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THE COLFAX GAZETTE
rfENTY-FOURTH TEAR.
m OF THE STATES
/lathered From Hills, Valleys
and Plains of the I nion.
Boiled Down As It Comes From
the Wires for Information of
P.ukj Headers.
Wednesday, October 24
An explosion which shook the country for
20 miles around occurred at the government
proving grounds at Indian Head, 2~> miles
down the Potomac from "Washington City,
where big guns and armor plate are tested.
The wreck of the battleship Maine is to be
removed from Havana harbor, as it is consid
ered an obstruction to navigation.
Cornelius L. Alvord, for 20 years note teller
of the Firxt National Bank of New York, has
rltauMMMed. a defaulter to the tune of $()'.)(),
--000.
The Chicago Marquette club held a "pros
perity harvest home festival." Twenty-five
hundred pf-ople sat at the banquet tables on
the main floor, besides a number of specta
tors in the galleries. The immense hall
decorated with grain, fruits, pumpkins and
Other products of the farm, giving the appear
ance to the tl iial building of an old-fashioned
country fair. Two columns 12 feet high
Htood behind the platform wreathed with corn
and oats. The menu consisted of pork and
beans, cider and other rural food.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the lied
Crass, is seriously ill at (ialveston, Texas,
where she went on a mission of mercy at the
time of the great disaster to that city.
The Georgia legislature convened. In his
niesaage Governor Candler says: ''In the in
terest of good government and in the interest
of the neyro race I recommend that an amend
ment to the constitution be submitted to the
people providing for a qualified suffrage based
on an educational or property qualification, or
both."
Population of California, 1,485,053; m 1890,
1,305,130.
Governor Beckham of Kentucky approved
the non partisan election bill passed by the
legislature to succeed the Goebel law.
A million and a half in gold left English
ports consigned to one New York firm.
Thursday, October 125
President Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers officially called the big strike off in
the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania.
The miners secure a 10 per cent increase iv
pay, after 39 days out.
At Brockton, Mass,, Willie Stinson placed
the world's bicycle record in an even hour at
40 miles, ;>SO yards.
Groyer Cleveland said: "I am surprised
th.»t my opinions and intentions as relating to
the pending canvass should at this stage so
suddenly be deemed important. I am daily
and nightly sought out by newspaper repre
sentatives) and plied with all sorts of ques
tions, some of them quite senseless. If, in
good nature, I say a few harmless words they
are so padded before publication as to be nn-
Kcogniztble or are made the pretext for
utterly unauthorized presumptions. It seeni*
to me that my situation ought to be sufficient
ly understood and appreciated by thoughtful
friends to justify in their minds my determin
ation to remain silont during thU exceptional
and distressing campaign."
The United States grand jury has returned
13 indictments against former postmasters and
carriers in Polk, Harrison and Paulding coun
ties, Georgia, charging conspiracy to defraud
the government. It is claimed by the post
offioe authorities that the 13defeodants formed
a combination to defraud the government. It
is charged that they went so far as to give
away stamus in order to cancel them and sent
bulky packages through the offices. It is
said that a dog was sent in this way and
pieces of piue bark were stamped and mailed.
A. J. DAVIS
Successor to
DAMS & MOFFATT
.Successors to
Knapp, Burrell & Company
AT THE OLD STAND.
MONEY TO LOAN
Why pay a high rate of interest when you can renew
your mortgage with me at a better rate \ We do not sell our
mortgages, and charge no commission. Call or write,
D. RYRIE,
Representing Balfour, Gtathrie & Co.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Of Coli'ax, Washington.
CAPITAL, - - 8(>O,OOO.OO.
LEVI ANKENY. Pres. JULIUS LIPPITT, Vice Pres. EDWIN T. COMAN, Cashier.
"The strength of a bank lies in the conservative
management of its assets."
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GEO. H. LENNOX special.
