The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-05-12
Saturday, May q

The marriage OF Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson and Grizelda, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George II. Hull o
Tuxedo Park, Ny, is announced to
occur at the home of the brides parents
on May %.
A Chicago dispatch says that officers
OF the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have
just placed orders for 10, 900 freight cars
which will cost in the Aggregate about
$12 100000, and they claim that in do
ing so they have broken all previous
records by railroads in this country.
The same road recently placed an order
for $50 new locomotives that will cost
about $4.000,0O0, making the total to
be spent by this road about $16, 900, 900
for equipment alone.
Complete tabulation in Japan shows
that the fifth internal loan was Oversub-
scribed more than four times and the
rate OF issue was smaller than antici
pated
Word was received of a cyclone at Owl,
|. T., in which several people were more
or less injured. School was in session
when the storm struck the town The
building collapsed and a number or chill
dren were caught in the ruins. At
Welch, l. IT,, several persons were killed
and much damage done to buildings.
Crops were ruined and in the low living
country many houses were flooded, the
occupants being driven to the hills.
The jury in the case of Judge Hargis at
Lexington, KY, disagreed. It is thought
that Hargis will be admitted to bail
The Judge is charged with conspiracy in
connection with the killing of James
COckreI
Wheat closed at 92B at Chicago today
Sunday, May.
The body of the girl who was found on
Cutter mountain, south OF Colorado
Springs, Col, on December II, 1904, was
identified as that of Mrs Bessie Brough
ton OF Syracuse, n. Y. The remains
we're identified by the wOman's mother
through peculiar dental word on her
teeth and by a scar upon one of her
fingers. The nude body Of the woman
was found face downward upon a stump.
Gasoline had been poured over the body
and fired in order to hide the identity OF
the girl.
All records were broken today in the
number of immigrants which passed
quarantine at New York. Within II
hours II ,O39 steerage passengers were
permitted to enter that port, and it is
estimated that the record for this spring
will exceed that OF any former year.
The jury in the Malcolm murder case
at Glasgow, Mont, today returned a
verdict OF murder in the second degree.
'MalcOm was accused Of killing a rancher
at whose house he was staying over
night, but he claimed the killing was
done in self-1efense.
1t is said the Canadian Pacific will in
the future let the work Of maintaining
the lines west OF Winnipeg by con
tract, and in the near future 10000
trackmen will be LIT out by the company
Last year the company expended some
thing over $5,00O,000 in this work, and
recent demands of the men for an in
crease in wages prompted it.
Statistics recently submitted by the
New York department of labor show
that state more organized wOrkmen in
proportion to population than any
other place in the world. at is sig
nifcent fact, says the report, "that the
hours of labor was short or long almost
in the precise ratio OF the degree Of
organization" The report adds, "the
improvement in the industrial activity
which began in the summer became so
pronounced that the percentage Of idle
ness was smaller than in 1908 or even
1902. The Improvement was fairly
general throughout the various trades
and industries, with the single exception
OF building trades"
Monday, May 8.
The city of Chicago scored victory in
traction litigation, which brings mum
cipal ownership a step nearer, when
Judge Grosscup handed down decision
which forfeited the franchise OF the
Adams street line.
1t was reported in the financial
district today that over 40 per
cent of the common stock of the Erie
Rrilroad company had been purchased
through ]. 2. Morgan & Co, ,and would
be turned over in equal parts to the
Lake Shore and to the Baltimore &
Ohio in order to assure the future OF the
Erie control lying in friendly hands.
Evidence of millers who have lodged
complaints against the railroad com
panies they patrOnize in making ship
ments to Pacific coast points was heard
at the afternoon Interstate commerce
session. These milers, principally To-
Gated in Nebraska, complain that 10
cent rate on corn products over the rate
on corn is excessive and shows discrim,
ination on the part of the railroads in
favor of western manufactures.
G. s. Waterlow, the English director
of the LIE Roi mining company, said
today that the proposed merger OF the
big mines and smelters OF the Trail creek
district practically assured.
A Continual Strain.
Many men and women are constantly
subjected to what they commonly term
"a continual strain" because Of some
financial or family trouble. 1t wears
and distresses them both mentally and
physically, affecting their nerves badly
and bringing on liver and kidney all
ments, with the attendant evils of consti-
patton, loss Of appetite, sleeplessness,
low vitality and dependency. They
cannot, as a rule, get rid of this ''con-
tinual strain" but they can remedy it's
health destroying effects by taking fire.
quent doses OF Green's August Flower 1t
tones up the liver, stimulates the kid
neys, insures healthy bodily functions,
gives vim and spirit to ones whole be-
ing, and eventually dispels the physical
or mental distress caused by that "con-
tinual strain" Trial bottle of August