The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-10-17

tne striking coal miners, Mayor Hurry
OF oalem created a sensation when hf
| sald that II he had his way he would
| string up President Baer and the other
| operators to the nearest tree. ResoIu
tlons OF sympathy with the miners were
ADOPTED, and large sum OF money
| collected.
Henry Goldstein, bartender at Levin's
Chicago Liquor house in Pueblo. Colo.
was shot and killed by William Law.
renee, a negro, in a quarrel over Is
Genus. A mob formed and rsnsacked
the jail but Lawrence had been removed
Dy the officers to a place of safety. thus
preventing lynching.
The statement is made that Carroll y
wright, commissioner OF labor. will re.
tire from office in two years For 1S
years Mr.. Wright has been the chief Of
Tue bureau OF labor. He is now en-
gaged IN some important Investigations.
the completion of which will occupy the
Two years he expects to remain at the
head OF the labor bureau.
-Four hundred sol iiers. all well armed
ana under perfect discipline, are patrol
ing NeW Orleans. Martial law has not
yet been declared, but will be unless
some means of settling the street car
strike is forthcoming.
Sunday, October 12.
The four highwaymen who held IN the
burlington train near Lincoln. Nebr
have seemingly distanced their pnrsuprs
some OF the detectives and police are of
the OPINION that the robbers are in hid
ing IN Lincoln or close by. The robbers
secured $4,000.
Francis H. CIergue of the Canadian.
500 has announced at Detroit that
plans have been perfected for supplyinp
tnat city with electricity direct from the
olg plant he has just completed at Sault
ote Marie, and that barring accidents.
the current will be turned on by next
spring. The plan when complete will
furnish Detroit with 100000 horse
power. Transforming stations along
the line will supply smaller cities.
This is the beginning of the week
which 1T is generally believed will put to
test the claim of the coal operators
that they will be enabled to start nm
their collieries if given protection and
the counter assertion of the United
MlneWorkers' organization as expressed
recently IN resolutions that the strikers
Will not return to work without cOnces.
slOns, even though the entire military
fOrce OF the United States should be in
fennsylyanla to protect them.
The strike of street railway EMPLOYEES
in New Orleans, which has effectively
blOckaded traffic in that CITY for two
weeks is at an end, The general agree
ment is that the men go back to work
at ~ cents per hour, for 10 hour day.
Monday, October 13.
The coal operators have agreed to the
appointment by the president of the
United States of commission, to which
shall be referred all questions at Issue
between the companies and their own
employees, whether they belong to
union or not, and the decision of the
commission shall be accepted by the
operators. The commission is to con-
slst OF an army or navy engineer officer.
an expert mining engineer mot connect
ed with the coal mining prOperties), one
of the judges of the United States courts
OF the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
man OF prominence who is eminent as
a sOclologlst, and man who, by active
participation in mining and selling coal.
is familiar with the physical and com
mercial features of the business. The
operators also make it a part Of their
proposition that the miners shall return
to work as soon as the commission is
constituted, and shall cease all interfer
ence with nOnunion men. The commits.
sion is to name date when it's findings
Ifc
govern conditions of employment be-
tween the companies and their own en-
DlOyes for at least three years. It ia not
known whether the United Mneworkers
will accept the proposition of the operat-
Ors or not.
Tuesday, October IA.
From a thorough canvass of the situa.
tiOn as it exists, there is every indica-
tion that the new arbitration plan pro-
posed by the presidents of the coal com
panies for ending the miners strike will
not be accepted in it's present form.
There is a division of opinion among
the strikers, but there is no doubt that
a majority feel that the offer to have the
president of the United States select an
arbitration commission along the lines
suggested by the operators is not fair,
and that it unduly limits the board.
The miners, it is safe to say. will abide
by the advice of the national president,
in whose judgment they have the utmost
confidence. President Mitchell declines
to say how he personally looks upon the
proposition.
United States Circuit Judge Gilbert
has rendered decision on an appeal In
the United States court of appeals, de-
claring the Washington Red Cedar
Shinge Manufacturers association to be
a trust. The decision was concurred in
by Judges W. W. Morrow and E. M.
Ross. The decision says that the asso-
citation is an unlawful combination in
restraint of trade, and has the effect of
diminishing production, abolishing
competition and enhancing prices. 1t
was an action to recover damages under
the Sherman antitrust act and was
instituted in the circuit court of Wash
ingtOn.