Farm of ltX) acres, tine wheat ranch. . §2,000
Real Estate, Insurance i2S J aELJ!? gll Seho°l *™
" building, desirable location §750
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. A. Perkins & Co. ii-OBr™
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R. G. HARGRAVE, Manager.
Abstraotprs and Conveyancers. Only Complete set of abstract books in Whitman County
SECOND NATIONAL BANK OF COLFAX
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Alfred Coolidge, President, Aaron Kuhn, Vice Presideut. Chas. E. Scriber, Cashier.
At, Pfttsbacg, th<> National Association of
Bridge aud Structural Iron Workers, adopted
:i universal wigi scale, fixing the rate of
wages at .">0 oent< an h >ur, with eight hours as
» day'« work. The sea'e will go into effect
next May.
Friday, October 20.
John Addison Porter, until recently pri
rate secretary to President McKinley, is suf
faring from an illness which must end in
death.
The Illinois Steel company will resume
operation! in its Be3semer department Mon- j
day with the full force of 2000 men. after be
ing closed down two weeks for repairs.
Attorney General Smith Bishop filed suit '
in the district court against Jones, Douelass j
&. Co., a cracker company of Lincoln; the Na
tional Biscuit company of New Jersey, and !
the American Biscuit Manufacturing com
pany of Illinois, charging them with having
combined as a trust ia restraint of trade. In [
his petition he recounts the alleged absorption j
of the Lincoln company by the National and
American, and petitions that all agreements
between them l>e declared illegal and abro
gatod. The Jones-Douglass company is one
of the most important manufacturing 1 indus
tries of Lincoln.
Congressman Babcock, chairman of the
republican congressional committee, asserted
his party would have a majority of not less |
than 17 in the next house of representatives,
two more thau in the present house, and eight
more than the number needed to elect a
speaker. Mr. Babcock said: "The republi
cans will elect IX7 memberi-: necessary to or
maize the boose, 17!*. During the past 30
days there has been a marked change ?n the
conditions, more so than in any campaign
with which I have been connected since is 1.) i."
There is great rejoicing all through Seran
ton and the Laskawaona valley at the calling
off of the anthracite miners' strike. The or
der has the effect of etiinulating the com
panies which had not already pasted notices
agreeing to advance wages 10 per cent to do ho.
Saturday, October i!O.
At Lewiston, Idaho, Joseph Alexandor
closed a deal with a Chicago cereal firm for
25,000 bushisls of bluestem wheat. All the
wheat to be shipped is bluestem. It is stated
the firm could not u^e club. It is for use in
manufacture of cereal foods. The freight rate
to Chicago is 'M> cents a bushel, but th« sale is
believed to have been made at a price above
what the coast markt.t affords.
While a republican parade was passing in a
Chicago street one of the marchers was bit in
an eye by a potato thrown from the sidewalk
A big fight ensue.l, in which black eyes aud
gory nosf-s were fixed up. If. took 30 police
men to stop the row.
For six hours and a h;iif workingmen from
every branch of industry in Chicago—lawyers,
merchants, railroad meu aud financiers —
marched through the downtown streets of the
city in the parade of republican voters, which
was planned as the culmination of the nation
al campaign iv Chicago.
W. S. Robflon, one of the most extensive
cotton planters of Texas, has gathered statin
tics from the Brazos and Colorado valleys and
declared that the weevil has destroyed six
million dollars' worth of this years' crop.
Sunday, October iIK.
All the coal companies in the- Wyoming
valley, with a few exceptions, h;ive now post
ed notices granting their employes the 10 per
cent iucreast asked for by the Scranton con
vention. The exceptions are a few individual
operator- who do not employ many bauds
But it i-i sai i that when the men empl )yed at
these collieries report for work tomorrow they
will be told that they will receive the Barrio
wages paid by the other companies. The
Kingston Coal company had notices posted
granting the increase. This company em
ploys L'2oo men, and was the last of the big
individual concerns in the- valley to grant th,'
I increase. The officials .if the Susquehanna
c tmpaoy had a conferencejwith their employes
Saturday night and agreed to pay them the
advance.
