The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-05-26
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of q Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
aGreat Country.
Wednesday, May II

Mrs. David Kaiser Of Springfield, o.,
has been granted d pension OF So per
month, but will not commence to draw
1t until IL years. She has been drawing
pension on the suppOsition that her
husband was dead, he having disappeard
~ years ago. Kaiser returned to Spring
field recently and died, and the pension
department made the above ruling in
granting the woman's second pension.
Robert B. Romaine has retracted the
alleged confession made by him in Jail
at Topeka, Kan, last September, i'm pill
eating members of the American Fedora
tion OF Miners in the Independence, Col,
depot explosion, June 6, last year. Ro-
maine, in statement in the Denver
papers today, says he made the charges
because OF promises of freedom, the par
ticulars OF which were furnished by
man from Cripple Creek. Romaine is
serving term for burglary.
Judge Rogers OF the United States di g.
trict court at st. Louis has issued an
order permitting n g. Jung, a china
man, sentenced to the penitentiary, to
retain his queue while serving his term.
The Colorado board Of pardons today
refused to grant reprives to Fred Arnold,
Newton Andrews and Chas O.. Peters,
sentenced to be hung for the murder of
Mrs. Amanda Youngblood, January l,
1904
The body OF Hiram Cronk, who was
the last survivor OF the war OF 1912, was
taken to New York city today from
Bonneville, N. Y, and laid away in
Cyprus hill cemetery with full military
hOnOrs.
May wheat closed at SAY at Chicago
today.
Thursday, May IS
John D. Rockefeller denies the report
that he is to give the sum of $40, 100000
TO establish pension fund for the bene
tit OF superanuated ministers.
Amid scenes of disorder unprecedented
in the annals OF Philadelphia, the city
council tonight voted to lease the city's
gas works to the United Gas Improve
ment company for a term of rs years
for the sum OF $25,0O0,00O The cham
bers were crowded by excited citizens
protesting against the lease
Eight people were killed and four ser
iously injured in a collision on the Hi.
nois Central today at Echols, KY, be-
UWCCA CNO GIdlu6s
Representatives of the Chicago Steel
Railway companies today declared their
to sell their traction proper
lies 70 the municipality. The value to
be placed upon the lines and the terms
OF sale we're made questions for future
consideration.
A gambling house for women was
raided in fashionable portion of New
York today. Gaming tables, roulette
wheels, racing charts and telephones
were cOnfscated. A dozen or more hand
sOinely garbed women were leaning ex-
citedly over the tables when the police
entered, the only man found about the
place was arrested on the charge of con-
Quoting the place.
May wheat closed at 97A at Chicago
today.
Friday, May 10
The grand jury which has been investi
eating the beef inquiry at Chicago ad
iOurned today, after being in session for
exactly three months. 1t will reconvene
on June Z, to vote on the indictments
found.
Gravy bought by the barrel and served
by the plateful, between never varying
courses OF prunes, cold ham and pre-
served pineapple, has submerged the
culinary department of the Morgan
Park academy of Chicago in the throes
of strike.
The opponents OF the leasing OF the
city gas works to the United Gas I'm
provement company at Philadelphia,
continued their efforts today to defeat
the consummation OF the deal. The COM
mittee OF seventy, a municipal reform
committee, and the committee of nine,
appointed at mass meeting held to
protest against the lease, held Joint
session and decided to call public meet
ings In every ward of the city, and ar
ranged to finance the movement against
the lease.
Judge VANITY in the United States
circuit court at Grand Rapids, today
dismissed the bill of complaint filed by
% corporations against the auditor
general OF Michigan to restrain the state
from collecting the taxes levied on them
under the ad valorem tax law for the
year 1902. The decision involves ST.
100000 uncollected taxes, with interest
for two years.
Johann Hoch, who by his confession
is several times bigamist and who is
charged by the police with having mar
ried at least 40 women in the past Is
years, today was faund guilty of MUIR
der and the death penalty was recon-
mended by jury in Judge Kersten's
court at Chicago.
May wheat closed at 952 at Chicago
today.
Saturday, May 20
Three diamonds, cut from the worlds
famous Excelsior stone and valued at
100000, have disappeared from the
shop OF Tiffany & Co. New York. The
company believes that they were stolen
by somebody in their employ.
The strike of the Chicago teamsters,
instead OF being declared off, will be
spread to greater proportions. This was
decided tonight by the meetings OF the
teamsters joint council, which was in
session until midnight.
Newton Bennington's First Water,
with O'Neill in the saddle, won the
National Stallion stake, worth $9S97,
at Belmont park, New York. today.
Chris Christainsen, who few days ago
was released on parole from an insane
asylum, today. his aged mother,
at Sacramento, Cal, by cutting her
throat. Later Christiansen shot himself