The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-28

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browne and all the ranches swamned
Many fiocks of sheep have been lost and
lafge amount OF property DESTROYED
ne United States TRANSPORT Port
ALBERT sailed from Seattle for the Pbilin
pines tonight with 500 cavalry horse,
ana cargo of forage and commissar1
supplies.
1t now begins to look as if the strike
OF pennsylvania coal miners will extend
10 railroads handling coal.
Followers of Dowie. the Cbicapo divine
heaier, were tarred at Mansfield, Ohio.
At Cincinnati conference committee
OF the Amalgamated Association of Iron
ana steel Workers and of the mapufac
turers today signed the wage schedule
that Will be effective until July |. 1901
lt Is known as the yearly scale. which he.
gins always with July l. Owing to the
unusual fluctuations Of the market the
new scale had not been signed when tbp
mills shut down June 80, and the con.
dltlons have been unfavorable since
June, so that the mills have been idle for
Almost three months. AS soon as thp
scaie was signed this morning messages
were sent IN every direction before the
conferees breakfasted. ordering the fires
Quit at once. Some mills will start to-
morrow, and all Others as soon as possi-
Die. Ihis decision means employment
tomorrow to over 10000 workinemen
VINO nave been idle since June awaiting
the adjustment of their wage scales.
Monday, September "a.
instead OF the expected clash between
the troops and the striking miners in the
SchuyIklll region, peaceful calm pre
vailed in the region and there was not
the slightest disorder for the soldiers to
be called upon to quell. In fact all the
districts of the anthracite coal fields
we're extremely quiet, there being no
demonstration whatever on the part of
the strikers. While the operators claim
that number OF their employees return
ed to work at the mines in the Schuvl-
XIII region, it was early in the day evi-
dent that the operations did not assume
the activity which the mine-owners had
yesterday anticipated, and Indications
are that tomorrow will find more idle
colleres than at any time since the
strike began.
A Boise, Idaho, dispatch saws: The
several conferences today and this even
ing without result. Tonight it looks as
though there would be no fusion. The
democratic ticket as filed has three
popullsts on it, but there is no demo-
cratic name on the populist ticket, and
1t Is more than probable there will never
be one On the pOpulist ticket.
The village of Morristown, Mimi. was
struck by cyclone and eight persons
were killed by the wrecking of a large
brick building in which they took refuge.
The storm came without warning.
The steamer Roanoke brings news OF
a most disastrous storm at Nome. It
ragged with unusual violence for nearly
two days up to the evening of Septemb Der
l3 sasd was the severest that ever visit
ed northwestern Alaska. A number Of
barges and lighters were driven ashore
and totally wrecked. All along the
beach for miles, both east end west of
Nome, the wind and water have created
havoc with tents and mining machinery.
A number OF lives are believed to have
been lost.
Floods along the Colorado river in
Texas are devastating the lowlands.
Roosevelt spoke at Laramie and Han
ma, Wyoming.
Tuesday, September 25.
Pennsylvania coal men call for more
troops. The great strike is still spread
ing.
Two deputy sheriff5 of Stevens county,
ash, attempted to arrest two hOldup
men near Addy. The men ran, firing at
the officers. One OF the robbers was
killed and the other wounded end cap
tured.
All hopes of fusion in Idaho have
vanished
Smallpox has been stamped out at
Nome.
Gen. John NJ. Palmer, gold democratic
candidate for the presidency in 1896,
died at Springfield, Ill.,, from heart fail
ure, aged 93.
Roosevelt spoke to an immense crowd
at Denver.
Adjutant General COrbin has received
personal letter from Secretary Root
saying that his condition is improving.
but giving no indication of purpose to
return to Washington in the immediate
future. Secretary Root is at his summer
home at Southampton, Long island and
is cOnvalescing from a severe operation
for the removal of a carbuncle in his
breast.
September wheat at Chicago, 76Z: Oc
tober, came. Portland, cash, Sc; Ia
coma, 56h.