The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-08
the busiest democrats in that city. Mr..
Bryan thinks Judge Parker is beaten.

the busiest democrats in that city. Mr.
Bryan thinks Judge Parker is beaten.
The Chicago Federation of labor has
adopted a resolutian favoring the hold.
ing OF great union labor convention in
victor, Colo, August %. Every
labor organization in the country will be
requested TO send two delegates.
Preliminary arrangements for the
opening of the Rosebud Indian reserva-
tion in South Dakota are completed and
registrations will begin Tuesday morn.
ing. Already there are several thousand
land seekers waiting and every train
brings hundreds more to Bonesteel,
). d., where the Office is located.
The new armOred cruiser Colorado has
returned to her dock at the Cramps
yards in Philadelphia after a successful
builders trial. The vessel must make
y knots on the official trial, and the
builders think she will do better.
Monday, July 4.
The friends of Judge Parker claim
that their candidate will be nominated
upon the second ballot, perhaps on the
first, in the democratic convention in
st. Louis
BY the premature explosion of a fire
works mOrtOr at GlenwoOd park, Og-
den, Utah, two persons were killed and
five injured, in the presence Of 5000 peO-
pie.
The democratic national committee
is in session in st. Louis to decide con
ventiOn seat contests Meetings OF the
various state delegations are being held
Most OF the delegates are on the ground.
A sail boat containing seven pleasure
seekers was capsized in the lake at
MuskegOn. Mich, and four of the Occu-
pants were drowned in view of hundreds
OF spectators.
}. Ross Clark, prominent planter of
Calhoun county, Texas, has applied for
an injunction to prevent the government
transports from bringing the Guate-
malan ant into Texas, an insect to kill
the boil weevil. He claims that the ants
will sting the cotton pickers.
The list Of dead as a result Of the Wa
bash wreck at Litchfeld, ILL.,, now num-
bers Is, two persons among the injured
having died. Litchfield is in mourning
aud the grand celebration that had
been planned was declared off
Charles B. Meyer, president of the
Western Federation OF Miners, has been
taken to Denver, where he will be per
mitted to furnish $4,000 bonds on in
formation charging him with murder
and conspiracy in connection with the
Victor riot on June 6, in which two men
were killed.
Tuesday, July 5.
Thomas K. Watson of Georgia has
been nominated for president by the
pOpulist national convention meeting in
Springfield, Ill. Thomas H. Tibbles of
Nebraska was nominated for vice presi-
dent.
When the government registration
books for entry on the Rosebud Indian
reservation were opened at BOnesteel, S.
d., there were about 1900 people in line
More are arriving.
Three lives were lOsu uuring q fire
which destroyed the grain elevator and
three freight warehouses in Charleston,
near Boston, Mass. A steamer tied at
the wharf was also burned. Loss,
100000.
A loss Of 100000 resulted from a
fire that completely destroyed the Elec-
trical Vehicle Equipment Company fac
tory in Brookline.
Chas H. Meyer, president of the West
ern Federation of Miners, has been re-
leased from custody in Denver, after fur
nishing bonds for $15, 900. He is
charged with murder and melting riot.
Meyer has been a prisoner 103 days.