The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-09

mas tailed to secure divorce from her
/ husband.
Eleven hundred miners in the Spring
held, Ill, district have struck because
the operators have failed to comply with
the law providing that operators shall
erect wash houses near the mines. 1t il
believed the strike will not last long.
| The strike of the linemen against the
Pacific States Telephone company is at
an end. The men will return to work
within very few days The details of
the agreement have not been made public
For the second time within the past
year death sentence has been passed
upon Peter Mortensen for the murder OF
James K Hay of Salt Lake. Mortensen
Will be shot to death.
Sunday, October A.
During a squall on Lake Michigan
the steamer j. H. Hockey capsized and
ii persons were drowned. The Hockey
was struck by awhen seven miles
on Green island. near Marinette, Wis
cOnsin.
Seven people were killed and many
injured by tornado which swept Sr
Charles, Mimi. The property loss is al
so very large.
Governor Peabody Of Colorado haa
summoned Brigadier General Chase from
Cripple Creek to Denver 1t is not known
why the general was relieved from duty.
A tornado struck Blaine and Almond
Wis, killing five persons. injuring mauy
and destroying much property. This
same storm did much damage in Iown
and Illinois.
The first snow of the season for the
middle states has fallen at Fergus Falls.
Mimi. The storm lasted three hours
ana was driven by q heavy northwest
wind.
Robert Dalton Burdinp, well known
young man, was murdered and w D
Hays, his cousin, probably fatally hurt
IN fight with negroes on the river front
at Louisville, KY. Four negroes have
been arrested.
One man dying, another euffpring
from serious but not necessarily fatal
bullet wound, and "A third under arrest
charged with firing the shots, is the ont
come Of Il clash between the anarchists
and socialists OF Barre VT.
Dashing over an enbaukment in their
automobile, Herbert Bowen, a publisher
OF Rich hmOnd Hill, l., l., his wife Agnes,
and their five year old son, were aeri
ously hurt while descending hill in
East New York. Mrs. Bowen's condi-
ton is critical.
Monday, October 3.
Samnel Parks, the walking delegate Of
New York, b8s returned to his home
from the Kansas City convention and
has announced that lie has had enough
fighting and is now ready to retire.
VIM. McCOy, a young member of the
Mccoy family shot and mortally wound
ed Everett Thompson, a sOn-i law of
the Hatfields at Nolan, W. Va. The
tragedy is the outgrowth of a feud which
has existed for 20 years.
Labor differences are responsible for
the closing down indefinitely of the
Morse Iron Works / DrydOck Company
in Brooklyn, one of the largest concerns
OF it's kind on the Atlantic cost. The
blame is attributed to the walking dele
gates.
Another attempt has been made to
blow up a train in Montana. Dyna
mite was placed on the Northern Pa
cltic track at Birdseye, west of Helena.
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one was injured.
The little town of Even. Mich, has
been laid waste by "A terrific tornado.
One person was killed and a number in
jured. The property damage was great
The federal grand jury in session at
Washington City, which has been investi-
eating the pOstotfice department, has
returned another batch of indictments
Thirty persons have already been in
dicted by that jury.
Tuesday, October g
Lightning struck tent in the Rock
Island railroad camp at Kansas CITY.
Kansas, during violent storm, killing
two men, injuring five Others and shock
ed all the other occupants 0f the tent,
about Is in number
There are rumGrs that scandal OF
wide reaching character has developed
in the management OF the Cripple Greek
campaign OF the Colorado national
guard.
Two men dead and 10 injured, but
not seriously, is the result of a collision
between an extra and regular freight
train near Eureka, Cal.
Yellow fever is still raging at Laredo.
Texas and other points and new cases
are being reported every day. The total
number of deaths, however, has not
been large. considering the malignant
form OF the disease.
An international sympathetic strike
affecting the 10000 organized bridge
and structural iron workers in the
United States and Canada is scheduled
to be called iD few weeks.
The steel trust has cut its dividends
on common stock TO one half OF one per
cent Preferred stock receives it's old
dividends. 1t is claimed that the earn
ings OF the trust are decreasing rapidly.
Only a Very Few Published.
1t is not possible for the proprietors
to publish more than very few Of the
numerous letters received in praise of
Chamherlain's Colic, Cholera and
DiarrhOea Remedy and telling of it's re-
markable cures. They come from peo-
pie in every walk in life and from every
state in the Union. The following from
Mr.. T. W GreathOuse, of Prattsburg,
Ga, speaks for itself: II would have
been dead now but for the use of Cham
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Diorrhoea