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THE COLFAX GAZETTE.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
kI'HX MEANS BUSINESS
Read Our Remarkable Prices!
Come to KUUN'S and Bee the greatness of the values represented by these low
prices and you'll understand that we mean to claim and get the greatest volume
of trade < ver done bj a Colfax merchandise house.
AN APRIL SHOWER
of bargains plentifully besprinkles this great store all this week. Exceptional
offerings that will make a lasting impression on all who come. It is impossible to
mention all the surprising values, but tboee we quote show how low the prices run.
Economy is Always the Watchword Here.
AgosU Novelties, joat the thing for Batiste Indienne, in all colors figured
waah dream or waists, in stripes and only, has the appearance of a^n all
figures, for thia week, per yard 8&c wool Challie, for this week, per yard 12Jc
batata Oords, in all color.", in stripes Pompadour Organdie-this is an im
only, for this week, per yard .... 10c ported Organdie and comes in a dainty
Scotch Lawns, in rtnpe*, figured or variety of colors, for this week, per
polka dot, tor this week, per yaqi .... 5s yard age
Dalkeith Dimity, comes in a dainty c >1- Lace Stripe Organdie, in all color's' fie
lection of stripes, for this week, pr yd 12Jc ured with Etripe effect, for this week
i Blvoir Uords, comes in ail colors in per yard ... j ( ;j
Btripes or figured, or both together. Dotted Swiss','in all size' dot's','for' tin*
For this week, per yard 16|c week, per yard 10c, 12£ c, 16|c, 25c
A complete line of Ladies' and Children*'
AARON KXIHN,
Col fax's Greatest Store,
Colfax, Washington.
Largest, most reliable and quickest mail A postal mailed to ua will secure you a line
order house in the State of Washington. of samples.
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K% General Hardware
v Contractors' Supplies and
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COLPAX, WASHINGTON, FEIDAY, APRIL 27, 1900.
NEWS OF THE STATES
Gathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the Union.
Boiled Down As It Coinee From
I he Wires for Information of
Busy Readers.
Wednesday, April 18.
Thirty-five hundred Japanese coolies
have been landed at Puget Sound ports
since April 1.
The president nominated Frank W.
Hackett of New Hampshire to be assist
ant secretary of the navy.
The largest single importation of
opium to arrive at San Francisco was
that brought on the Nippon Maru. The
opium is worth |600,000, and the duty
amounts to $20,982.
A dispatch from Manila announces
that Colonel James S. Pettit of the
Thirty-first volunteers has Jbeen court
martialed for handing a prisoner of war
over to I'resident Medell of / uuboanga,
who killed the man at once, witnout
trial.
The state delegations in congress from*
the Pacific coast called on President Me-
Kinley in behalf of the Xicaraguau canal
project. The president assured them
that he was earnestly in favor of the
canal, but thought it now would be wise
to wait until the Walker commission
should report.
Thursday, April 10.
Representative Levy of Now York
introduced a bill to* repeal the war
revenue act.
Twenty-six Italian strikers were locked
up at Croton Landing, New York. One
hundred fled to avoid arrest.
New Jersey republicans unqualifiedly
endorsed the McKinley administration
and the shipping subsidy bill.
Slayer of Lawton is believed, on evi
dence received at Lcs Angeles, to be
Hamilton Howard, a deserter from the
California regiment.
Indictments were returned by the
Kentucky grand jury against John W.
David and Green Golden as accessories
to the murder of Governor Goebel.
The navy department has secured a
5000-ton steamer to carry the wheat
and other food supplies collected by
charitable organizations in New York to
the plague and famine sufferers in India.
Nevada republicans elected six dele
gates to the national convention. The
platform endorses the administration of
President McKinley; favors construction
of the Nigaragaan canal; the largest use
of both gold and silver as money; the
election of United States senators by
popular vote; the suppression of trusts;
the passage of an amendment to the
federal constitution prohibiting lotteries,
prize fights and bull baiting, and the de
velopment of arid states.
Id the Alabama republican state con
vention, the contending factions having
failed to agree upon a chairman, the
state committe, by a vote of 17 to 10,
decided to name the temporary conven
tion officers and prepare a temporary
roll of the delegates. The beaten fac
tion left the room and secured posses
sion of the convention hall. In an at
tempt of the majority to capture the
hal!, a struggle took place at the door,
in which Frank Maragne, who had been
elected sergeant-at-arms, fired three
shots at Gaston Scott, two of which
struck, seriously wounding him. Gov.
