The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-06-23
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, June IA


According to man high up in railway
circles, men are being supplanted a.
station agents in the lines running out
OF Chicago. The reason for this il iounC
IN the fact that they are more efficient,
and that they will work cheaper.
The 18th annual convention OF tht
United Confederate Veterans association
is in session at Louisville, KY, and was
called to order bv the commander in
chief, General Stephen D. Lee.
Ii Johann HOch, under sentence o.
death for the murder Of one OF his numer
Gus wives, can raise the costs, S7OO, be
will likely get another chance with the
courts. Counsel for HOch were assured
today that if by June %, the money is
forthcoming a repreve will be granted
until the October term of court, as Gov
ernOr Deenen wishes to give the accused
every right afforded by law.
What is believed to be the outcome oil
feud of long standi0g resulted at Val
dOsta, Ga, in the assassination of the
| 16 year old son and the II year old
| daughter of w. l.. Carter. The children
were attracted to the yard by the bark
ing OF a dog when they were fired upon
| from ambush. The girl dropped dead
and the boy managed to crawl into the
house before he died. A younger child
was also wounded,
Mrs. Geo. Campbell, wife of promi-
nent rancher iour miles west of Topeka,
| Kan, today seized a rifle and chased
her husband away from home. When be
returned he found that the woman had
murdered her five children and then
taken her own life.
July wheat closed at S6Ac at Chicago
today.
Thursday, June 10
Chicago is on the eve of another scan
dal, information of which is coming out
as the teamsters strike is being prObed
by the grand jury. 1t appears that the
employees and the union entered a sort
OF alliance whereby they worked into
each Others hands, the bosses believing
none but union drivers and the men
driving tor no Others than members OF
the employers association. The result
was that independents on both sides
were forced out OF business or into one
or the other organization while the
people paid the fiddler through increased
hauling charges.
Mystery surrounds the deaths of Mrs.
John Young and Miss Media Pyle, whose
bodies were found close together in the
Pecatenica river near FreepOrt. I'LL. A
suicide compact is believed to have been
entered into by the women, because they
had become estranged from two Young
men with whom they had been keeping
company.
For the first time in the history Of
Most Don't fun lthinooo
admitted as cadets to that institution
Thousands of circulars have been sent
out by the Chicago and Cook county
building traders announcing their with
drawal, morally and financially from the
teamsters strike. The circulars charge
that the Safe and Machinery Movers
Union members are working under the
scale OF wages adopted by their various
unions.
NJ. Toyama of Toxic Japan, a member
Of the commission appointed by the
Japanese government to investigate the
advisabiity OF substitute for the pres
ent complicated Chinese characters, will
recommend the use of the Roman char
| acters. 1t is expected that the next de-
cade will see the change.
Two men were instantly killed by the
premature explosion OF a heavy blast
| in a stone quarry near Montclair, n. j.
After the explosion they were found
| headless among the rocks.
July wheat closed at 87Sc at Chicago
today.
Friday, June 10
A check for $75 900 with the sigma
| ture of Charles II. Thaw attached to it
was the soothing influence which caused
Mrs. Thaw, formerly Miss Francis Rush,
| chorus girl, to apply for divorce with
| no alimOny attachments. The Thaws
were married four years ago and Thaw
was recently released from imprisonment
| for refusing to pay the woman $4,000 a
year alimony.
| American whlskey peddled by IN
scrupulOus traders was responsible for
| horrible Outrages in the Diamond islands
1t is said young native woman was
| burned at the stake, one native man was
| hanged and three Others shot, while the
native chief was kept continually drunk
| The steamer Louise has been seized bv
the collector OF customs pending in
vestigatiOns and instructions from
Washington.
O. M. Burns, formerly cashier of the
First National Bank of Montpelier, o
was today in the United States court at
Toledo sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary for altering the records o
| the bank.
Fredrick Arnold, aged 20, and Newton
Andrews, aged 21, were hanged at the
state penitentiary at Canyon City, Col.
today. They were convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood il
Denver two years ago.
Samuel Gleason, colored, was today
acquitted Of the murder of John Ed
wards. Mrs. Kate Edwards, whost
testimony convicted Gleason three years
ago, today completely exonerated him
Mrs Edwards is white woman and il
the mother OF Gleason's child. She i,
under sentence of death and it s under
stood the governor will fix the date
execution shortly. She will be hanged Al
Reading, Pa.
July wheat closed at S64 at Chicago
today.
Saturday, June II
General Maximo Gomez, the Cubar
patriot, died today. He leaves a wifi
) and six children. Only today the secre