The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-14

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heavy fines. Hereafter any player who
opens bis mouth outside OF meal hours
whether justified or not, ia to be fined or
expelled in accordance with fixed code
President Roosevelt has at last es-
capped the receptions and banQuets oi
civilization and is free to commune with
nature in the wilds OF Oklahoma. The
president left the railroad at Frederick
today for the hunt.
May wheat closed at $1.15X at Chi.
cago today.
Sunday, April
Miss Mary Galloway, daughter of Mil
lionaire Robert NJ. Galloway, committed
suicide at the Hotel Seville, in New York,
today, by placing the muzzle OF pistol
In her mouth and pulling the trigger.
Dependency over continual illness from
dyspepsia was the cause.
Obsequies over the remains OF Sergeant
Geo. Wachter were held in New York
today. Wachter was the first to raise
the American flag in Manila and was
killed by the Moros, May 8, 1899
The Z. 5. war vessels temporarily at
Mobile are being seriously crippled by a
wholesale desertion of their crews. 1t is
said over 600 bluejackets have deserted
within the last few days.
Railroad detectives attempted the ar
rest OF Polish woman at Shoenville, a
suburb of Pittsburg. The detectives
were in force, but the women's cries
brought mob of some / 200 of her
countrymen to her rescue The reports
say the posse was finally permitted to
get out of town.
Monday, April 10.
While Ebenezer Runyan was being in
itiated into lodge of Knights Of Py-
thias at Little Rock, Ark, he was in
stantly killed. In some manner a pistol
used in the military services became
loaded with ball cartridges and one of
the lodge officers shot him dead.
At Placerville, Cal, A. NJ. Sterkey was
compelled to shoot son today. The
son had been drinking heavily for some
time and attempted to eXterminate the
family of another brother when the
father had to shoot to save them.
DR.. Wolf Prudential caused a sensa
tiOn in a lecture before the Society of
Medical Jurisprudence at New York this
evening when he declared that long
skirts worn by women were the principal
causes OF the spread of contagion, and
advocated suppressive measures to stop
the custom.
Francis BabcOck of Arlington, Mass,
was today held In $500 bonds for drunk
enDess. He claimed TO be a charter
member of John D, Rockefeller's Bible
class.
May wheat closed at 81 14a in Chicago
today.
Tuesday, April IL
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden has rendered another de
cision against the newspapers OF the
country. This time it is the picture and
magazine supplements of Sunday papers
which meet the displeasure of Mr.. Mad
den, and be has ordered their discOntin-
uance by Sept. /.
John w. Cherry OF Norfolk, Va, was
chosen great incohonee OF the Improved
Order of Red Men at Chicago today.
The grand jury at Chicago, investi-
eating the beef trust, became in posses
sion of secrets of the trust when Judge
Sanborn impOunded eight trunks of the
Aetna Trading Co., found in the safety
vaults OF the First National bank. Aetna
officials have fed the country. 1t is said
arrests will follow and many new wit
nesses have been subpoenaed.
In order to extort a confession from
Mrs. Rosa Torturici, wife OF the suspected
murderer OF Biaggio Vilardo, the police
OF San Francisco essayed rather harsh
measures. The woman was deprived of
her infant baby and thrust into the
autopsy room at the morgue where lay
the mangled body of Viardo. The
blood-stained blanket and shawl in
which the dismembered body were
wrapped we're produced with the result
of almost driving the terror,stricken
woman insane.
May wheat closed at ST. 14& in Chicago
today.