The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-04-01
total OF dead negroes up to 13, all killed
within the past week.


within the past week
Conditions at Grand Rapids, Mich,
and along Grand river are very grave
on account of the flood, which is the
highest since 1914. Many lives are in
peril, and there is suffering from hunger,
exposure and sickness
conditions are peaceable in the Colo
RADIO mining districts where the militia
is stationed. The deportation of the
nonresident labor leaders seems to be
the sole topic OF discussion.
The snow blockades along the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific in Mon
tana and North Dakota have been
broken and trains are running.
A tornado has swept the country
south Of Charlottesville, Mo, and six
persons are known to have been killed
and thousands Of dollars worth OF
property destroyed.
man said to be Johnny Hayes,
alias Johnny Behind the Rocks" the
noted California stage rohber, has been
arrested in Seattle.
Monday, March 2S.
The food situation throughout Michi-
gan, Indiana and Illinois is improving,
the streams having fallen very notice
ably during the past a hours.
All of the streams Of California are
bank full and still rising and the weather
bureau has sent out emergency warn
Ings. The lOwlands are commencing to
Hood and much destruction is imminent
Detailed reports from the prairie fire
in Holt and Rock counties, Nebraska,
chow that over 500 square miles OF
prairie we're burned ana 20 ranchmqn
lost their buildings and stock, entaiiing
d loss of 100000.
Governor Peabody OF Colorado asserts
that he will prosecute to the limit c. H !.
Meyer, president of the Western Fedora
tiOn Of Miners, who is held in jail at
Telluride, charged with desecratiDg the
American flag.
The Commercial Trust Company Of
Indianapolis, with $4,000 depositOrs,
only four or five having more than $500,
has closed its doors. Depositors will be
paid in full, the stockholders having
agreed to make good the shortage.
Joseph Davis, miner, was killed by
four men and boy near Redding, Cali
fOrnia. The murderers had drank alcO-
hol diluted with water until they were
crazy.
Four workmen were killed and six SER
lOusiy injured by an explosion in the
Cedar Hill tunnel near Brownsville, Pa.
The explosion was caused by one of the
men striking charge OF dynamite with
his pick.
Tuesday, March 81.
Burton Norvile Harrison. lawyer OF
New York, husband of Mrs. Burton Har-
riRon, is dead i'll Washington. City, aged
65 years
The machine shops of the Pittsburg
Valve Foundry & Construction Com
pany have been destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000.
John Mitchell, president Of the United
Mineworkers Of America, is expected in
Denver April 1S, to take personal charge
of the strike OF the coal miners in that
state.
All rivers in southern Indiana are
pouring floods into the Ohio, causing
that stream to go over it's banks. The
rivers of Michigan are again on the rise,
owing to more rain, and the destruction
of property is very great.
The members of the Panama canal
COiniHlssloH udS sdlieu lTOm NeW 1OFh
for the isthmus on the steamer Allianca.
They will remain about two months.
Four persons were drowned in Lake
Calumet, near Chicago, by the capsizing
of their boats while hunting ducks.
A mob of 500 men made an unsuccess-
full attempt to secure Charles Powers
from the La Crosse, Wis, jail. Powers
is charged with criminal assault upon
little 10-year-old girl.
Should Oklahoma and Arizona be
come states, their capitals will be Guth-
rie and Santa Fe, according to the state
hood bill introduced in congress.