The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-10-24

committee reported that it could pro-
cure Plttsburg and Allegheny coal, de-
| nVered, at $4.S2 a ton, which is more
Inan - less than the local dealers are
charging. The dealers offered to reduce
the price to $3.50 if the city would keep
| out OF the business, but the offer was
declined.
Nine petrified bodies have been found
III II the cemetery attached to the New
1ork asylum at Mount Vernon. The
| asylum was closed recently and it be-
| came necessary to remove the bodies in
the cemetery. While the work was going
on the workmen exhumed nine bodies
tnat have the appearance of white
haFole and are as solid as rocks.
/ Sunday, October 10.
James Younger, formerly member of
| Cne notorious James band of outlaws.
"hlc1 infested the central states O. quar-
Ter OF century ago, has committed sui
eide at st. Paul. MINI, by shooting.
Despondency over i'll health and separa-
won from his friends are given as the
| reasons Tor the act. Younger was par
oled from the penitentiary in July, 1901.
one white man is missing and sup
| posed to be dead, another is fatally
wounded and two negrOs were seriously
sh0t as a result OF race riot at Little
ton, small mining town % miles from
Birmingham, Alabama.
Carol d. Wright, who is the recorder
oi Cne arbitration commission between
she mine operators and the miners, has
had an Interview with President ROOse-
Velt regarding the work Of the commits
sion and the existing condition of affairs.
Fire in the oil fields of Beaumont.
Texas, has destroyed a half dozen der
rlcks and a settling tank. The tank ex-
ploded, lnt1icting such injuries on a
workman named Webb that he died in a
short time. The monetary loss was
small.
Ihe strike begun some time ago be.
tween the wood carvers employed by a
Ne" YORK trm having the contract for
the carvings at the White House, has
been declared off.
Monday, October 20.
Two persons were killed and Is injured
in wreck at Lewis, Texas. The Inter
national 4 Great Northern branch pas
senger train was crossing the main line
when freight train ran into a chair car,
cutting it in twain.
The disposition to be made of jim
Younger's body has not vet been de.
termined at st. Paul. The BODY has
been embalmed and will be kept until
Miss Ella Rollins of Dallas, Texas, sister
OF the Younger brothers, can be heard
from. When alive, Younger often ex-
pressed the wish that his BODY might be
cremated when he died. This plan will
probably be carried out.
The railroads of st. Paul and Mime
apolls have been given 4S hours in which
to consider the demands of the switch
men for additional pay and shorter
hours, and 1t is promised that unless
concessions are made strike will be
ordered.
The October grand jury sitting in St.
iI4ouis has handed down an Indictment
+ darging Col. Edward Butter, a politician
aud millionaire, with bribery in connec-
tion with the city lighting deal, in which
SAT 800 is said to have been disbursed
among the members of the house of del
egates combine.
Tuesday October ri.
With a shout that fairly shook the
convention building, the representatives
OF l47 200 minewOrkers who have been
on strike since last May, officially de-
clared of at noon today the greatest
contest ever made between capital and
labor, and placed all the questions in
Volved in the struggle in the hands of
the arbitration commission appointed
by the president of the United States.
DR.. David Starr Jordan of Stanford
university has made a brief report to
the United States fish commission on his
recent voyage to the Samoan islands in
the interest of the commission. He saws
he succeeded in securing 600 species of
fish, OF which about 25 per cent are be-
lieved to be unclassified and unknown to
science. The specimens are now being
overhauled at Stanford university.
After being tried in legal form and
procedure for criminal assault and muir
der, and being sentenced to death by
hanging, Jim Wesley and Reddick Bar
ton, negroes, were taken from the
authorities at Hampstead, Texas, and
llynched in the public square by an in
furiated mob.