In 24 hours 7} inches of rain fell at La
Ciosse, Win., tl iodmg marshes and causing
much damage to railroads. A large amount
of man h hay was lost.
Since the announcement of the embezzle-
COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2j 1900.
inent of Note Teller Alvord of the Fiist Na
tional bank of New York there have beeu
mam- stories of now and rieid espionage by
banking hooaea. Oue of these stories con
cerns the Ufrmsn Savings baiik. It was re
! ported last night that tive clerks of that in
' Htitution have been discharged because de
| tectives discovered that they were associates
! of gambler*.
The attorney general has given an opinion
I to the secretary of war that state authorities
have no legal right to enter military reserva-
I tions of the United Stateß over which exelu
! sive jurisdiction has been ceded by the state
j wherein the same is located for the purpose of
| serving process, either civil or criminal, unless
I the state in ceding such reservation reserves to
itself that right.
Winona, Minn., was visited by one of the
worst rain storms in many years.
Win. Hunt was disturbing a politico] meet
ing at Rulo, Neb. City Marshal Wake at-
I tempted to priest him, when Hunt shot the
officer dead. He narrowly escaped lynching.
Monday, October 29
Cornelius L. Alvord, note teller of the First
National Bank of New York, who robbed the
institution of K700,000, was arrested in cheap
lodgings at Boston. He had but a few dollars.
Clifford Cawthorn, 16 years old, was hacked
to death with a hatchet by his mother at
Chattanooga, Term. She said he was a bad
boy and smoked cigarettes.
An east-bound Northern Pacific passenger
train was wrecked while Hying over the switch
at behart siding, 2X miles east of Livingston,
Montana. .Seven passengers were killed and
28 injured, some badly.
A. L. Stone registered in five precincts at
Butte, Montana, and is under arrest.
As a result of a small fire, several explos
ions of chemicals occurred in Tarrant & Co.'s
drug house «t New York. Twelve big brick
buildings were blown down. It is believed
200 persons, many of them youug women and
boys were killt d. There were 200 girls in one
building, and it is thought few escaped.
There was almost a general resumption of
work among the striking miners of the an
thracite coal region of Pennsylvania, on an
increase of 10 per cent in wages.
Tuesday, October 30.
At Mount Pleasant. Pa., four Italian
miners attempted to rob Pay Clerk William
Hostler of the Southwest Connellsville Coke
company while he was making his trip be
tween this city and Alverton with the pay
roll of the Alverton & Tarr Works, amount
ing to $4000 Mr. Hostler is dead, his com
pinion, Harry Burgess, messenger af the com
pany, in wounded, two of the Italians am
deadj a third fatally wounded, and the fouitli
iv HI-
Boslyn Fen-ell, who murdered Charles
Lane, express messenger, in his car near
Marysville, Ohio, waj) found guilty of murder
in the first degree. The penalty is electrocu
tion.
Only four dead bodies have been found in
the ruins of the big explosion of a chemical
house at New York.
Several members of the Monclova Bough
Riders' club were seriously injured as they
were boariing a train at Grand Rapids, Ohio,
after a political demonstration. They were
attacked hy a mob of toughs. John Hemp
was struck with an iron missile and will die.
Oscar Johnson was badly injured by being
struck in the back of the head with a piece
of iron. The postmaster of Presque Ike was
also badly hurt, and a dozen or more were
Blight)? injure I.
