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THS COLFAX QAZETTR TWKXTY-FOI TRTH YEAR. A APAIVT TTTTnAT'Q coit»^s AilliVll J\ L ELi> k3 Greatest Store COLPAX, WASH. Of Interest to All Economical Shoppers. Tlie Htor«' that Hnvew you money on anything you need in merchandise. ()win« to the warm weather we find we are overstocked in nil fiepart mente. We quote fx'low a few of the Special Hargainw, taken at ran dom from hsadreda that abound tbrooghoat every department. Lark <>{ space preventH enumeratim; them all, but your 'fondent bargain hopes will be more than realize] when you behold whatH in store for you here. LADIES' FLANNELETTE WRAPPERS. TT C\ Laciie*'Wrapper, made ot tine Haimelette, |\| I) | | *< I rl*A£l I full front, watteau hack, with back XXUIIJI kj VJ 1 VCIL Htrap, fitted vent lining, new sleeve, _ bound armholM, drift with deep flounce, L* /-»-»-*-» -L C 1 yoke front and back; collars, cuff-, H ( I 111/ II! I volchh and hack utrapx trimmed with i A^villllUJl l KJllHj braid, HK.«>rt«i! oolon. Kulin'n special.sl 00 kid cloves. Cftmnipiw>imr Tndav Real Fremh Kid. two-cUap, aU color,; lUlldj eijual to any $1 50 tfiove elsewhere. i , , Kuhn'a special, per pair $1 00 | an(l Continuing tlirOUgh shirt waists. <>'«t the entire month. * Ladien" Shirt Waixt of all-wool Hannel, entire front trimmed, in all colors and T^k/\iVT»rn -mww^^ vm ■fam. Kulm'H social fl 25 I JDOiV T MISS IT. AARON KUHN, Collax, AVasliin^ton. Largest, mo* reliable and (jui« ; ke 9 t mail A poHtal mailed to us will secure you a line order booae in the State of Washington. of samplen. Books Make suitable and acceptable Holiday gifts. The only complete stock, including standard works and favorites of the day, is at Kill^'s 13* 4 are always in order, either for yourself or friends. The finest line ever offered for the Holiday trade in Colfax is at Kill°*S i rames add to or detract from the beauty of pictures. The artistic and proper framing of pictures is a specialty at lVillo^S And these are not all. Our stock includes a thousand and one articles suitable for Holiday gifts for old or young. Come in before you spend all your money. You will be sur prised what a dollar or two will buy when expended at the right time and place. Now is the Time This is the Place KING'S BOOKSTOEE Waite Block, Main Street, Colfax. TURKEYS Brin& jjegjojs We will buy from 1 to 10,000 and pay the Highest Price in CASH or 2c per pound more will be allowed in MERCHANDISE AT THE STORE We Have a Full Line of Holiday Novelties and Grocery Supplies C. H. MOORE, 3JLAIIN HTHEET, COL FAX, WASH. 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. (My Six Bearings. Milk specially adapted to wind mill power. All sizen up to 3% tone capacity per hour. Manufactured by PARLEY IKON WORKS, Colfax, Wash. Modern Warehouse Elevator Go. SS™ MANUFACTURES THE MODERN WAREHOUSE ELEVATOR And is agent for a number of standard gasoline engines, from one to twenty horse power Can put in a one-horse power pump mat will pump 500 gallons of water an hour. The cost of running the engine is from 15 to 20 cents per full day. Why buy a windmill? Manufactory and Office, Main Street, Opposite School House. COLFAX, WASHINGTON. OOTlf COEY MERCANTILE CO. \^r\JJLJI ROCKFORD, WASH., Can fill all orders for Wood on short notice. Best Grade $2.15, Buckskin $2.25 per cord, by carload Klllvi!Prihp for your Magazines and Newspapers through The kJUUMjIIUC Gazette and save money. COI.KAX, WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, DbXKMIJEI: 28, 1900. IHS OP THE STATES (fathered From Hills, Valleys and Plains of the Union. Boiled Down As It Comes From the Wti'i-M for luformation of Busy Headers. Wednesday, December Itf. It is rumored that Senator J. K. Jones intends to resign the chairman ship of the national democratic com mittee. Former President Cleveland con tributes to the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia an article on the plight of democracy and the remedy. Mr. Cleveland begins by reviewing the his tory of the party and he discusses its defeats since IHG4 in detail. In taking up the question of the present conditions of democracy he says that the success of that party in 1802 was so decisive and overwhelming that a long continuance of its supremacy was anticipated. Then came the "fallacy of free silver and populism." Be preaches a return of democracy to its old faith. The 15-year-old son of Edward! Cudahy, the millionaire pork packer of I Omaha, was kidnaped from a street neat his home. Soon after his disappearance a letter was thrown in the family yard, notifying the father that the boy was held for $25,000 ransom; that unless the father took the money, all in gold and left his home at a certain hour after j dark, with a red lantern on his buggy, drove to a certain point about five miles out of town and left the money near a white lantern which he would find and then returned, the boy's eyes would be burued out with acids and tie sent home, when the kidnapers would steal another millionaire's son and hold him for $100, --000. Mr. Cudahy did as directed, and five hours later his boy came home with the story of his kidnaping. The father offers |25,000 for the men, of whom it is thought there were three. Their head quarters and lantern, with some other clews, have been found. The subcommittee of the senate com mittee on military affairs has completed its work on the army reorganization bill and reported the result to the special committee of the senate. The subcommittee reported a complete sub stitute for the house bill.aud while much of the language is the same as that of the house measure, there are numerous changes. The house anti-canteen bill was amended so as to permit the sale of i beer at the army canteens. j Terrific gales have for days been] sweeping the Pacific coaet and ocean. Thursday, December 20. Marshal Richardson of Gulfport, Mies., was murdered by a negro. Citizens pur .