The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-05-06
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, April 81.

Inc town OF CahOka, ILL.,, is entirely
under water. Most of the residents have
left their homes to the mercy of the food,
while all the schools in that section have
been discontinued
/ The Marion Maleable Iron Works OF
Marion, Ind, erected at a cost of $780,
10000, have been burned to the
ground.
All deeds and papers relating to the
Panama Canal have been turned over to
the representatives of the United States
in Paris
The expected strike OF Santa Fe ma
/ chinists is on at San Bernardino, Calf,
and 125 men are out. The company is
SO far unable to fill their places.
The coal mine operators of Western
\ Kentucky have submitted three propo-
I sitlOns TO the miners, but it is not
! thought that any Cf them will be ac-
cepted. strike is expected.
| The republican steering committee in
! the senate is working hard TO secure
\ legislation for the Panama canal zone
| before congress adiourns.
! After fierce battle at Oakland, Calf.
| between the police and negro, Wilson
Anderson, the man who caused the
| trouble was shot and killed.
| Thursday, April 20
, The northern transcOntinental lines
running out of st. Paul carried more
| than 1900 settlers to the northwest to-
| day. Almost every train for the coast
runs in two sections.
| The most remarkable demo nnstra tiOn
OF good will toward a presiding officer
that has ever occurred in the house of
representatives., marked the closing
hours of congress. MIR. Williams, leader
Of the minority, introduced resolution
| thanking Speaker Cannon for his unfail-
| ing fairness and courtesy iD rulings and
| treatment of members. Mr.. Richardson,
| a democrat, was in the chair at the
time.
There appears to be no chance to
avert a strike Of the San Francisco Car
mems Union against the United Rail
ways Of that city. Neither side will
cOuntenance any further concessions.
The ermOred cruiser California has
been launched at the Union Iron Works
in San Francisco.
President Roosevelt is busy examining
and signing the great number of bills
passed through congress during the clos
ing days
The second session of the Fifty eighth
congress has closed without a day. No
special scenes were witnessed in the SEN
ate, although the house gave Speaker
Cannon a great ovation.
Friday, April 20.
Preparations are completed in St.
Louis for the formal opening of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Five hundred homeseekers, west
bound, passed through Minneapolis to
day, bound for the Inland Empire. They
are due in Spokane Sunday aud Monday.
The controversy between the Truck
Teamsters' union and the owners, which
for time threatened a strike of 5000
men in Chicago, will be settled by arbi-
tratiOn, an agreement having been
reached
Four lives we're lost in the burning of
the Bryan House, a three story brick
structure. at Lansing, Mich.
Chief Joseph, the aged Nez Perce
leader, is in st. Louis with band of 13
blanket Indians. They will remain at
the fair one month.
The monitor Wyoming and the tor
pedo boat destroyers. Preble and Paul
Jones, have been ordered to the Puget
sound navy yard for repairs.
Saturday, April 80.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a call directing national bank de-
pOsitOries to transfer to the assistant
treasurer at New York on or before Nav
10, an aggregate amounting to $12,-
900, 1000.
The fast train on the ST. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern Railway, was
wrecked at Kimmswick, Mo, and three
persons killed. The train was running
as worlds fair special.
Sam Parks, the former walking dele
gate of the Structural IronwOrkers'
Union Of New York, is dying at the hos
pital in Sing Sing prison.
Six thousand men belonging to the
New York Wagon Makers Union de-
clare they will go out on a strike. unless
their employers cOncede their demands
for recognition Of the union.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
was formally opened at st. Louis today.
President Roosevelt turned a golden KEY
in the White House at Washington that
sent the electric current starting the
wheels Of the greatest worlds fair in
motion. Appropriate ceremonies marked
the opening in St. Louis.
Sunday, May IL.
Within Is months it is expected the
Flathead Indian reservation in Montana,
with its 100000 acres, will be thrown
open to homeseekers. Surveys and ap-
praisements of the different classes of
land are now being made.
By the wreck of circus train on the
Southern Pacific between Reno and
Marysville, Calf, tiger, two lions. two
boa constructors and several monkeys
we're liberated. One large bear, several
smaller bears and an educated pig we're
killed. The liberated animals were all
recaptured.
| Delegates to the seventh annual con.
vention of the National Association of
Retail Grocers are gathering at San
Francisco, where a four DAYS session
will be held.
The annual convention of the Daugh-
ters OF the Revolution has opened in Old
North Church, Boston, in whose belfry
the lights which signaled to Paul Revere
the march OF the British troops 129
years ago.