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THE COL FAX GAZETTE THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR. WHITMAN SCHOOLS ARE GAINING CREDIT Two More Are Added to Ac credited List in State. Independent Telephone Companies Want Public Service Commission To Help Them--Many Applica tions for Teachers Certificates. Olynapia, July 12—CM the 115 high nchoolt» in the state wbicl) have applied to the state board of education to be placed,on the accredited list of the etate, two are in Whitman eouuty, being the high Bebool at I'ulluian which wae ac credited for the full four year course and the school at Eudicott which wan given credit for its ninth, tenth and eleveuth grades, (.'olfax, I'alouse, Tekoa, Rosalia and Oakesdale are already accredited lour year high school?. Of the total number of schools which made application 44 were either rejected or action was deferred. 01 thote re maining t-iglit were iriveu credit for their ninth grade work, 22 for their ninth atd tenth grades, eight fur their ninth, tenth and eleventh grades and 12 were given credit for the full four years course, while 20 schools were continued on the four year accredited list. The board ruled that all accreditmeuts should be subject to the condition that al! the schools should show the minimum average daily attendance which is six pupils par grade in the aggregate. Never before in the history of the board has so large a number of schools made application for accreditinents. Independents Want Connections. A very interesting hearing is to be held before the public service commission on .luly 20th which will involve the question of whether the commission has the power to order physical connection between rival but uon competitive companies and which may go directly to the supreme court as it involvts a question of juris diction of the cotuiuissiou. The Silver creek company rlaim in their complaint that the Hell Telephone company al though it is not a competing line refutes to make physical connection with Che taalis, Morton or Winlocfc of the Silver creek company with the result that the subscribers of this Hue have no long distance telephone connections. I! the commission has the power to direct the Bell Telephone company to make physi cal connection it means that every inde pendent telephone system will beenabltd to secure the advantages of the Bell lines provided they can get an extension to connect wilh the Bell system at any point. Many Want to Teach. More than 1900 teachers took the ex amination in May, which is a larger Dnmber than ever before applied for cer tificates according to the report juet made by the state superintendent of public instruction, which shows that 72 per cent of the teachers who took the examination were successfu'. Many of these wrote for grades and higher marks but excluding these G3 per cent passed, which is slightly below the mark set a year ago. Much Pay for Little Work. On his trip through Adams and Doug las counties J. 11. Layhue assistant su perintendent of public instruction saw a contract signed in Adams county where by a woman teacher i 8 to receive $100 a month for teaching a district school where there are about 15 pupils. He says that although he has heard of teachers being paid that amount be never before saw the contract. He reports thnt the predictions are that there will be a bumper crop of wheat ia Douglas county and that in Adams county the yield will be much beyond the average. He says that the farmers are very op tomistic and that the only people who talk about hard times are those who live in cities. Advice to Women Voters. An address which was one o! the most remarkable ever made to a gathering of women was delivered by Governor Hay at the convention of the federation of womene' clubs which was held in Olym pia, in which nil of the big state ques tions were brought before their atten tion. He pointed out as by the action of the male voters last November they were now duly qualified voters, that it was their duty to take up all the ques tions of state and to assume the respon sibilities entailed by their privilege of suffrage. Taxes Must Be Paid. Personal taxes no matter how long delinquent may be collected as taxes are considered due at alt times, according to a ruling made by the state tax commis sion. Tim* Table Chang*. With but little notice a new train schedule went into effect on the 0.-W. R. &N. last Sunday. No. G, Pendleton to Spokane, which formerly went east at 11:55, has been taken of! and now goes over the Pleasant Valley branch. No. 8, east bound, now goes at 2 p. no., ten minutes earlier than formerly. N\ 5, formerly going west at 7:30 p. id., has b?en changed to 9:30 p m. The morn ing train in from Moscow now arrives at 8:00 a. no. and the afternoon train at 4:35 The morning train to Moscow leaves at 10:45 without change and the afternoon train leaves at 5:00 instead of 6.55 as formerly. READY FOR HARVEST. Farmers Taking Out IVI-en to Begin Haying This Week. Already the streets of Culfax are well spriukled with harvest hands who have come in to be ready for work in the fields at the earliest po»«pible moment. The early comers appear bo be an un usually good class of laborers and the police are experiencing no trouble. Haying has begun and farmers are taking out a few men at !J2 a day. Harvest is a little later this year than usual and it will be near the Erst of August before the work ie on in earnest. Heading has already begun in the coun try around LaCrosse. The crop bids fair to be a good aver age one and considerable better than last year's. ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE. Spokane Man Pays Good Price for Diamond Farms. Henry Fowler of this city has sold two farms near Diamond to J. M. Gerahty, a prominent Spokane lawyer, fur $50,000. The farms contain 600 acres. The deal was closed Monday. Mrs. Alice Gray of Colfax hag sold 250 acres four nailes southwest of Wilcox to D. A. Hart of Dusty for $52.50 an acre. Both deals were made through the Whitman Realty & Grain company. Wife Elopes With Brakeman. Deputy Sheriff Eastep was at Harrison, Idaho, Monday to bring back James WiisoD, an 0.-W. II & N brakemßn, and Mr?. J. W. Marshall, who eloped a few days ago. Marshall, who swore out the complaint, has been working for Emery Sherfey on the faric. After the niuaways were bronght buck Marshall withdrew the charges against his wife and the costs were paid by her father, U. G Edwards. The woman was released and accompanied her parent to hisbon c at Soap Lake. Wilson is still in the county jßil. Salvation Army. July 15 to 18 the Salvation Army of this town will celebrate their third young peoples' anniversary. A splendid program has been selected for those days. Saturday a youDg people's dem onstration with an ice cream social; Sun day a day of salvation for the young; acd Tuesday a picnic. All are heartily invited. The Salvation Army officers of this city have completed their War Cry effort for this year. The totbl amount of the Fourth of July number which they sold throughout the county was 1100. Inland Officiate in Town. E. E. Lillie, the newly elected superin tendent of the Spokane & Inland, was in Colfax yesterday for the first time since taking office. He was accompan ied on the inspection trip by several other officials of the company. The special car arrived early in the after noon and some time was spent in look ing over the company property. Dr. Mitchell Home. Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell returned last Saturday from a three weeks' trip to Lob Angeles, where the doctor attended the sixty second annual meeting of the American Medical Association The meeting was attended by physicians from all parts of the Doited States and the sessions were most profitable. Excursion to the Lake. The 0.-W. R & N. will run an excurs ion through Colfax from Moscow to Chatcolet and return Sunday, July 23. Rates will be one fare and a third for the round trip. Boats will run up to St. Maries for those wishing to take the river (rip. Everyone Worth $2064.38. Total actual property for taxable pur poses in Washington is valued at f 906. --247,944, and if equally distributed among all residents of the state each one would have $2064 38. Socialist Here Sunday. John G. Wanhope will speak at the court bouse next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on the subject of eoeialiem, what it is, and how to get it. Every body is invited. Girl Undergoes Operation. Bessie Campbell a 13 years old girl from Garßeld, was operated on for ap pendicits at St. Ignatius hospital last Friday. She is recovering rapidly from her nines?. COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FKIDAY, JULY 14, 1911. COLFAX WILL HAVE BITULITHIC PAVING Long Remonstrance Filed By Taxpayers Is Tabled Council Chambers Packed With In terested Citizens--Judge Canfield Retained to Argue Against Chosen Pavement. With standing room at a prfmium in the council chambers Mondny night the city fathers listened to the reading of remonstrances against paving Mil! and Main and the iatersfcting streets with bitulithic paving. A motion was made to lay the remonstrances on the table. Mayor Weiuberg stated that under the rules a motion to lay a matter on the table waa not debatable but under the circumstances he wanted to give the tax payers an opportunity to express them selves. H. M. Moffat was the first to epeak in support of the long remonstrances. He told of his observations in Portland when making an investigation of the paving question and of his interest in Coifax as a taxpayer. He was followed by Judge Canfield, who had been retained by the remone rators to present their side of the question. He went at length into the situation, introducing many photographs and statements furnished by a paving company that is a rival of the owners of the patent for bitulitbic paving. When he bad finished speaking it seemed to a disinterested outsider that concrete paving, asked for in a petition filed at the same time as the remonstrance to bitulithic, or any other kind of paviog was superior to the kind chosen by the council. After the judge had finished hie talk the mayor asked for more discussion and Charles