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

given another largely attended musicale
at the White House, the invited guests
including the cabinet. large representa-
tion OF the diplomatic corps, senator's
ana representatives in congress and
residents of Washington.
William j. Bryan and William Ran
dolph Hearst will publish daily paper
IN st. Louis during the time of the meet
ing OF the national democratic cOnven-
ton.
Saturday, January 10.
The supreme court of Kansas has
issued the mandate committing Blanche
Boies to jail for 80 days and to paw a
fne OF 500. This affirms the district
court sentence, wherein Miss Boies was
sentenced Tor smashing the painting in
the state house which represents Gus
ter's Last Charge"
Legal proceedings will be brought by
the state of Illinois against the so.called
death trust" which controls the manu-
facture and sale of antitoxine. The pro
ceedlngs will be brought under the Sher.
man anti trust law.
The jury empanneled to make an in
vestigatiOn into the IroquOis theater
disaster, has visited the ruins of that
structure in Chicago.
The Dime Savings Bank of Ports
mouth. Va, has closed its doors. The
alleged defalcation of Cashier John
Downing several weeks ago is said to be
the cause of the failure
Senator Hanna, chairman of the ma.
tiOnaI republican committee. has issued
b call for the next republican national
convention, which is to be held in Chica
go, June 21, 1904.
William j. Bryan has returned to his
home at Lincoln, Neb., after an extended
trip to Europe. He is said to be in fine
spirits and health, having enioyed the
trip abroad immensely.
The district attorneys Office in New
York is carrying on a campaign against
usurers. The Offering of unsecured loans
to persons working on a salary is said
to have caused the investigation.
A number of trainmen were seriously
hurt in a headon collision between
freight trains on the Southern Pacific
near WOolsey, Nevada.
Thirteen members of the New York
ConfectiOners < JObbers' association
have pleaded guilty in the court of
special sessions to the charge of having
conspired to shut out competition and
maintain prices.
Fire among the Wholesale establish
ments and warehouses of Buffalo, n Y,
has caused a loss estimated at $3.50
OoO. Five fremen we're injured
SUNDAY. JaUuarV Wy
An entire block in the heart of the
business district OF Wheeling, W. Va,
has been burned. The loss is about
$20O,000.
Eighteen delegates to the League of
Commission Merchants at Louisville
Ky, we're thrown into the lev waters of
Echo river, which winds a tortuous
course through Mammoth cave. deep
underground, and we're only saved by
the GOODNESS of the guide They were
rescued after several hours.
Five hundred tickets have been issued
for the dollar dinner" to be given in
Lincoln, Neb., in honor of W. j, Bryan.
The speakers comprise many of the
leading democrats of that state
John McNeill, president of the Boiler
makers Union of America, has called a
strike of 500 boiermakers employed by
two companies at Chattanooga, Tenn,
and one at Battele, Ala, because non
union men have been employed.
Lieutenant Commander Harry NJ.
Hodges has been appointed chief
photographer OF the navy, vice Com.
mander William H. Sutherland, assigned
to command the Cleveland.
Sarah Groom Pearson, mother of
Captain Richmond p HObsOn, is dead
at the home of Shirley Davis, at Boulder,
Colo, aged so years. The remains will
be taken to the family home at Green's
bOIo, Ala.
At q mass meeting held under the
auspices OF the leading womens' clubs OF
Philadelphia, resolutions were adopted
denouncing polygamy and Mormonism
and petitiOning the senate to investigate
charges made against Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah.
A party of Mormons near Garland,
WyO., have discovered q natural gas
well in cleft OF rocks on a mountain.
A match was lighted to test the SUBJ
stance and an explosion followed which
sent a column OF fire many feet into the
air.
The first rain OF the season has fallen
over portions OF Southern California
At Santa Barbara the storm lasted
three hours and the streets were flooded.
At Ventura, where there has been no
rain since last May, quite heavy pre-
cipitation occurred.