The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-01-08
Wednesday, December 80.

The Highland hotel, one of the finest
winter resorts in New Mexico, has been
destroyed by fire. Guests lost practi.
ca!ly all of their clothing aud personal
effects. The Highland was located at
| Albuquerque.
On account OF the closing of the Hi
nois Steel Company's mill at South Chi
cagO 800 employees of the Chicago. Lake
Shore and Eastern railway, which is
operated by the steel company, have
been laid OF and 130 more discharged
A proclamation has been issued in the
cripple Greek district giving notice that
on and after January Z, all vagrants
found in Teller county will be arrested.
No trace has been found of Miss Ethel
Ravel, the missing heiress, who disap
peared from Meridian, Miss, week ago.
The family and friends believe the young
helress has been Kidnapped and is being
heid Tor ransom. Considerable excite
ment prevails.
Nebraska republicans have held a
meeting IN Omaha to organize a move
ment in favor OF John L. Webster for
the vice presidency. Resolutions en-
dorsng Roosevelt were unanimously
adopted.
Both the Russian and japanese lega-
tiOns in Washington admit that the sit
uatiOn in the far east has entered upOn
critical stage. Both ministers, how
ever, express hope that war will be
averted.
Statement of the treasury balances in
the general fund, exclusive of the $780,
100000 gold reserve fund, shows that
tue United States treasury has an avail
able cash balance of 1920. .S76, ,221; gold
$117, 7,330,746.
1t is alleged that the mineowners and
operators in the San Juan district Of
Colorado are preparing to return to the
10 hour day, instead of the eight hour
system now in vogue. That plan will
be fought by the unions.
Benjamin Fl. Marshall, the Chicago
architect who planned the IrouuOs
theater, says that he will never plan or
construct another theater of wood. He
is overwhelmed by the Chicago calamity.
The wages of the 1888 employees OF
the Youngstown. Ohio, plant of the Car
negie Steel Company will be reduced / 3
to 26 per cent on January l, the heavi-
est cut falling on the tonnage men.
Thursday, December 81.
AS near as can be learned now, the list
OF dead, injured and missing in the Lro
quise theater fire at Chicago, is approx
mated at 100. The dead in mOrgues
and hospitals number $50. Fatally in
iured in hospitals, about 40 Others
injured, lat. Missing, about BAT.
Stunned by the Iroquois theater dis
aster, the striking livery drivers and
their employers have each made prepar-
ations to supply carriages in Chicago to
meet the emergency. The president OF
the union has declared q truce of 10
days and ordered every striker TO return
to his situation during that time.
The double header east bound limited,
on the Lake Shore railway, was derailed
at Ashta bula, Ohio, by an open switch.
Two engineers and one fireman were
killed and two passengers and six train
men were injured.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago has or
dered all theaters in that city closed un-
til after the corOner's jury has rendered
it's final decision. A large number of
the employees of the IrOquOis theater
have been arrested, pending the locat-
ing of the blame for the awful disaster.
A jury at Helena, Mont, has found
Isaac Gravelle guilty of attempted black
mail and of destroying Northern Pa
cific property for the purpose of extOrt-
ing money from the company. GravelIe
is the dynamiter who was such terror
TO that road in Montana for several
months.
Admiral O'Neill, chief of the bureau of
ordnance. denies that any attempt has
been made on the part of anarchists to
blow up the big guns OF the American
warships at the Philadelphia navy ward.
The admiral insists that no detective
materials have been received from the
Midvale works, where the plot was al
legged to have been discovered.
The Tennessee Central Railway shops
at Nashville, have been DESTROYED by
fire. Loss $320,000.
Messages of sympathy and coincidence
for the Chicago fire sufferers are being
received at the state department from
almost every civilized country in the
world.
Friday, January L.
1nre6 persons were Killed and TOUR
Others injured in a fire that DESTROYED
the Louvre hotel in Chicago Nearly
100 guests we're in the building when the
fire broke out. Remembering the Iro-
quois disaster, every person in the house
became panic stricken.
A rumor is in circulation in Washing
ton that an American warship has de-
stroyed the Colombian man of war,
General PinzOn. The report is not con-
irmed at the navy department, and
officials scout the idea.
Charles Morgan, aged II, has been
arrested at st. Joseph, Mo-, on a charge
of using the mails for purposes Of black
mail He threatened to blow up Bur
lington trains with dynimite unless paid
$4,000.
John Alexander Dowie, accompanied
by four leaders in Zion City, has started
from Chicago on his trip around the
world.
The carriage supply in Chicago is ex-