The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-11-11
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important happenings and Things
OF Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, November =.

| participated in a republican parade in
| Lawrence, Mass, was derailed and many
| passengers injured.
| The explosion of over ton of dyna
mite under the Bond street bridge at
| Mount Vernon, n. Z, shook the city
and surrounding country within a
radius of five miles, killing one person
and iniuring two score OF people.
At least 25 persons were injured dur.
ing clash between students OF tech.
nolOgy and police reserves in Boston.
Most OF the injuries consisted of scalp
wounds and body bruises.
Several battles have been fought be
tween the posses and the outlaws swho
attempted to rob the First National
Bank at Cody, Wyo. The bandits are
still at large, although it is considered
that their capture or death is only a
| matter of few hours.
california Arrow" Baldwin's airship,
broke away from it's operator at st.
Louis, and scared into the air. The
| inventor believes the machine will re-
turn when the supply of gas is ex-
hausted
Thirteen are known to be dead and
many more are missing, as the result OF
the bursting OF the reservoir at Winston
Salem, n. c. A million and half gal
Ions of water we're released and over a
mile OF territory was devastated.
Thursday, November 8.
Arnold Gundelfnger, retired mer.
chant, and his wife, we're held up in their
apartments in San Francisco and robbed
OF jewelry valued at $25OO.
Terribly cut and crushed about the
head, the body of Alma Steinway, a
telephone operator aged 18 years, has
been found in a vacant lot in the su-
burbs of CincinDatti. This is the sec
ond crime of the kind committed near
the same spot.
Seven persons in the household OF
Elisha W. Case of Chicago we're over
come by smoke and carried to the street
unconscious by members OF the fire de-
partment. The blaze was caused by
spontaneous combustion in the base
ment.
"CaIifornia Arrow" Baldwin's air
ship, which escaped from the aeromantic
course in st. Louis, has been found I6
miles west of st. Louis. 1t was un-
harmed by it's wild nights flight.
lie ulueTSUt VI Hucu WHO nave
been following the bandits who killed
the cashier of the First National of Cody,
Wyo., have practically surrounded the
robbers in the foothills Of the Owl
creek mountains. Buffalo Bill" with
Indian scouts and cowboys have taken
to the trail on the hunt.
Stock raisers all over America are dis.
cussing the big live stock exhibits to be
made at the Lewis and Clark exposition
in Portland next year.
Friday, November f.
The strike OF the coal hOisting
engineers union of Illinois came to an
end when the union vas absorbed by the
United Mineworkers OF America. The
miners have sent out notices to mem
oers of their union to return to work
Immediately.
Six hundred men are camped on the
boundaries of the Uintah Indian reser-
walton in Utah, waiting for the opening,
which does not occur until next March
AS one of the features of the Lewis
and Clark exposition, it is proposed to
bold series of airship contests similar
to those taking place at st. Louis
Work on government buildings is pro-
crossing nicely at Portland.
The safe of James L. Blodgett of
Hermitage, n. Y, has been blown open
by robbers and from $4,000 to $780,
900 stolen. Mr.. B!odgett conducted
private bank.
The posses following the Cody, WyO :,
bank robbers have followed the high
waymen into the very heart of the bad
lands. The bandits have taken refuge
at a raEch near the ''Hole in the Wall" !"
Six Chinese women, who have been
connected with a concession on the Pike
at the worlds fair, have been arrested
by an immigration inspector, charged
with being in this country for unlawful
purposes.
Saturday, November 10.
Fire destroyed the Mormon tabernacle
at Payson, Utah, causing loss of about
$15, 900. The building was erected in
1855.
The whisky trust has announced at
Peoria, H., that the price of whisky is
dropped from 81 "a TO $120. There is
CONSERVATION among the independent
disUillers, who claim that the trust has
started war OF determination.
Al least 40 persons were injured, some
of them seriously, in a rear-end collision
on the Long Beach electric road out
from Los Angeles, Cal.
The new association of window glass
manufacturers and jobbers at Pitts
burg, Pa, have begun a fight against
the American Window Glass Company,
by cutting the lowest prices offered by
that company * per cent.
Representatives of twelve unions, with
membership of over 1000, have held q
Joint meeting in New York city and de-
cided to form a new central body, COM
posed of unions directly interested in
the building trades,
The battleships Oregon and Wiscon-
sin, the cruisers Cincinnati and the tor
pedo boat destroyer Decatur of the
Asiatic squadron, are now at Manila.
Sunday, November 9
| Unless weather conditions prevent, the
| greatest demonstration OF the kind in
the history of the world will take place
at the worlds fair, beginning tomorrow.
| Five flying machines will compete for
100000 prize.
The white residents OF Coal Creek, O