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THE COLFAX GAZETTE. OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. SPRING OPENING! New Goods! New Goods! The Ladie* have always regarded our upinvri /^TiTT'V'TA.T/^ ta m events to be looked forward to with A JLvJLi\ vx \Jl_ xiii\ ±i\ ijr>3 eager anticipation, and remembered with pleasure. On these occasions they were wont to grace our departßeate in large numbers by their presence and express their pleasure and appreciation of our efforts to please. This season we have a much better variety and strictly up-to-date stock, and delight our visitors by a display worthy of their patronage. In New Spring A-ttire Our big store is now laden with all the beauty and newness of the season. Attractive goods and. still more at tractive prices welcome customers to all departments. The newest, the largest, the grandest display of new and up-to-date goods ever shown in Colfax. You are Invited and Expected. Grand Opening View of Millinery Tuesday and Wednesday. April 3d and Irli. What a flutter of delightful anticipation and realization this nnnouncement will cause! and all expectations will be more than realized on these days when we place on view the most magnificent collection of Trimmed Hats and Bonnets ever shown in thin city. Why, the Pattern Hats alone are worth traveling miles to see Here are productions from such renowned Modistes as Virot, Esther Meyer, Heitz- Moyer, Felix, Madame Carlier, Poyanue and Michniewics-Turee, whose beautiful creations are admired throughout the civilized world. And no less elegant are the productions from our own work-room. Copies, adaptations and original concep tions that will win a host of new friends and admirers. Watch for our Hand Hill on Monday, April 2<l. AARON KUHN, Colfax's Greatest Store, SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS Our new goods are arriving daily and we ore Knowing Now Shirt Waists, New Silk Waists, New Fancy and Plaid Dress Goods, New Plaid Silks for Waists, New Materials in Organdies, Dimities, and Dotted Swiss. All our Department* are being filled with novelties. Be sure and call and you will find that we are still wiling at old prices, although most lines have advanced mnce our purchases. JULIUS LIPPITT, Pioneer Merchant. Colfax, Washington )ffifep Now is the time f ■: N ra fora good Spring Hlood Medicine. Purge ;"t — "*ailL| U\ the syateni of all impurities by the use of -~ W PURIFY A/fift Dr. Buck's Celery, o&Bwunn N' - Sarsaparilla and . DI I! Dandelion Compound. , 1^ It will tone up the system, make the .**&■•>'*■« C 4 •r; r*^^ eye sparkle with good health, make your ?r V ■^■■W •«& blood rich an(l red» makfc the complexion , >S. C\j' -Lk».r* v-v clear, and sleep like a child. Sold only at ■■ The Elk Drug Store. rFlii* Year's 3Xo<lel« of Cleveland, Rambler and Ideal Bicycles, with 6. & J. Clincher Tires. Are Beauties. Drop in and examine them and learn prices. Bicycle Sundries of all kiinlH. Bicycle and Gun Repairing- of every description. GEO. L. CORNELIUS, Oeborne's Old Stand, opposite City Hall. Fine Commercial Printing: Exo«'utt'(l l>v BRAMWELL BROS. General Printers and Telephone Building, Legal lilank Publishers. COLFAX. It will pay you to examine CARLEY'S ROLLER FEED MILL Before investing your money in a Chop Mill. Some of its features: No Burrs to Wear Out. No Gears. Only Six Bearings. Mills specially adapted to wind mill power. All sizes up to 3% tone capacity per hour. Manufactured by CARLEY IRON WORKS, Colfax, Wash. ShlhQpriha lor your Magazines and Newspapers through The UUUSLIIUC Gazette and save money. Golfax, Washington. COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1900. NEWS OF THE STATES Gathered From Hills, Valleys and Plains of the I nion. Boiled Down As It Conies From the Wires for Information of Busy Headers. Wednesday, March 21. Delaware republicans, in convention, endorsed the MeKinley administration. Thirty eases uf smallpox have broken out in the Great Northern grading camp near Fort Kenton, Montana. J. F. Allen of New Orleauß bought 1 - 000,000 tickets to the Paris exposition as a speculation and expects to clean up fIOO.OOO. Five Kansas City politicians and two newspaper reporter* figured in a shoot ing affray last night in which 18 bullets were tired at close range and not one of the combatants was scratched. The monthly statement of the collec tions of internal revenue show that for the month of February, l!) 00, the total receipts from all sources were $20,800,- GG2, an increase as compared with the same month in 1800 of $1,160,659. During the last eight months the total receipts were #195,608,878, an increase over the corresponding period of last year of |16,825,184. Several hundred miners marched into Boonville, 111., from the surrounding country and closed the Wooley, Hester & Kelly mines, which are operated with non-union men. A procession was formed at the court house, union men who refused to join being forced in by revolvers. There was a riot along the main streets, and several non-union miners were badly hurt. At Gretna, Nebraska, a mob took Louis Figg and wife, alleged religious fanatics, from their beds and treated them to a coat of tar and feathers. The mob, numbering about thirty prominent citizens, made