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THE ,£OLF AX GAZETTE. TWENTT-THIRD YEAR. SPECIAL SALE OF I XI) ER MUSLINS <^ FOB J LILY^» Commencing J Fn this sale we will show a Friday, July 13th, * Sl>eeia' latest designs •7 0 manufactured for us by the Continuing until $ leading New England mills. si-Hniwliv liilv»>^ It is absolutely a fact that in *T J * tins Big Sale we shall sell Gowns, Drawers, Skirts and Corset Covers at prices less than the material alone would cost, and even less than the sewing alone would cost. This we guarantee. SI ii 1-1 Wj lists. Your choice of any Shirt Waist in sizes 38, 40 and 42 in the house (some sold as high as $1.73) for 50 CCMItS. OUB GUARANTEE: Money back if goods are not satisfactory. THE FAIR The Place to Save Money. WAITi: BLOCK, MAIN STRICT, COLFAX, WASHINGTON Ladies' Tailor Suits! ,-- The last shipment having just arrived. v /--^ we are showing a complete line of Ladies' ,-■- . ■ -/ J Tailor Suits. We guarantee them to be >=--«. the best values in this market and of the Wm% latest styles. Eton Jackets and Skirts /■> ' ¥?«• with double box plait. :' - " v 4/ , SjS^>v also offer some excellent bar^iiinn ' -• "."■ "V'i't in Ladies' Shirt Waists, from 50 cents I>U^ V yfM'i .li opwardß' a. N '^■^■'S^ : ■ ■:C\ i -- \J. {/* As "Special" for this week we have the /A ""■'■Csi&fe^ ''■ j /*m&V- celebrated "Hudson Boys' Ribbed Hose" '^•^ ~\ t fss§!&r--?\i »t 1 5 cents per pair, sold for 2r> cents at ■ x •' jLif-i.iif&ZJ other places. JULIUS LIPPITT, Pioneer Merchant Colfax. Washington Xhte Models 0f.... Cleveland, Rambler and Ideal Bicycles, with (I. &J. Clincher Tires. Are Beauties. Drop in and examine them and learn prices. Bicycle Sundries of all kinds. Bicycle and Gun Repairing of every description. GEO. L. CORNELIUS, Osborne's Old Stand, opposite City Hall. 2* O C^^M> What you see in a King- r (waT**** or other Jewelry depends on your VpiSf'^ £? A&f' knowledge of such matters. It is *S _ mtir (r\ easy to mistake baser metals for X y Cw I <y gold—imitations for real jewels. \Vk. !& \\ Here i 8 the safe plan: come to us. We 1 / Vy m«m vv know all about the quality of our goods I-, J J^^^^JCTiSy /^VV\ »»nd we give you the benefit of f«ur cx- j£gj vj perience and our honest valuation. Mjff^^2^^^ Watches, Kings, Bracelets, i ' • /'* Chains, Necklaces. City Jewelry Store It will pay you to examine CAKLEY'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. Ail sizes up to 3% tone capacity per hour. Manufactured by CAKLKY IKON WOKKS, Colfax. Wash. Slllwr'l'ilwi lor vonr Magazines and Newspapersthrooeh The [ tIUPt>AAUC Gazette ami save money. I I p THRESHING MACHINE U.I.U. akd EXTRAS. ' * >ur Extras, which are first class, sell at about | one-half the prices charged by other houses. Header and Jackson Extras. 150 ft, Siuch 4 ply Gandy Belt 138.60 Myers' Tank Pump, complete . l. r>.oo Cylinder Teeth, each 0 ets J. C. BI LSI, AND, Next >l<>r to Gir.ishoj>, Main Street, Colfax LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLES *** AUCTION CORRAL. MILL STREET. D. D. NSAD, Propr. S;>eeial attention to transient stock. Horses boarded by the d<iy, week or month. Our rates are right. Headquarters Alinota and Penawawa Stage Lines. Lacey & Sheldon. (Successors to Bennett i Tarbet) RETAIL GEOCEES As successors to Bennett & Tarbet we hope to merit a continuance of the liberal patronage given our predecessors. Our best efforts will be put forth to till your orders in a satisfactory manner. Our prices will be the lowest possible consistent with a high prarfe of goods. Your telephone orders will be tilled with the utmost care. Yours Respectfully, W. H. Lacey, E. K. Slielclon. Telephone Main -4S. Main St , Oolfax, Wash. You and your Horse will be treated right at LIDDLE'S STABLE Finest Turnouts in the city. Teams and saddle horses by the hour, day or week. Stock boarded'at reason able rat«e. H. M. LIDDLE, Fropr. JOLFAX, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1900. I\IS OP THE STATES fathered From Hills, Valleys and Plains of the Union. Boiled Down As It Comes From the Wires for Information of Busy Headers. Wednesday, July 4 A hoy and a sky rocket caused a $">O, --000 tire at Seattle. Teddy Roosevelt, republican candi date for vice president, is speaking in Kansas. James Hamilton Lewis, in an inter view in the Chicago Record, made the significant declaration that Washington