The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-06-01

OF water into fury, driving the vessel
ashore. In North Dakota three days c
constant rain has been followed by
nara snow storm. Over two inches {
snow has fallen
Striking miners sat on the hillsides an,
watched the nOnuniOn men getting on
coal at Plum Run, Ohio. MANY OF tn
strikers are becoming discouraged an,
show disposition TO leave the uniOI
and return to the mines, but the nniOl
| officials are working hard to preven
| assertions. The operators are plannin!
! TO open other mines next week.
Sunday, May 27.
During ball game three miles from
! Mobile, Ala lightning struck in tbt
midst OF the crowd Of spectators. killing
/ i've and more or less iniuring % Others
Louisville, Ky, for the first time il
many years, has a dry Sunday. Will
the exception of one, every place O
amusement was closed The execution
was park kept by Hebrew, who oh
served Saturday az the Sabbath. He
was arrested and will be tried. but Vas
allowed 70 continue selling throughout
the day, doing a rushing business. -Four
NHSA pteAONC HHCiC liQuOE Is sOtU mac
been designated by the retail Ii0uOr
dealers association to test the law. The
prOprletOrs Of these were not Only ar.
rested, but the places were kept closed
thereafter.
Chicago is threatened with a strike
among 5000 skilled mechanics in the
employ OF the city who stand ready to
quit their places at the call of the Asso.
clated Building trades. Trouble with
these men would Immediately tie up re
pair work on pumping stations and
seriously cripple, if not entirely paralyze.
the city water supply.
Forest fires in the vicinity of Parsons
and Davis, W. Va, have DESTROYED lum
Der plants, sawed lumber and standing
timber valued at over 500, 900.
a heavy rainstorm swept over San
francisco and surrounding country,
damaging truck gardens. flooding base
ments and bringing much discomfort
and misery to the refugees camped out
on low ground. 1t was the heaviest
rainfall at this season since 1884.
Monday, May IS
Eight persons were killed and % in
iured by the derailment of two coaches
of passenger train on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad near Louisville
Five men were drowned in a food
which occurred at GOlcOnda, New. They
were employees of the GOlcOnda Cattle
Co, on whose place not a building or
fence was left standing. Heavy rains
caused the breaking of the dam in Pole
creek canyon, three miles above the
place. Four inches OF rain fell in six
hours at Pine Ridge Cal All roads
through the mountains are impossible
The floods in the mountains have been
carried down in the creeks, and both the
King and San Joaquin rivers are full to
the brim. The King river has broken
over its levees in several places and thou
sands OF acres have been inundated. The
San Joaquin river is l6 miles wide in
some places and the water is still rising
The greatest apprehension ia felt by
farmers who find protection in the Buena
Vista levee, % miles south of Bakers
field, Cal The water is now within two
feet OF the top Of the levee and the waves
are threatening it's destruction. If q
break occurs, 40, 900 acres Of the richest
land in the Kern valley will be flooded
The rains have ruined the apricot crop
The Red6ing land office has received
notification from Washington that 800.
600 acres of irrigation and forest reserve
land and in the klamath lake section in
SiskiyOu county, Cal, will be thrown
open to entry and location on Septem-
Der 3. 1t is valuable agricultural
mineral and grazing land, and a big
rush is expected.
Coal operators in Illinois have decided
to yield to the demands of the miners for
the scale Of 1903 The question OF a
settlement is declared to be matter Of
detail and by the beginning of next week
mining will be resumed in Illinois with
union men.
Tuesday, May 20
Two days Of bitter dissensiOn in the
convention Of the Western Federation of
Miners, in session at Denver, eliminated
in the seating, by almost unanimous
vote, OF two socialist delegates from
Butte-JOhn C. Lowney and Patrick
Duffy-and the prompt walkout of the
seven OF the 13 delegates from Butte
Miners Union No. 1.
The stage Of water in the chain Of
lakes that encircles Minneapolis is higher
than it has been since the foods of 1892
Thousands of acres of pasture and farm
lands are submerged to a depth of one
and two feet.
DR.. ]. f, Force, formerly president OF
the North western National Life Insur-
anCe company at Minneapolis, was found
guilty Of embezzlement.
More than one-half of Governor Folk 8
mail consists of letters concerning the
hanging OF Mrs. Aggie Myers, the Kan
sas City woman convicted of having
murdered her husband Women writer's,