The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-15
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 g.

IL mas been customary to administer
the water cure" to refractory patients
at the Topeka, Kansas, asylum for the
insane, according to testimony sub
mltted before the committee on investi
gatlOn, which is now in session.
Orders have been received at the Union
Iron works in San Francisco to launch
the sheathed protected cruiser Tacoma
on May 2l. 1t was first intended that
the launching should take place during
PRESIDENT RoOsevelt's trip to the coast,
but the boat could not be placed in
readiness in time.
Uncle Dan Yancy, who has lived in
Yellowstone park for 80 years, and
whom President Roosevelt visited on
his trip there, is dying of old age. He
is 10 years old and is one of the most
famous characters of the place and a
noted hunter.
General John c. Black OF Chicago has
been unanimously endorsed as a candi-
date for the position of commander in
chief OF the 6. A. r. by the Illinois di-
vision, holding their state encampment
at East st. Louis.
Arizona has welcomed President
Roosevelt and the welcome was warm
one. The president viewed the grand
canyon of the Colorado and asked the
people of Arizona not to mar the won
derful creation of nature in any manner
whatsoever. He pronounced it the most
marvellous sight in nature that he had
ever seen.
Thursday, May 7.
Because of the rapid falling of the
Mississippi river it may be necessary for
the Arkansas to be relieved OF some of
her fittings in order to enable her to
get to New Orleans in safety. The
cruiser Arkansas is at st. Louis.
Twenty persons were injured, few
seriously, in a collision between two
southbOund electric cars in Chicago.
The collision was due to an accident to
the running gear Of the forward car.
A tunnel in a mine at Eggleson, Va,
caved in, burying Is men under hun
dreds OF tons of dirt. Eight we're in
stantly killed. Two Others we're taken
out alive, but they cannot recover.
Traffic is suspended. All of the parties
were colored.
The strike OF the building trades of
Springfield, ILL.,, is virtually at an end
The contractors conceded most OF the
demands of the strikers and the latter
have returned to work.
The striking rockmen on the New
I6lA subway have not as yet returned
TO work. They are demanding further
information regarding their chances OF
receiving a raise in wages before return
ing. There are upwards of 10000 OF
these men idle.
Friday, May 8.
A crisis is approaching on the Great
Northern, neither side being willing to
grant any concessions. Several confer
ences have been held between the mem
bers OF the company and the representa-
tlves OF the trainmen. 1t is reported
that Hill has engaged 1000 men to
take the place of his men should a strike
be ordered.
President Roosevelt is the guest of
Los Angeles and other Southern Cali
lorna cities. He has been given a chance
to see the beautiful flower gardens and
orange groves for which that country is
noted. The president made speeches at
several points.
len or II persons we're severely in
Jured and three business houses in the
center OF Stockton, Cal, were burney by
an explosion, which was followed by a
ire. The cause of the explosion is not
known.
The defense in the Ames bribery case
IN Minneapolis has closed and verdict
OF guilty rendered. The defense asked for
a stay OF sentence, which was granted
for few days.
Saturday, May 9.
Several Breathitt county, Kentucky,
refugees are IN the vicinity OF Middles-
boro, and they describe a terrible state
OF affairs IN the mountain country. They
say reporters are not allowed to send
iull reports OF the situation. One who
was forced to flee from Jackson says he
was near when Marcum was killed and
that he will appear when the time comes
to give testimony.
Three persons are dead and eight
Others seriously injured as the result of
headon collision between two pass
enger trains on the New York Central
railroad near Nelson lake in the Anrion-
dacks of New York.
j. +. kuntz put two bullets into the
body OF his wife, from the effects of
which she may die, and then shot to
death j. Walsh, wealthy contractor of
Pittsburg, Pa, of whom he was Jealous.
A serious conflict, the outcome of
labor troubles in Fremont, Ohio, has
occurred. Otto Mischke, 20 years old,
was shot and killed and Albert Gummell
fatally wounded, the shooting being
done by gang of nonunion men, three
OF whom are now in jail. The men ar
rested are all negroes.
Sunday, May 10.
The canvass of the vote taken on the
Great Northern system as to whether
the general committee should be sus-
tanned in their prosecution of the double
header on the system has been COM
| pleted. The grand officers, however, re
| fuse to make the result known until
| after the conference with General Man
ager Ward.
| President Roosevelt is ENJOYING the
balmy climate in the land OF flowers and
is spending very pleasant hours in Cali
| fornia visiting the various points of
interest and making speeches to the peo-
pie at the various places where his train
stops.
| One of the fiercest and most damag-
ing forest fires in the history of the AL
leghaney mountains, is raging near
Dunlo, Pa, the big coal and lumber