no attempt at disguise. It is alleged that Figg and bie wife had caused a number of women to forsake home, husbands and chil dren and take up residence in the " Figg heaven." Speaker Henderson took occasion during a call by President Gompera and other officials of the Federation of Labor to make known hip personal views concerning an eight-hour work day. The labor leaders called to dis cuss the outlook for legislation on the eight hour bill, the bill against convict made goods, and that limiting the issue of injunctions by the federal courts. Although several members of the delegation preferred to place the injunction bill foremost, it was the final view of Mr. Gompers and all hie asso ciates that the eight-hour measure should be the first to receive attention from congress. This led Speaker Hen derson to express his personal views on the eight-hour question. He said he had always believed that the product of a man working eight hours a day was much better than that of a man'com pelled to work longer hours. General passenger agents of the rail roads operating in the territory west of Chicago have become involved in a quar rel with the United States government over the rates to be paid for the move ment of soldiers to San Francisco en route to the Philippines. The govern ment authorities are withholding nearly ¥175,000 demanded by the western rail roads for the transportation of soldiers. The troops were moved on orders from the war department, and each man was charged at the full tariff rate, less the deduction of land-grant roads. When the railroad asked a settlement of the transportation bills the treasury depart ment demanded a rate of two cents per mile lees than the land-grant reductions. The two cents per mile rate is that given to parties of 20 or more traveling on one ticket, and this applies only to organizations traveling for the purpose of giving entertainments, exhibitions and those taking part in contests. Thursday, March 22. The democrats, populists and silver republicans of Idaho adopted resolu tions favoring fusion. " Preacher" Jones, a negro, murdered Ella Jones and five children with an ax at Garners, N. C. He has been ar rested. The navy department has issued orders for the repair of the cruiser Boston, now at the Mare island navy yard, the cost of which will be about $.300,000. Frank Jones, of New Hampshire, undisputed leador of the Granite state democracy for a quarter of a century and a bosom friend of ex-President Cleveland during the latter's twelve years of political activity, has renounced all connection with the democratic party and will vote and work for Mc- Kinley this year. Friday, March 23. TLe element in the republican ranks iv the senate favoring free trade with Puerto Rico decided at a conference to oppose any action looking to an early vote and to ask for further time in case the question should come up. At Lima, Ohio, 100 persons were taken suddenly ill from poison effects after attending a dinner given by the Women's Home Missionary Society of Trinity church. Some of them are'still in a precarious condition, and several will die. The poison has been traced to chicken salad. The Sioux have just finished a pro tracted council at Oak Creek, S. D., with Major Bingerheimer, the Indian agent, over the Black Hills treaty of 1876. The Indians have long claimed that this treaty was signed by one-third of their number, instead of three-fourths, as required by law. Major Bingenheimer corroborates the claims. The Indians will employ legal aid to have the treaty declared null and void. Saturday, 3larch 24. President McKinley signed the Puerto Rican relief bill. The State bank at Hardy, Nebraska, was robbed of $4000. Burglars blew the safe, and there is no trace. Robert Fitzsimmons and "Kid" Mc- Coy were matched today to fight July 4, 25 rounds at catch weights. Both men posted $2500 forfeit. The exchange of bonds for the 2 per cent iHKHc authorized by the new eur 55Sf?Jfe W llp tv dfite aggregate $148, --893,400. Of thin Hum 1130,559 750 were offered by the national banks 'and ! $13,290,860 by individuals. Information received at the postoffice department indicates that the efforts to get mail through to the gold fields through the Alaskan mountains are meeting with success. Mail was recently . transmitted from Skagway to Circle City in 19 days, which broke all records and the dispatch of a letter from Circle City to Washington in 30 days as was recently done would have been impossible last year. Sunday, March 25. Republicans of tht> Seventh West Vir ginia congressional district instructed fur McKinley. JatncH Cummings, a railway toostal clerk, under arrest at Virginia City, Nevada, for theft of a registered pack age valued at $ HO, suicided with lauda num. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flerarey, an aged couple, quarreled at Cheyenne, Wyom ing, while intoxicated. 