Johnston closed the state house to both
factions.
Friday, April 20.
Floods in southern rivers still continue,
and the damage has already reached
millions of dollars.
Mis* Mary E. Dinse, aged 32, at
tempted suicide by leaping from the
Brooklyn bridge, but was not much hurt.
Both factions of Tennessee republicans
nominated a state ticket. This is the
outcome of a bitter factional tight waged
for some time.
Representative Hepburn, in charge of
the Nicaragua canal bill, announced
that a definite arrangement had been
reached by which the bill will be consid
ered by the house on May 1 and 2 and
will be passed.
The provision for the repeal of the re
striction to §300 a ton on ship armor
plate in the current law was killed on a
point of order raised by Van Diver, dem
ocrat. This will make impossible the
purchase of armor for the Maine, Ohio
and Missouri.
After extended conferences the house
committee on invalid pensions decided
to report to the house the senate bill,
known as the "Grand Army bill." The
final draft of the bill aggregates the dis
abilities under which application maybe
made for pensions under the act of June
27, 1890. The other radical change in
! the existing law is the changing of the
rate of income of a soldier's widow from
the present rate of $96 per year to an
■"actual net income of $250 per year."
Saturdaj-, April 21.
House passed the naval appropriation
bill without division.
Shoshone, Idaho, republicans, in con
vention, recommended retention of fed
eral troops in the Coeur d'Alene district.
News reached Seattle that a strike
runoiDg as high as §40 to the pan has
been made 100 miles east of Cape Nome.
Edward C. Hanford, of Seattle, son of
United States District Judge Hanford,
has received word from the war depart
ment that he will be appointed a cadet
-at West Point next July.
Former Congressman David G. Colson,
-who kilied Lieutenant Scott, Luther De
marree and Chas. Julian in a pistol fight
in the Capitol hotel at Frankfort, Ky.,
recently, was acquitted by a jury in 18
minutes.
Rowland P. Hiil, formerly professor in
the Puget Sound University, was arrest
ed on a Nebraska complaint charging
bigamy. He claims he had not heard
from his first wife for five years and sup
pjsed the marriage was annulled.
The announcement of a change in the
title of the silver republican party waa
made at Minneapolis in a document set
ting forth the party platform, issued by
Executive Agent Corser. The Lincoln
republicans are to succeed the free silver
republicans and the national silver re
publican party is to give way to the
Lincoln republican party. The transfer
is to take place at Kansas City July 1,
when the national conventions of free
silver republicans and democrats are in
session.
The New York banks are adding stead
ily to their surplus despite the expansion
in deposits, an operation that calls for
additional reserve. The statement for
the current week shows a gain of over
$6,000,000 in cash holdings, the reserve
primarily of treasury disbursements.
At the offices of the American Steel &
Wire Company an employe confirmed the
report that the reduction of $20 per ton
had been ordered in the price of wire
nails, barbed wire and galvanized fence
wire,>ith an |8 cut in annealed fence
wire. This in equivalent to a reduction
of 1 cent a pound in wire nails, making
the price $2.20 a keg. The price for
barbed wire is $2 80 a hundredweight,
and for galvanized fence nails, $2.25 a
hundredweight. The cut in annealed
fence wire in from |3.05 to £2.15 a hun
dredweight.
Sunday, April 22
While insane, Chas. Smith slew him
self and wife at Brownsville, Neb.
Footpads held up Joseph Hildner and
bis, mother of Peoria, 111., at Los Ange
lea. Both started to run and Hildner
was shot through the heart.
Thos. C. Woerman set fire to the house
of J. C. Fox at Atchison, Kansas, in
order that he might play the heroic and
save the family. He goes up for 18
years for arson.
An attempt was made to blow up the
locks of the Welland canal with dyna
mite, but only small damage was done.
Had it been successful all of the seven
big locks below would have been swept
out by the terrific pile of rushing water
and a town of 2500 people below anni
hilated. Three men are under arrest for
the deed.
Monday, April 23.
Slight earthquake shock occurred at
Portland, Oregon.
Transport Roeecrans sailed from Se
attle with company G, Seventh infantry,
for Port Valdes, Alaska.
General Joe Wheeler formally tendered
his resignation as representative from
the Eighth Alabama congressional dis
trict.
An unknown man dived into a coke
oven at Connellsville, Pa . and in less
than a minute nothing was left of him,
bo intense was the heat.
