The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-10-16

They demand 20 per cent raise in
wages for all classes. The operator,
offered them 12k per cent advance hut
they refused.
Ihe Virginia coast from Cape Henry
10 Damneck Mills is strewn with the
wreckage Of ill-iated craft, driven to the
beaches by the terrific storm which has
been raging. All communication with
the seaboard is cut eff.
The Southern Pacific company has dis.
charged all OF it's train agents, and the
oid plan OF having the conductors collect
lares ana tickets has been resumed.
James Lynch and Nick Haworth, the
TWO men under death sentence for mur.
Ger, who escaped from the Utah peniten.
tiary, are still at large, and have so far
eluded the bloodhouuds and posses.
Hundreds Of candy makers in Chicago
nave returned tu work, the strike hav.
ing been formally declared of No con.
cesSlons were granted by the employers
Sunday, October II.
As the result of a drunken row on the
BlacktoOt Indian reservation in Mon.
tana, seven people are dead and two
wounded. All are Blackfoot Indians
The attacking party was composed oI
four or five indians.
Famished with hunger, his limbs torn
and bleeding from the thorDy undpr
brush, through which he plunged in his
mad flight for freedom, Nick Haworth
one OF the two death sentence convicts
VINO escaped from the Utah penitentary
FFlday, was captured in a cabin less
than dozen miles from the prison.
Flood conditions at Patterson. n I
are but little improved. The Passaic
river IS still raging and the torrents nj
kater are doing hundreds OF thousands
of dollars worth of damage. Thousands
OF wOrkmen will be idle from the mills
for many weeks
The northeast gale that has RACED
over Norfolk, Va, since Thursday has
practically spent it's power, but for miles
and miles along the Virginia coast the
beach ia Uttered with wreckape and
throughout that entire section of the
country devastation lies in the wake of
the storm.
Hamilton, Mont, is wild with excite
ment over a great discovery of gold on
Owl creek, few miles from there A
regular stampede is on and if half that
is said OF the find is true, it is the great.
est strike made in Montana in wears.
The yellow fever situation at L0redO
Texas, remains unchanged. The physi
clans think they have the disease we'll in
hand.
Monday, October II
The floods in New York and New .Ipr
sey are rfcediDg rapidly after doing
millions of dollars worth of damage
Patterson, n. j.. is now thought to he
sale from the angry waters.
During the past "a hours there has
been larger number Of yellow fever
cases reported at Laredo, Texas, than
on any one day since the outbreak OF
the epidemic.
A battle occurred at KeviI, XIV, be
tween negroes and white youths.
dozen shots were fred and Tom Hall a
negro, was shot through the arm and
white man by the name OF chiIdress was
shot over the heart and fatally injured
-Four members of a picnic party were
injured, one OF them dangerously. in a
collision between an electric car and a
carryall wagon in Denver.
Entry No. % in the Hanna. Wvo
coal mine has just been opened and "a
badly decOmpOsed bodies of victims of
the disaster OF June 30 found.
The attorneys in the Tilman murder
case in South Carolina are addressing
the jury. The counsel for the state and
defense will alternate in speaking.
Mary Koskiski, aged 13 years. was
found dead in a ditch within a few
squares of her home in South Whining
ton, Del. investigation showed that
the girl had been assaulted and thrown
into the water The police have no
clue.
Tuesday, October 13
Walter Jackson, the convicted mur-
derer of six year old Fonnie Buck and
sentenced to be hanged, was taken from
jail at Hamilton, Mont, by a mob of rs
men and hanged.
The water in the flooded district OF
Patterson, n. j :, continues to go down
and no apprehension of further damage
is felt.
1ioh CiOJ hChI ontCdRO, slept on lis
arms last night, town of religious
frenzy and military preparation. The
restoration host" is preparing to move
on New York to evangeIize that wicked
city.
The mercerizers and dyers' union of
Philadelphia has given the dyers permis-
sion to return to work, thus finally end
ing the textile strike which began in
that city June /. The dyers are the last
of the 10000 strikers to return to
work.
At Kensel, N D., mob wrecked the
interior of the Journal office and threw
several cases OF type in the street.
Editor G. l. Allen has been fighting
lawless element in his paper and it is
believed that members OF that gang
committed the outrage.
Medical Society Meeting.