'The man set fire to the woman's clothes and she was fatally burned. The Berwind-Wbite Coal Mining Com pany of Pennsylvania notified its miners of a general average advance of 20 per cent, making the wages the highest paid during the last 20 years. Extensive preparations are being made at the United States naval obser vatory for photographing and observ ing the total eclipse of the sun which occurs on May 28. Two government stations will observe the eclipse, one in South Carolina and one in Georgia. Monday, March 20. Mayor Phelan of San Francisco re ports that city safe from bubonic plague. J. 0. I.urhom shot and killed his part ner, V. G. Weiman, at Sumpter, Oregon. They had quarreled for several days. Democrats carried Dcs Moinesflowa, by 500 to 800, and also captured the Burlington mayor. Republicans took Clinton by 1000 and Sioux City by 100. Officers and crew of the Charleston were vindicated by a court of inquiry looking into the loss of the vessel on an uncharted rock off the north coast of Luzon. Chas. W. Mußsey, cashier of the Merch ants' National Bank at Rutland, Ver mont, ism jail for embezzlement of $145, --000 of the bank's funds. The institu tion is wrecked. Tuesday. March iI7. March wheat at Chicago. 65J£; May, C 5* 4 . Portland, cash, 53 to oi; Tacoma, 50%. Representative Chas. 11. Grosvenor was nominated for the sixth time for con gress by the republicans at Athens, Ohio. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the acts of the administration in regard to the Philippines and Puerto Rico. The new Philippine commission held a preliminary meeting today at the head quarters of the old commission at Washington. Judge Taft, the president, called the body to order and the plans for the committee movements were thor oughly canvassed. S -cretary Root took a step long con templated in the administration cf the Philippines by directing the creation of an entirely new military division, to be known as the division of the Pacific, embKacing all of the Philippine archi pelago. The division, in turn, is to be divided into four military departments, as follows: The department of northern Luzon, commanded by Genera! Mac- Arthur; the department of southern Luzon, commanded by General Bates; the department of the Viscayas, com manded by General Hughes, and the department of Mindanao and Jolo, com manded by General Kobbe. Major Gen eral Otis will retain the supreme com mand over these departments as division commander. MAFEKIXU HAS BUT LITTLE HOPE. British Are Skirmishing With Boers IG7 Milps Away. London, March 24.—Lord Roberts" main army continues waiting at Bloem fontein. The sentimental interest in the fate of Mafeking has intensified with Colonel Plumer'n forced retirement to Crocodile Pools, where he was two months ago. Relief from the north now dwindles to improbability. Lord Methuen is skirmishing with the Boers at Warrenton, IG7 miles away. Although seemingly in force sufficient to do pretty much as he likes, he has not advanced these five days. It is hoped that his military administration has a pleasant surprise in preparation for the British by raising the siege with a strong contingent of cavalry and artillery de touring to Mafeking, while Commandant Snyman is drawn off to engage Colonel Plumer. General French-! cavalry and mount ed infantry, according to a rumor, are fighting somewhere east of Bloemfon tein. This suggests more Boer bad news, as Commandant Olieviers com mando, with 2000 wagons, is reported on the Basutoland frontier, toiling northward toward Kroonstad,via Lady brand. This enormous wagon train is supposed to be moving 25 miles a day. General French's cavalry posts stretch from Bloemfontein eastward to the mountains. General Buller has not yet moved in Natal. The Eighth division will go direct to Bloemfontein. Lord Roberts' effective forces at the front 10 days hence will be, it is esti mated, 70,000 men, with the easy possi bility of moving eastward, forcing the Boers to evacuate the Biggarsberg range and joining hands with General Buller before continuing the promenade to Pretoria. The Delagoa Bay railroad arbitration reward is editorially considered in the morning papers. The approaching de claration of the findings of the arbitra tors is welcomed as coming at an appro priate moment, and as bringing the ac quisition of Delagoa Bay appreciably near. An Apology Made. New York, March 27.—A special to the Journal and Advertiser from Wash ington says: Lord Salisbury has apol ogized to the United States for the opening, by the British censor at Dur- ! ban, of mail addressed to ex-Consul C. E. Macrum at Pretoria. The apology will be sent to the house committee on foreign affairs by Secretary of State when Mr. Macrum's case against the state department ia heard. SHALL WE RETALIATED Question of Excluding Alien Miners From Alaska. Populist Senator Allen Heady to Advise Not to Bnllat in the Philippine Army. Washington, March 26.