The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-29
BETWEEN HE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday,, July 20.

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| officials Of the Meat Cutters Union and
representatives of the allied trades en-
| plOyed at the stOckyards. The whole
| controversy will be submitted to a
| board Of arbitration.
The Northern Pacific quarterly divi
| dend OF one and One-half per cent has
been declared, making B per cent for the
| three quarters of the calendar year
| Seven per cent was paid last year and
two per cent is expected next quarter.
Unless the cotton mill owners of Fall
| River, Mass, who operate what are
known as union plants, abandon their
announced intention of inaugurating on
Monday next new scale OF wages which
would reduce the earnings of their en-
pl0yes 12h per cent, 81 900 operatives
will stop work.
The East Moline, ILL.,. bank has been
entered by robbers, who wrecked the en-
tire front of the building by dynamite
placed near the vault. 1t is not known
whether any booty was secured or not.
l.. SaylOr, chief of the Nevada depart
ment OF the United States reclamation
service at Reno, has received the official
! maps Of 10000 acres of reclaimed land
in Churchill county, Nevada. The lands
will be thrown open TO settlement with
in the next two weeks.
Thursday, July ri
Fifty thousand butcher wOrkmen, who
quit work July -, paralyzing the meat
industry OF the country, will go back to
their posts tomorrow morning.
The Portland mine at Victor, Colo, is
closed again in consequence of the ac-
tiOn of the military authorities The
mine was giving employment to about
800 men. Squads of soldiers have ar.
rested 40 of these. The men are ac-
cused of no crime, the only accusation
being that they refused to sacrifice their
membership in the Western Federation
of Miners and take out MineOwners'
Association working cards.
Joseph W. Folk of st. Louis has been
nominated for governor of Missouri by
the democratic convention in session at
Jefferson City.
The armOred cruiser South Dakota
has been successfully launched from her
cradle at the Union Iron Works in San
Francisco.
In riot growing out of an attempt
to take dog from Chicago tenement
with an ice pick and three received bull
let wounds in their legs. 1t required so
police to quel the disturbance.
Fire destroyed five houses and two
sheds at Clarktown, near Butte, Mont,
causing loss OF over $1,000.
Friday, July %.
The authorities at Bonesteel, S. D.,
have been compelled to call for troops
to preserve order during the registration
at the Rosebud land office. Gamblers
and grafters of every character are there
by the hundreds.
The stockyards strike has been re-
newed in Chicago and all other points
where the big packing companies have
branches, because the strikers are dis
satisfied with the manner in which the
employers propose to reinstate their
former employees, pending a settlement
by arbitration.
Carrie Nations career was temporarily
but violently interrupted at Elizabeth
town, KY, when A. r. Neighbors, sa-
loonkeeper, struck her twice with a
chair, knocking her down and Infcting
a scalp wound.
A large forest fire is raging west of
Bolton, Mont, in the Flatbead forest
reserve. Thousands Of feet of fine tim
ber is being destroyed.
F. Augustus Heinze is being sued in
the district court at Butte, Mont, by
the Boston & Montana Mining Com
pany, for damages aggregating ST.
100000. The plaintiff company alleges
that Heinze has been extracting vau-
able ore from adjoining mining proper
ties through the Minnie HaiIy workings
Saturday, July 23.
Five persons we're shot during the last
day of registration for Rosebud home
steads at Bonesteel, S. d. The town is
full of thugs.
1t has just leaked out that President
Roosevelt met with a serious accident.
While out riding with Mrs Roosevelt
the president was thrown from his
horse and landed on the back of his head
in the road at Oyster Bay, l.. |.
The registration books at the Rose
bud Indian reservation were closed
promptly at 6 o'clock at Bonesteel, S. D..
Over 100000 persons have had their
names enrolled. There are 2600 quar-
ter sections to be drawn, giving each
person about one chance in 40 to secure
a homestead The drawing will prob
ably occur July %
All troops are to be withdrawn from
Teller, San Miguel and Las Animas
counties, Colorado, and the administra-
ton of affairs left to the civil authorities.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Walters Union, the strike
of the walters at the worlds fair, in
augurated July 4, was declared off.
A fruitless conference has been held in
| Chicago between the representatives OF
| the packers and strike leaders. The
meeting broke up in a disagreement.
| One man was killed and several sc
verely injured by wreck on the Santa
Fe at Kinsey, Kansas.
\ Sunday, july "A.
\ Determined on fight to finish to
enforce the demands of the striking
butchers, a sympathetic strike OF all the
Union workmen employed in the meat
packing industry throughout the coun
try, With the exception of the teamsters
will begin at once.