ifla republican state. That the state will go republican, in his opinion, this fall is known to be the colonel's belief, which accounts for the announced re fusal to be a candidate for office this fall. Canton, Ohio's Fourth of July cele bration was purely non-partizan. It was the occasion of the dedication of a tablet to the country's representatives in the Spanish-American war and the mouuting thereon of a Spanish cannon captured at Santiago. Hut in all the demonstrations President McKinley was the central figure, made so by thousands of people, who went from all over the country to see him. Thursday. July 5. July wheat at Chicago was a shade lower, quotations standing at 78',. with August at 79%, September, 80%. Win. J. Bryan was unanimously nom inated for president by the democratic convention at Kansas City. John J. Reed, a Portland barber was stabbed to death by an unknown man at Seattle. Robbery was the motive. The Second, Sixth and Eighth regi ments of regulars were recalled from Cuba and will go to either China or the Philippines. The democratic national convention made "imperialism" the leading cam paign issue, trusts second, and 16 to 1 relegated to a back seat, while declaring for it. b The temperature of 90 degrees that has tortured Chicago for the past two days did not vary today. Tonight five more deaths and 13 prostrations were reported. Captain Wilde reported the battleship Oregon afloat from the rock in the Gulf of Pichili, with pumps controlling the water. The ship goes to Kure dockyard in the Inland sea for repairs. The Chicago Tribune reports from 125 cities record :i0 deaths, 1325 injuries and $125,000 fire loss from Fourth of July accidents with toy cannons, pistols, h're crackers and rockets. F. M. Griffith shot and probably fatally wounded bin wife at Troy, Idaho. He then took morphine and disappeared, but was later captured alive and well. Domestic troubles were the cause of the tragedy. Friday, July <» First cavalry is to be Bent to the Philippines to relieve volunteers. Silver republican national couvention nominated Bryan for president. Three deaths and seven prostrations from heat was the Chicago record. Senator Jones of Arkansas was re elected chairman of the democratic national committee. Wheat was steady at Chicago, July quotations at 7* T, •• Portland, cash, ."() (3 .">7: Tacoina, 50c for club. 58c for blue stem. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, vice presi dent under Cleveland, was nominated for vice president by the democrats at Kan sas City. David B. Hill of New York seemed to be the favorite, but refused to accept. Populists refuse to withdraw Towne, though urged by the democrats to do so. Saturday July 7. The silver republican national com mmittee advised support of Adlai Stev enson for vice president. Former Senator 11. W. Corbett of Portland was sued for $100,000 dam ages by E. E. Peterson, formerly of Helena, Montana, who charges Corbett with alienation of the affections of Mrs. Peterson. At Chicago the extreme humidity caused the largest list of deaths from heat of any one day during the past week. Nine deaths and three prostra tions was the record. The record for the week is 27 deaths and 96 prostra tions. A cyclone accompanied by a cloud burst and a hail storm, swept over Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a conserva tive estimate places the damage result ing at $100,000. The storm lasted half an hour and in that time nearly six inches of water fell, completely inundat ing the city. Tornado conditions prevailed through out the northern part of Hardin county, lowa. Houses were unroofed and over turned, barns demolished and trees up rooted, but loss of life is not reported. Two and a quarter inches of rain feli here during the night and the Colorado river is over bottom lands and still rising. Sunday, July H. St. Louis street car employes may strike again. Lieutenant I. M. Busby of Wardner, who was an officer of the First Idaho volunteers, has offered to raise a com pany of 120 men for service in China. Sixteen hundred men wer? today thrown out of employment by the bank ing of five furnaces operated by the Lackawanna Iron A Steel company at Scranton, Pa. No formal announcement will be made bp Charles A. Towne of his decision in regard to the populist nomination for the vice presidency until he is notified formally of the