— The trouble some question of alien ownership of mining claim* in Alaska was before the senate today, but action had not been reached when the senate adjourned for the da}. The conduct of the British government in excluding American citizens from claim ownership in the Atlin coun try seems to have provoked v desire for retaliation, and in this spirit Senator Haasbrough today offered a sweeping anti-alien amendment to the Alaska civil code bill. It wish supported by Senator Carter, who has charge of the bill. Senator Morgan offered a sub stitute, and the two amendments were pending when the senate adjourned. During the discussion it was asserted that the Laplanders which the American government sent north some time ago with a herd of reindeer to relieve the ice bound whalers in the arctic, heard of the rich gold strikes at Cape Nome and, using the reindeer, outraced a party of American miners and seized a number of the best claims. The bill was under consideration dur ing the greater part of the session. An amendment was agreed to fixing a license on every kind of trade and com merce in the district of Alaska, the license ranging from $10 to $500 per annum. The measure had not been disposed of at the conclusion of the session. l'opullttt Allen's Resolution. The resolution offered lant Saturday by Senator Allen calling on the secretary of war for information relative to causu alities in the American army in the Phil ippines was then taken up. Senator Allen supported the resolu tion in a brief speech, after Senator Gallinger had suggested that it ought to go to the committee on military affairs. Senator (ialiinger intimated that the resolution would have the effect of din couraging enlistments in the army. Senator Allen declared that to send the resolution to the committee on mili tary affairs was to destroy and smother it. He said that owing to the climatic and other conditions in the Philippines, the American army could not remain there for two ye.-irs. He said that ill ness and suicide among the troops were on the increase. He believed the Ameri can people were entitled to the facts. He was prepared, he said, to go so far as to advise men not to enlist for duty in the Philippines. Adverting to a reference by Senator Allen during the course frf his speech, that Senator Uaiiinger had not served in the civil war, the latter said his ser vices had been offered and had been refused ou what he thought were insuffi cient grounds. His wish to have the resolution referred was not due to any effort to have it smothored, but that it should be examined by a proper commit tee. He was satisfied that while the per centage of illness was not high in the Philippines, the evident intention of the resolution was to obtain information that might be easily garbled for politi cal purposes. Senator Hawley, chairman of the com mittee on military affairs, was inclined to think the inquiry ought to be made, the statistics from the Philippines placed side by side with similar statistics on the wars with other nations. He be lieved Senator Allen wiuld be disap pointed in the result. In order that the resolution might be amended, it was on his motion referred to the committee on military affairs. S'IAKTLING KENTUCKY EVIDENCE. Golden Says There Was A Bi« Plot On Hand. Frankfort, Kj., March 24—In the preliminary bearing of the alleged con spirators in the murder of (Joebel—Sec retary of State Caleb Powers and Cap tain John Davis of the capitol police— F. Wharton Golden gave some startling testiaiony. Speaking of the brother of the secretary of state, Golden said: "John Powers told me they had two negroes to kill Goebel. They were Kerker Smith and Dick Coombs." He also testified that there was a plan to bring mountain feudists who had good Colts 45s and would stand to kill off enough democratic members of the legislature to give the republicans a majority. Further testimony was that John Powers told him Goebel was to be killed that morning. Decided To Tell All. Frankfort, March 26,—At the resump tion of the trial today, Golden said he learned about two weeks ago that he would be arrested if he did not tell what he knew about the assassination, and if he did the attorneys for the common wealth would try to save him from pros ecution. Golden said he had told Judge Flem ing of Winchester that he intended to tell all he knew about the affair. While he was in Winchester he said he was stopped by two men, Dr. Foster and Wm. Steele, who grabbed him by the arms and cursed him for exposing the republican party. Golden replied that he had not exposed the party. He could not remember that he had ever heard Powers say he intended to harm any one. Dick Coombs,the alleged assassin, was brought to Frankfort, he said, by William Cullon, one of the de fendants. Witness said that when he heard, on his way to Louisville with Powers, that Goebel had been shot and told Powers what had happened Powers said it was a dirty shame and an outrage. Almost a Fiffht in Court. Frankfort, Ky., March 26—The most | thrilling event of the examination of | republican secretary of etate, Caleb Powers, occurred this afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, and for a few minutes it looked as if eerions trouble could not be prevented. Judge George Denny, for the defendant, in an argument upon TWENTY-THIRD FEAR. the competency -I a question, Hniil : It is perfectly lawful for people to come nere armed. I came here several timcH tnyHolf." He was referring to the crowd that wan present at the himhh meeting held in tbe statehouse yard )ost prior to Gov ernor Goebel's mmnirinntion. Colonel Campbell for thn prosetutiuii replied that he did Dot consider it law ful, and was surprised to know that Mr Denny hud come hen> armed. Denny denied baring made men a statement, and said that be did not ••nine arincl. Campbell insisted that he made the Btatement. Both men were much ex cited ami spoke with vehemence, and with arms shaking, commenced