MaeKetizie rose to hie feet and stated a few facie that were startling to cay the least. la the first place he called attention to a few of the names near the head of the list of remonstra tors and stated that they were residents of Spokane. He also stated that he be lieved the members of the council were act ing in good faith in their choice and he also believed those opposed to the action were not acting in good faith but rather with the hope of blocking the proposed paving altogether. The paving ques tion has been open for discussion for several months, the taxpayers have had an opportunity to express themselves and now at the eleventh hour objections have been brought up with the seeming intention of delaying the work. Councilman Barrull at thin point asked the clerk to read a few letters rcceivt d from the mayors of a number of cities that have bitulitnic paving and are con tracting for more. An entirely different aspect was put on the situation by the talk of Mr. Mac- Kenzie and the letters introduced by Mr. Barroll. No one else cared to speak on the question and the matter of laying the remonstrance on the table was put to a vote. The motion carried by a vote of six to one, Councilman Kirkland being the only one to vote against it. The petition for concrete paving was tabled by the same vote. The engineer's plans for improving Mill and interceding streets and Main street with bitulitbic paving were ap proved by the street committee and resolutions adopting the plans were unanimously carried by the council. Ordinances establishing tbe local im provement districts and providing funds for carrying on the work passed first and second reading by unanimous vote as did tbe resolutions calling for bids to be received July 31. While tbe meeting was largely at tended and representatives of both sides expressed their iieas on paving the best of feeling prevailed and no disagreeable personalities arose to create bitter feel ing of any kind. The question of the south end pave ment will be taken up at the meeting of the council npxt Monday night. Sheriff Has Much Use for Auto. In the last 37 days the Chalmers auto mobile in use by Sheriff Carter has cov ered a distance of 3500 miles and that without trouble of any kind. Work in the sheriff's office has been increased about one-third by the new law which provides for the collection of delinquent taxep. One day a distance of 112 miles was covered and 45 services made. With a team it would have required five daye for the completion of that amount of work. Too Feeble to Read. R. H. Southerland of Winona hBS taken the Gazette ever since 1877, the year the paper was founded. He has been a faithful reader of the leading county paper all these 34 years until now be bas grown so feeble that he can not read and has asked to hare the paper discontinued. RISING YOUNG MAN CLAIMED BY OEAIH Whole City Mourns the Loss of Chandler Woodward. Born and Raised in Colfax He Had Won the Affection ot a Host of Friends--Lodge Conducts Burial Service. All Coifax was saddened last Friday morning when it btcame known that Chandler Woodward was dead. For two week* be had been ill but the seriousness of his condition was not realized until Thureday morniog wheu he was taken to St. Ignatius hospital and an opera tion peformeti. From that time on little hope was entertained for his recovery bnt anxious friends were constantly in quiring for a sign of improvt ment. None came and a feeling of depression seemed to settle down over the town. He had spent his whole life in Coifax with the exception of a brief period when he was away at school, and probably no one in the city had a larger circle of friends and acquaintances. IJood business principles and a strong personality had won for Chandler Wood ward a prominent place in business and for the last seven years he had capably tiled the position of assistant cashier at the Coifax National bank. Dean Chandler Woodward was born in Colfax August 21, 1881. His mother took charge of his early training and at the age of nine he entered Professor English's college graduating from it four years later. In 181*8 he was enrolled as a student in the Portland Academy and finished his course there in 19«J(J. That year he commenced his business career with Codd cV MacKet.zie. In 19u2 a position was offered him in the Colfax National bank. He accepted it and has been with the bank ever since that time rising steadily to the position held at the time of hie death. On September 2b, 1904, he married L»na Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and M.c. W. J. Hamil *or. The young wife lives to mourn his loss as do his parents, .