The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-03-11


! perpetrated in that city.
The joint conference between the coal
miners and operators of the Central
| competitive district, meeting in Indian
apolis, Ind, have adjourned without
reaching an agreement as to the scale OF
| wages for the year commencing April |.
This is the second time there has been
failure to agree and strike may result
Sunday, March @.
The Union Pacific railway is
unable to move trains east of FIRE.
mont, Neb., on account of the great ice
gorge in the Platte river backing up
waters and flooding the lowlands.
Three more bodies have been recover
ed from the wreck OF the Hotel Darling
ton in New York, making the total num-
Der of fatalities 20.
The city Of Toledo, Ohio, il in i'm
minent danger. Rain has been falling
and the great ice gorge in the river
above the city is slowly moving down.
The Maumee river is now seven feet
above normal stage and is rising at the
rate OF about six inches an hour.
The fire which broke out Saturday
at the Fort Sill, Okla, military reserva-
ton is still burning. All cities in the
district are sending help.
There is no change in the coal situa-
ton at Indianapolis since the adjourn
ment of the conference committees rep
resenting the miners and operators. A
secret conference has been held between
F. l.. Robins, leader Of the operators.
and President Mitchell
The negroes and whites have had
battle at BOkoshe, |. T. and the negroes
driven out Of town.
Judge Wardlow OF Telluride, Colo. has
granted the motion to dismiss the cases
against the 16 strikers who we're on
trial for vagrancy and had taken an ap-
peal to his court.
Monday, March z.
Richard Dixon, a negro, who fatally
shot Policeman Charles Collins at
Springfield, Ohio, was taken from the
county jail in that city by mob of 500
men, and shot to death in the jail yard
Postal affairs engrossed the attention
Of the house of representatives, to the ex-
clusiOn of all else The house cleaning
which the postoffice department is re-
ceiving brings many curious and crooked
practices to light.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
has been put on the "unfair' liet Of the
federation of labor.
A local freight on the Missouri Pacific
collIded with through freight on the
same road four miles east of Jefferson
City, Mo, conductor and two brake
men being killed.
The senate committee OF privileges and
elections is still delving into the work
iDgs Of the Mormon church. President
Smith is the only witness examined so
far.
The Postal Telegraph Company has
received advices from Hong Knog stat
ing that the cable between Annoy and
Shanghai had been repaired.
Tuesday, March g.
A race war is imminent at Springfield,
Ohio, as a result of the lynching in that
city. Eight companies Of militia have
been called.
Harrisburg, Pa, faces the worst food
in it's history and the situation along
the Susquehanna river is critical. Mines
in the various districts are flooded.
Postmaster General Payne has been
detained at his home for several days
by severe attack Of gout. Secretary
Wilson ia confined to his home with la
grippe.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
have announced special homeseekers'
excursion rates to Washington and
Oregon during April and May. The
rate will be one fare plus 50 for the
round trip.
Five men were killed in a railway col
lision near Kewanee, Miss, when the
south bound limited express on the Ala
bama Southern ran into freight train.
In a fight at Walden, Miss, between
Aaron Stewart and son on one side and
W. W. Hill and two sons on the other,
the Stewards have shot and killed Hill
and his son John, and seriously wounded
Hunter Hill. The dispute arose over
the location OF boundary line between
plantations.