The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-22
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, May IS.

bought and sold in New York today anC
prices scared to points reached only
once before in a dozen years and pan
demonium reigned in the cotton ex
change.
A settlement is quite likely between
the Great Northern and the trainmen
1t Is believed that J. J. Hill instigateC
| the interference OF business men that ht
might have a soft place to fall The
officials seem on the verge of granting
the employees demands.
Two hundred cooks, 400 walters. 800
butchers and $50 bakers have beer
called out on strike in Denver by the
pure food council. Nearly all OF thu
restaurants in that city are closed. The
cause OF the trouble is the refusal of the
various bakeries and groceries to make
contracts with the union.
Quiet prevails in Omaha and business
In some cases has been resumed by
places that have been closed by the
strike.
Pending the arbitration of their griev.
| ances most of the 5000 labOrers have
returned to work on the New York sub.
way. Some 1900 have refused to go to
work, saying that they do not propose
to work and be assessed for the main.
tenance of those who have not been
called to work.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania has signed the child labor bill.
This makes it unlawful to EMPLOY chill.
dren under Is years of age in or about
the mines.
There is no probability of an early
adjustment of the strike of the brick
makers and clay miners at Pittsburg.
Pa, as the parties are absolutely un-
able to get together on their differences.
Thursday, May IA.
All danger of a strike on the Great
Northern has been averted and an ami
cable agreement between the company
and its trainmen has been signed. Both
sides made concessions.
Cotton is still climbing in the New
York stock exchange. The highest price
reached in years is reported from the
pit. Added to this the transactions
were of enormous value.
In escaping from the county iail at
Guthrie, 0. T., W. W. MONTGOMERY, q
desperate outlaw, shot and killed the
lailOr, Jerry Emmerson, and was in turn
shot by EmmersOn's wife. He got away
and the extent of his injury is not
known.
President Roosevelt has gone from
S1n Francisco to Yosemite park for a
few days rest and recreation. The
president with a smile said chat the city
by the Golden Gate had given him every
thing but sleep and that he would try
and find that himself
The Deering plant of the Internation-
al Harvester company of Chicago, which
has been closed 10 days on account of
the strike, will resume operations. An
agreement between the employees and
the company has been reached.
A straight eight-hour day will be de-
manded on May 1, 1904, by all ma
chinlsts working in contract shops and
under the Jurisdiction of the Interna-
tiOnal Association of Machinists. The
demand will not apply to railroad ma
chinists. This was the decision OF the
committee having in charge the propo-
sition OF shorter work day before the
machinists' convention in Milwaukee,
Friday, May Is.
Failing to break the deadlock in the
laundry workers strike in Chicago. rhe
laundry owners attempted to operate
their business. By a concerted move
ment a score of laundries started, but
we're unable to run throughout the day.
A big strike of general trades is
threatened in Kansas City, according to
the head men of several unions and
prominent members of the industrial
council, who say that organized labor is
determined to make that a "union
town."
Smith county, Miss, and the whites are
in arms and are whipping and killing
negroes wherever they find them. One
white man is said to have been mortally
wounded and several negroes killed.
Miss Kate Taylor is dead as the result
af an explosion of a carbonated gas
tank used for making soda water, which
wrecked the rear rooms of her store in
New York.
Two lives were lost in a fire that de.
strOyed the Westchester apartment
building in Chicago. One man is miss
ing and is supposed to have perished in
the flames, while two persons we're seri
ously and probably fatally injured by
jumping from the windows.
Joe Adair, Wash Turner and Dave
Freddy are dead and John Spivey can.
not live as the result of having par.
taken too freely of moonshine whiskey
distilled in the mountains OF Arkansas
The officers OF Hot Springs are investi
eating the affair.
Saturday, May 10.
The Schwab free industrial schoo
built at Homestead, Pa, by Charles NJ
Schwab, president OF the great steel cor
poration, has been opened. Mr.. Schwat
in an address gave the institution tc
the public.
The first pronounced break in the Chi
cago laundry strike came today, wher
54 girls, who returned to work at th,
Quick Service laundry, tore up theiI
union cards and threw the pieces at 6
business agent when he attempted tt
fine them $25 a piece for deserting tn
strikers.
John L. Sullivan has come to lif
again and will soon be doing business
on the Bowery in New York in the "we
goods" line. Some of the ex-pugilis
admirers have set him up in business
Sullivan has been doing a theatrica
turn for some time.
The police authorities of Southport
Conn, are searching for Oliver Shel