimed, no theater in Chi
cago can hardly pay expenses.
The lower house Of congress is con
sidering the Hepburn pure food bill. but
did not complete it. Consideration will
be resumed at a future date.
Intensely cold weather is causing sui
fering in New York and along the At
lantic seaboard. The mercury has
again dropped to 40 degrees below zero.
BaIloting for United States senator to
succeed Senator Louis E. McCOmas is in
progress in the Maryland legislature.
the senate and house voting separately.
No democrat has received enough votes
as vet to elect.
Many bets were decided between
brokers on the Chicago board of trade,
when May wheat sold at 90c. This was
not only the top price for the season, but
the highest since September, 1902, when
Armour cOrnered the market.
The cabinet dinner given by Post
master General and Mrs. Payne was the
largest function of that character ever
given in Washington, as in addition to
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, there we're
40 other guests.
The president has received informa-
tiOn that Y. c. BlaIock, receiver OF the
land office at Walla Walla, had for
warded his resignation, as be expects to
return to the active practice of medicine
Senators Ankeny, Foster and Congress
man Jones have recommended A. j.
Gilis OF Walla Walla as Mr.. Blalock's
successor.
Petitions to congress Tor an apprO-
priatiOn OF $4,000 for the improve
ment of the Pend d'Oreile river are be
ing circulated among the residents of
Newport. The Gle airing of distractions
to navigation from the river will enable
the steamers to fur nish TRANSFORMATION
to a large territory rich in mineral and
timber.
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