The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-04-10
ALL OVER THB Union
Ihe important News of a Week
in Condensed Form.
happenings and Matters of Interest
reported from all Sections
of the Country.
W Wednesday, April /.

april
One hundred and fifty nonunion struc-
tural workers, imported from Baltimore
by the American Bridge company, ar
rived in Pittsburg, Pa, and were met by
committee OF strikers who prevailed
upon them not to go to work. Only 10
men were at work on the new Wabash
bridge. Twenty eight of the nonunion
men, including the foreman, quit and
| Joined the strikers.
| President Roosevelt started on his
western trip today and the journey car
rled him through Pennsylvania. At
every station the train is greeted by
large concOurses Of people who wish to
| 40 honor to the great chief executive of
the American people. The president
rode around the famous horseshoe curve
near Pittsburg in the cab OF the engine
and expressed himself as delighted with
the experience.
The United Railway company of Balti-
more has increased the wages of its
5000 conductors and mOtOrmen. The
| advance will average from 10 to 30 per
cent.
The movement of settlers to the west
err states continues fully up to expecta
| tiOns. Nearly all of the seven lines run
ming into st. Paul from the central
western states brought large contin-
gents, which, when consolidated in that
! city, made more than enough to fill
special trains on both the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific The settlers
are mostly from Ohio. Indiana, Iowa
and Michigan, and are bound for Wash
lngtOn and Idaho.
The quarterly estimate of the value of
foreign coins issued by the director of
the mint shows decrease in the value
OF silver for the last three months of
.O12O6 cents per fne ounce.
Joseph Stearks of New Haven, Conn.
better known as Kid Stearks, who was
knocked out in a boxing match with
Max Holmes of Bridgeport, is dead
Holmes was released on bail of $1,000
upon the charge of manslaughter.
Thursday, April z.
Six thousand people in hail. the seat
ing capacity of which is but 5000, gave
encouragement to President Roosevelt
when he stepped upon the stage of the
Auditorium in Chicago. The streets in
every direction from the great building
were thronged with people eager to see
and hear the president. His Chicago
speech was the first he has made on bis
western trip. The subject discussed was
the Monroe doctrine.
During the absence Of the president oD
his western trip every member of the
cabinet will be supplied with hourly
bulletins on the movements OF the party
As a result of a long crusade the
board of commissioners of the district
of Columbia have adopted a regulation
fOrbidding expectOrating on the side.
walks, making the yiolator thereof sub
ject to fine OF 81.
The cooks and walters union and the
restaurant association of Denver have
agreed to settle their differences by arbi-
tratiOD, and the restaurants, which have
been bOycOtted since the strike began,
have resumed their business.
Everything seems to point to an ami.
cable settlement OF the differences be
tween the Wabash railroad company
and it's employees. Several conferences
have been held in st. Louis and it is re-
ported that a number of the minor diff
ferences have been disposed of which will
pave the way for the settlement OF the
larger Observation-Disclosures.
There is big fight on between James
r. Keen and the Union Pacific railroad
for the control of the Southern Pacific
system. The fight is now in the United
States circuiC court at Louisville, KY,
and the reports are that Hartman does
not consider the alleged merger.
Friday, April 8.
President Roosevelt and party arrived
o,,lyo i 1 n
hours in that city. In the evening the
presidential party was rendered a ban
quet and the occasion was made not
able by the presidents speech touching
the trusts.
The Buffalo, N. Y, plumbers have
signed an agreement covering the next
three years and 1000 men who have
been on strike for three days have re-
turned to work. The wage scale was
fixed at So. so per day.
What promises to be one of the most
bitterly contested strikes ever known in
central Pennsylvania bituminous coal
regions has begun at the mines of the
Lehigh Valley Coal company at Snow
shoe, Pa. The men say that the coal
company is attempting TO destroy their
union.
Buried treasure to the amount of $18,-
600 was discovered by a plumber work
ing at 80 Broadway, Helena, Mont.
The alleged owner of the buried treasure
gave the plumber Sal for his discovery.
The money was gold coin and had been
buried in three tin cans.
The railroads are suffering serious in
conveniences as result of a heavy
snOwstorm which has been raging in the
middle western states for the past
twenty-four hours. Traffic through
Kansas and Oklahoma is greatly re-
tarded.
Walter Kruger, aged Sc, was killed
an0 his 1Oyearold daughter Ella, who
was leading him. was fatally hurt by a
rapidly moving Chicago electric car. A
crowd afterward threatened to lynch the
conductor and motorman.
Saturday, April 4.
The United Brotherhood of Paper-
makers has served a demand upon the
manufacturers for shorter hours, and it
is stated that a strike is probable.
Three thousand men in Wisconsin, en-
ployed in IL mills, will be affected.
President Roosevelt and party spent
three hours in st. Paul and three hours
in Minneapolis today. The president
attended the Legislature and spoke at