nomination, in about 10 days. He said he would make public his intention at that time, and would issue an address giving his reasons for the action he takes. What that action would be he refused to gay. Monday, July 9. _ { Ju!y wheat was firm at Chicago at Montana Central train crews are on a strike. St. Louis street car employes Btruck again. They complain of unfair treat ment. Peter Niesson of Chicago successfully rode Niagara fulls in a strange boat called the "Fool Killer." Democratic leaders held a conference. Headquarters will be at Chicago and Bryan is to take it easy and not travel as he has been doing since 18i»G. The departure of the first pack train for Chinese service was reported to the war department from Vancouver Bar racks, Washington. It says the trans port Lennon passed out of the Colombia river to sea at 7 o'clock this morning carrying 838 horses belonging to the Sixth cavalry, 28 riding horses for packers and 100 pack mules. Tuesday, July 10. July wheat at Chicago dropped to 78%. Two steamers brought from Alaska to Seattle over $1,000,000 in gold dust. Two infantry battalions aud a battery of artillery were Bent from Manilla to China. \ forest fire started went of Boulder Creek, Colorado, by a Fourth of July fire balloon, is devastating the country. Thousands of acres of timber have been destroyed, and there seems no proba bility that it will be brought under con trol soon. News that martial law has been pro claimed at Nome City bj General Ran dall, in charge of the I'nited States troops in that district, was brought down by the steamer St. Paul. The necessity for martial law arose out of the jumping of mining claims and other acts of lawlessness. The St. Paul also reports a great many cases of smallpox and typhoid fever at Nome. Francis Truth of Boston, who adver tised himself as a "divine healer, ' ap peared in the Inked States court today, ■ withdrew his previous plea of not guilty, pleaded guilty and was fined $2500, which he paid, lie pleaded guilty to seven indictments, accusing him of using the mails to further a scheme to defraud, which involved his devine healing pow ers, and on five charges he wan fined the maximum penalty of $500 each. ASSASSINATE HcKINLEY. Spanish ami Cuban Plot to Kill the President. New York, July 11.—The World Bays: A plot to assassinate President McKin lev hus been frustrated. It was con cocted by Spanish and Cuban con spirators who had headquarters in New Oue of the plotters weakened and sent a warning letter to the repub lican national committee. The letter was placed in the hands of Secretary Charles Dick, who referred it to Chair man Odell of the New York committee for investigation. Chairman Odell en :ia^ed a detective, who speedily veriiicd certain allegations made in the" warning letter. Thereupon Mr. Odell reported to Mr. Dick, who laid the facts before Chair man Mark Hanna. Mr. Odell's report caused great alarm among the presi dent's close advisers. Mr. Odell made ir plain that he regarded the plot an ft matter of the utmost seriousness and urged that extreme precautions be taken to keep the president out of harm's reach. Messrs. Dick and Hanna laid the matter before the president before he left for Canton. They instructed Mr. odell to continue his investigation and cautioned him to work with the utmost secrecy. To a World reporter last night Mr. Odell admitted that he and other mem bers of the national committee had dis covered a plot to assassinate the presi dent. "Yes, it is true," he said, "but I regret exceedingly the matter has be come public." He was extremely anxious that no reference whatever should be made to the matter. Special detectives are guarding the president in Canton. The Stand We Take. Secretary of State Hay outlined under date of June ,'SO the position of the I'nited States in the Chinese trouble, as follows: "In this critical posture of affairs in China it is deemed appropriate to define the attitude of the United States as far as present circumstances permit this to be done. We adhere to the policy initi ated by us in 1857, of peace with the Chinese nation, of the furtherance of lawful commerce, and of the protection of the lives and property of oar citizens by all means guaranteed under extra territorial treaty rights and by the law of the nations. If wrong be done to our citizens, we propose to hold the re sponsible authors to the