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THE COLFAX GAZETTE. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. Our Grand Annual CLEARANCE SALE WILL COMMENCE SATURDAY, JANUARY 6th. Every Article Reduced. This is the greatest opportunity ever offered for bargains in .Dry Goods, House Furnishings, Underwear, Clothing, Etc., Etc. Remnants —Remnants. We have taken all our odds and ends and placed them on our center tables, at about one-half the regular price. Come in and look them over. OUR GUARANTEE: Money back if goods are not satisfactory. the: fair The Place to Save Money. WAITK HLOCK, MAIN STREET, COLFAX, WASHINGTON Greetings of the New Year. To all our friends and customers we wish a most prosperous hew year. Your patronage during the past year has been fully appreciated, and we trust our service and goods have been satisfactory. In the year 1900 our efforts will be redoubled in securing the best footwear at right prices. THE DUFFY SHOE CO. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. We are Headquarters for W Watches .^""^"^^S^^. raa^eH and styles, and our prices cannot bo beaten anywhere. / v \ Jewelry. Kings, Clocks, &c, f ?y i|£ ik> $k Vw Sk Iri tHe largeet >n the Palousp Country k^^L,'jJ"Z'^^'""^L'':r^^^ an(l our Pric? 9 are tDe lowest. CITY JEWELRY STORE If. A. ROSE, Manager. It will pay you to examine CARLEY'S ROLLER FEED MILL Before investing your money in a Chop Mill. Some of its features: No Burrs to Wear Out. No Gears. Only Six Bearings. Mills specially adapted to wind mill power. All pizes up to 3,M tons capacity per hour. Manufactured by CAKLEY IRON WORKS, Colfai. Wash. Fine Commercial Printing EXECUTED BY BRAMWELL BROS. General Priuters ami Telephone Building, Legal Blank Publishers. COLFAX. Hotel Colfax, J-D-HagaD- Pr°prietOT- The Leading Hotel in the City. All Modern Conveniences. Free Sample Rooms for Lighted by Electrricity. Commercial Men. Hotel Cafe and First Class Bar in connection. f\ f\T\ ! COE V MERCANTILE CO. V>/V^X^l ROCKFORD, WASH., Can fill all orders for Wood on short notice. Best Grade $2.25, Buckskin $2.00 per cord, by carload fH /N I • Agent for the Well known Rambler bicycle with G & J l-iAA I lAyil Pll 11 U t\ T. e { r . Also pins, ammunition, sewing machines, and \J \J\J» \J\JL I Ityll ll^« all kinds of blc^le repairing and gunsmith work. Cor V'VVI vvAJtvxAitwj Canyon and Main sts., Colfax, Wash. COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1900. SUMMARY OF NEWS! Happenings All Over the Union Briefly Told. News of Many States Collected and Compiled in Short Form. Wednesday, December 27. Congressman Boutelle of Maine is seriously ill. The proposed combine of Urilieh Co lumbia canneries has fallen through. Mail advi?eß from Japan state war is imminent in the spring between Russia and Japan. A military reservation will be created near Point Spencer, Alaska, where San h rancisco people are now planning to found a townsite. The reservation would extend from the north end of Point Spencer south 20 miles, thence three miles west across Point Spencer from Port Clarence harbor to Behring sea. Secretary Hoot, who favors per manent occupation by the government, has been informed there is ample room for a townsite south of the line. General Otis issued a decree author izing the celebration of civil marriages in the Philippines. He cabled Secretary Root to that effect today and the secre tary promptly approved the action. Heretofore marriages were celebrated by the Catholic church, so that protestants and non-chrintians were prohibited from marrying. The Jdecree does not inter fere with the Catholics who may be mar ried according to their own rites, but extends the privilege of civil marriage to those who desire it, just as practiced in the I'nited States. Elliott Danforth, chairman of the democratic state committee, returned to New York after a trip through the south, during which he talked with Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the demo cratic national committee, and most of the chairmen of the democratic state committees. Mr. Danforth said: "In my trip through the south 1 observed one thing which will be considered of particular interest in New York, namely, that none of the leaders .emed disposed to insist on free silver as the main issue of the campaign next year." Thursday, December 12K The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Keddleston, telegraphs from Calcutta that there has been no increase of rain and that .'31,000 natives suffering from famine are now receiving relief. At a special election it was decided to bond the city of San Francisco in the sum of $4,500,000 for public park pur poses. About 30,000 votes were cast, and the proposition carried by a vote of four to one. By the unanimous action of Local Assembly No. 14G0, Knights of Labor, Chicago, the ranks of that organization were reduced nearly 500. At a meeting the members of the assembly which is composed of letter