James Harris confessed to murder of
John Allen, a wealthy merchant at Bur
lington, Kansas. Allen's wife, who was
infatuated with Harris, arranged the
deed and has been arrested. Harris is
20, while the woman is lid.
In the senate a bill was introduced ex
tending the provisions of the act of July
1, '808, relative to the adjustment of
conflicting claims to lands within the
limits of the Northern Pacific railroad
grant, to all instances in which lands in
odd-numbered sections within the in
demnity limits of the grant to ihis
company were patented to settlers under
the public land laws prior to the passage
of this law.
Members of the North Montana
Roundup association, endorsed the bill
pending in the Inited States senate to
extend the maximum time cattle nihy
be transported on cars without unload
ing from 28 to 40 hours, and also con
demned the bill seeking to prohibit the
making of oleomargarine. Such a pro
hibition, the association declared, would
take $3 to $4 from the value of each
animal, that being the worth of the
butter fat in each carcass for the manu
facture of substitutes for butter.
Tuesday, April 24.
Traffic in Mississippi and Louisiana is
paralyzed by the floods, which have
taken on fresh impetus.
April wheat at Chicago, Gs!g; May,
65& July, GG: i. Portland, cash, 52 to
53; Tacoma, 53% for club, 55? i for blue
stem.
Judee Frank Dellenbach of Columbus,
Ohio, was disbarred by the supreme
court for sharing a fee with an attorney
in a case which came before him.
The treasury department ordered a
special agent to proceed to the Pacific
coast to investigate the large influx of
Japanese coolies to this country within
the last few months.
The New Hampshire republican con
vention said: "President McKinley has
met and solved greater national prob
lems than have fallen to the lot of any
predecessor Bave Washington and Lin
coln." His renomination is recommend
ed.
Hon. Matthew S. Quay was refused a
seat in the United States senate on the
appointment of the governor of Pennsyl
vania by a vote of 33 to 32. The entire
time of the senate today was devoted to
debate upon the question, many of the
greatest lawyers and orators of the
body delivering speeches.
The senate committee on agriculture
reported the agricultural appropriation
bill to the senate. As reported, the bill
carries a total appropriation of $3,
--395,320, a net increase of only $22,230.
The senate really added items amount
ing to $82,320, "but by diminishing the
house approgriation for the purchase of
seed, $40,000, and that for agricultural
department publications, $20,000, the
net increase was reduced. The principal
items of increase are §40,000 for forestry
investigations and $15,000 for irriga
tion investigations. Among the amend
ments are the following: To coutinue
the investigation of the soils of the
Lnited States, to investigate the tests
applied to American food products in
foreign countries, to increase the salary
of the chief of the weather bureau to
$5000 per annum.
Say Boers Hare 80 000 Men.
London, April 23.—The Lorenzo Mar
quez correspondent of the Times, under
Saturday's date, says: Information re
i ceived from responsible sources shew
I that one time the republics had 105,000
i men in the field, including the colonial
\ rebels. According to the same inform
| ant they can still muster 80,000, of
J which 50,000 are in the Free State, 10,
--; 000 are in the Biggarsberg district and
! 15,000 in the district of Fourteen
Streams. It is now believed that before
the war the burgher lists were deliber
ately falsified in order to deceive the
British intelligence department.
SLAIIITHWLOMI
One Soldier's Head Cut Off Bj a
Filipino Knife.
British liaised the Siege of Wep
ener and Drove the
Boers Back.
Manila, April 25.—Officers who hay
arrived here from Nueva Ciceres, prov
ince of South Camarines, bring details
of a tight April IG, in which 8(1 Filipinos
were killed. The American outposts
reported :!<)(> natives assembled three
miles from the town and General \M\
sent three detachments of the Forty
fifth regiment with two Maxims, who
nearly surrounded the Filipinos, the ma
jority of whom were armed with bolos
and wore carabao helmets, coats and
shields. The Filipinos were quickly put
to flight, leaving the field strewn with
armor. Thtir riflemen were unable to
shoot straight and the bolomen never
got near enough to the Americans to do
any execution. Therefore none of the
Americans were wounded.
Lieutenant Bach, with 20 cavalrymen
from the Thirty-seventh regiment, cor
nered 50 bolomen in a river and shot
every one, the bodies floating away.
One soldier had his head struck off with
a bolo.
General Hell's two regiments are hard
at work clearing the country. They
meet with many small squads'of bolo
men and last week killed a total of 12:..
Pushing the Boers Back.
London, April 25.—1t is officially an
nounced that Col. Delgaty, besieged at
Wepener, has been relieved and the
5,000 Boers pushed back.
