The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-07-01
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important happenings and Things
Of Interest from All over
Great Country.
Wednesday, June %

eunesuay, June H@
Nine furniture factories in Chicago
have closed their doors, turning a threat
/ ened general strike OF wOOdworkers into
a general lockout Eight hundred men
are forced out
The navy department has awarded to
the battIeship Oregon the trophy for ex-
cellence in gunnery in the last annual
target practice, for which the ships OF
the navy have been in competition.
A loes estimated at S5OO,OOO was
caused by a fire that started in lumber
plant at Paterson, n. j.
A cloudburst on Wolf creek flooded
the town of Granada, Col. Fears of loss
OF life among the ranchmen living near
the creek are felt.
-Four men were severely injured in an
automobile accident in Boston. No one
knows how the accident occurred. A
boy found the wrecked machine against
a telephone pole and the four men lay
ingaOn the ground unconscious.
A general strike in all branches of the
ready-made clothing houses of New
York has been called by the garment
workers council and has gone into effect
More than 10000 men have quit work
The Atlantic mine has closed down
and 700 men are idle at ,Houghton,
Mich, because Of strike Of 1870 tram
mers who object to one of the under
ground bosses.
Thursday, June 2S
Jacob H. Schiff, treasurer Of the com
mittee appointed by the mayor Of New
York to solicit subscriptions for the re-
lief of the victims Of the Slocum disaster,
has reported that the committee has re-
ceived 100000.
George B. COrtelyou has been chosen
chairman of the republican national
committee at q meeting held after the
adjournment Of the Chicago convention.
A lockout of 5000 union tailors is
threatened because of an authorized
strike of 40 cutters in New York.
A general exodus Of delegations to the
republican national convention in Chi
cago has begun, st. Louis being the
destination Of a majority Of them. The
delegates will be the official guests Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
The socialists Of Butte, Mont, have
secured an Injunction against the coun-
Gil Of that city restraining that body
from appropriating $1,000 for a Fourth
~ } ulN CflebI dtiOUs VI. y. II. NeJ6THuS
are also restrained from firing a salute
with big cannon at Columbia Gardens
TIE delegate convention OF District
No. 10, United Mine Workers of America,
meeting in Pueblo, Colo, has decided by
q unanimous vote to continue the strike
in the Southern Colorado coal fields.
Friday, June "a
Three masked robbers held up a Butte,
Mont, saloon and compelled the pro
priet0r to deliver all the money in his
possession, which amounted to 5000.
Sheriff Callahan and several men con-
nected with the Hargis feudists, are sur
rounded by q number Of the COckrill
faCtiOnisra in the mountains near Jack
son, Ky, and are fighting for their lives.
President Roosevelt has appointed
William IL Moody Of Massachusetts to
be attorney general; Paul Morton Of
Illinois to be secretary OF the navy and
Victor II. Metcalf of California to be sec
retary of commerce and labor. The
designations OF Secretary COrtelyOu and
Attorney General Knox have been ac
cppted, to take effect July L.
A strike of the Carriage and Wagon
workers union i'll New York, which be-
gan early in May for a new wage scale
and recognition Of the union, has been
declared off. Most of the strikers will
return to their former employers at the
old wages.
A destructive food il being experienced
at COncordia, Kansas, the result of fall
of one and one half inches of rain in II
hours. No trains are running.
Saturday, June 20
According to an exhaustive report
made by Police Inspector Schmttberger
of New York, 93S bodies have been re.
covered and 50 persons known to have
been aboard the steamer General SlOcum
are still missing, bringing the total NOR
talty of this disaster up to 1881.