The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-15
Wednesday, January 6

i january u.
John Gleason, motorman on a Salt
Lake street car, was shot and instantly
Killed and Thomas Brydon, conductor
on the same car, was probably fatally
wounded by masked highwaymeu who
attempted to hold up the car and rob
them.
Since December 81 government
officials have been vainly trying to 10.
cate Perry Heath, in an effort to serve
subpoenas upon him, calling for his at
tendance in the federal courts at Wash
lngton in connection with the postal
scandals
Although the Coliseum in Chicago, in
which the national republican conven-
ton is to be held in June, was closed by
order OF Building Commissioner Williams,
it is said the order will be rescinded. as
the building is perfectly safe.
The extremely cold wave which has
Oeen holding the eastern and New Eng
land states in its icy grasp, is said TO be
broken and the temperature has taken
an upward turn.
1t has developed that eleven OF the ex-
It's OF the lroquois theater in Chicago
were locked, thus proving that the peO
pie had no chance to escape through
them when the fire broke out.
Twenty dead and 81 injured is the re
| suit OF the Rock Island passenger wreck
at Willard, near Topeka. The phvsi
clans report that all of the injured will
recover with one exception.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has begun the consideration OF
The state senate of Miesissppi has
instructed the United States senators
from that state to vote for the Panama
canal treaty.
Three big wagon loads of dirt and
ashes were taken from the 'IroUuOis
theater floor and conveyed under police
guard to the basement Of astore near bv,
where placer miners outfit, including
sIeVes and gold pans, was erected and
the search for valuables started.
1t took exactly one minute and Is
seconds after an alarm of fire had been
given to march $50 school children out
OF the Union school at Salt Lake. The
building, three story structure, was
destroyed by fire two years ago, and
since then a fire drill has been part of
the regular exercises. When flames were
discovered in the basement this time.
the fire drill was instantly called and to
the sounds OF music hundreds of children
were marched out in perfect order. The
loss was nominal.
Thursday, January z.
After delberatiDg 45 minutes a jury
found Former Congressman Edmund Fl.
briggs OF New York guilty of accepting
money to procure contract between a
private company and the government
while serving as a member OF congress.
apparently conscience stricken and
his mind afame with religious ardor,
William Wilson, aged 80, a Salvation
Army recruit, walked into the st. Louis
police headquarters and confessed that
on July ;, 1901, he had set fire to tho
Occidental hotel in FOresytbe, Mont
which resulted in the death of one per-
son and injury to 20.
Ruth, the eldest daughter of Elk Presi-
dent and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. is dead
at the Cleveland home at Princeton. n.
j., aged Is years. Death was very sud
den and unexpected and came as a result
OF weak heart action brought on by a
light attack of diphtheria.
The investigation into the Iroquois
theater disaster is still in progress in
Chicago and many witnesses are being
examined.
An epidemic that has puzzled the
physicians OF Leadville, Colo, for week
past has been determined by the state
board Of health to be typhoid fever
There are said to be nearly 400 cases of
the malady in Leadville.
Secretary Hay has sent the answer OF
this government to General Rafael
Reyes, the Colombian special envoy, who
charged that the United States had vio-
lated the treaty of 1916. The note ex-
pressed the desire OF this government to
deal justly with Colombia, but is an en-
phatic refusal to reopen the Panama
question.
The senate committee on military af-
fairs has authorized Senator Foraker to
report favorably the nomination of Gov
ernor Taft OF the Philippines to be secre-
tary of war.
Three trGinmen we're killed by a col
lisiOn of two trains on the Brooklyn
Elevated Railroad. One of the dead
men was hurled from the structure to
the street and nearly every bone in his
DOOy broken.
E. E. EIenwood, formerly United
States Attorney for Arizona, and former
Governor Murphy Of Arizona, have ap-
peared before the Congressional com
mittee on territories and argued for the
admission of their state. They did not
believe joint statehood with New Mexico
was desirable.
Friday, January 8
President and Mrs. Roosevelt enter
tanned large gathering at a musicale
at the White House. A dinner, at which
about 30 guests were present, preceded
the music.
AS the result OF long standing differ
ences between the machinests' and car
penters' unions at Butte, Mont, a strike
was declared on the federal building,
| now nearing completion in that city.
Pension Commissioner Ware has de-
cided that a soldier is barred from the
benefits OF a pension after being con-
victed of crime and given life sentence.
The commissioner holds that a pension
is for the purpose of supporting a soldier
during his declining years and is a
gratuity. If he is serving sentence he
| is being carefully and kindly taken care
of by the government, which thereby
fulfils its duty toward him.
Building Commissioner Williams OF
| Chicago has received rpDorts of "a halls