The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-03-24
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All over
Great Country.
Wednesday, March Is.

odc0. Ibis lS Iu0 highest pTlC6 SucI
seats have ever reached.
Rev. |. F. Cordoga was found guilty
of wife beating and deserting his family
leaving the woman in critical condition
The reverend gentleman received four
years sentence in the state prison.
Chairman Hull of Iowa, of the house
Military committee, in an interview
today, predicted that the United States
and Japan would have trouble over the
Philippines in the near future.
In the democratic caucas held at
Nashville, Tenn, today James B. Frazier
was nominated to succeed the late Sen.
ator Bate of Tennessee. This is equivo-
lent to an election in Tennessee.
The second trial of Nan Patterson,
for the murder OF Caesar Young will be
begun in New York on April 10.
May wheat closed at 81 13 at Chicago
today
Thursday, March 16.
Rumor has it from Minneapolis that
the Milwaukee road will begin construc-
tiOn of a transcontinental line at both
ends as soon as spring opens. At least
800 miles will be built west from
Chamberlain S. D and it is said ter
| minals will be secured at several places.
Some months ago Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkie
l.. Edwards got some newspaper nOto-
riety through a matrimonial smashup
at Colorado Springs, Col, in which the
loving spouse posed as a fistic exponent
and gave his wife sound thrashing.
But OF late the stork has been lowering
over the Edwards household and things
are progressing finely from q turtle
dove standpoint, particularly so as Mrs.
Edwards father, Geo. Tremhle, Lead
ville's richest citizen has $1,OOO,OOO
purse hung up to the first child which
calls him grandpa.
kogoro Takahira, Japanese minister
at W ashington, replying to aninterview OF
Chairman Hull of the military CON-
mittee, says that in his opinion regard
ing the relations which Japan should
maintain with the United States in the
Philippines is very simple-that they
should be good neighbors, whose COM
merce will steadily develop and whose
social and political conditions will be
progressive and peaceful.
Officers returned from Greenville, Miss,
this morning from their quest in search
of the negroes who yesterday killed
officers Duke and Leonard at Dudly.
The officers brought the suspects with
them, two OF whom we're dead. The
other two might as well be, as excite
ment runs high at G-eenville and they
will no doubt be lynched.
Professor Addison Everdell, curator of
the Yale geological collection, advances
the theory that spotted fever" cerebrO
spinal meningitis of which there are
many cases in New Haven, Conn, is
probably conveyed by flies or similar
insects.
May wheat closed at $1.13&i in Chicago
today.
Friday, March II.
The sea continues to eat into COro-
nado beach. San Diego, Cal , and much
alarm ia felt. The great hotel is being
threatened, and force of men are work
ing night and day dropping bags OF
sand in front OF the devastating waves.
The boulevard has been eaten away
and several dwellings are threatened.
Seven thousand bags OF sand have been
tumbled over the bluff and 10000 more
are ready to be used. The highest tide
is yet to come, Sunday being the maxi
mum, six feet three inches.
David Mcdonald, president of the
American Labor Union. whose head
qurters are in Chicago, has rendered his
resignation to the executive board OF
| that organization, and it will be
accepted He will be succeeded by
David C. Coates, vice president OF the
union, former lieutenant governor OF
| Colorado, but now in charge of the
Idaho State Tribune at Wallace, Ida.
General Joseph Hawley, for nearly "a
years United States senator from Con-
necticut, died this morning in Washing
ton, D. O., aged 72 years.
Saturday, March 1s
| On the 6Sth ballot the Missouri sena-
torial deadlock was broken and Major
William Warner was elected to the
United States senate to succeed Senator
Cockrell.
Out of population OF 10000
Pisaque, Chill, now has but 800, the
Others having fed or died from the
effects of bubonic plague. There are but
three doctors remaing in the place and
two of them have contracted the disease.
Officials in New York have received
word that 1900 emigrants, mostly Poles,
we're embarked from Havre, France, for
that port.
ASudnCuf oo thCy Soyt w AOOA -
sheep in the face from the fact OF having
eaten so extensively OF mutton, and with
taste so depraved that everything tastes
like apples and oatmeal, over 800 girl
students are on strike at Willard hall
Chicago, for change OF menu. Their
constitutions call for pie and an occasion
al porkchop.
II his ammunition had lasted it's hard
to tell when A. G. Smith would have
stopped shooting, as it was he fatally
wounded Gus Newfeld at Denver, Col.
and shot at every body in sight. Another
neighborhood quarrel was what started
the affair.
A cyclone struck Porch, Okla, las
night and an unknown man was killed
and several others injured, among then
we're J E. and Charles Jones, who ar
expected to die hourly. Sixteen houses
we're demolished.
Ex.President Cleveland celebrated hi
6Sth birthday quietly at his home il
Pinceton, n. j.
According to Prof. Samuel Williston
of Hhsco ro in looSn-