The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-24
ALL OVER THR union
The Important News of a Week
In Condensed Form.
Happenings and Matters OF Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
w ednesdaY. AnriI LIZ.

Wednesday, April 15.
an lnturiated mob took Thomas Gal
yard, tramp negro, from the iail al
Joplln, Mo-, and hanged him to a tele
graph pole standing two blocks from the
city hall. Galyard had murdered a DO.
licemdn, who was attempting to arrest
some negroes charged with theft. The
MOP later went to the negro section OF
the city and burned the houses and
drove the black people from the city.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt is still enioying
MS outing in Yellowstone park. The
president Is visiting all of the points OF
interest in this marvellous wonderland.
lie Is guarded everywhere by soldiers.
who patrol the park constantly.
A careless workman kicked over q
lantern at one OF the oil wells on Spindle
Top in the Beaumont district, Texas.
and started fire that resulted in the
loss OF over million dollars. This fire
VIII probably cause the bankruptcy of
2O or more of the smaller firms.
A lone highwayman held I'D the mail
carrier near Eagle Creek, Oregon, cut
open the mail pouch and secured all of
the registered packages. He ordered
Che man carrier to proceed and then dis
appeared in the woods.
No Northern Sureties dividend will he
declared until the stay of the st. Louis
court decision is obtained. The usual
dividends OF Subsidiary companies will
be declared in a few days.
Miss Rebecca j. Taylor, who recently
sought unsuccessfully in the district
court at Washington to compel her re
lnstatement as a clerk in the war de
partment, has received information that
she has been left about 100000 by the
death OF an uncle in San Francisco.
Thursday, April 10.
The largest cargo carrier in the world
to ply between Puget Sound ports and
the Orient, has been launched at Croton,
Conn. This vessel is the Steamship
Minnesota, built for James J. Hill OF the
Great Northern railroad. She is $40
feet long, 73 feet 6 inches wide. 56 feet
high to upper deck, 88 feet to captains
bridge, lit feet high to top of mast and
has tive continuous decks all plated with
steel.
Senator Beveridge, chairman of the
committee On territories, has named
Senator's Dillingham; of Vermont, Bern
ham OF New Hampshire, Nelson of Min
nesOta and Patterson of Colorado a sub
committee to visit Alaska this summer
for the purpose OF making a thorough
investigation OF conditions in the terri
tory.
Joplin, Mo-, is again quiet after ex-
perlenciDg a night of terror. The mayor
called good citizens meeting and a
vigilents committee of 500 prominent
citizens signed the rolls to assist in pre-
venting further rioting.
Martin Zidmair has been convicted of
murder in the first degree for the killing
of George Reider on Trail creek, Mont,
April 10, 1901. The crime was not dis
covered until few weeks ago. The
slayer and his victim were neighboring
ranchers.
Bob Fitzsimmons' wife is reported to
be dying at her home at Bensonhurst.
Long Island. She was taken ill two
days ago with typhoid pneumonia.
Three physicians are in attendance with
the regular family physician.
Every -four mill in Minneapolis and
practically all OF the merchant spring
wheat mills in Minnesota and the north
west have shut down for an indefinite
time. This act has been forced upon the
millers by the conditions surrounding
the manufacture and sale of -four.
Friday, April II.
By the breaking of a wheel on one of
the cars in the middle OF a Northern Pa
cific freight train near Helena, Mont, Is
cars in the rear of the train we're piled
upon top Of one another in great mass,
which caught fire. None OF the train
men were hurt.
A miner known as Red" Brannin
stood outside of a saloon at Frisco,
Utah, and fred three shots into crowd
OF Films who he claims were abusing
him. One was shot in the stomach and
another in the leg.
After two conferences between mem
bers OF the lake carriers executive CON-
mittee and members of the Lake Fire
men, Water Tenders and Oilers associa-
tion, the strike of the marine fremen,
which has been on since the opening of
navigation on the Great Lakes, has been
settled and the men will resume work.
The threatened strike movement OF
the elevated railway employees in New
York is practically settled, after a four
hour conference between representatives
OF the men and the companies interested
jury has been secured in the case of
James W. Kelly, formerly city editor of
the Butte Inter Mountain, who is
charged with the murder of DR.. Henry
Cayley, and the taking OF testimony will
begin at once. The case promises to be
very sensational.
The Illinois house committee on mu-
nicipal corporations have agreed upon a
bill authorizing every city in the state to
own, construct, purchase, mortgage and
lease street railways. Fundamentally
the bill is intended to permit the city OF
Chicago to own the present system OF
street railways.
Saturday, April 1S
In battle following an unsuccessful
attempt to rob the First National Bank
of Wampum, Pa, one man was killed
and another seriously wounded. The
dead man was one OF the burglars and
he has not yet been identified. The
wounded man is Henry Willoughby, a
baker, who surprised the burglars while
they we're at work.
Homer H. Haycock, formerly a special
policeman in Denver. and his wife, Eva