uttermost ac countability. We regard the condition at Pekin as one of virtual anarchy, whereby power and responsibility is practically devolved upon the local pro vincial authorities. So long as they are not in overt collusion with rebellion and use their power to protect foieign life and property, we regard them as repre senting the Chinese people, with whom we seek to remain in peace and in friend ship. "The purpose of the president is, as it has been heretofore, to act concurrently with the other powers, first in opening up communication with Pekin and rescu ing the American officials, missionaries and other Americans who are in danger; secondly, affording all possible protec tion everywhere in China to American life and property; thirdly, in guarding and protecting all legitimate American interests; and fourthly, in aiding to pre vent a spread of the disorders to the other provinces of the empire, and a re currence of such disasters. It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result, but the policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve territorial and ad ministrative entity, protect all rights ! guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty ! and international law and safeguard | for the world the principle of equal and j impartial trade with all parts of theChi- I nese empire." Foreigners at Pekin were reported safe July 4, except the German minister. i Later information, however, does not I confirm this good news. \ CONFLICT OF NEWS Nothing Certain About Safely of Whiles in IVkin. Chinese Stories Are That They Were Alive July 1. Bat Story is Unconfirmed. London, July 7.—Detail* of further horrors in iYking are gathered by cor respondents at Sbangbai from Chinese sources, especially of the slaughter in the Chinese and Tartar city of thou sands of native Christians. The ruthless thirst for blood is spreading in all the northern provinces and wherever there are native Christians the Hc»>nes enacted io the capital are reproduced in minia ture. From these provinces nothing further comes regarding the legation forces, except a repetition that they are all dead. The correspondente aver that if the Chinese officials wished to throw light on the real state of affairs in the capi tal they could do ho. and therefore the worst report* are accepted as true. Prince Tnan's coup d'etat is deecribi d by the Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail as a sequence to the grand council of ministers, at which Yang I,in advocated the suppression of the Boxers promptly. The dowager empress gave her whole support to Sfnng Lia, and a scene of disorder ensued. Prince Tuan passionately intervened, backed by Kind ih. They rushed from the council and their partisans raised the cry, "Down with the foreigners!" The effect was electrical. The eunuchs, palace officials of all Borfs and most (if the populace took up the cause of Prince Tuan, and his agents immediately put the dowager empress under restraint. The Cbefoo correspondent of the Ex press, telegraphing ou Thursday, Bays there is no longer any doubt that dis aster has overtaken the Russian force of •'{ooo that left Tien Tsin for Peking ou June 11. The Russians had a full field gun complement and carried their own transports. As nothing has been heard of them for twenty-tour days, it is assumed that they have been overwhelmed. Trust worthy news is received to the effect that all the country to the northeast of Peking is covered with the corpses of men and horses of the western garrisons. Fighting of a desperate character took place in the immediate neighborhood of Tien Tsin on June 30. Taku dispatches s;iy an attack in great force is expected at any moment. The Chinese commanders are awaiting the arrival of more guns and reinforce ments before making an effort to retake the city. Give Japan a Free Hand. London, July 7.—The Rassiangovern ment announces that it will give Japan a free hand to apply military force in China. The terms of ihis consent are summarized in the subjoined dispatch from St. Petersburg under date of July 0 under inquiry from the Japanese cabi net regarding the dispatch of Japanese troops to China to render aid to the foreigners in i'ekin. The Russian gov ernment declared on May 27 that it left the Japanese government full liberty of action in this connection as the Tokio cabinet expressed if h readiness to act in full agreement with the other powers. Troops on the Way. Washington July 7.