carriers 'decided to withdraw from the national organiza tion. The privy council held a meeting at Windsor castle, at which Queen Victoria proclaimed a warning to all British sub jects not to assist inhabitants of the Transvaal or Orange Free State or to sell or transport merchandise there, under penalty of the law. The procla mation was gazetted. E. C. Hodges & Co., brokers at Boston suspended business today. The firm is one of the largest in the'eity. Its deal ings have been principally in municipal bonds. It is a member of the Boston and New York stock exchanges and Chicago board of trade. Hodges said that the trouble was caused by a refusal of the Boston banks to give the firm credit on United States mining shares. The failure was no surprise. Friday, December 2i>. San Francisco, by special election, voted to issue $0,750,000 bonds to build new school houses, a new hospital and a new sewer system. Tuesday last $4, --500,000 were voted for parks, making f111,250,000. Boer report: "On Monday morning the enemy from Mafeking attacked one of our forts in force with cannon and an armored train, and so persistently that there was fighting light on the walls of the fort. But we have retained our fort. The British loss is reported as 55." Under a plan recommended to the stockholders of the Great Northern rail way by President James J. Hill and the management, the capital stock of the road will be increased 10 per cent in February and the employes of the road given an opportunity to invest in the issue at par. Stock is now worth $175 a share. The insurgents who evacuated the coast towns between Dagupan and Vi gan, fleeing to the mountains before the advancing Americans, are returning in small bands to the towns the Americans do not occupy and terrorizing the na tives and Chinamen who showed friend ship for the Americans. The natives and Chinamen are seeking the protection of the American garrisons. Pool Grinslead, editor of the Wathena, Kansas, Star, was sentenced in the dis trict court today to 11 months' im prisonment in the county jail under a conviction of criminal libel. The con viction is an outgrowth of a legislative scandal, the editor having accused State Senator John Fulton of Brown county of accepting a bribe in connection with the location of a new state insane asylum. Grinslead will edit his paper from the county jail. Saturday, December 30. San Francieco in suffering a coal famine. Andrew Carnegie presented city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, with f 50,000 for a free library. A dispatch to the Herald from Manila says: Six men of the signal corps were attacked Thursday at Talevera, east of Tarlac, by a force of 200 insurgents and four of them were either killed or cap tured. Colonel Lockett has had a eecond en gagement with the insurgents north west of Montalban, and by a brilliant charge drove the enemy from their position. Only one American officer and five soldiers were wounded, but the loss of the insurgents was heavy. Our troops captured a number of rifle* nnd a quantity of ammunition and provis ions. General Otis in the Philippines recent decree authorizing civil marriages make* no provision for dhorce. Only the Catholic reasons for separation are rec ognized in the order. Girls 12! years old and boys of 14 are permitted to marry with the consent of their parents, but otherwise they must be 21 years old. The steamer Bundesratb, belonging to the German Eost African line, was captured by a British gunboat and taken as a prize to Durban. A repres entative of the Associated Press has learned that there were throe officers and 20 men attired in Khaki and intend ing to serve the Boers, on board the Bundesratb, which explains her capture. German newspapers are wrathy over the seizure. Sunday, December 31. The heaviest enow ever known in Georgia and South Carolina fell. At Maeon, Ga., six inches laid on the ground. itoy Brewer and Roland Burke, boys of 12, were playing soldier with a 22 --caliber rifle. It was discharged and the ball struck Burke in the right eye, kill ing him instantly. Both lived at Walla Walla. The United Irish societies of New York ami vicinity filled the Academy of Music tonight at a mass meeting called to ex press sympathy with the Boers and op position to England in consequence of the Houth African war. One hundred and seventy-one sacks of ore concentrates were brought to Ta coma on the City of London from the mines near Singapore, in the Straits Settlement, for treatment in theTacoma sineirer. This is the first shipment of ore from the Orient to an American smelter. The product of these mines has been sent to England in the past, and this shipment is in the nature of a trial order for the Tacouia smelter. There are a number of large producing mines in the Settlement, and others are being opened up. It is asserted that the pope during the recent service of opening the holy door at St. Peter's cathedral addressed his in timate