The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-03
ALL OVER THE Union
The Important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
Wednesday, March 20.


Large numbers of cattle are dying in
different parts of Montana from a dis
ease thought to be blackIeg. StOckmen
are greatly worried and are having their
cattle vacclnated as rapidly as possible.
More than $4,000 il the price put on
the heads OF the trio of highwaymen,
who, on Saturday night, murdered a
| passenger and wounded three others in
desperate attempt to hold up a Santa
Monica car near Los Angeles.
The treasury department has given
notice that on Mondays and Thursdays
until further notice, offers would be re-
| celVed at the bureau OF the mint for the
sale TO the government of the silver
bullion to be used i'll coming pesos under
the Philippine coinage act The de-
partment will purchase $2,0O0,O0O
worth OF silver to be coined into pesos.
The Pennsylvania senate committee
on mines and mining has decided to re
port to the senate the bill raising the
minimum age at which children can be
employed in the mines from II to 16
| years and outside the mines from II to
IA.
| The main portion of the smelling
works of the United States Reduction
and Refining company at Canyon City,
Colo, has been destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000. One hundred and
nifty men are made idle.
A tragedy occurred at Bangor, Cal,
IN which Ed Dickhouse was killed, j. P.
kimbrall was shot through the groin
and had his arm broken, and Will Curry
was shot through the leg and the bone
was broken. Shadrick Sowell, an old
citizen OF Bangor, did the shooting The
trouble was over sheep owned by SOwell.
Thursday, March 26
The Mississippi river at Memphis
registers 3S 7 feet, very light fall since
yesterday, but reports from up river
points announce that the fall at differ
ent localities is quite marked.
Assistant United States District At
tOrDey 6. IL. Bailey is investigating the
death of Joseph Fastbuffalo Horse, the
Indian who was found dead near Butte.
Three Indians are under arrest on sus-
picion of having committed the murder.
The dead Indian was one of the hand
soonest men of the Flathead reserva
ton.
The Sunset limited Of the Southern
Pacific and another passenger train
cOllided near San Antonio Texas, and
I three passengers were killed and nine
injured. The bodies of the dead were
jaarned.
AS soon as the~snow meits in. the, vi
cinity of BeltOn, Mont, where Superin-
tendent Egan lost his life last winter
while hunting, the search for his BODY
ho
ceived a letter from II. G. Egan, brother
of the dead man, asking him to take up
the search.
The independent Alaska canneries
have decided to take all of their red
salmon off the market until the price
goes up. The Pacific Navigation &
Packing company will do the same and
between they control the red salmon in
first hands.
The secretary Of the treasury has an
nounced that be will receive for refund
ing to an amount not exceeding $780,
600, 900, of the bonds of the per cent
loan of 1908 1918 and the per cent
loan of 1907.
Friday, March 27.
The food at GreenvIle Miss, ia be-
under water. Many lives are being re
ported lost, the water already having
reached the highest points in the city.
The city is in total darkness at night.
the electric light plant having been put
out of business by the food.
Two hundred Irishmen, whose feelings
had been outraged by the performance
OF "McFadden's Row OF Flats" at the
new Star theater in New York city, rose
in their seats and pelted the performers
with rotten eggs, rotten vegetables and
fruits. The audience of 1000 were
thrown into an uproar and the actors
were driven from the stage.
The officials of the United States Re.
ductiOn 4 Refining company are in con-
ference with the business men of CrippIe
Creek, Col, in an effort TO bring about a
settlement OF the strike in that district.
Plans are almost completed in Chica-
go for the launching of a daley news
paper, to be owned and operated ex-
clusively by women, and which shall
"dare to print everything and anything
exactly as it really is. A company has
been formed with Mrs. Alice Blount at
it's head.
W llldm bOIsey, COIOFeu, mas DoeQ
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for high
way robbery. That is the first instance
in the states history where the death
penalty has been imposed for this crime.
The drivers employed on the lakes
have gone on strike at Cleveland Ohio,
to enforce their demand for higher
| wages. The men have been getting S.
and Sc per day and are demanding a
fat rate of $40 per day.
Saturday, March %.
The agents of the cotton mills at
| Lowell, Mass, in which the operatives
| have decided to strike have agreed not
to attempt to start their mills on Mon
day.
The food situation at Greenville, Miss =.
is quite as serious as it has been at any
time, and inch by inch the food is
spreading to other parts OF the city.
The crevasses in the levee south of the
town are widening and the waters are
spreading over large areas OF delta
lands. 1t is estimated that fully 1900
square miles of territory lying between
Greenville and Vicksburg are under
water.
President Dan Mcdonald and Secre.
tary Smith of the Western Federation oil
Labor have issued an official call for the
sixth annual convention of that organ.