Ex President Cleveland, being shown a
publication in thy Philadelphia Times pur
porting to be an interview with him, said:
"Tli ■ whoe tinny, from beginning to cad is
au absolute lie without the leust foundation
or a shadow of a truth. I never have uttered
a word to a human being that affords the
least pretext for such a mendacious statement
1 have already telegraphed the Philadelphia
Times to this effect.' The utterances ascribed
to ex-President Cleveland in the publication
referred to embodied an expression that there
"would be a landslide for Mr. Bryan the
morning after election "
Finley Anderson, telegraph operator, large
ly upon whose testimony Secretary of State
Caleb Powers was convicted of complicity in
the murder of Gov. Goebel in Kentucky, now
says hi* testimony was perjured. He was
paid $300 for it.
October wheat at Chicago, 72y. Portland,
cash, 53; Tacoma, 52.
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Population is Ovf-r Seventy-Six Mil-
lions—A Big Increase.
Washington, Oct. 30.—The official announce
ment of the total population of the United
States for 1900 is 76,295,220, of which 74,
--627,907 are contained iv the 4." states, repre
senting approximately the population to be
used for apportionment purposes.
There is a total of 134,158 Indians not
taxed.
The total population in 1890, with which
the aggregate population of the present census
should be compared, was 63,069,756,
Taking the 1890 population as a basis, there
has been a gain iv population of 13,225,464
during the last 10 years, representing an in
crease of nearly 21 per cenc.
INCREASE OF DEPOSITS.
Difference Between Now and in
1896
Washington, Oct. 27.—The following state
ment issued by the comptroller of the cur
rency shows amount of deposits and number
of depositors in savings banks in the United
States in 1896 and I'.KX).
In 1896—Number of banks, 968; aggregate
deposits, $1,935,466,468; number of deposit
ors, :'>,of>r>,494; average deposits, $370 50.
In 1900—Number of banks, 1002; aggre
gate deposits, $2,389,919,951; number of de
positors, 5,898,091; average deposits, $404 .S3.
Increase since 189(5—Number of banks, 14;
aggregate deposits, §454,253,480; number of
depositors, S:?2,S(J7; average deposit, 827.83.
Transvaal Annexed
Pretoria, Oct. 26.— The Transvaal was to
day proclaimed a part of the British empire,
the proclamation bein^ attended with im
pressive ceremonies. The royal standard was
hoisted in the main gf|urre of the city, the
Grenadiers presented arms, massed bands
played the national anthem, Sir Alfred Mil
ner read the proclamation and G2OO troops
rep'e-enting Great Britain and her colonies
marched past.
That Man Smith.
Ethan Smith, republican nominee for i
representative in the Sixth district is
not afraid to put in print what he al
ways save on the stump. He says over
his signature: "I wi*h to say wheat is
and must continue to be the principal
crop of a large part of eastern Washing
ton. The prosperity of all classes of
people in this part' of the state very
largely depends on the price of our
grain crops, and we are selling our
wheat in competition with the wheat- !
growing countries of the world, and the i
price today is little above the cost of
production. For these reasons I think
that the railroad companies should be
required to carry our crops to the sea !
coast as cheap as they can afford to do \
so. I think the present rate is more :
than we should be asked to pay, and
should I be elected I will do all 'in my j
power to secure such legislation as will
beet settle this question justly and fair- '
ly to all concerned."'
EXPOSES THE M
Kogers Roasted Hy a Disgusted
Reform Officeholder.
Sensational Resignation of Turnkey
liayiuilier, a Populist From
Whitman County.
„ „ Walla Walla, Oct.. WOO.
lo Governor Rogers And the State Board of
Audit and Control:
Dear Sir.-: Please accept my resignation as
chief turnkey of the Washington state peni
tentiary, as I cannot conscientiously support
thp administration.
To take effect not later than October —
1900. Yours truly, J. F. Bay.mii.leu.
A Whitman County Populist.
