The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-06-10
'oasted alive in the burning whiskey

An explosion in the Hercules Powder
Works at Pin ole. Cal, caused the death
OF three men. Three Others were injured,
but not seriously.
Seven union miners charged with be
ing implicated in a plot against non
union men at Starkville, Colo, have
been depOrted to New Mexico by the
military authorities and ordered not to
return to Colorado.
The flood situation 10 Kansas and
Oklahoma is getting seriOns Many
streams are higher than they have been
in years.
Governor Dockery of Missouri has
ordered Prosecuting ATTORNEY johnson
OF st. Louis To arrest the projectors Of
the proposed Spanish bull fight at the
worlds fair grounds, should they at
tempt TO bring about the fight
A tornado has demolished a part of
the little town of Walters, o Il. One
person was killed and u injured.
BY head on collision OF two Missouri
Pacific passenger trains % miles from
Kansas City, one man is dead and 9
persons injured. Both trains were try
ing to make up time.
Sunday, June s.
lncensed over their failure to see
genuine Spanish bull fight" which the
authorities had ordered stopped, riot
was started in an arena near the worlds
fair grounds in st. Louis by a crowd Of
25OO men and boys who were unable to
get their money back and the building
was burned to the ground.
Eight persons were injured, one of
whom vii! die, by the collision OF street
cars in Indianapolis, Ind
The attendance at the Louisiana Pur.
chase Exposition during the week was
BIC, ,l46, which was the largest attend
ance of any week of the fair.
1t is stated at New Haven, Conn, that
in order to curtail expenses on account
OF the depression in trade, four Of the
large steel plants in that city would lay
of 1000 men on July l.
Instead Of nine dead, as at first re-
ported, it is now known that ii men
lost their lives in the fire and explosion
at the Corning distillery in Peoria, ILL.,
As a result of a heavy rainfall
throughout the Black Hills, which has
continued for a week, Whitewood and
eadwOOd creeks passing through Dead
wood, s. D., have left their banks, carry
ing away d large number of buildings.
causing q loss estimated at $500, 900.
One person was killed and 16 injured
in streetcar wreck at Burlington, Iowa
The mOtOrman lost control of the car.
which dashed down a steep grade and
was wrecked against q tree.
Five hundred freight handlers on the
fo
a strike at San Francisco, refusing to
work for their present wages.
Monday June q.
Bnger Herman and ] n. Williams
were elected congressman and Frank A
Moore state supreme Judge, 10 the elec
tion held in Oregon. All are republicans
and their maj0ritics are very strong.
Masked robbers entered the Pacific
Electric Railway ticket office at Long
Beach, Calf, and rtied the safe of 800
Mrs. Samuel NJ Clemens, wife of MARK
Twain" the American humOrist and
lecturer, is dead at Florence, Italy. The
remains will be brought to America.
Lee Johnson cut his wife's throat with
penknife and then blew his own head
off with a shotgun at Alturas, Calf The
couple had not lived happily, although
married but short time.
The war department haR allotted an
appropriation of 2,923,7 791 for the
construction of new buildings at the
various army posts, of which the de
partment Of the Columbia will receive
$677 900.
The Brotherhood of BOiIermakers of
America have reelected by referendum
vote Grand President John McNeill and
Grand Secretary and Treasurer j. Gill
thorpe, both of Kansas City, Kansas
The brotherhood has 1856 unions, with
AZ, 600 members.
Tuesday, June Z.
Detectives in New York have arrested
the negress who is charged with Oh
taining nearly 100000 from aged John
r. Platt, New York millionaire, by
blackmail
The International Ladies' Garment
Workers convention in session in BOs-
ton, has passed resolutions deplOring
the Cripple Creek outrage.
The sixth biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
in session in Los Angeles, Calf, has ad-
jOurned, after very successful gather
ing.
Democrats of Delaware have instructed
their delegates to the national cOnven
tion to vote for Judge George Gray for
the nomination for president.
Rose Refers Of Chicago has been ar
rested. charged with impersOnatiOn and
obtaining goods under false pretenses.
Miss Refers posed as the daughter Of
wealthy parents and purchased an ele-
CANT wedding outfit and $3.50 worth Of
jewelry. A diamond pin was intended
for her sweetheart, to whom she was en-
gagged to be married.
Sentiment all over Colorado seems to
be -ery strong against the perpetrators
of the dynamite outrage in Cripple
Greek.
If you wish to file on a homestead, or
a desert land claim, write to F. ].
James, Ritzville, Wash.