FILIPINOS STILL FIGHTING.
Three Companies of Thirty-filth In-
fantry Kepulsed Them.
Manila, P. 1., April 22.—The insurg
ents have been aggressive in almost
every province of Luzon. General Pio
del Pilar's band, numbering 300, which
was out of sight for three months, the
leader being reported killed, has reap
peared in its old field about San Miquel.
Pilar is supposed to be again in com
mand. He gave the American garrison
at San Miquel, consisting of three com
panies of the Thirty-fifth infantry with
a Gatling gun, a three hours' fight, dur
ing a night attack. The loss of the in
surgents in this engagement is not
known, as they removed their dead and
wounded, but presumably it was consid
erable.
Twenty-two Filipinos in the province
of Santangas attacked Lieut. VVende,
who, with eit;ht men, was scouting near
San Jose. The lieutenant and five men
were wounded and one private was
killed.
Sergeant Ledonious of the Thirty fifth
infantry was badly wounded in an am
bush near Baliung.
Montenegro Has Had Enough.
Colonel Smith of the Seventeenth in
fantry, who captured General Montene
gro and brought him to Manila, is in
the isolation hospital, suffering from
smallpox.
Colonel Smith's command captured
180 officers and men with Montenegro.
Montenegro, who was formerly one of
the most dapper officers in the Filipino
army, looks worn and haggard. He
says he led a terrible life for months and
he has offered to return to the north
with Colonel Smith to endeavor to per
suade his former comrades of the uselesa
ness of opposing the Americans.
One hundred escaped Spanish prisoners
from the province of South Luzon have
arrived at Manila.
The insurgents have 400 more Span
ish prisoners ia that district. Recently
the Filipinos destroyed several rods of
the railroad line near Panique in an un
successful attempt to wreck a train.
CLEVELAND ON FALSE LEADERS.
Does Not Believe Success Can Fol
low Sail Trimming.
New York, April 18.—Former Presi
dent Grover Cleveland sent the following
letter of regret from Princeton to the
Brooklyn Democratic Club, at a banquet
to commemorate the 157 th anniversary
of Jefferson's birth:
"I regret that I am unable to accept
your invitation to attend the dinner to
be given by the Brooklyn Democratic
Club on the 18th instant to commemo
rate the birth of Thomas Jefferson.
"When those who profess the demo
cratic faith meet to celebrate the birth
of the man who first gave them faith in
a distinct formulation, their pride in the
achievements and triumphs of the party
which he founded should not entirely
displace all thoughts of present situa
tions and the conditions which, in the
light of experience, appear to be essen
tial to its success.
"Though the faults of the party in
power are many, and though its offenses
against the political health and safety
of the country are flagrant, these things
should not encourage us to base an ex
pectation of success and a hope for the
restoration of wholesome administration
upon the shortcomings of our adver
saries.
"We should too well understand their
ability to attach to their fortunes the
powerful contingent of selfish interests
to place confident reliance upon the
weakness which ought to be the penalty
of their misdeeds.
"Besides, none of us can close our eyes
to the fact that the democratic party is
only formidable in its own strength. Its
power to win victories has always been
found to depend upon a sturdy and con
sistent adherence to its time-honored
principles, which have proved sufficient
to meet every emergency of our nation
al life. Whatever successes may have
attended a party of opportunity, with
sails ppread for every transient breeze of
popular sentiment or excitement, ex
periment has abundantly demonstrated
that democracy is so constituted that it
is only strong when courageous in the
right,and only victorious when its forces
are marshaled under its old and well-
organized standards.
"Our principles are so simple, and they
accord so well with the honest American
disposition, which loves freedom and
TWENTY-THIRD YEAH
care* for the public welfare, that they
are easily understood by the democratic
masses. As it r.-Hiiit .if this then hn«
never been a time when false leadership
of oar j^trty mid a departure from
simple democratic Faith bare not bees
quickly discovered and ruthlessly re
baked by listles* Rapport, pronounced
defection nnd hitter defeat. These con
sequences have tboa far been so inevi
table tbat the learns they teach cannot
be disregarded without inviting calamity.
"The healtbfulness of our party may
well be questioned when it nhrinkH from
such an examination of its position aa
will enable it to avoid any disaster bj
keeping in a course of safety, under the
guidance of true democracy.