The foregoing in self explanatory. I
joined the populist party because i be
lieved it a true reform party, and I have
consistently supported it* nominees from
its inception, and have worked incessant
ly for the triumph ol the principles it
represented. Indeed, I believe I can
truthfully claim the honor of being one
of its tiivt advocates and organizers in
that hotbed of populism, Whitman
county, but I have reached "the parting
of tbe ways," aud 1 decidedly refuse to
be a party to the corruption which 1
know is beintf practiced by the coterie of
politicians necking election on the demo
cratic state ticket, headed by that chief
corruptionist, John Kunkiu'Rogers. If
the democratic ticket is successful at the
pollw it will give the Rogers-Turner com
bine license lo continue tijoir question
able Diethodn, and a heavier burden on
the people will be the result, hi order
to perpetuate their power they are filch
ing money from the state treasury, un
der the specious plea of an advance of
wages to employes, but which increase is
promptly claimed by their chief (ijrent,
George Hrzzard. In order that others
may know why it is impossible for me to
support the ticket, and thus enable all
honorable reformers to vote intelligently
to prevent a continuation of Mich in
famous methods, I give a few of mv
reasons to the public. It pains me to
be compelled to acknowledge that reform
has come to t-u'-h a pass in Washington,
but a desire to aid in rebuking' rotten
ness under the cloak of reform is my ex
cuse for bo doing. In the following I
state facts, and the reader can judge for
himself.
An Enemy to Ijabnr
Kogers is do friend to the laboring
man.
The United States government appro
priated about $30,000 to build an ad
ditional wine at tbe Washington state
penitentiary, aud tbe secretary of the in
terior let the contract this hist August
to tbe Pauly Jail company, of St. Louis,
Missouri. An officer told me that War
den Catron said, 'Our appropriation for
maintenance of the penitentiary is run
rung short and we must manage some
w*y to get some of that appropriation
to help us out, aud we must do all the
work we can with the convicts, but this
must not go outside tbe family."
Consequently, tbe convicts are making
tbe brick for the new wing, aud have
actually done the excavating and laid
the concrete foundation aud have done
half the hauling and are going to do
much more of the same work.
Thus tho Rogers administration is con
tracting out the convicts to private par
ties for work which rightfully belongs to
free labor.
The administration is also requiring
guards to work long hours overtime
without extra pay, when there in no
emergency, in order to make a record
for economy.
31anipulating the "Hide Fund."
The convicts have made and painted
all, or nearly all, the banners ami trans
parencies, eighteen or twenty in number,
for the local democratic club and Home
honest painter was deprived of the job,
notwithstanding a tremendous campaign
fund in being rained, but none of it for
honest labor apparently.
It is not lawful to fell anything from
the penitentiary which comes into com
petition with free labor except jute fab
rics aud brick, and the brick yard wan
abolished over a year ago by the hoard
of control. The hides from the butch
ered stock are Hold to the tannery for
something like £50 per month and a
"hide fund* is created, which cannot be
legally accounted for, but is used by the
warden for hit* own luxuries, etc., a very
small portion going to the guards' tabie.
Notwithstanding this, the warden's sub
sistence amounts to over .f 1 per day ad
ditional, while the guards' subsistence
only costs the state a little over L.">
cents per day each, and the subsistence
of one couvict for each truard is charged
to the officers' mess. Thus any great
saving which the Rogers administration
may claim is due to niggardliness and
robbing the tables and overworked
officers.
An officer who knows told me that
last wintpr Wasdeu Catron sold 185,000
brick, which, at $6 per thousand, would
amount to $810, which in itself is not so
very strange were it not for the factjthat
he turned the proceeds into the "hide
fund," so the officer says.
Rogers a friend to labor? I tell you
no. He or his board will hardly notice^
or speak to a penitentiary guard or a
workingman except when he wants their
votes or contributions.
Preparing for the '-Graft."
Rogers had the salaries of Lister. Ca
tron and John Scott raised to a hand
some figore from a year and a half to
two years ago, but be never thought of
the little £45 man until a short time
ago, when all the subordinate officers'
salaries were raised 10 per cent. And
now comes one of Rogers' "grafters,"'
George Hazzard by name, and demands
the full amount of the 10 per cent, raise
for eleven months, the same being about
j one month's salary. It looks like they
I had deliberately planned to raise salar-
I ies to pacify the officers and then turned
the whole cheese over to the grafters.
