The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-02

Peter Sells, the veteran Snowman, was
stricken with paralysis at Columbus,
Ohio.
Sunday, August 2S.
-Four joints, or illicit saloons, at Cuba,
Kansas, were wrecked and put out of
business by 25 women.
knights Templars numbering to ex-
ceed 5000 passed through Omaha en-
route to the San Francisco conclave.
The amount Of wheat to be exported
from the United States during the next
IL months, in view of the fact that it is
conceded we can spare very little, is be-
ing widely discussed, and some fears are
entertained for our foreign trade balance.
Fifteen hundred members OF the broth
erhood OF locomotive engineers, repre-
sentlng localities within 500 miles of New
York, unanimously voted to support
the contention of the motor engineers
employed on the elevated road, that the
men employed in the subway shall be
paid union wages of $3.5 for a nine
hour day instead OF for 10 hour day.
The attendance at the st. Louis fair
last week was 793 TAI, g gain of more
than 1885, 900 over any previous week.
The United Garment Workers of
America, in annual convention at Buffalo,
voted down a resolution committing the
organization to socialism. Debate on
the proposition was long and heated.
For the first time since Los Angeles
has had two railroads, there we're no
overland trains in or out of the city,
owing to the universal washouts.
Monday, August 20.
The great shops of the Pullman car
company, at Pullman, ILL.,, will be shut
down September for a month. Thirty
thousand people at Pullman and in the
surrounding towns will be affected.
Already prospective applicants for
reservation September 8, near Pocatello,
Ida, are gathering in the vicinity of the
United States land office. They are
camped near the entrance to the office,
sleeping on the steps and either carrying
their own provisions or having friends
bring food to them. About 41,000
acres are to be thrown open.
Recent heavy rains have put out
practically all of the forest fires that for
weeks have been raging in western Mon
tana.
By the death of her father, W. W.
Weightman of Philadelphia, Mrs. j. c.
Walker, his only surviving child, comes
into his estate, valued at more than
$5O,OOO,OO0, and is one of the richest
women OF the world.
An endurance swimming match from
the Brooklyn bridge to Coney Island,
under the supervision of the United
States volunteer life saving corps, re-
suited in victory for a man with one
leg. The winner covered the distance in
8 hours and 48 minutes. Two young
women we're close behind him at the
finish.
The national convention OF the United
Irish League of America will open to-
morrow in New York. 1t is expected
that more than 5000 delegates will be
present. The object OF the convention
is to arouse sentiment for the nation
alst cause among the Irish Americans
and to raise fund OF $4,000, with
which to carry on the movement.
Tuesday, August 80.
Three masked men held up the express
agent and armed guard on an Oregon
Short Line train that was leaving KEN |
merer, Wyo., taking from them $13, 900. !
The robbers escaped after beating the |
railroad men into insensibility with the |
butts OF their guns.
The unions composing the building |
trades alliance in New York will not par
ade on Labor day, the object being to
avoid the stirring up of hostile public |
opinion.
In an automobile race at the worlds |
fair, one machine kicked up such a dust |
that the driver of another machine could |
not see where he was going, with the re-
suit that the second car crashed through |
the fence enclosing the course and killed |
two men. An inquest is being held to
fix the responsibility.
The weekly crop bulletin of the weather
bureau says that disappointing yields Of
spring wheat are generally reported from
Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
About $500 cloakmakers in New York,
union, won out.
A u year old boy was driven into the |
Bronx river, New York, by a swarm of
hornets, and drowned. The boy, with
several companions, stoned the hornets
nest until they came out in swarms and
chased the boys toward the river. One
DOy suumOleu anu lell lnCO tue wafer ,Che
hornets lowering about and stinging
him viciously whenever he came to the
surface
About 200 strikers, men and women,
returned to the Chicago stockyards and
we're given work.
The total daily receipts of the st.
Louis fair are reported to amount in
round numbers to about $4,000. The
cost of maintaining and operating the
exposition, including the government
loan payments, is $65, 900 day.
Fighting in the Far East
A great battle between the japanese
and Russians is in progress at LiaO-