The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-08-26

| ana shattered them and many homes
we're supplied with beef Many of the
strikers families are suffering for want
of fresh meat.
Saturday, August 20
Fave are dead, two score more injured
and property loss estimated at $4,000,
ooo as the result of a fierce tornado
tnat swept over the city OF st. Paul
MIMI. Two large theaters and an i'm
mense bridge were destroyed. Mime
| apo ls also suffered heavily, although nc
hVel, have been reported lost.
During riot in the Chicago stock
varG one man was shot and instantly
by 9 ~ bullets.
r ersons were killed at Minden,
| ka a. station on a branch of the
| MI Pacific Railroad by the explos
] 4on of ar Vi dynamite
p,os;st Roosevelt has returned to
! his snmn,r home at Oyster Bay, Long
Island.
u Fifteen zen a9a nay, nave been deported from
ported ~ we're all agitators and were
supnosaI3 be acting as secret agents OF
the Westas Federation OF Miners.
Rockomt Beach, New York, has been
! swent h., terrific storm. Much dam.
y age to -. perty resulted although no
lives were IL st.
I Five youtgg E 1aoies are missing ing IRON
/ their homes i Huenpurg' ra. 1ney ieft
plant Aowou and have not been seen
since. I. rs Rared they have either met
Ioul play or have become lost in the
mountains. Large searching parties are
out.
Sunday. August Fl.
' Death to 16 persons and destruction
tof property, both private and public,
estimated in round numbers at $1,OOO,-
900, was the result OF the tornado that
swept over st. Paul, Mlnn., and vicinity
last evening.
I Six of the men deported from Cripple
Creek, Colo, have arrived in Denver
Several of them are prominent profes-
Jsional men and they will apply to the
federal government for protection.
| Four persons were killed and number
injured in tornado that swept over
Rich Valley and Burgan, Mimi.
q Messages from the bedside of Senator
9Hoar at Worcester, Mass, indicate that
'tle great American statesman is grow
ing weaker and that the end may come
at any time.
| The steady rise in Southern Pacific
sstock, though no dividend is in sight has
been one of the features on Wall street
Captain Clancy Of the Chicago stock.
yards police says that man who was
arrested with a number OF Others
ch a rna6 rfh hoo
had confessed that local union No. 213
Of the truckman's, union, had miami
mOusly voted to adopt slugging meth
ods in connection with the stockyards
strike and that 600 members of the
Organization had been divided into
Efquads. -.e.,-
D. |. Murphy, secretary of the isthmian
commission, has announced that no EN-
piOyment agents lave been authorized
to secure help for the Panama canal.
Monday. August 22.
A tornado struck Willow Lakes, S. D,
destroying the entire town and also
buildings in the vicinity. One person
was killed and seven injured, none fatally.
By the capsizing of a small catboat off
Boston light, three lives were lost. A
fishing boat rescued several persons.
The heaviest food Silver City, N. NJ,
has ever known, has swept through the
town, after severe cloudburst above
Fifty homes we're washed away.
Fifteen thousand and seventy-six per
sons have registered for claims on the
Fort Totten, n d., Indian reservation
The drawing will begin at Grand Forks,
on August "a.
Nineteen persons were injured in a
rear end collision between street cars in
st. Louis. 1t is thought that none of
the injured will die.
The Chicago packers have asked for
an Injunction preventing the city of
Chicago from interfering with their
housing their employees in their plants
during the continuance of the strike.
On the new national range of the Fort
Riley, (Kansas) reservation, the great
est small arms competition ever held in
the United States is in progress. Shoot
ing today was at 200 and 900 yards,
slow fire and 200 and 500 yards, rapid
fire. The state of Washington team
stands No. IL, with 10 competitors in
the match.
Tuesday, August ~.
The gates at the head OF St. Mary's
reservoir at st. Mary's Ohio. have been
blown up with dynamite. Hundreds of
lives would doubtless have been lost if
the explosion had been sufficient to have
opened the bulkhead. This reservoir is
the largest artificial body of water in
the world and feeds the Mama and Erie
canal.
Mrs. Florence Chandler May brick has
arrived in New York from England, after
being confined in prison in that country
for many years. Her case was one of
the most noted in English annals.
By vote of all the unions in the New
York. Building Trades Alliance, which
have not yet either struck or been
locked out, it has been decided that they
will jhin the strike at whatever moment
the executive committee of the alliance
mayncall upon them to do so.
TIE steamship Minnesota, the largest
American built vessel afoat, is in New
York harbor, preparatory to her cruise
to Seattle. The Minnesota will ply be
tween Puget Sound and the Orient and
belongs to James j. Hill.
The greatest washouts ever expert
enced by the Santa Fe railroad in Ari-