At one time I was commiiasary clerk,
t but a convict was afterwards placed in
j charge of the commissary department.
Before the convict took charge the
' present board of control let the con
tracts for supplies every three months.
I They subsequently raised the time to
j every six months. I wish to compare
the prices of a few articles which were
purchased on the last three mouths' con-
tract—while I was in the store—with the
first contract let after the convict took
: Charge; and bear in mind that the lust,
<>r six months" contract, should have
b en |w. r than the first, on account of
the quantity beinir greater, and in the
lall many of the articles were more
plentiful.
Sweating Contract Prices.
;5 mos cont'et 6 mot con 1. 1
let Aug. 1 -98 ( tet i
Leans, white, per 100 lbs, old
price •. I 8.06 12.60
Loans, pink, per UK) lbs, ol 1
,P' lt;c 200 2.80
< abbage, per 100 Iba. old price. .7', \OO
Sugar, granulated, por 100 lbs,
old price 5.75 63g
Sugar, h. C, per 100 lbs, old
, Pri^ 5.15 583
Kice, per 100 11m, old price.... 490 600
Flour, barrel i 25 3 79
I caches, dried . 6.75 9 ikj
Apricots, iliied g Jjjj s ( m
Apples, ('.tied 5.75 g w
•syrup, golden, p e r grtllon 16 ••<;
Syrup, mapla ;, ( ; jq
Salt, fine, per 100 lbs \n;.\ \ls
Oats, rolled, per barrel ;f 00' 4 65
Hominy, tine, per 100 lbs 1 70 '> 07
Hominy, coarse, per 100 lbs 1 70 2 07
Peas, split per 100 lbs 3 50 4.25
(.'ream tartar, per 100 lbs 11 7:"i 37 00
Crackers, Hoda, p~r 100 lhs 5 7:, 1; 00
Sweet pickle*, per dozen 2.50 :f 00
Butter, per 100 lbs 22 f.O 27 00
'1 obacco, per 100 Iba 21.r>0 23 50
C muneal, per 100 lbs ];<o 1.51
Aud many other tilings iv like ratio.
Abase of the Pardoning Power.
Rogers has pardoned about twenty
convicts, and has extended clemency to
about twenty-six more-altogether,about
forty-six, and out of that number there
are only a very few who deserve clemency.
Among his very best acts in that line
was tbe pardon of .1. W. Met an lev, ex
treasurer of Tacoma,convicted ol receiv
ing interest on public money. Through
the untiring efforts of McCauley'a faith
ful wife, a tremendously larg;e' petition
for clemency was presented to Boners,
signed by many of the very best citizene
of Tacoma, but tbe matter dragged
alonij for months. Finally McCauley re
ceived a letter which I read, from a
party, stating that unless a certain sum
of money was forthcoming nothing could
be done for him, to which McCauley de
murred for a long time. But the party
kept after him and he finally got Mc-
Cauley out, and George Uaszard told me
he was the one who secured his release.
Was Rogers looking out for the best
interests of the public when he pardoned
seven or eight professional criminals,
who have done two or three other sen
tences? There are at least three of his
acts of this kind that are perfectly ridic
ulous; viz : No. 1206, George T. Stevens;
No. 1211, Thomas Williams, and 1775,
C. E. Jameson. The story of how Stev
ens obtained a pardon by professing to
know of fabulously rich mines in Ah. ka
and promising to locate parties on
them, in return for a pardon, is familiar
to many, as it has already been pub
lished in the papers, but the story of
U illiams" mysterious pardon has never,
to my knowledge, been given to the
public.
An Especially Shocking Case.
