The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-07-07

little cemetery wherein eight tombstones
exactly alike are inscribed, "beloved hus-
band OF Matilda Jane -. Fill we meet
again"
Z. Hague, secretary OF the Sweden
Norway legation at Washington has
been relieved by King Oscar. Mr.. Hague
is Norwegian
The United States grand Jury today
handed in indictments for several men
prominent in the packing industries of
the country for violation of the Sherman
law; also four officials of SchwarZchild &
Sulzberg company for alleged rebateing
with the railroads.
Prof. VIM. Jones, in a lecture at the
University of Chicago today declared
that higher education accelerated crime.
He said, 1T is true higher education has
freed us from more brutal forms of crime,
but the very education itself has put
even meaner crimes in our way
Admiral Sigsbee's squadron, with the
body Of John Paul Jones, expects to
leave France July 8 and to arrive off the
Virginia capes on July %.
Sunday, July 3.
BY one OF the most gigantic police
raids IN the history OF any municipality
the new administration OF Philadelphia.
emphasizing it's hold on the city govern
ment, has swept clear of questionable
resorts territory OF 20 square miles,
including the tenderlOin and fine resi-
dental district, and let loose food of
scandal that will wreck scores of homes.
The Swedish government has issued a
proclamation becoming effective i'm
mediately, declaring Stockholm, kars-
krOna, GOthenburg and Farosund to be
war ports and excluding all foreign war
ships from them.
Eighteen lives are KnOWn to have been
lost as a result of cloudburst in the
mountains above the town of Las Vegas,
n. NJ. The damage to property is
enormous, as the waters went through
the entire valley in mighty food carry
ing everything before it.
President Roosevelt today authorized
the announcement that he had appoint
ed Charles E. MagoOn as United States
Minister to Panama. Judge MagoOn is
at present governor OF the canal zone
and member of the canal commission.
At Chicago 119 Chinese we're arrested
in hall over a saloon for gambling.
Two patrol wagons were compelled to
make four trips before all the men could
be landed in the police station.
Marcus Wilson, teacher, lawyer and
author of numerous school books which
have long been recognized as standard,
died at his home at Vlneland, n j., aged
81 years.
Monday. July g.
Burglars ransacked the house of James
j. Higginson, New York banker, while
HigginsOn and his wife and daughter are
at the theater and secured $25, 900 ia
diamonds and iewelry.
Five hundred lives were lost and ST.
5OO,O worth OF property destroyed as
the result of food following a cloud
burst which swept over the town of
Guanaiuato, Mexico.
Unless patriotic citizens come to the
rescue of Commander Robert E. Peary,
his dash to the north pole will have to
be postponed.
In the twelfth round of fight to the
finish, Marvin Hart of Louisville, Ky,
knocked out Jack Root of Chicago in an
immense amphitheater at Reno, New,
before an excited crowd of 5000 people.
James J. Jeffries was referee and at the
end of the fight announced Hart the
champion heavy weight pugilist of the
world.
Tuesday, July 4
According to reports so far compiled
20 persons met death in the United
States as a result OF Fourth of July
accidents.
Gus klosson of Morrisville, Pa, con
fessed that be poisoned one Of his sons
and attempted the life of another. The
boys were poisoned because they were
not bright. There was $500 insurance
on the boy which died.
The department OF agriculture has
prepared to institute 1900 suits against
railroads OF the country for violation
of the law which provides that cattle in
transit must be unloaded, fed, watered
and rested every % hours.
The crew of the Vesper Boat club of
Philadelphia celebrated Independence
day in England by winning its heat
against the best university competing
at Henley this year.
The half million acres of Indian past
ure reserve lying southwest of Ell Reno
has been ordered by Secretary Hitch
cock opened for settlement. The open
ing means the furnishing of 1926 more
homes to settlers.