The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-06-17
BETWEEN THB OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
important Happenings and Things
of Interest from All Over
Great Country,
Wednesday, June 3


Eight unknown men, armed with shot
guns, rifles, pistols and sledgehammers,
entered the office of the Victor, Colo, }
Record, compelled the employees to throw
up their hands, broke up the machinery
and then ordered the printers to leave
town.
Five masked men held up a west
bound Denver & Rio Grande passenger
train near Parachute, Colo, and dyna-
mited the express car and safe, securing
considerable specie.
Diamond rings valued at $2330 have
been found in the toe Of a slipper that
bad been thrown, with other discarded
footwear, on a garbage dump in
Chicago.
The strike situation at the Southern
Pacific freight yards in San Francisco is
somewhat improved, 80 lar as the rail-
road is concerned. Cars are being load
ed rapidly and clerks announce thut
business is about normal.
A pitched battle between the military
and union miners has been fought at
Dunnville, Colo, One man, a union
miner, was killed.
The historic Liberty Bell has arrived
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
in response to the petition Of 10000
public school children of st. Louis and
| will remain in the Pennsylvania build
ing. Ii il estimated that 10000 chill
dren greeted the bell when it entered the
| grounds.
Thursday. June o.
Two committees, composed Of mem
bers Of the Citizens Alliance Of Cripple
Greek, are out with agreements securing
the signatures of employers not to en-
ploy help that is affiliated with labor
unions.
PhIander G.. Knox, attorney general
OF the United States, has been appointed
by Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl
vania to fill the seat in the United States
senate, made vacant by the death OF
Senator NJ. 5. Quay.
The strike of the employees Of the In
ternational Paper company at Glenn
Falls, n. Z, has been settled, the com
pany agreeing TO the Unions terms.
A posse OF ranchmen and cowboys
| have three men who are supposed to
have been connected with the hOld-up on
tie Denver 4 Rio Grande, cornered in
canyon near New Castle, Colo.
Geo, r. kyner, proprietor OF the Vic
| tor, Colo, Record, whose office and ma
| chinery was wrecked by a mob, says that
he will establish new paper as soon a.
| possible. He estimates his loss at $4,000.
New Mexico cattlemen are offering
| $500 az q prize to be won by cowboys
in q 1900 mile ride from Albuquerque,
New Mexico, TO st. Louis,
San Francisco has been chosen as the
next place of meeting of the Inter
| national Association of Chiefs of Police,
which has just concluded a convention
in st. Louis.
Levi T. Letter of Chicago is dead at
Bar HarbOr, Maine, of heart failure.
MIR. Letter was 20 years of age. He was
the father OF Lady Curzon of keddles-
ton, wife of the governor OF India.
Friday, June 10.
Seventy-six union miners have been
dpported from Victor, Colo, by orders
Of Adiutant General S. NJ. Bell A
crowd Of 1000 people witnessed the
placing Of the men aboard a special
train.
The General Managers Association
has decided that for the time being no
further concessions could be made to
organized labor employed on railroads
entering Chicago.
u
waterspOut which occurred near Mill
Greek, Indian Territory. A small stream
became q raging torrent half mile wide
and number of houses were swept
away.
Two masked men held up a saloon in
Butte, Mont, and robbed the place of
$62.5 Only the bartender and one
customer were in the place at the time.
I'll
all over the west are attending the
fourth grand council meeting of the
United Commercial Travellers of America
in session in Denver, Colo.
Heavy rains, amounting to fall OF
from two to five inches IN AS hours, are
causing serious floods in Oklahoma.
Much damage is feared.
President and Mrs Roosevelt have
given a reception in honor of the Philip
pine commission now in Washington
] City. More than 600 persons called.
Saturday, June IL
General s. NJ Bell, in command in the
Cripple Greek district, says that be has
evidence that will lead to the conviction
Of number OF union men for the muir
der of nonuniOn miners in the Inde-
; pendence, Colo, depot and that 35 or 40
will be hanged for the crime.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the late
President Mckinley, was found dead in
a chair at his home in Somerset, Pa.
His death came without warning to the
family.
= Four persons, including City Engineer
MitimOre. were killed by an explosion in
. a sewer in Chicago. An accumulation oi
sewer gas apparently caused the ex
plOsion.
John Mitchell, president of the United
, Mine Workers Of America, has sailed fol-
Europe. He will study labor conditions
on that continent before attending the
international convention of miners, which
meets in Paris in August.
Senator f. NJ CockrelI OF Missouri
was run into by boy riding a bicycle
in Washington City and thrown vic
lently to the ground. His right collar
bone was broken and his left side badly
bruised.
: Sunday, June IL.
Another special train bearing 10(
g union miners, is being made up il
T-ipnIo CroaE rnIn Tho y,;paro 4.