\lr. and Mrs. L. I). Woodward. funeral servieee were held at the Hamilton home oc Metidow street Sun day afternoon at 2 o'clock II v. J. Q Robinson o5 the Episcopal church and Rev. J. H. Bainton of the Congrega tional church officiating. The house was filii d with relatives and near friends. Members of the Knights of Pythia6 and mauy other friends were seated on the lawn. Burial was in the Colfax cemetery under tbe auspices of Colfax Lodge No 14 Knights of Pytbias. Judge Thomas Neil and O. C. Glaser conducted the burial service for the lodge. Immense quantities of fi iwers were mute testi mony to the high esteem in which the \o-.iiig man whs held. Tbe casket was coAered with flowers and three automo biles were brought into use to carry the floral tributes to the cemetery. The pall bearers were C. L MacKenzie, A. G. Marion, B. I). Baber, B. Kuhn, Dolph Coolidge and Howard Bramwell. Among those from oat of town to at tend the funeral were A. F. McClaine, S. A. Mitchell, B. W. McPhee, Alfred Cool idge, Mr. and Mre. bolph Coolidge, Edw. Johnson, Nicholas Codd and daughter, Clinton Stuht, Spokane; Mr. and Mrs Boyd Hamilton, Coeur d'Aleue; Charles E Scriber, Frontier; Mtp. Schott and Maurice Boyer. Tekoe; and Mrs. ffm LiFoliette and family, Mr. and Mm. Walter Bloor, Pullman: Mrs. Mosier, Ttkos: Mrp. Thomas Amos, Spokane; Mr. and Mrc George Howard, Sunset; Mr. and Mre. E. N B^acb, Palouse. WSacKay is Paroled. With more than half of a 90 days sentence yet to serve James MacKay was released on parole by Judge Neil last Friday, The young man was ar rested some time ago on tbe charge of stealing several bottles of whiskey from the Whitman hotel bar. He entered a plea of guilty to petit larceny. In granting the parole the judge gave MacKay a little talk on the opportunity it afforded the young man to make something of himself. Fitting Up Offices. Within a few days the American Ex press company and Pacific Coast Ele vator company offices will be moved to the new qjarters which are now being fitted op for them in the rooms in the First SaviDgs & Trust Bank building on Spring street. Putting in Elevator. Improvements have been going on at the South End Grocery. A new elevator has been installed to make the work easier. Burglar Sentenced at Colton. Caught by the heels ac be was crawl ing through a sash door is the rear of Inland Implement company's store et , Cotton last Friday night Henry Bloomer ! was hailed before Justice L. F. Gibbs and ] was sentenced to 1* days in the county j j»i>. Bloomer broke the glaPB in the door with a brick and attracted the at tention of the man-hull who arrived in time to prevent a burglary. Bloomer ie a harvest hand who has worked at differ ent places in the county. He was brought to the county jail Sunday to begin bis sentenc. WOMEN VOTERS ORGANIZE. Officers Elected and Next Meeting Set for July 14. A meeting was held at the house i 1 Mrp. F. N. Hnnlihh July Bth for the pur pose of organizing a branch of the "Na tional Council of Women Voters." The following were t lectpd as officer* to serve for the first yetu: President, Mrs. F. N. English; vice pendent. Mm. \V. hi. Mel rose; treasurer, Mrs. E. W. Weinberg: secretary. Mrs. H. N. Sims. One object of the organ; zition is well set forth in the following extract front the "Declaration of Principles' adopted by the National Council of Women Vot ers at their last convention: "Equality of opportunity for every human being ' The next meeting will be held at the home of Mre. W. H. Melroee, at 2.'AQ p m. on Friday, July 14 All ladies inter ested in the movement are invited to be present. The council has ordered a sup ply of both primary and general election laws. TO BUILD CHURCH AT ONCE. Congregationalists to Have New Building Finished by November. Work on the erection of the new Con gregational church is to begin soon. At a meeting of the church and congrega tion last Tbuesday night it was decided to order plans, make sewer and water connections and prepare at once to build. A picture of the proposed build ing has been on display for some time. The edifice will cost in the neighborhood ! of $10.01)0 or $12,000 and is to be com- I pleted before bad weather Bets in this fall. The Mason and Pythian lot op posite the Ridge-way theater has been chosen as the site for the new church and an engineer has been running grades this week as a preliminary to preparing the plans. Marriage Licenses. Marriege licenses have been issued by the county auditor to the following: William H. Jarvis and Millie A. Craig, both of Oakesdalp. W. P. Neill and Myrtle Paige, both of (in-field. David Powell and Margaret Eisinger, both of Colfax. M. S. Sloan and Rhoda Stratton.both of Oakesdale, July 10. M. M. Gray and Martha Babb,both il Colfax, July 11. F. F. Fischka and Flora C. Seus, both of Cohon, July 18. Farmers' Union in Session. Gartield was the place of meeting of the Whitman County Farmers' Union Wednesday. County bylaws were adopted and a committee was appointed to aid in acquiring terminal warehouses at Portland and Tacoma. A good start has been made towards raising funds for the terminal warehouses About 75 members of the Union werp present at tbe meeting Wednesday, Divorce After Many Years. After having lived separate from her husband for fifteen years Mrs Carmolia Webster has filed a suit in superior court asking for a divorce from William Web ster. The couple were married Juue 15, 1884 find lived together until 1896. Mtk. Webster alleges cruelty and non support as grounds for a divorce. Called East by Illness. Mi** Miirlba