—The issuance to day of formal orders for the dispatch to the east of more than 6000 troops from the army posts in the United States was a manifestation of the energy with which the government is about to act in the Chinese matter. True, these troops ate nominally destined for the Philippines to replace the volunteers now there, but it is admitted that they are being sent out by a route that will easily admit of a deflection to Taku or some other convenient Chinese port. Possibly Consul General Goodnow's cab legram reporting the legations as being alive as late as the third instant may have something to do with this radical action. Whatever the cause, if these troops are landed in China, together with the Ninth infantry, supposed to be now at Taku, and the marine contin gent, the United States will have a force in action commensurate with her inter ests and in proportion to the European forces. Chinese Are After Them. London, July B.—A dispatch from Tientbin, dated July ;i, says: "Since early morning the Chinese have heavily bombarded the foreign settlements. Ad miral .Seymour has ordered the women and children conveyed to Taku at the earliest possible moment,"" Were Safe July 4. London, July B.—The counsuln at Shanghai reported the legations safe on July 4 and that the Chinese had ceased their attacks. The only fear felt, ac cording to the reports 'of the consuls, was regarding the food supply. London, July 9.—The foreign consuls at Shanghai met on July 7 and officially announced that the legations at Pekin were safe on July 4. The foregoing statement, read with Consul Warren's dispatch to the foreign ortlce on Sunday, makes it possible to believe that the legations will hold out for a number of days yet. Having fought to a standstill the first out bursts of fanatical fury, it is believed that something may intervene to save them. The news, after the sinster rumors of the last 10 days, is enough upon which to build up hope. The Shanghai cor respondent of the Express, telegraphing on Sunday at G:10 p. m., throws doubt upon Consul Warren's information. He says: "Tao Tai Sheng now admits that there was an error in his communica tion to General Warren. The date of the courier's arrival at Chin Fu was July 3, which does not apply to his de parture from Pekin. The courier could not have left Pekin later than June 28, as it takes five days to make the jour ney. The date of the massacre as given by Chinese reports was the 30th of June or July 1." Tientsin is still hard pressed. A Chi nese force numbering from 80,000 to 100,000 men, as estimated by inconclu- PRICE FIVE Cl »ive reconnaisances, il>«h!s the country roundabout Tientsin. Commooieation between wbk I. place and Takn is ap parently possible by ri\er only. A Chefoo dispatch to the Express says the Russians have landed 8000 men at laku and the Japanese bare discharged several transports. The Japanese posh ed on to Tientsin, leading in th- subse quent assault npon the native city in which their commander was killed. Pen niorv transports are engaged at Japanese ports. With tin- 10,000 Ilrit inh India troops afloat and Iresh Japan ese contingents it in probable that the allies will have 50,000 men ashore. rbe Boxera appear to be Increasing A i binese army is within 40 miles ol .New Cbwang, and the foreigners are pre paring to abandon their homes. The southern part of the province has been swept l.y raiders, destroying all works ol the white man, except in spots garri soned by Russians. Proclamation!) have been posted in all Tillages near Chefoo calling upon the loyal Chinese to rise and exoel the for eigners for introducing among the pious < binese an immoral religion. The proc lamation continues: "Every good r> id dhiet is expected to kneel three hours daily, knock his head npon th- fl >or thrice, and pray earnestly that sudden, cruel death may overtake all aliens. At Mercy of China. The foreign settlement at Chefoo is at the mercy of two Chinese forts,equipped with Krnppgune, which command two sides of the -ity. Six warships, includ ing the United States gunboat Nash ville, are constantly cleared for action. Latest Report From Confer. VVoshington, July B.