The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-03-25
BBTWEhN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, March 16.

Land dealers from ten states have met
~ St. Paul and organized the American
Immigration Association of the North
west, which will devote its energies
toward obtaining for prospective settlers
the same favorable inducements which
are offered to settlers in southwestern
| fields.
The federal grand jury of Jackson,
Miss, has indicted Ross Lagette. Irving
Henderson and Mason Lagette on charge
OF peOnage in holding Shep Griffin, a
negro in bondage,
National officers of the United Mine
Workers of America say that they have
information which leads them to believe
| that the miners will vote to accept re-
duced scale in the central district, in
Guiding Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky
and Western Pennsylvania, thus avoid
ing a strike.
Employers and their men in the build
ing trades of New York are preparing
for life and death struggle over the
question OF uniODism. The struggle
will be precipitated by the employers
declaration for the open shop and the
obstruction of building trades unions. J,
Thursday. March II.
Gold amounting to $3.50, 900 has been
drawn from the New York subtreasury,
for shipment to South America.
Fire destroyed the San Angelo hotel
and the First National Bank OF San
Angelo, Texas, causing loss of $780,
900.
About 500 negro nonuniOn employees
OF the American Tobacco Company at
Richmond, Va, have struck for an in
crease in pay.
Mrs. Miles, wife Of Lieutanant General
Nelson A. Miles, retired. is lying seri.
Ously i'll at the family home in Wash
ington City.
The union miners who were fOrcibly
expelled from Telluride, Colo, by the
Citizens Alliance, say that they will re-
turn and prosecute those who forced
them to leave.
President Roosevelt has decided that
it will be impossible for him to be pres
ent at St. Louis and take part in the
ceremonies opening the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
BristOw, before the house committee,
stated that he was responsible for only
the first seven pages of his report, and
that other chiefs took a hand in the
matter.
Friday, March is
Daniel j. Sully, who has for months
been the largest figure in the cotton
market of the world and who ''buIled"
cotton from cents to IT cents, has an
nounced that he is unable to make good
his engagements on the New York ex-
change. Within a few minutes after the
announcement cotton fell $13 per bale
from the highest figure of the day.
General Leonard Wood has been con
firmed q major general by the senate,
the vote being 45 to 16. The rank
dates from August s, 1903, the day
President Roosevelt made the promotion.
The president has issued an executive
order applying civil service rules to the
| service of the war department in the
Philippines.
Six firemen have been severely injured
in fire, OF supposed incendiary origin,
which burned the Holden school building
| in Chicago.
The teIIers, sitting in Indianapolis,
have completed the count of the votes
OF the soft coal miners on the PROPOSE
tiOn TO accept or re jeCt the operators
offer of a two years wage scale. There
were 80, ,514 for acceptance and 67,373
against; a majority of 81 ,141 against
strike.
Saturday, March 10
Andrew Carnegie has given another
So, 100000 for educational purposes,
the fact being made known just previous
to Mr.. Carneges sailing for Europe.
The gift goes to the Carnegie Institute
at Pittsburg, Pa.
In concluding his hearing before the
house committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, Admiral Walker, pres
ident of the Panama Canal Commission,
stated that actual work on the canal
would be begun after the commission
had made stay of few weeks on the
isthmus, for which it was to sail March
| 20.
Articles OF Incorporation OF the Pacific
Steel company have been filed in San
Diego. The company is capitalized at
| 500, 100000, of which $4,000, 900
preferred stock has already been sub
scribed. The objects OF the corporation
are stated to be the construction of war
ships, steamships, locomotives and cars
and the making of armor-plate. The
contract for the construction of a steel
plant to cost $3O,O0O.0OO has been
awarded.
The plant OF the Bayway Refining
Company of Elizabethport, n. j., has
been destroyed by fire. The flames
spread to the plant of the Pennsylvania
i & Delaware Oil Company and the ware
| houses and part of the docks were
burned. The loss is more than $780,
| 900.
Sunday, March 20.
Three masked men, heavily armed,
held up saloon at Kenneth, Calf, Sc
| curing 500. Fifteen men we're in the
place when the robbers entered.
Mrs. Miles. wife of Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles, is reported to be rest
ing easily. She is still seriously i'll.
Disastrous prairie fires have swept
the range country in the vicinity of
Hemingford, Neb. One strip burned is
20 miles long.
The Midland mill at Muncie. Ind, a
branch OF the American Sheet Steel Com
pany, which has been closed since
August last, will resume work, the 600
employees having accepted temporarily
the reduction of 20 per cent in wages.
Admiral Dewey has returned to Wash