entourage and said: "I thank Divine Providence for granting me the grace of being able to celebrate the great function and I wish for my successor grandeur and long reign, to "the greater glory of God. My successor will be young, as compared with my own age, and will have tim*» to see many glories of the papacy and the church.'" Later Leo clearly designated Cardinal Girole niano Maria Gotti, prefect of the con gregation of indulgences and sacred relics, as his successor. Cardinal Gotti, the famous Genoese monk, is a man of great piety and modesty. Now about 04 years of age, he has always lived the life of an ascetic, and despite thejdignity of ?. prince of the church, he always elects iv a ceil and on a hard mattress. Monday, January 1. Kid McCoy whipped Peter Maher in five rounds. The Ohio assembly met and elected the republican caucus nominees by a strict party vote. R. C. Herebey, county treasurer at Lancaster, Pa., is reported short $05, --(142. lie has fled. Torpedo boat Goldsborough, built at Portland ran for eight minutes at .'52 miles an hour, against a two-mile cur rent. For the first time in many years, the Mississippi river is frozen over at St. Louis. As a result no boats are arriv ing and departing and the ferries have been compelled to Bhut down. Orlando Stevens of Ottumwa, lowa, has made a new world's record in a com petition mile bicycle race. His time was 1:59 14. The record was formerly held by Fred Sima, made at Washington in 2:00 2-5. A Manila dispatch Bays: The first movement of a general "southern ad vance occurred this morning, when two battalions of the Fourth infantry landed aud occupied Cabuyo, on the couth side of Laguna de Bay. Two Americans were killed. Twenty-four Filipinoß were found dead in one house. One hundred and fifty prisoners and foureix-poundere were captured. Tuesday. January 2. Members of the new Cuban cabinet took the oath of office. Gov. Taylor of Kentucky asks the legislature to repeal the Goebel election law. He cays it is"an infamy which has demoralized, disturbed and disgraced the state." When all the English troops destined for South Africa are there they will reach 200,000. Winston Churchill, who escaped from the Boers, says Eng land will need 250,000 men. After four years of retirement J. S. C. Blackburn was chosen tonight by the join caucus of the democratic members of the legislature as the successor of Wm. Lindsay in the United Statee senate from Kentucky. The statement issued by the director of the mint shows that the total cain aga executed at the mints of the United Statee during the calendar year ended December yo, 1899, was $139,243,191, as follows: Gold, $111,144,220; silver, $26,061;055; minor coins $1,837,451. At Chicago the quietude of the holiday markets was broken in the wheat pit and the firmness characterizing it was turned to decided strength by an im posing array of bullishness and statis tics. January, 6G 3-4; May, 7O'i. Portland, cash, 52; Tacoma, 51. The Canadian regiment captured a Boer laager at Sunnyside and took 40 prisoners, some tents, three wagons, a great store of guns and ammunition, forage, saddles and equipment. Two British were killed and one wounded. The Boer loss is given at six killed and 12 wounded. Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department walked into Adjutant Gen eral Corbin's office at the war depart ment and handed him $100 ia gold for the Lawtcn fund, remarking that "it was a farmer's contribution to a soldier's widow." Another contribution to the fund received by General Corbin today was a check for $1,000 from J. Pierpont Morgan of New York. BRITISH WON A FIGHT Ur >n]"- i>r"'(-H > Ml r<'Hlll< Primarily ol *"• •timulatiou proceeding from supply ■Dd demand condition*, scored probably the greatest advance in any MBjrle year and brought the Rroeral terd ol staple vHliifH to the hiKhcßt poini reached for more thnu eight yean pant. Failure statistic! point to the HmnllPHt nomber reported for 17 rears past. Tbeae re- Hultd have come to pmhm la face of a con Hiderably lemeoed production of whent and an immense fallirm off m the field of cotton. Industrial affairs in the year has been one of enormous expansion. Oertainlv nothing hke th.- gsaeral advance iii wages of indiiHthal employes ban been witnessed for maDy years i.ni this bas been accomplished with a minimum ol friction. General French Dispersed Boers and Took Colesburg. But Later Reports Say the Dutch Rallied and Turned Upon the British. London, .Jan. 2.