The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-11-13
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, November 4

Wednesday, November 4
A wreck on the Montana division of
the Great Northern occurred six miles
west of Minot, when a freight train left
the track, piling up Is box cars in the
ditch. The fireman was seriously in
iured.
Six men were killed and ten slightly
injured by an explosion of the United
States naval arseneI, one of the largest
magazines IN the country, which is To-
Gated at Iona Island, n. Y.
The First National Bank of Victor.
Colo, was closed by direction of the act.
ing comptroller of the currency, the ex-
aminer reporting the bank to be in
solvent. The failure was due to exces-
siye accommodations extended to min
ing interests with which the officers of
the bank we're connected.
Upon opening the safe of the bank of
the Chickasaw nation at Tishimingo,
Okla, Receiver Foster found but $50,
which was in silver. 1t is supposed that
President Kirby Pnrdom looted the
bank
The decision Of the commission in the
San FRANCISCO street railway arbitration
as handed down, awards an increase of
IO per cent IN wages to employees Of two
years standing and B per cent to those
OF less services.
Sam Parks the notorious New York
walking delegate, has announced that
he will not appeal from the court which
convicted him of extOrtiOn, but that be
decided his case was hopeless.
One person Was killed and 10 Others
injured, four fatally, in collision of two
cable trains at Kansas City, near the
Union depot.
st. Louis and a number of towns
throughout the Mississippi valley have
experienced decided earthquake shocks
NO damage was done, although chande
liers swung three inches in the tall build
ings OF the city.
Thursday, November
The New York cotton market de
veloped today into one OF the most
sensationally exciting and active ones of
recent times. Prices were forced up at a
record breaking rate and trading con
tinued at the advance.
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana il
being sued by ?. J. Hennesspy and W
H. Abbott for $550,O00. They allpge
that Clark has extracted by tunneIing
ore worth that amount from claims
owned by them in Dublin gulch, near
Butte.
Congressman Slemp of Bristol, Va,
has confirmed the report that Edward
/, no 81
millionaire who disappeared, is not
dead, but is in the hands of abductors
in the mountains of southwest Virginia
and that a ransom Of 100000 has
been demanded for his release.
Bibon, a little village 20 miles south
OF Ashland, Wis, has been DESTROYED by
fire. The town was without fire pro
lection and no property was saved. 1t
is thought no lives have been lost.
Governor Peabody and Commissioner
OF Labor Montgomery OF Colorano have
practically given up hope OF being able
to avert a general strike of the coal
miners of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
and Wyoming.
The Bimetalic bank of Cripple Creek,
Colo, has tailed to open it's doors. The
cause of the failure is said TO he a heavy
decline in mining srOcks and real estate,
which was caused by the strike.
Under specific orders from the post
office department at Washington in
spectors have begun a rigid examina-
tion into the affairs OF the New York
pOstOttice.
Miss Bobb Clarke Hovte of Bozeman.
Mont, daughter of Beniamn d. HOyte,
owner of the Bar Fl" ranch, has mar,
ried John Wing Lee, a naturalzed
Chinaman, against the wishes of her
father, the marriage taking place in Chi
cag0. The groom is a graduate OF Le-
land Stanford university.
Friday, November 6
The conference of the operators of the
Colorado Wyoming coal fields with the
representatives of their employees has
come to close with every prospect that
a strike in that region will be averted.
Mutual concessions were made and the
only thing at issue now is the question
of an eight hour day.
By vote OF 264 to 153 the employees
of the Chicago City Railway Company
have indorsed a strike if necessary to
enforce the demands of the union. The
executive board will call upon the com
pany with the ultimatum.
Fire in the Kearsarge mine at Virginia
City, Mont, killed nine men. The flames
started in the tunnel house on tunnel
No. 1, but it is not known how it orig
mated.
Snow has fallen at manv points
throughout the northern, central and
western states. In the mountains as
much as four feet has fallen.
One person was killed and seven in
iured by the explosion of the boiler on
an oil traction engine which was Operat-
ing in a corn field near the Ohio uni
versity at Columbus. number of
students we're watching the operations.
Sam Parks, the New York walking
delegate, has been sentenced to two
years and three months in Sing Sing
prison. He has been taken to the
prison.
A rumor is afoat in Montana that F.
Augustus Heinze has agreed to sell his
interests to the Amalgamated Copper
| Company and that the mines will re-
sumo operations.