Williams' pardon was particularly
shocking because it was the firHt one
granted after the parole law went into
effect. Williams served a term iv San
Quentin, California. H<; next nerved ti
term iv Salem, Oregon, for" "sandbag
irtntr"' and robbing a man fn Astoria.
Williams was next sentenced from Seattle
for ten years for robbing. He arrived at
the Walla Walla penitentiary in May,
IN!>4, and was always considered a very
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dangerous nuia. On October .",, ls^sj,,.
and another convict secreted themselves
vi the jute mill, intending to kill the
night watch and escape, hut ■ convict
ipformed on them and they acre found
Hit.i returned to the prison and their
'good time'was taken from them it
. ih reported tbat William 1 fatbet had
lately become possessed of a fortune in
hngland and seat a lar^t- Mm of money
to 1.,-,. Hurt, of Seattle, to aceornplinh
| hie release. 11,. w, IH pardoned \ov™.
--t"-r .. 1899, on condition tlwit he leave
■ the I nited State., if be m worthr of
pardon, why not allow him to remain in
tbeetate? Perbnpa be mmht Ml how
!)<• tns pardon. If be would not
make a good citisen, why pardon him at
C. E. Jamewm was Mot to the Walla
Walla penitentiary for forgery. He wan
a particularly shrewd and dangerous
mun, who was wanted in Oregon by
Borneo! Ihh victima when bis time ex-
I'lrrd ar Walla Walla, hut his sentence
was commuted ho that be nwt out
sooner than wae expected and cave the
Oregon people tbe slip. The thm* wan
done vpry myeteriooslj and srcretly.
l-'or these, and many other reasons I
cannot support th.> '-\i > Kvr * ring."
Pberefore 1 have resigned my position
»* chiel turnkt-y of the Washington
penitentiary and severed mj connection
wiih tbe administration.
(-;'t- r"t'(1) ■'■ P. Baymiluw.
Mr. Baymiller is a well know,, Whit
man county populist, formerlj of Pull
man, find there he baa returned nince
Hung big resignation. He *«* the lam
populist holding any position of import
ance or responsibility at the Walla
w alia penitentiary. Hi* reasons for re
signing and refusing to longer nupport
the Rogers administration, after teeing
me (-onduct of affair* in but one of tlie
public institutions of the ntate, nhould
certainlj sel bid brother populist*, if sot
tin boiieat democrats,oi Whitman coun
ty to tliitikinir and lead them away from
Mlownhip with ho eorrnpt a political
machine mm that Het op by Governor
Rogers and those who enjoy luh confi
dence.
The SiHrer'H Fair.
The third fair given by the SinterH of
St. IgnatiiiH Hospital of Colfax which in
now in progress at the bowling alley,
opened l'msday evening, under favor
able autpicea. TLe booths, in charge <»f
handsome yonng ladies, and which de
hitvch especial mention m the work of
Maurice I.over of Aaron Kuhn'tiraerran
tile establishment. They are the work
of an artist and are commented upon
favorably by every one. A neat musical
program was given by Miss Annie Arn
old, pianist, and Miss Adda Ward, solo
ist, of Spokane, interspersed with comic
songs by \V. P. Uonyard. The contemn
for the beautiful doll donated by lira.
William Jennings Mryan was opened an
wasalso the contest for the diamond
ring for the most popular young lady,
each promising spirited contests. Rev.
Father Van of Spra^ue j H UHH j H tj ni , j{ eVf
Vernagen for a few days. The fair
closes Saturday evening when the prizes
will be awarded. So far the moßt popu
lar young ladies for the diumond ring
are: IMa Hart, Edith Jones, Kate Sul
livan and Lena Schmidt. For thehand-
Home doll: Harriet (hadwick, Madaline
Sheeban, Mary Vollendorf, Genevieve
(.'odd and Winnie ("odd.
2SHO Howard
For the return to me at Paloose, Whhli.,
of one brown marc, weight about 1400
pounds, branded H on left shoulder. E.
•I. Barpeßq
