The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-02-10

brethren, who can continue their pas
time OF mauling their women without
the whipping post looming up as pos
sible result
Heavy rains are reported throughout
Southern California and points in Ari-
zona, accompanied by lightning, which
ls unusual in that section.
Saturday, February f.
| Not since the Seeley dinner have the
400 been SO horriied as they were at
the Hyde tonight when Mime. Reiane
| gave an exhibition of the festive cancan
on top OF a supper table. The pretty heels
and gorgeous skirts of the dainty French
| actress charmed the onlookers into
silence, but the sensation" j" as the affair
gained publicity, is described as simply
shocking.
After al extended report of the work
accomplished since July last on the
Panama canal, the American minister at
| that point says: IF the next six months
show corresponding progress to that Of
the past six months, it is the opinion of
the best engine RS in Panama that sea
level canal can be constructed in 10
years and be ready for large vessels by
January |, 1915"
An engine exploded on the n. Y. Cen
tral, near Whitesboro, \. u, and caused
wreck in which two trainmen lost their
lives and a dozen passengers were in \
| iured.
| Col. j. Il. Wardner. with over 200
Americans are corraled in Sonora, Mex,
| 0y 1aqul Indians on the waTpath
}. II. Mackenzie, mining expert, and sew
eral companions were killed and the be-
leagured party daily expect massacre.
| Col. Wardner has written for American
aid, as the Mexican government is
unable to cope with the uprising.
Sunday, February 8.
| Chase Shively, supreme chancellor of
the knights of Pythias, has decided that
member who is bona fide hotel
keeper may personally attend his own
/ bar connected with such hotel business.
He also decided that there is nothing in
the Pythian code to prevent the supreme
| chancellor from holding the office OF
grand lecturer.
Z. K. Berkwith, president Of the de
funct Citizens Bank of Oberlin, O., is
dead. The death of Beckwith materially
lessons the chances of the prosecution in
VIZ OUCSo hiS. CuduWICk, OI
which he was supposed to be the star
witness.
Sensations with regard to land frauds
in Oregon are still being promised, and
1t Is said over 20 new indictments are
ready to be made public, compromising
many more prominent people,
Rt. Rev. Hobon, of Scranton, Pa,
comes out unequivocally III favor of
permitting boys aud others employed
during the week to enjoy baseball, or
any manner Of athletic sport on the
Sabbath.
Mrs. John Kirkpatrick was outraged
and murdered on Pittsburg, Pa, streets
during the early evening. The fiend has
escaped detection so far, though the
police have the usual number of suspects
under surveillance.
The japanese house today passed a
bill prohibiting other than native Japan
ese to labor in Japanese mines.
President Scburman of Cornell uni
versity addressing students said that
educated men no longer regarded the
bible as true, and that the bible must be
considered only as the mold into which
religion was poured 1000 years ago.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany has announced a general advance
10 all wire and wire products.
A wife's infidelity and an irate hus
band with six shooter made things
pretty lively at a New Kensngton tele
graph Office. AS a result HI NJ. Elmer
lies in the morgue with al even half
dozen holes in his body
Eighty-three year old john Howard is
rms ~ oe =.
% year old wife, at Trenton, n. j.
Monday, February g.
Mrs. Webb Duke, wife of the millionaire
tobacco manufacturer, is to be set free
and all prosecution dropped.
The wea ther east of the Rockies still
continues cold. Zero weather extending
as far south as Oklahoma Much dam
age ia OccasiOned and the eastern ports
are all ice bound.
"Bat" Masterson, the marshal OF
Dodge City, Kan, during the bad"
days, is to be appoined q. s. Marshal
for the District OF n. Y.
Receiver Loiser filed a list of the
creditors OF Mrs. Cassie Chadwick in the
u S. bankruptcy court at Cleveland, 0
Mrs. Chadwick's debts will aggregate
81 100000, while her assets hardly reach
$4,000.
Tuesday, February z.
Director Wacott of U. S. geological
survey says that the Palouse irrigation
is to be finished within two years, il
everything is favorable, otherwise 1908
will see tine completion OF the project.
August W. Machen, Diller B. Golf and
Samuel A. Goff, convicted OF conspiracy
in the postal department, today entered
upon their terms in the penitentiary at
Moundaville, w. Va. Each received two
years with a fine of $4,000.
In court at Towanda, Pa, Bigler John
son pleaded guilty to the charges that
he murdered his wife, Maggie B. John
son. and her niece, Annie Benjamin, 10
years old, September last. and afterward
burned the bodies.