"Therefore, those who claim to he fol
lowers of Thomas Jefferson will fail to
discharge a solemn duty iF, in this time
of doubt and temptation, they neglect
Mich an examination, and if this dis
close* a tendency in party control to
distrust their conquering power, then
conditions should not continue without
ii brave and early democratic protest.
"I have addressed these words to fal
low democrats in the full consciousness
that 1 am now far removed from any In
fluence in party management, but I love
the old democratic party and 1 have
written under sanction of that freedom
ol speech which Thomas Jefferson placed
among the cardinal factors of our demo
cratic creed. lii;mi;i; d i;\ bi,anD."
0001) UKI'OUTSJJtOM MANILA.
Pacification Conplete Except in
Small Portion of bason,
Washington, April 21.—Through the
war department the president in re
ceiving reports of most encouraging
character on conditions in the Philip
pines. Under a new plan the archipel
ago is divided into several departments,
each being in charge of a general officer.
These generals are making regular re
ports, not only of military operations,
but of business affairs generally. In a
way, these generals commanding de
partments are military governors. They
are subdividing the departments into
districts and putting competent officers
in charge of them. Qarrisoni are being
distributed in the important towns of
the various islands.
Two facts arc made impressive by the
latest reports from the commanders of
departments. One is that pacification
seems complete and permanent in nearly
all parts of the archipelago. The other
is that the people have resumed their
vocations and that business in reviving
in the most satisfactory manner.
The president feels deeply gratified at
the general acceptance ol American
authority. The press dispatches from
Manila fail to give the impression con
yeyed by the official reports. They are
limited to the chronicles of the disturb
ances in a few isolated and remote
provinces. The public in not informed
as to geography, and, seeing different
names of localities mentioned from day
today, might naturally conclude that
the i astir rectos were numerous and ac
tive in many islands. The fact is that
the operations are confined almost en
tirely to a small portion of Luzon. In
other islands and in many province* ol
Luzon there is no insurrection and very
little trouble with the marauding bands
to be expected after a state of war.
The opinion of the administration is
that the Philippine commission will find
the field ready for the institution of
municipal governments on a much more
extensive scale than was thought a few
weeks ago. Field operations by the
troops have almost ceased, anil the
irreater part of the army is now em
ployed in provost marshal and garrison
duty.
Mid-Koatlers of Missouri.
Kansas City, April 18.—The middle-of
the road populists, at their muss con
vention today, effected a permanent
state organization and adopted anew
name—the progressive people's party.
The name will be presented to the na
tional convention for ratification. The
platform demands legislation on lines
demanded in the Omaha platform, urges
the reduction of state and county sal
aries to correspond with the prices paid
for products, denounces both the old
parties for failure to enact, initiative and
referendum legislation, for the protec
tion of the corporation interests and for
legislation for the protection of nation
al banks, condemns \V. .1. Bryan and
John Rockefeller for their alleged con
nection with trusts, ami especially cen
sures the democratic state administra
tion because of its disregard of the para
mount interests of the people. A full
state ticket was nominated and 10
presidential electors selected, also 2.">
delegates to the Cincinnati convention,
who were instructed to vote first and
last for Wbarton Barker for president
and Ignatius Donnelly for vice presi
dent.
Kn^lam! Wants Our Gold.
New York, April 23.—The Evening
Post says: ".Sterling exchange reached
today the point where foreign bankers
began in earner the calculation of possi
ble profit or loss on gold shipments. One
institution with extensive connections
abroad admitted that we had now
reached the level where gold could be
shipped if the Bank of England offered
to allow interest in transit. Since such
an allowance would amount to scarcely
$800 on each §1,000,000 of gold ship
ped, today's rate of |4.88 » for demand
bills was, in the opinion of bankers,quite
near the exporting point. It was re
ported in foreign exchange circles thi-*
afternoon that the Bank of England had
made some provisional arrangements
to attract gold from thin country this
week, although most stfrling bankers
did not expect exports by Saturday's
steamer."
Cuban Hunting Trouble.
Havana, April 20. — Judge Ruis Kirera,
secretary of agriculture, industry and
commerce, has written a letter which i.-j
to be largely circulated calling upon po
litical parties of all shades to unite in
order to present a united front to the
government and the people of the United
States, when asking tbat the year 100 l
shall be devoted to the formation of an
independent government for Cuba, which
shall begin to act oil its own responsibil
ity aittr the end of 1901. The letter
has caused a great sensation among the
Cubans generally, coming, as it does,
from a cabinet secretary, and the feeling
is that the letter is to all practical in
tpnts a fall upon the Cubans to demmd
independence.
