The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-07
Sunday, April z.

According to dispatches the Colorado
militia will get no pay, at least at pres
ent, for the part played in the riots il
| that state last year. Among the bill
which will die when the legislature ad
iourns will be one for $500, 900 for tn,
purpose of defraying expenses OF tn,
soldiers.
The monthly statement of the public
debt at the close of business on Marct
81 shows, less cash in the treasury, that
there is decrease of 1859, ,601, as com
pared with last months statement. The
total debt amounts to 1888, ,624. $50.
Mrs. Margaret Dye. superintendent o.
the W. I. I. e., declares that Mormon
ism was rapidly spreading throughout
the United States, especially in the
middle states
Frank Ogden, young farmer living
near Morton, Ia, was found with a
bullet hole in his heart, lying in the yard
OF his former sweetheart, Mrs. Claude
Whistler. Whistler has disappeared.
Since Mrs. Chadwick s conviction and
sentence to ten years at hard labor
there has been some action taken look
ing toward the conviction OF the men
who divided profits with her under the
guise Of commissions.
Monday, April 3.
Fragmentory returns from throughout
Michigan Indicate that the republican
ticket has been elected by over 10000
majority.
AS an attraction to the jamestown
exposition to be held in Virginia two
years hence, it is proposed TO disinter
the remains of the Indian squaw, Poca-
hontas, which lies in an English grave
and bury them on jamestown island
Gas explosions in the Letter mines at
Benton, ILL.,, overcome so miners today
and it is believed the most of them have
perished.
The federal grand jury at Washington,
ID. t., today returned indictments
against August Machen, William G.
COrbett and George E. Lorenz, charging
them with conspiracy in connection with
the purchase of straps for mail pouches.
May wheat closed at $1.14 at Chicago
today.
Gun dealers at LODI, have been
ordered by the department to enclose all
revOlvers in sealed case and hand
them over to the Russian police.
Rev. J. Frank Cordova, OF New Bruins
wick, N. j., who abandoned a wife and
four children for the smiles of choir
singer, was taken to the state prison
today to serve four year sentence.
Tuesday, April 4
By the marriage of Harry Thaw and
Evelyn Florence Nesbit, at Pittsburg
today, another chapter in the life of the
young milliOnaire's g sensa ational escapades
closes. Miss Nesbit was a chorus girl
and model in Paris when the news of
their marriage so disconnected the young
mans aristocratic mother that he was
given the choice between the girl and
the millions OF the family. Later the
couple were denied admission at New
York and Philadelphia hotels. At the
marriage the immediate families were
alone in attendance.
Nearly 200O miners employed at the
South and North Kearsarge, branches
OF the OsceOla mine, at Calumet Mich,
went on strike for an increase in wages.
Judge Edward Dunno, democrat, was
elected today as mayor OF Chicago by a
to almost everything from revenge to
tHo mosI up-to udte sOcidHhH.
Professor E. Z. Bernard, through the
great Bruce telescope at Los Angeles,
has discovered the presence of a new
"miIky way" in the heavens. The new
astronomical wonder was discovered in
the region of Sagittarius 1t is said
light emanating from it might travel at
the rate of 10000 miles a second and
yet not reach the earth in half cen
tury. A thousand systems such as ours
may be spread out within it's confines.
In an explosion which wrecked the
buildings of the Union Metallic works at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, three employees lost
their lives
The train bearing President Roosevelt
and party struck Peter Hardy at Mingo
Junction, O., and instantly killed him.