—The lan, China mail to reach the state department brought the report of Minister Conger, perhaps the last that will ever come to' band. This bears the date of lVkin, May '_'l. It is of the utmost importance' disclosing, as it does, a full comprehen sion on the part of th* foreign ministers in Pekinof the character and extent of the Boxer uprising, even though Mr. ('>MK"r himself, by disposition opti mistic, found some reason to hope that the worst was over at that date. What Mr. Conger has to say as to the attitude of the Chinese government toward the loxer movement, as revealed in the formal interchange that took place between himself and the tsuim-li yamen, is not only of peculiar interest now, but probably will have a strong bearing on the final reckoning that must be had between the civilized nations and the Chinese. Mr. Conger makes it very clear, through the publication ol the French priest"* lt'ttcM-H, that a< leant one, and probably all the European nation* hav ing interests in northern China, were acquainted v\ifli the dangers ol the nitii ation at least two or three weeks before the actual outbreak in Pekin. Conger Not Cheerful. London, July 7.—A dispatch from Taku says that the lust message from Mr. Edwin 11. Conger, the United States minister at J'ekin, brought there l>y ran titTH, re;ui* ;is follows: "Wears beaieged the provisions are becoming exhausted and this Bit nation is desperate. The reliel force should ad vance nrid give na notice by signal." Runners hlho confirm the report of the burning of tlie native city oT Pekin. Iv London it in hardly doubted that the worst has happened, though the friends of those who were besieged at Pekin cling to the last slender hope thai sir Robert Hart (the inspector general of the cnatomi boose, who wan trusted hy the Chinese) managed by the promise of bribes, to induce tin- Boxer leaden to protect the women aud children from the violence of the mobs. Japan Will Act in Accord. Paris. July 7.—ln the chamber of deputies today the minister of foreign affairs, M. IM CaH>e, replying to a deputy said: ".Japan has expressed to v* her desire to act in accord with the other powers and do nothing without them. Prance haw informed the Japanese government that it will see with pleasure the co-op eration of Jfipan in the common cause." Four thousand French troops, h»- con tinued, had already started, and an other 4000 will leave before Jane 20. Other troops will follow, according to emergency of the Hit nation. Measures will also lie taken to make the naval force worthy of France, who never in tended to abdicate any of her ri^lit h. In conclusion, M.Del Caese dwelt upon the necessity of perfect accord among the powers and declared that such a> cord really exists at the present time. Say Legations Still Hold Out. London, July 7.—The foreign office has issued the text of n telegram from Acting Consul General Warren, at Shanghai, confirming from thoroughly trustworthy sources the news received by courier from I'ekin July .'{, by way of Shanghai, to the London office of the inspectorate of Chinese maritime cus toms, saying that two legations were, the day the courier left, holding out against the troops and Boxers,and that the troops had lost 2000 men and the Boxers many leaders. Mr. Warren adds that the messenger says the troops were much disheartened by their losses, and that the Boxers claim their mystic powers have been broken by the foreign ers, and that they dare not approach the legations. It is further asserted that the foreign ers at Pekin ought to be able to hold out for a long time, as they have suf ficient food and ammunition. One From Goodnow. Washington, Jalj 7.—A cablegram was received at the state department this morning from Consul General (iood now at Shanghai, dated July 7, Having that the legations were standing on the 3d instant and that recent attacks of the Boxen had been slight. They seemed disposed to adopt starvation methods. German Kniperor'a Stand. Kiel, July 'J.— Addn-Hbin;; the tirnt naval division prior to its departure for China today, Emperor William said: "Youth in the first division of armored ships which I send abroad. Uerneinber, you have to fight a cunning foe, pro vided with modern weapon*, to avenge the (jerman blood which wan flowed But spare the women and children. I shall not rest until (biua is subdued and all the bloody deeds are avenged. Ton will fight together with the troops of various nationalities. See that you maintain good comradeship with them." m i ■ I