The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-05-11

Six indictments charging George :
McReynolds with unlawfully removing
grain without the consent of the holders
were returned by the grand Jury at
Chicago. McReynolds, who did an ex-
tensive grain commission business, failed
last fall
The statement is authoritatively made
that the department of justice in Wash
ingtOn will Immediately begin an in
vestigation OF the relations of the So
called oil trust and a number of rail
roads, with a view to determining
whether there have been violations OF
the antitrust law.
In a battle between riotous Italian
strikers and police at Scranton, Pa,
four rioters were shot and q number OF
policeman injured. One man may die
Thirty-two men were made prisoners by
the police
II. l.. Whalev, a salesman, was ar
rested in New York, charged with hav
ing presented at bank for deposit a
city warrant, which, it is alleged, had
been raised from 50 to S359,OOO. The
alterations we're crudely done
During the debate in the committee on
privileges and elections, Senator Dubois
OF Idaho offered the following resolution:
Resolved. That Reed SmOOt is not en-
titled to his seat as a senator Of the
United States from the state OF Utah
A violent wind and hail storm passed
over Mississippi. No reat damage was
done in Meridian, but reports from Osa.
diah say great damage was done to
young cotton. A rumOr that cannot BE-
confirmed states that Bolliges was de
strOyed.
The National Tool Builders associa
tion in convention at Atlantic City, \
j decided on per cent raise in tn
price of tools for the ensuing year
According to official figures the South
ern Pacific company, during the exodus
from San Francisco following the earth
quake and the great fire, carried 300 600
free passengers This total is for the
nine days from April Is up to and in
Guiding April 26. OF these passengers
81 900 we're carried to interior California
points, 1854 to other states, and 226,
900 to suburban points around San
Francisco bay.
Major W. t. Bowdre, prominent cot
ton factor and director of the CONNER
of Memphis, was shot and
while walking toward his home. No
motive is known.
Senator AnkenY introduced an amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill providing for the payment of $3.50
to j M. Hill, late register OF the land Of
flee at Walla Walla, to reimburse him
for money paid out of his personal funds
for clerk hire.
The railway commission of Canada,
which has been in session at Windsor,
Ont, for several days, granted a conces
sion for the first railroad to be built 10
the klOndyke region. The road will start
at Dawson City and will run into the re
gicns that are now only reached by dog
sleds.
The battleship Rhode Island stranded
off York spit in Chesapeake bay. The
big ship was just entering the mouth If
the York river, when she struck nose first
on sandbar.
The governor general of Ekaterino
slav, Russia, was assassinated Saturday
by six unknown persons who fred vol
leys from revolvers at him and escaped.
Marvin Winters was shot and instant
ly killed and Thomas Stewart and bis
young daughter severely wounded dur
ing an attack by a mob on Stewards
home near Pleasant View, Tenn.
A bomb was thrown at the carriage
OF Wee Admiral Doubasoff, governor
general OF Moscow, Russia, as he was be
ing driven to the palace. He was
wounded in the foot and his aide de
camp and a sentry were killed. The
man who threw the bomb is reported to
have been killed. He wore an officers
uniform.
Mark Twain, who had planned to
leave New York for Dublin, n H., where
he was to spend the summer, has been
compelled to postpone his departure in
definitely, owing to an attack OF bron-
chitis
William Bright OF Washington, d. O.,
one OF the two surviving jurors who
tried Guiteau and upon whom with the
others was put a spectacular curse by
Garfeld's assassin, ia near deaths door
from wasting disease.