The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-21

from the effects of broken bone in her
left arm and her movements, when she il
realeased, depends largely on that and
the general condition of her health.
Kansas is 70 lose one of her prominent
residents IN the person of Carrie Nation,
who today sold her property at Topek a
with the intention of moving to Okla
| homa.
Three men were killed in a pitched
battle which took place at Popular
Bluffs, Mo, today The killing was the
result of land quarrel among neigh
bors.
In response to a note from President
Diaz of Mexico, protesting against the
''slight respect usually evinced for lives
and property of the Mexicans in Texas"
and asking indemnity in behalf of one,
Zambrane, Secretary Hay rendered $500
| in full settlement of the matter. The
offer was accepted.
1t is estimated that flour shipments
aggregating 100000 barrels will leave
the port of San Francisco for Japan be-
tween now and the 18th Of June.
Wheat closed at $1.144 at Chicago to
day for May delivery.
Sunday, April 10.
Owing to the failure of the state
officials to supply county clerks with the
necessary blanks there will be no mar
| riages in Indiana until they are supplied.
The recent Legislature passed laws which
anDulled all the existing laws of the
state on the subject and county officials
are unable to act until the necessary
blanks come from headquarters.
Because he had been fired from a
boarding house at Luzerne, Pa, Andrew
| Bygash blew the building up with dyn-
amite. Fortunately none of the 15 in
mates were injured.
As straw signifying that the senate
committee on interstate commerce in
| tends to do business at its coming ses-
| sion in Washington, the heads of all the
| large railroads have been summoned to
| appear before that body. The aggre-
gate wealth represented by the men
summoned as witnesses runs up to the
billion mark and could pay the national
| debt of several of the smaller American
nations, still leaving good surplus.
AS the immediate result of newspaper
advertising the new five and ten cent
store of Philadelphia was today turned
into an emergency Hospital and the
city ambulances were kept busy hauling
away injured bargain seekers who fought
to gain admittance TO the tore.
Alexander Berk mann, the man who
shot II. c. Frick during the homestead
strike troubles in 1892, will gain the
benefit Of one Of the old laws of Pennsyl-
vania made to order in 1905 for a
wealthy criminal, and on July 4, 1906,
will step out of the western penitentiary
free man, just eight years ahead of the
time set for his liberation.
The physicians who have been ia
TOnOpah, New, have succeeded stopping
the plague which has infested that berg,
and since the town has been given a
bath and a general cleaning up the
natives nerves have been quIeted and
they are again settling down to the
ordinary avOcatiOns OF a mining camp.
The nude body of Seanie kintop was
was found in the woods near Little Falls,
Mimi. The ground around the body
showed evidences of a struggle, the girls
watch and money being found scattered
around, and the body having been out
ragged. Two negroes were seen in the
neighbOrhoOd at the time the murder
was committed and if they are caught
they will undoubtedly be lynched-
Luther Burbank, the San Francisco
horticulturist, has produced carnation
which changed it's color three times in
the first three days it came into bloom.
On the first day it was pure white, the
second day q beautiful pink and on the
third day the carnation changed to a
deep red, which continued until the
flower withered. Mr.. Burbank is con-
HIoDt hot ho hoS Lost hic
If the tests made on the Union Pacific
railroad at Omaha, Nebraska, prove as
successful RS the trial trip of the gasoline
motor todry, gasoline will be installed
on the branch lines of that road as fuel.
1t is said to be much cheaper than coal;
| that the suburban and branch service
can be doubled and still leave a saving
over the latter fuel.
Monday, April II.
Emil and Oscar Trapp, twin brothers
| on their way to Seattle, leaped from
| car window of the Great Northern
train few miles from Seattle. Emifs
neck was broken and he died instantly.
| Oscar sustained serious injuries but he
| will live.
Lost in the jungles of Mindanao, a
| troop of United States cavalry subsisted
for 19 days on monkeys. The troopers
were finally found by scouting party
| sent in search Of them and showed al
most no ill effects.
Four newsboys were killed and 80
seriously injured in wild crush on the
stairway of the Masonic temple at In
dianapolis, Ind. The boys had assembled
to receive tickets from patent medicine
| doctor, who was to entertain the
| 'newsies" at the thea ter, and 300 were
present. The crowd was just leaving the
second floor OF the temple when several
of the boys started to shove those in
front. Instantly all joined in and those
in front we're thrown off their feet. 1t
seemed that all in the rear fell forward
| when the break occurred, and more than
| 100 were piled up at the foot OF the
stairs. Four we're taken out dead, and
| the injured we're sent to the various
hospitals. 1t is believed that at least
six OF these will die.
A Continual Strain.