The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-28
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest firm All Over
aGreat Country.
Wednesday. April 10.

Great Country.
Wednesday, April 10.
After endeavorng for four long month";
to master railroading from the ground
up, beginning at $12 a week clerkship
young Herbert \. Hartman gave up tn,
task at Omaha, Neb and took the frs
train east. He will use bis millions in {
less irksOme task.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will be one of tn.
members Of Secretary Taft's party which
will shortly depart for the Philippines
1t is the intention Of the secretary tC
stop at Japan on official business on the
way to the islands. The presence of thu
presidents daughter at the present timt
will require delicate handling in order tC
keep down unpleasant complications.
The jury that is to try Nan Patterson
for the third time, has been secured after
some difficulty, and the case will be pro
ceeded with on Monday.
W. J. Bryan, as executor OF PhiIo S
Bennett, has named the University o
Montana as one of the 25 institutions O
| learning to receive $400 under the will
| Interest on the money will be given tC
the student producing the best essay or
| 1.-The Progress OF Good Government "
| An amicabe agreement has been reach
ed whereby the present owners of the Chi
cagO street railways are to modernizG
their lines and turn them over to the
city at fair profit, thereby dispensing
with costly legal complications.
Notices have been posted in the vari
GUS blast furnaces of Youngstown, o,
that on May /, wages would be increased
10 per cent to turn men and per cent
to day laborers.
In an attempt to escape, three prison
ers fired the Jail at Pontcha TOule, La.
and they were consumed in the flames.
| May wheat closed at 81 .13 x at Chic.
ago today.
| Thursday.'A 20.
| The steamer Olympia sailed today
from Honolulu bound for Seattle having
on board SIT Japanese men and 16
japanese women, who. it is said, are
under contract to work on the Great
Northern in Montana. The Olympia
also returns the cargo OF coal which the
merchants at Honolulu refused tC
purchase.
Another eye witness to the death O
Caesar Young, for whose murder Nan
| Patterson is on trial at New York has
appeared at Chicago in the person Of
Samuel Eisenburg. He says that Young
pulled gun from his pocket and shot
| himself
The body Of John Paul Jones OF revo
lutiOnary lame, was placed in the receiv
ing vault Of the church of the Holy
| Trinity at Paris, there to await The
arrival Of an American man-of-war tC
convey it to the United States.
| For the reason he did not wish to for
| get his own parents who we're of humble
origin, Andrew Carnegie has taken the
daughter Of a brother under his protec
ton. The girl 80 far forgot her millions
that she married the family cOachman
and was cast adrift by her parents.
Wheat closed at $1.10h at Chicago
today.
Friday, April 21.
In fire which reduced to ashes tn,
convent at St. Genevieve, in eastern Can
ada, one nun, eight children and four ole
ladies we're burned to death.
The breweries of st. Louis in acquies
cling so gracefully to Sunday closing, de
sire that the law should be enforced with
out discrimination. They claim that tn,
law does not specify saloons more thar
any other business and insist that al
Sunday labor be suspended.
The soothing influence OF Chicago i
evidenced daily at one OF the city's parks
where young lion is allowed the liberty
Of the grounds, rOmping with children al
day long. The animals in the wheat pi
are not quite 80 docile, but the 1st O
May will no doubt see large number o
them reGuced to submission.
The immigration records were again
broken in New York today when thre
steamers landed 9,675 steerage passen
gers there. Up to and including yester
day 50, ,791 immigrants had been landed
so far this month, as compared to AZ,
ATT to the same date OF last year.
Spotted fever, or cerebro spinal menin
gifts, is believed to be a contagious dis
ease by the New York health commission
and hereafter will be pleaced under th,
same quarantine rules as scarlet fever
diphtheria, etc.
Twenty Hungarian laborers were
chloroformed in their boarding house al
Allentown. Pa, and robbed of severa
thousand dollars. No clue has as YET
been found as to who turned the.trck.
United States Senator Orville Hitch
cock Platt, OF Connecticut, died at biz
summer residence in Washington, Conn.
his boyhood home. The senator was il
but short time, having contracted G
cold, during the impeachment proceed
ings against Judge Sway ne, which settle
on his lungs. The immediate cause 0
death was the breaking of an abces'
which had formed on his right lung
and which caused strangulation.
John Mcclure, labor representative
from the Hawaiian islands, is in Wash
ington to consult with the officers OF tn,
American Federation OF Labor with {
view to stopping the immense immigra
ton of japanese to the United States
Mr.. Mcclure says that they are in al
kinds OF business on the island and tina
they are running others out. He say
that the Japs stop there until they get
little money when they proceed to tn
United States. The matter will b
brought before congress.
Saturday, April %
1t was discovered just previous to th
passage of the Stout bill by the Wiscon
sin legislature, that the bill bad a ia
wider scope than was at first intended