The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-22
BBTWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, January 13

Senator Carmack, democrat of Tennes
see, has vigorously denounced the ac
tlon OF President Roosevelt in making {
treaty with Panama. Senator SpooDe
came to the presidents defense and
hot debate in the United States senat,
ensued.
A crowd of employees pressing agains
/ the elevator gate on the sixth floor o
the Brown Show Company's building il
st. Louis, caused the gate to give way
and 10 persons we're plunged down th,
shalt. Six were taken out dead, two
died in the city hospital and the Other
two will die.
Z. l.. Caldwell, who disappeared from
Los Angeles several days ago in his
automobile, has been found dead in 8
field some distance from the road south
OF the city. The automobile had beer
consumed by fire caused from an explo
sion OF gasoline and Caldwell's BODY was
found lying across che front of the
vehicle, burned to a blackened mass.
1t can be stated on authority that
the administration does not cOntem-
plate paying one dollar out of the United
States treasury on account of the Sc
cesslon OF Panama, nor will it go before
The Hague tribunal as a party to any
proceedings growing out of that seces-
sion.
A lone rObber held up two women and
a man il a house in Chico, Calf, and
secured 5000 in coin and certificates OF
deposit amounting to 5000.
A collision between two cars on the
w bIrtipr limo 1f no Doa;Ho D.;
road at Los Angeles, resulted in the
death OF one passenger and the injury OF
eight Others, two of them seriously.
Former State Senator Burton Nation,
treasurer OF the town of WatertOwn,
Conn, has been arrested, charged with
embezzling $50, ,592 of the towns funds
A child injected with rabies, caused by
the bite Of mad dog, impaired the
poison to three other persons in Chicago.
who kissed the suffering child before it
became violent.
The government has purchased a
tract of land on San Francisco bay and
wilt establish a coaliDg station there in
the near futWe. 1t consists of SO acres.
well sheltered, with 13 acres of tide fats.
Thursday, January IA.
Nineteen business houses have been
destroyed at Havre, Mont, by two fires
in one day. The loss is estimated at
10000 600. The first fire caused a loss
ut S3500 600 and the second a loss OF
$650,OO0.
The works of the Illinois Pacific Glass
Company at San Francisco, the largest
concern OF the kind on the coast, have
been closed and the furnaces banked.
One thousand employees are idle.
Arrangements are almost completed
for the establishment of a Boer colony
IN Montana. 1t is expected that the i'm
migration will start early in the spring.
The annual dinner TO the diplomatic
corps has been given by President and
Mrs. Roosevelt. There was a large at
tendance.
Information has been received at
Petersburg, Va, OF the lynching in
Sussex county of Elmore MOsley, a ne
gro, by mob of negroes. Mosley was
tried and acquitted this week of killing
another negro in the public highway in
the presence of the victims wife ard child.
A Detroit firm owning coal mines near
Norfolk, Va, has received a rush order
for 10000 tons of POcah0ntas coal for
the japanese government.
Four Mountain Park, Okla, people
have been shot as a result of a pitched
battle with Snyder, Okla. people. The
trouble grew out of the jealousy of one
town against the other, which are To-
Gated close together.
The National Business League, meet
ing in Chicago, has begun a movement
to amend the constitution of the United
States SO as to fix the presidential term
six yeats and make the president in
eligible for reelection.
At meeting of 1900 employees of the
YOungstOn, Ohio, plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company, it was decided to resist
the sc 2 B per cent reduction of wages
An uItimatum has been handed to the
company by the men and a strike is
anticipated.
Friday. January is.
Upon the showing made by Senator
Hepburn, the secretary of the interior
has issued al order directing the survey
and appOrtiOnment of lands at Fort
Sherman reservation on Lake Coeur
d d'Alene.
Three thousand FIVE hundred actors
stranded in strange lands by the dis
banding Of 1S5 companies on the road
have, for two months been wandering
their devious ways back to New York
The theatrical business in this country
is very poor at the present time.
A meeting OF the executive committee
OF the prohibition party hiss been held
in Chicago. The national convention
will be held in Indianapolis, Ind i.
June 20.
j. W. War;, for several years one o.
the most prominent citizens of Moline
H., and leader in reforms, has beer
| indicted by the grand jury under II
counts, charging the embezzlement O
$100,0O0 in his capacity as secretary O
the Moline Savings & Loan Association
The strike of the Chicago livery driver,
has been ended and the union men vii
go to work. The "cloeed shop" will b,
recognized and the matter of wages will
be settled by arbitration.
Major General Arthur Macarthur ha
assumed command of the division OF tn,
Pacific OF the United States army.
The strike of the carriage and bag
gage drivers of the st. Louis Transfe
Company has been called off. The EN-
ployers agreed to shorten hours and in
crease wages.