The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-17

stone park. The president is in com.
pany with Major Pitcher and a com.
pany OF soldiers. The president also
hopes to bag few big gray wolves
while on this trip.
While blowing in a field at Dillon
Mont, George W. Finch found the bones
OF giant. Both feet we're gone. having
been apparently cut off before the body
was buried. Around the neck of the
skeleton was bead necklace OF superior
workmanship, and around the waist was
a belt OF similar material In life the
man must have been in the neighbor.
hood OF seven feet high.
brigham Young, president of the
council OF Twelve Apostles of the Nor
mon church, is dead at his home in Salt
Lake city. He was born in Kirkland,
ONO, IN 1886, and was the eldest son OF
President Brigham Young.
Sunday, April 12.
One death, fatal injury and a score
or more of injuries resulted from a tor
nado which swept Logan, Dewitt and
Platt counties in Illinois. The wind was
followed by deluge and the streets of
the towns in the path of the storm re-
sembled miniature rivers within a short
time after the blow.
Nathan Morris, an attorney, and
Frank Haas, the II year old son of DR..
Joseph Haas, were burned TO death and
Mrs. Joseph Haas, Miss Belle Haas. Miss
Rosa Haas, Louis Haas and Grace
Lemon, a gOverness, we're injured by a
ire that almost destroyed the home of
Dr. Joseph Haas at Indianapolis, Ind.
The beginning of the third week of the
textile strike at Lowell, Mas, finds both
/ sides holding firmly. A parade is beipg
planned in which 10000 textile opera.
tives will appear.
Between 300 and 400 union men quit
their jobs in Los Angeles by order of the
building trades council, which is seeking
TO compel recognition of the union card
| by the contractors and master builders
OF the city.
Two men dynamited the safe in the
| pOstotfice at LOngmOnt, Col, but we're
surprised by citizens before they could
| gather much booty. Only two regis
| tered letters we're secured and these were
| recovered by the citizens who found the
men in a lumber yard near by. They
gave the names OF George Bradley and
| william Morrison.
Manager Edison of the Denver & Rio
Grand railroad has granted an Increase
IN wages OF per cent to engineers and
hTemen working on ordinary engines and
| X per cent to those working on com
pound engines. The men had demanded
10 and 20 per cent increase, but will &C.
cept the compromise.
Monday. April 13
A. FL. Eagen, superintendent of the
Illinois Central railroad, has arrived at
Columbia Falls, Mont, and ia organic
ing party TO go into the mountains 10
search for the remains of his brother.
Benjamin Eagan, who became lost and
perished in the region about Bolton last
December while hunting deer.
The schooner Margaret l.. Ward was
rammed and sunk by the Southern Pa
cific steamer FL Rio, % miles east OF
Galveston bar. Two children of Cap
tain MckOwen of the schooner were lost
and seaman OF the same vessel.
Definite steps have been taken at
Indianapolis, Ind, for the organization
OF national union of employers and
nOnuniOn men. Articles of association
have been fled Incorporating the Ameri-
| can Association of Independent Mer-
chants. The purpose of the Organiza-
ton IS to protect nOnuniOn men who do
not care to affiliate with the unions.
Mayor Harrison's plurality over Stew
| art for mayor of Chicago is fixed by the
official canvass at 1919 votes. the
mayor having secured 146,2OS to 13S,-
528 for Stewart.
A tornado in the vicinity of Blncton.
Ala, wrecked several houses and did
considerable damage to farming proper
ty. The towns of Coleanor and Carney
also suffered. No fatalities are reported.
An effort is being made to induce the
| transcOntinental railroads to ADOPT q
standard form of ticket The matter
will be taken up at meeting of the
transcOntinental agents to be held in
Portland, Oregon, next week. 1t is
probable that the roads will agree to
| one form of ticket for transcontinental
| traffic.
Tuesday, April IA.
| President Roosevelt ia said to be en-.
| iOying his outing in the Yellowstone ma
| tional park and that he is in the best of
health. The weather is quite cold and
| the snow several feet deep, but the presi-
dent takes long trips over the mountain
trails and thoroughly enjoys the scenery
As has been anticipated q long time
no little trouble is being experienced in
securing jury to try j. W. Kelley for
the killing of DR.. A. H. Cayley at Butte,
| Mont, some months ago. The regular
| jury panel has been exhausted and the
court has issued an open venire Of $50
The twenty fourth annual convention
Of the Amalgamated Association of
! Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is in session
at Columbus, Ohio, with over 800 dele
gates present.
The bank deposits in Kansas now
amount to 100000 more than any
previous high water mark, The de-
pOsits are now more than 100000, 600,
over $50 for every man, woman and
| child in that state.
Two men were killed and two injured
in a belated dynamite explosion which
occurred in the new Mount Washington
tunnel OF the Wabash railroad near
Pittsburg, Pa.
Infuriated by not finding his wife at
home when he returned Charles Joeger
laid in wait for her and her child and
when they appeared the unnatural
father grabbed the child by the leg and
struck it's head a crashing blow against