The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-12-12

new towns aud cities are springing into
life. '"7 'ii'o
The Eagle Valley tannerv at Ridge.
way, Pa, has been DESTROYED bv fire
lhe loss on buildings is estimated at
Sfo,O 900 and that on the stock oI
leather and hides $3.50, 900 to $500, 600,
A sudden shifting of the main channel
OF the Missouri river to the Iowa side
mas lett Nebraska City without water
supply. The water works are drained
ana every basin is empty. The elrctric
dark. &c
A ire which originated in the shaving
vault OF McPhee & McGinty's planning
mill at Denver, destroyed property esti.
mated as valued at 100000.
President Ramsey of the Wabash rail
road has received word that the striking
shopmen OF his road will accept the 3
cents per hour advance in wages.
Monday, December 8.
natural gas we'll has been discovered
III Coalmeasures, two miles west OF
LIvlngs tone, Mont. The we'll apparent
y is OF great proportions. The gas is
declared by mining men to be OF fsuperiOr
quality.
President Roosevelt has announced
hls acceptance OF the invitation to at
tend dinner to be given in honor of JUS
tlee Harlan OF the United States supreme
court and to celebrate the 25th ami
Versary OF his appointment as a mem
Der OF the court.
Inc /. X. Bennett company operating
a general store in Omaha, has gone in.
to the hands of a receiver. 1t is under
stood that the assets more than e0ual
the liabilities.
captain Putnam Bradlee Strong and
wife (nee May Yohe) have returned to
New York from their South American
trip.
Governor Orman of Colorado has
pardoned E, D. Reed OF Omaha. a
wealthy stOckman, who was sentenced
to Jail for six months for violating the
Colorado state inspection law. MIR.
Reeds violation was for the purpose of
testing the validity of the law.
Joseph Smith one of the best known
miners in Montana has been killed in the
Diamond mine at Butte by fall OF
earth.
Pearl LaFollette, aged 13, is dead at
indianapolis as result of dose of
carbollc acid given to her by mistake
for throat gerge.
Tuesday, December o.
New York and New England are ex-
periencing the coldest weather for MANY
years. The severity Of the cold ia in
tensitied by the facG that the peODJe are
not prepared for it. The scarcity of
coal is causing great suffering among
the poorer classes.
Mika Goldie, an employe Of The
WashOe smelter at Anaconda, Mont.
was at work in one OF the fumes clean,
ing 1t out, when some one turned on the
hot Stag and water, not knowing GOldie
was IN the flume. GoIdie w8s literally
boiled and cooked to dea th He was 81
years Of age ard had been married only
55ree mouths. )
The cold wave has moderated gener
ally throughout the western and central
states, with an average raise in the
temperature at different points Of about
eight degrees.
The federal grand jury has returned
indictments against Ben Commons.
president of the Street Car Mems Union,
and 16 members of his organization for
interference with the operation OF mail
cars during the recent car strike in
New Orleans.
The dinner given by the bar of the su.
preme court Of the United States at the
New Willard hotel in Washington in
recognition of the completion OF 20
years OF service of John Marshall Har-
Ian on the bench Of the supreme court,
was brilliant affair. President Roose-
velt made a speech. Wayne MacVeagh
nreSided