to ad vance towards each other. The court room was crowded and the audience evidently thought a Bgbt was on and made a mad rash for the doors and windows, people falling over each other in their wild fffortN to get out of the room. Several policemen and deputy sheriffs were crying for order, and Judge Moore was bringing hi* gavel down with terrific force and urging the people to take their seats. After 10 minutes of the most exciting scenes since thr- uhhu* Bination, quiet was restored. -Just as soon as the room began to grow orderly, ex-Governor Brown, one of the attorneys for the defense, whig pered to Colonel Campbell, who promptly tfroseand apologized to Denny and to the court, Judge Denny replying in a very happy speech. <>n an inspection of the record it was found th.it Colonel Campbell had misconstrued Judge Denny's statement. At the conclusion of the examination of Golden, the commonwealth rested its case. It was stated last ni^ht that Mrs. Golden would also be introduced an a witness, but she was not put on the Btand. It is stated tii.it she is an un willing witness. Held t<> the Grand J«ry. Frankfort, X.v., March 27 — Tin- fourth da\ of the trial of republican Secretary of State Power* began with theeourt room cleared of all people excepting attorneys, newspaper correspondents ami officers of the court. The attor neys for t lie defense announced that no testimony would h»> introduced for the defense and that they would waive further examination. The pardon in- Boed to Powers by Governor Taylor was tendered by Brown an a l»ar to the prosecution and be asked that defend ant be dismissed. Colonel Campbell said the commonwealth denied Taylor's ri^ht to issue a pardon. Governor Brown then moved that the prisoner he dismissed upon the evidence, bat the motion was overruled. I! til was then asked for. Judge Moore H.-iid: "It in not my belief that Powers tired the shot which killed Goebel, hut on tne evidence it in nay opinion lie was connected with the conspiracy to kill him. I hIwiII therefore order that he be held over without bail to the Franklin county grand jury that the case may be further investigated." MADE THE AMIS FEEL VERY HAD. Educated Filipino Told Them a Few Plain Facts. New York, March 25.—Ramon Keyes Lalo, the Filipino who believes that his countrymen will prosper only under American rule, baa returned from bis lecturing tour in New England, and gives an amusing account, of the over tures made to him in Boston by the anti-imperialist league of Edward Atkin son and other kindred spirits. The re sult of these advances was a Hat footed declaration from Mr. Labi that he had no use for the league, which surprised Kdwurd Atkinson, William Lloyd Garri son and others very much. It appears from Mr. Lala'sdeseriptfoa of hiH interview at the league headquar ters, that these gentlemen wen- labor ing under the impression that their vis itor wan of the Agoneillo type of Filipino envoy. Mr. Atkinson and his friends, Mr. Lala said, greeted him upon bis arrival at their headquarters with open arms, and started in to weep with him over the shooting of his countrymen for mere liiHt of power by thin government, which they believed to be a monster. "In my talk with them," said ifr.Lala, "I Haw very clearly how poorly they were informed about everything to do with the Philippines. When I tried to explain the conditions they interrupted me with assertions about corruption at Wash ington and refused to listen to any argu ment I could make from the point of view of a Filipino who grew up in the Philippines and known their real condi tion today. "'Gentlemen,' I said finally,'l hold you responsible for thousand* of deaths in the Philippines. You have done wrong. You have made my people think a large number of people in this country are in sympathy with this in surrection. You are not well informed enough to know that from Aguinaldos rule the Filipinos can expect absolutely nothing. He showed his insincerity by selling himself to Spain. "Instead of being an Aguinaldo or an Agoncillo, I am an expansionist, for I believe the Americans, with their capi tal and brains, will make my people happier than they have ever been. In my mind Admiral Dewey is the savior of that country, and the people are already appreciating the benefits of his victory. I don't believe all the stories about the corruption of this govrrnment, for the reason that I've lived here off and on for twelve years, and have learned to know the true worth of the American people." In spite of this declaration, however, the anti-imperialists refused to change their views either regarding the Philip pines or Mr. Lala. "As I left,'' said the latter, "Mr. Win slow shook hands with me and said he still greeted me as a countryman of Aguinaldo, leading me to believe that he could not greet a Filipino in any other way. My visit showed me that these professed friends of my country do not understand the people there at nil. Furthermore, I believe they have not the intelligence necessary to alter a na tion's judgment, for wherever I have I been I have found the American people in favor of expansion." E. M. Lyons & Co. are preparing to closa out their general merchandise business at Pa louse and will remove it to Pendleton, Oregon.