The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-10-24
ALL OVER THB union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, October 10.

| wednesday, October 10.
| The great antracite strike is settled at
last. A commission of six persons, with
a seventh, Carol d. Wright, as recorder
will adjust the differences between oper-
atOrs and miners. President Mitchell of
| the miners union will take the necessary
| measures to call the strike off. The
president will urge immediate resump-
| tlon OF mining, and the operators are
| expected to begin at once The men,
bers of the commission appointed by
| President Roosevelt are: Brigadier Gen
eral John M. Wilson, .. S. A, retired;
| h. W. Parker, Washington, d. c., an ex-
| pert mining engineer; George Gray, Will
mingtOn, Del, judge of a circuit court;
+. E. Clark, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, grand
| chief of the order of railway conductors,
a sOciolOgist; Thomas II. Watkins,
| Scranton, Pa, man practically ac-
| quainted with the mining and selling of
coal; Bishop John l. Spaulding, OF
Peoria, Ill. Carroll D. Wright has been
| appointed recorder for the commission.
Orders have been Issued by the war
department reducing the regular army
to the minimum authorized by law
| $4,000 men, With the practical cessa-
| tiOn OF the outbreaks in the Philippines
| it is believed that this can be done safely.
The present size of the army is about
$1,000. The cavalry and artillery regi-
ments will be reduced to the minimum
! bases, except around Fort LeavenwOrth,
where the commands will be kept full
size Tor educational reasons.
The finding in the inquest following
the accident in which President Roose-
velt's body guard, William Craig, was
killed near Pitsfield, Mass, last Septem-
| Der, finished today, says that "the un-
lawful acts of James T. Kelley, conduc-
tor, and Euclid Madden, motorman," of
the electric car which ran into the presi-
dents carriage, Contributed" to the
death OF William Craig. They are held
for trial November l.
Thursday. October 10.
John w. Gates spent an hour and a
half with j. P. Morgan in the latter's
private office. When he emerged, placid
and matter of fact, he carried in his
pocketbOOk checks to the value of S1S.-
100000. This amount represents the
balance OF the $35, ,O0O, 900 paid to the
Gates syndicate for turning over the
Louisville & Nashville. SIT, 200. 900 of
The executive boards of the three an
thracite districts of the United Mine
workers OF America in joint session at,
WlikesEarre, Pa, unanimously decided
to recommend to delegate convention
OF striking miners the acceptance of the
arbitration proposition submitted by
the president of the United States. It
is now reasonably certain that the advice
will be follOwed>and the struggle brought
to close.
Archie Woodin, % years old, is under
arrest at Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
charged with the murder of Mr.. and Mrs,
Joseph Gulick, his wife's parents, and the
prisoners 1S-months old daughter by
shooting. WOodin was overpowered
just as he was about to turn the weapon
upon himself.
The New York Yacht club has sent a
cablegram to Sir Thomas Upton, accept
ing his challenge for the Americas cup
| on the same conditions for which it was
| raced the last time.
After nearly week of lodging mobs,
Jim Buchanan, the negro murderer OF
the Hicks family, was safely lodged in
the East Texas penitentiary. The gov.
ernor has directed two companies Of
militia to accompany the negro to Ma
| cOgdOches for trial.
Friday, October II.
Jim Buchanan, the negro murderer q
the Hicks family. was tried in Nacog
| dOches. Texas, plea of guilty was &C
cepted by the Judge and the negro legally
| hanged within two hours after sentence
had been passed. The Judge ordered
| that the death sentence be executed Nov.
II, but many people announced that
they would have no delay. Buchanan
then waived the 80 days allowed by law.
and was hanged by Sheriff Spradiey ID
the jail yard in the presence of a large
crowd.
The grand jury in New York has found
an indictment for murder in the first de-
gree against William Hooper Young, who
is under arrest in connection with the
killing of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, whoe
body was found in a canal near jersey
| City.
The state railroad commission of Ken
tucky has forwarded to the interstate
commerce commission at Washington a
formal complaint against the ALLEGED
consolidation of the Louisville & Mash
vile Southern railway and other rail-
road lines in Kentucky. The compliant
sets forth that in the alleged consolida-
tion OF the southern lines all competition
is destroyed, and that practically one
man controls the fixing OF freight and
passenger rates on all the lines extending
from the Ohio river to the Gulf aud frtm
the Atlantic to the Mississippi. 1t ar
ther recites that the commerce of 10
states is thus controlled by these CARRIES
Saturday, October 1S
What is probably the last full weeE of
the anthracite strike has closed without
anything developing to change the pesce
full freud OF the events. All the lcal
unions have met and selected their Gle-
gates to the Wilkesbarre convention.
There seems to be little doubt that the
convention will accept the offer OF gbi-
tratioE. All opposition will prob,bly
disappear when President Mitchell ex-
plains the proposition to the convention.
A distinct earthquake shock. aeon
panied by muffied rumbling, has been
felt at Chattanooga, Tenn. The sock
was OF several seconds duration and
shook houses very perceptibly. ReOrts
of other quakes are received from fari-
Gus points in the southern states.
The city council OF Richmond md,
has authorized special committe to
go into the retail coal business. The