The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-05-05

! Wllnams was sentenced to be hanged.
May wheat closed. at SO. cents at Chi
cago today.
Saturday, April 20
A tornado struck the city of Loredo,
| Tex, and as result the town is a heap
OF debris. So far as known 16 people
were killed, but no reports are in except
from the immediate vicinity of the
place.
Suspended from the window of three
story building in Butte, Mont, by the
tapestries Of the window through which
he made dive, cursing his rescuers and
vainly endeavoring to bleed himself to
death, Joe Cranberry caused some ex-
citement there today. Cranberry was
respondent over ill health When res
cued. he had nothing to say except to
curse his rescuers.
The highest price paid for wool in
Wyoming for 20 years was % cents
pound, for $4,000 pounds, and 22h
cents paid for 10000 pounds by Boston
and Philadelphia parties.
According to today's dispatches from
Paris real Frenchy reforms are in progress
in that rather advanced country. The
latest is that young people and Others
who contemplate doubling up matri-
monally must really love one another
before the marriage is legal prOpos-
ton. Thereafter the marriage is good
thing until love grows cold, when the
couple are divorced by mutual consent.
The convenience of the reforms will
commend them, no doubt, as an i'm
provement over the Mormon idea in
the United States.
The special train bearing the members
OF Robert q. Ogden educational party
was wrecked at Greenville, s. O., and five
occupants of the cars killed. A dozen or
more were injured.
Because of alleged discrimination in
live stock rates, the Chicago and Great
Western and seventeen other railroads
IN Missouri, Minnesota and Kansas we're
brought into court at Chicago today by
Attorney Morrison.
Wheat closed at 87A cents at Chicago
today.
Sunday, April 80.
Commander George Morse Stoney, 9
S. N, died suddenly of heart disease last
night in his quarters on board the ship
Santee, aged 50 years.
Captain W. A. Raibourn, U. S. A.,
wound up a big drunk with a grand
flourish at the army post near Salt Lake
today. He had been arrested and con
fined to his quarters for drunkenness
when be suddenly stepped out OF his
room door and began shooting at the
first man in sight, who happened to be
Lieut.. Point. He then turned the
weapon on himself and blew off the top
OF his head.
Dispatches from Texas state that
every river in the state is swollen almost
full in the lower reaches, with more water
coming down, and grave fears are enter
tanned that the streams will be out of
their banks within the next As hours.
Thirteen men were entombed and
probably killed by an explosion in the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal Com
pany's mine at WilbertOn, Okla, today.
Monday, May2.
In accordance with the Cars gift of
religious freedom, the church in the
ROghzsky cemetery, in Moscow, which is
to the old believers what the Kremlin
cathedral is to orthodox Russians, and
which had been sealed up for 40 years,
has been opened with Easter services.
During labor demonstration in War
saw, Poland, today, troops fired on a
procession of several thousand working
men and killed and wounded nearly 100
persons. The troops were apparently
uncomfortable and violated all orders to
act with moderation. The workmen, in
desperation, resOrted to the use of fire
arms and bombs. Many women and
children are among the dead and dying
John Wannamaker has given the
Y. M. c. A. 100000 for buildings at
Pekin, Seoul and Kiota.
Figures for the past week show that
$4,000 emigrants landed at Ellis Island,
n. I. On % steamships due to arrive
this week are $4,000 more from Great
Britain and the continent.
May wheat closed in Chicago today at
S9B cents.
Tuesday, May 3.
A band of masked robbers rode into
the village of Oneota, N. Y, at 3 O'Clock
this morning, blew open the safe in the
private bank of E. G. Brewer and made
off with $4,000.
Rioting, as an outcome OF the team
sters' strike, is of hourly occurrence in
the city of Chicago. The strike is spread
ing and if some kind of a settlement is
not reached soon, other trades are Liable
to he drawn into the trouble.
James j. Jeffries, the champion heavy
weight pugiiist, is to retire from the
prize ring, also the stage. The step is
taken at the request of his wife. He will
enter the mining business.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
San Francisco for Manila today with
7SO mon of tho Ninth Infantry OSO mon
of the Seventh Cavalry, $50 recruits and
three hospital corps on board.
Track walker Edward HoItz this morn
ing discovered the charred remains OF an
unknown man beneath a pile Of burning
ties at Glendale, Ore. There were blood
stains and signs Of a struggle nearby.
The deed is supposed to be the work Of
hObOs.
A Continual Strain
MANY man and woman q ra constantly