The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-12
NEWS Oh THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down AS 1t Comes From
the Wires for Information OF
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, july 5.

| "cuhesuay, July S.
In a riot at the Smuggler- Union mines
at Telluride, Col, two men were killed
and several injured. Union men under
| took to prevent non-unions from work
ing and battle followed. Troops were
ordered out. The strikers took DOS
session of the mines and refused to abdi-
cate.
The Sturgess bank, private, failed at
Mansfield, Ohio.
Gomez, the old Cuban general, visited
President Mckinley at the White House
and Secretary Root at the war depart
ment.
Champaign and Urbana, ILL.,, were
Hooded by cloudburst.
Thursday, July 4.
While dog and pony show was Civ
ing an exhibition at Grand Island, Neb.,
90 mile an hour wind struck the tent.
blowing it down aid imprisoning the
crowd. A boy, Albert Stevenson, was
fatally injured, his head being crushed
by falling pole. Several other persons
were hurt.
Discharged negro soldiers began shoot
ing on train carrying them home near
HOlbroOke, N. M. One man was fatally
shot, and woman in her door along
the track got bullet in her arm. At
| WlnsloW the citizens armed and forbade
the negroes leaving the train and order
ed railroad officials to pull out of the
station forthwith. This was done.
Fourth of July was celebrated with
great enthusiasm in Porto Rico. Last
year the day was not observed. They
had regulation United States time. At
Santiago, Cuba, it took two days to end
the sports, and the crowd of several
thousand by unanimous consent decided
the Fourth of July ought to be a per-
manent holiday throughout the Cuban
republic.
The miners still hold possession of the
Smuggler- Union mine at Telluride, Col,
and refuse to turn it over to the man
agement.
Civil government auspiciously suppressed
military rule in the Philippines. Com
missioner Taft was escorted by General
Macarthur and General Chaffee from the
palace to great temporary tribune just
outside the Plaza PalaciO. Standing on
a projecting corner of the tribune, W. II.
TAFT, the new civil governor of the
Phlllpplnes, took the oath of office, ad-
ministered by Chief Justice Arellano.
Friday, July s.
Lightning struck in a dozen places at
Buffalo, n. Z, and burned out the Goa
nectlons OF much of the grand electrical
display at the exposition.
Fire destroyed large portion of the
business district of Wilbur, in the Big
Bend.
There were two deaths from heat at
Davenport, Iowa.
Secretary Root expects soon to make
an extended trip of inspection of the
various military posts in the northwest.
Saturday, July g.
In Baltimore the deaths for the week
were 45S, the highest the health depart
ment ever recorded. Of these 236 we're
children under years old. At least SO
per cent OF the mortality is said to be
due either directly or indirectly to the
intense heat. Five deaths and six pros
tratlons were reported from Washing
ton City, due to heat
1t is thought next week will see the
end OF the steelworkers' troubles. A
Joint conference is planned and the COM
panies have agreed to meet the workers
committees.
The backbone of the hot wave has
been broken, at least temporarily, by
showers and thunderstOrms that swept
over the Atlantic states and the upper
lake region, but the weather bureau
holds out no assurances as to the per-
manency of the break.
For of bou NJ Cra-.
Castle, at Eldorado, Kansas, Jessie
MORRISON was sentenced to five years in
prison. She was found guilty of man
slaughter.
Sunday, July 7.
James F. Yeatman, one of the best
known of western philanthropists, died
at st. Louis, aged 81 When the civil
war broke out MIR. Yeatman endeavored
to maintain peace and labored earnestly
to that end. His sympathies were with
the union and when the war could not
be avoided he became one of the COM
missioners sent from st. Louis to ex-
plain the local status of affairs to Presi-
dent Lincoln.
A big forest fire is raging southwest of
Buena Vista, Col. Thousands of dollars
worth of valuable timber has already
been destroyed, with the fire still spread
ing.
Pierre Lorrillard, financier and turf
man. whose fortune of $25. 100000 is
due to tobacco, died at New York, just
after removal from a steamer from
Europe.
Frank Fl. Hitchcock, chief of the
foreign market section of the agricul-
tural department, has compiled statis-
tics showing the distribution of the
agricultural exports of the United States
for the years 189619OO. He shows
that there we're a dozen countries in
1900 to each of which the United States
exported over $40, 100000 worth of do
mestic products The United Kingdom
purchased $409, ,000, 900 and Germany
$134, 100000 worth. Our agricultural
exports to the United Kingdom were the
largest on record excepting the extraor-
binary year of 1898, when a value of
$349, 100000 was attained. In our
trade with Germany the exports for
1900 were decidedly in excess OF any pre-
viously reported and show an increase
of nearly 100 per cent in the five years
period.
Monday, July 8.
Andrew Carnegie refused to become a
candidate for mayor of Greater New