The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-09-05

CUT made by congress in the way of
"ipihe on the books the taxes imposed
on account OF the war with Spain.
Two persons killed, three fatally in
lured and more than a score of Others
hnrt IN the wreck of tram which was
huried down an embankment by a tor
nado two miles from Meridian. Mimi. is
the substance OF long story in a very
few lines.
one OF the coaches making tour of
the Iello~stone park was overturned
ana rolled over several times down into
a canyon. The coach was occupied by
ID passengers, OF whom several were
seriously injured. One tourists Injuries
may prove fatal. One horse was killed
instantly. The driver lost control of his
horses.
At Buffalo, N. Y, General Manager
MItten OF the International Traction
company has mailed to all trainmen a
letter advising them that on Labor Day
their salaries would be increased ap.
proximately 10 per cent. 1t affects 1900
train conductors and motormen.
Alfred d. Jones, who in 1854 laid ont
townslte on what is now the most
thlckly settled portion of Omaha. is
dead, aged 81 years. He is reputed to
be Nebraska's first settler and Omaha's
first postmaster.
Sunday, August 81.
severe storm struck Lincoln. Kas.
doing much damage to property. Near
Sallna two boys, Harry Dodds and
Frank johnson were killed by lightning
The annual meeting of the National
Letter Carriers Association is being held
in Denver. There are 600 accredited del
egates and 400 or 500 visitors.
Gov. Taft is given BANQUET at the
American Chamber OF Commerce in
Manila. The governor, in q speech, said
the United States would retain the
islands indefinitely.
The central labor union of PhiladeI
phla unanimously adopted a resolution
denouncing Brigadier General Go6sn. in
command OF the troops now stationed
IN the anthracite region, for calling on
his men to shoot strikers if thew resis+
the authority of the troops.
Trains eastbound out of st. Paul and
Minneapolis are delayed by washouts.
The rivers and small streams in Mime
sofa and Wisconsin are raging torrents.
Monday, September
Labor Day is being observed in all the
principal cities of the United States.
Parades. Speech making and a general
holiday make for the men of toll dav
OF rest and recreation.
Schooner Wing and Wing, in ballast
from San Francisco, went ashore outside
OF Siuslaw bay on the Oregon coast
She Is in an upright position and will
probably be foated soon.
William TrOttman, recently released
from the Utah insane asylum. murdered
his two daughters and cruelty beat his
wife over the head with heavy instru-
ment and then shot himself through the
heart with a Winchester rife. Mrs
Trottman is in serious condition, but
has chance for recovery.
The defendant companies to the suit
against the railway merger in Minnesota
have filed their defense. A plain denial
OF many of the plaintiffs allegations
and statement that competition does
exist is the text of the defense.
In a wreck on the Southern railway
near Perry, Ala, 20 persons met instant
death. An excursion train was round
ing curve on high embankment when
four cars left the track and rolled over
and over, smashing the cars and iniur.
ing 80 people.
Twenty policemen armed with Win
chesters engaged in a desperate battle in
a house at North Beach, n. Y. Four
officers we're wounded. Ia a previous
encounter, Jerry Hunter, a negro, had
fatally wounded one policeman and Sc
verely wounded another, and then had
taken refuge in the house, armed and de-
liant. Hunter was captured.
Tuesday, September z.
Men were seriously injured in a skirm-
ish between strikers and miners in the
Flat Top fields, and the situation is ex-
tremely critical. Many shots have been
fired at the non union miners going to
and from the Flat Top fields in West
Virginia.
Charles E. Arney, warden, and DR.. ].
X, Dubois, penitentiary physician for the
Idaho state penitentiary, are under ar
rest charged with committing a criminal
operation upon Mrs. Josie KensIer, a life
prisoner.
Much interest is manifested by dele
gates to the International Mining Con-
gress now in session at Butte, Montana.
Judge Durand, democratic nominee for
governor of Michigan, is stricken with
paralysis. His physicians say he may
live 4S hours, but that his recovery was
all but Impossible.