—The new year has opened with a brilliant exploit by the only British general in South Africa who has not been beaten. French has been operating with mobile forces during the last month from Naauwpoort to protect Methuen's line of comnonications by keeping the Free State force from Cofcs burg fully occupied. After threateniug the enemy's communication with the Or ange river and compelling: the Dutch to retire from Rensberg, French decided upon a sudden stroke. He ordered the mounted force and artillery to advance rapidly on Sunday night, with his in fantry in wagons behind them, and by daylight had succeeded in turning the enemy's position at Coleeburg. The in fantry aud batteries made a feint attack on the front, while the light artillery and cavalry were massed on the right tlank. The Dutch camp was surprised by the unexpected night march, of which it had not received warning, and the Free Stat ers did not attempt to defend their posi tion, but retreated eastward, leaving Colesburg in French's possession. This exploit brings the British troops within striking distance of Norvalsport at Boothas drift. Colesburg is an im portant border town, and if the town can be held and the bridge and drift be secured, two gates leading into the Free State will be under British guard in ad vance of the arrival of Roberts aud the concentration of the Sixth and Seventh corps for the march upon Springfontein, the most important strategic point in the Orange republic. French's occupa tion of Colenburg is a distinct gain for the British cause. Boers Turned On French. San Francisco, Jan. 2.—The World's London special says: The latest news of General French's operations shows that his clever surprise of the Boers and his successful skirmish with them was not the impressive victory that a section of the press claimed. The fact seems to be that the Boers not only suffered very little, but during the darkness rallied and turned the surprise on the British by attacking them next day with their supposed crippled guns, some of which were evidently those that General Gat acre lost at Stormberg. General French's dispatch does not detail his movements later than 2 p. m. January 1, and the final issue of the movement is unknown. Nothing reliable has been received con firming the rumored occupation of Coles burg. ALIi HIS OWN WAY. Goebel Has Kentucky Legislature Under His Thumb. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. I.—All doubt as to the ability of the Goebel democrats to organize both houses of the legisla ture was removed by the attendance on the democratic caucus tonight. In the house caucus all of the 58 democrats answered to the roll call and partici pated. In the senate four democrats remained out. They were Senators Alexander, Hays, Gilleepie and Huberts. Senator Hill was sick and absent, but is not classed with the dissenters. In the senate causus Senator Harold created a sensation by making an alleged expose of the anti-Goebel leaders, declaring that he had been approached by J. H. Whal len of Louisville, and paid $4500 to re main out of the caucus. The money, he said, had been placed in a box with the Louisville Trust company, the key to which he passed up to Senator Goebel, who was presiding over the caucus, end ing his speech by declaring that he had entered iuto the deal for the purpose of exposing Whailen, and further, that there was not enough money in the world to make him disloyal to his party and his state. Senator Goebel was nominated by the democratic caucus of the senate !or president pro tern, Claude Desna for chief clerk and William Cromwell for assistant clerk. The entire slate of the Goebel organization for places in the senate went through. Republican leaders say all republicans will support the candidate named by the anti-Goebel democrats. General Wat Hardin today appealed to his friends to keep out of the democratic caucus. Goebel's notice of contest will be served on Governor Taylor eitherthis afternoon or tomorrow. Attorneys for Goebel and other con testing democratic candidates for state offices this afternoon served notices up on the republicans to take depositions to be U9ed as evidence in the pending contest cases, and naming their witness es. The list of witnesses include a long array of prominent men in both the re publican and anti-Goebel democratic parties, like Governor Bradley, Senator Deboe, General Basil W. Duke, John 11. Whallen and others. A YEAR OF EXPANSION. Trade of the United States Was Immense. New York, Dec. 29.—Bradstreet's Re view of "The Year in Business"' tomor row will say: Rarely have sanguine hopes or predic tions found such adequate realization as they did during 1899. Certainly noth ing like the widespread and general up ward movement of values, alike of staples and of securities, such as occur red during this year could have been foreseen. Linked with an immense business and a record-breaking produc tion in nearly all lines of business and industry, except perhaps in some pro ducts of the agricultural interest, there was with it an advance of staple values either of which alone would have made the year notable and combined have served to establish the year as a record breaker and eet up new standards. The volume of domestic and foreign trade alike was the largest ever record ed and the bank clearings reflecting im mense business expansion, active specu lation in stocks and immense new indus trial floatings far surpassed all previous TWENTY-THIRD Yi:\l\ FILIPINO KOMlt THROWBRft. Plol for a Big Uprising | n Manila Wuh Quelled, Manna, Dec. 31.