Ftlz, Western Liiiou operator in thin city, was called to Mus keg >r, Mich , a few days ago by the serious illness of her mother. She is sufcccded l.y ilro. Margaret Qroowaj cf Spo ane. S. a. Ranvc has b^en local DDHimger f>r the Western Union com pa )> for the past two m~c'.bs. Lost a Finger In Haying. Mr. Strong, who lives on the James E-reford place, caught the middle finger ol hi« rieh f h«tnd in a pully Tuesday while auloadk-g hey in ti-e barn. The finger was taken off at the fin-t joist. Thar.ksfcr Park Benefit. The members of the Park Association wish to thank the young ladies for tbe dance given for the park benefit, also Ripley's pharmacy for the use o? tie' fountain last Friday. Error Corrected. In last week's Gazette announcement was made of the return from Switzerland of "Mr. and Mrs. Crech." The item should have read "Mr. and Mrs. John Frei Crech." Discharged From Hospital. Mrs. J. W. Johnson, who underwent M operation at St. Ignatius hospital ; recently, was able to leave for her home . at Oakesdale the first of the week. PBJCE FIVE CKNTB. COLFAX HEADS LEAGUE IN PENNANT RACE Pullman Fails to Get a Look-in on Home Grounds. Defeated Team Mutt Beat Rosalia Next Sunday to Tie Colfax--Car dinals Play Clean, Classy Ball at Every Point. E tan mi g > i m Clci ■. Won Lost PerCasri ' fw i a Pa "!-»n r. | « B . t»I ■ . 3 ii ._■ ■, By h More of 7 to 0 CoUai dotoatci the I'u'inan Booatctan tbeeollege to«a lant Sunday anil now leads iv the r>ut< lor the Inlnud league peunai. f. The victory for the Cardiuuls mem.H that Pullman u)u»t play iff a protested Rauie with Runalia uext Sunday and mur«t win the game in order to tie Colfax. In cane Pullman does win thin game next Sun day the tie for championship will prob ably be played off at Colfax tue follow ing Sunday. The Colfax TardinalH went to Tollman Sunday with a determination to win from their old rivals by clean plajing. The whole team burklt<l down to bcHiiees and the way I'uilnian was shut oat wa« a jjy to the Colfax crowd which had ac companied the team. Mm-li pitched clnHHv bail and of tho liret twelve men up for Pullman not a one saw tirot. In fact Pullman got only two measly little hits off from March in the whole game. In the tirst inning Golfax (scored one run and that kept excitement at a fever pitch until the fourth inning when by hard hitting and a series of errors Col fix made four more runs. Mors reliend Bryan in the n'fth but Colfax made two more runs off from him before quitting. Disputes over decisions, a shortage of balls and a dusty diamond were tone of the disagreeable features oi the gume. Following is the score : 12345 678 «J it n ■ ''olfax 10040110 o—7 10 4 Pullman 0000000 0 0-0 2 6 Batteries: Colfax, Maitih aui*. .Siafleton; Pullman, Bryan, Mows »mi lioylen. Uoipfcw: Nta] and Hinchliflf. BALL TEAM DISBANDS. Successful Season of Good Clean Sport in Colfax. The regular base bull season in Colfax hae ended und the team ha* disbanded. A meeting of the directors of the club wae held at the office of (». W. Larue & Co. Monday night. All debts were paid and the business of the club was left in perfect condition. At the b< ginning of the season tbe tenma composioK the In land Empire league agreed to u.-e only ■such players as were employed in town and no Lew material was to be intro duced without giving notice to all of the teams and officers of the league. The plan worked very satisfactorily and tbe result has been a season of good clean ball. In case Pullman wine at X >».ilia next Sunday an tffort will probably be made to get the Colfax t«am together : gain for a final game with Pullman, Temporary Burial at Colfaz. After a hurried trip from Louisville, Ky., to Colfax Mn>. li R. L.! mnn ar rived here Thursday to take charge of the remains of her sister, \lrn. I'earl Fiske, who dropped dead June 30. Worry and the hurd trip overrr.<me Mrs. Liebman and she was piostrbtf 1 for a day after arriving brre. The body of Ifrr. Fiske was buried ten port, riy in the Colfax cemetery Friday aftenr on but will be moved later to Marion, O iio. Marion for Assistant Cashier. The sami-annnal biif-inPHH aye ug of 'be di-tctfTHof the Colfax Nation I bank »ac held TuemlHy afternoon. Arthur i Marion wbh tketed to the po~it on of afebittant cashier to fill the plat- made rdtur:t by the <]»-iitU oi 1). L. Wo; (3ward. The out of towu directors in att< t t Jance « f the meeting were Alfred Coolkige and Ed Johnson of Spokane. Moving to Colfax. Inland Agent A. H. Eldredg was j ined tbii week bj hit «!»'•■ hu] ;V v are vow !(« ated at the Ur Pocock resilience 02 ili!' street. Before e< micg here Mr. Eldredge was chief division operator at Spokane and had bis home at Vera where be has a fine fruit tract started. To Build Livery Barn. August Siler has asked perarision from the city council to erect a corru gated iron building 100 by 90 feet for u-e as a livery etabV The building m to be erected on the site of tbe Johnson Brothers livery which was burned last year. Fowler Buys a Hotel. Henry Fowler of this city has par chased tbe Alfianre- htte' io Spokane. Tbe hotel property is already leased.