- Four rxploniv.. bombs, a few firearms and .')()() ronnda of ammunition were discovered in H house in the center of Manila thin morn ing while the police rereseeking Recarte the insurgent leader, who was said t<! have come to Manila in the hope of ef. fecting an outbreak yesterday by taking advantage of the mobilization o! th- American troops at General Lawton'* funeral. rodayit developed that the plot in cluded the throwing of bombs among the foreign consols attending the cere monies in order to hrhi^ aboot inter national complication*. These,it wems were to have been thrown from the K-t colta'H high buildings, hut the avoid ariee of the Escolta by the faueral pro cession spoiled the plan. The popalace, it in thought had been prepared for the attempt by a rumor circulated widely among the nativeH yesterday that Aguinaldo wan in Manila and would possibly lead the outbreak. The American authorities having been advised of what was brewing, prepared for all contingencies. Captain Morrison who command* the troops in the most turbulent district of this city, says be does not believe an actual nprisiog will ever occur, as the natives lack the reso lution to take the first step* in a move ment that, would entail lighting at clone quarters with American troop*. Alive With Assassin*. Manila, Jan. I.—Yesterday's rapture of bombs involved the seisure of doeu meats inculpating a thousand Filipinos, who intended to rise against the Ameri cans. Papeis were also found showing a division of the city iuto distiicts and a careful assignment of leaders find fol lowers. The precautions taken by the Americans) on Saturday, it is now evi dent, alone prevented an npruing. The provost marshal haw requested that two more regiments be detailed for the pro tection of Manila. Three thousand troops are bow actually in the city. Captured His Wife. Manila, .lan. 1 — AguinaJdo's wife, sisters ami 18 Pilipiooi have surrender ed to Major Marsh's battalion. Thin' infantry, at BocJoc. Three Filipino officers also surrendered to Major Marsh and the Fillipinos gave up two Spanish and two American prisoners. Tliat Flour of Ourn, Washington, Jan. 2.—The state de partment received from Ambassador Choate, at London, by cable a state ment of the f.-ictH be bad developed in connection with the seizure by British war ships of American Roods on the three merchant vessels, Beatrice, Mar ehona and Maria. The goods comprised not only flour, but miscellaneous articles of common trade. They were shipped for Lorenzo Marquea in British and (icr man ships, but our officials contend that they were not subject to seizure. They could not, however, lodge representa tions on the subject until they were possessed of a knowledge of the facts, and as soon as Mr. Üboate's statement came to hand today an instruction was cabled to him to inform the British gov ernment that we could not admit the right of seizure in these cases. Deal for the West Indies. The Bale of rbe Daniata West Indies to the Doited States bi:JH fair to be accom plished. The Danish captain, Cnristma*, who has influential connections in the United States, and who has secured the support of President McKinl.-v, Admiral pewey and a number of influential Amer ican senators, is acting an intermediary between the two governments, direct official communication being impomible for Denmark after repeated failures in previous attempts. AKOITNO THK COUNTY. The Oakesdale Sun has censed publi cation, at least fora time, it maybe revived. Anderson Bros., of Rosalia have filed at the clerk's office a petition to disin corporate. James Con way shipped another car load cf draft horses from Colton to Seattle last w-ek. If. J. Rooks, a pioneer of the PalooM country, whose home was at Col too, died December 22 at Medical Lake. H. 11. Boone has completed his new store building at Palouse and is do* occupying it. The building is an 11 --ceptionally fine one and Palouse ettisena are proud of it. Garfield Enterprise: The new street lamps lately purchased by private in dividuals at a cost of %~~> are now in position and are certainly a soctf— They will be kept lighted at thr expense of the town. The cost will be small. Colton News Letter: Hon. ('. E. I line, ex-speaker of the house ut Olympia, de livered a very interesting talk on direct legislation to a small audience in the Opera Houee Wednesday evening. As a result of his labors a club of ten was organized. Uniontown Gazette: When Iniontown gets its flouring mill, fruit dryer and the <). It & N road so that the farmers can ship over either road, f'niontown will not be bo quiet a town as now. Every thing brings a eood price except wheat. A fruit dryer will be a necessity. So will a flouring mill and the cheese factory. All will consume what the farmer has to sell besides giving employment to hired help.