■...nl ami i.yncueu a Ulu^b, uulj vu nira ..^, was the wrong man. Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, Ohio, is reported to be negotiating for 140,000 acres of land in Kiowa and Clark coun ties, Kansas, upon which to raise blood ed stock. One of tw<* holdups arrested at Sal inas, Cal., gave his name as Win. Porter of Palouse, Wash. At the trial at Corsicana, Texas, of Andrew Morris, a negro charged with the murder of the wife of J. L. French, a white faimer, a mob led by the dead woman's husband attempted to take the prisoner from the courtroom and lynch him. The sheriff's forces saved the prisoner. Two hundred negroes left Nashville, Term., for Hawaii to work on sugar plantations. Friday, December 21. Former Governor Roger Wolcott of Massachusetts died at Boston from ty phoid lever. Numbers of vessels arriving at North Pacific ports report the worst gales and voyages ever experienced. There were several narrow escapes from wrecks. Senator Foster and Representative Jones of Washington called at the White Hou*e and invited the preeident to ex tend his trip to San Francisco in May so as to include Portland, Spokane, Ta coma. Seattle, North Yakima and other towns io Washington. The president readily consented, providing nothing oc curred to prevent. American Exprpss Company gave as a Christmas present to each of its 10,000 employes who had been with the com pany a year a $5 gold piece ac a Christ mas pret-ent, distributing about. $50,000 The Great Northern Railroad com pany increased its capital stock 10,000 shares at $100 a share, making $1,000 - 000. A bill introducing the jury system into Porto Rico has passed both houses of the island legislatute. Supreme court of Ohio dismissed, at cost of the state, upon motion of Attor ney General Monett agaiust the follow ing companies uuder the trust laws of Ohio: Solar Refining company, Ohio Oil company, Buckeye Pipe Line com pany, Standard Oil company of Ohio and the Continental Tobacco company. Saturday. December 22. Allen Long, 21 years old, of Wilbur, ' Wash., suicided near Dayton by shoot j ing. No reason known. A suit involving several million dol lars, the value of the telegraph lines along the route of the Great Northern ! road from St. Paul to the Pacitic coast, ! ; was decided by Judge Lochren in the j United States district court in favor of the defendant, the Western Union Tele graph company. Its importance, how- , ever, was not alone in the amount of money involved, for it was the general ; understanding that should the railroad \ company have won all the great, rail road systems of the country would, at i the expiration of their contracts with ! the Western Union Telegraph company, have claimed the ownership of the tele graph lines along their rights of way. Roosevelt joined a Masonic lodge at ' Oyster Bay, L. 1., his home. The residence of Conrad Ruff, a dairy man near San Jose, Calif., burned through explosion of a gasoline stove. Ruff and a hired man were at the barn, * but they only succeeded, after being themselves badly burned, in rescuing two of six young children, and one of them was fatally and the other badly burned. The other four perished. The mother and infant were unhurt, i A lone highwayman held up the staee , between Lakeview and I'arsley, Oregon, and robbed the mails. F.H.Morris of Ohio, auditor of the war department, was shot and killed at the bureau by a clerk named McDonald »no then attempted suicide, but still lives. McDonald accused Morris of be ing responsible for his reduction in the clerkship line, with consequent loss of pay. Burglars dynamited the vault of the Dalton City, 111., bank and got aw»v •ith 13000 or $4000. At Manchester lenn., the vaults of the Coffee county bank were blownfopen and $5000 stolen Officers captured one, who had all the money. Sunday, December 2a. At Mitchell, S. D., N. J. Neilson, treas urer of the Workmen's lodge of that city was held up by footpads at midnight' last night, bound and gagged, his pock ets rifled of |250 and left in an alley to freeze. When found by a night watch man Neilson 'a hands and feet were badly iroien and he was unconscious. To shield his mother from abuse and himself from a beating with a poker, 17 --year-old Albert Anderson shot and killed his father at Chicago. He was arrested. The officials of the Lebigh Coal & -Navigation company are jubilant over the fact that the tire in the celebrated burning mine at Summit hill, Pa., which started 42 years ago, is now under con trol, and it is said that the next two years will see it extinguished The tire has consumed about :i5 acres of the finest coal land in the anthracite coal region. Every one of the 300 car and barn employes of the Scranton, Pa , Railroad company obeyed the strike order, which went into effect at 5 o'clock this morn ing, and as a consequence only two cars were run in all of the Lackawanna val ley; although rain fell a great part of the day, the two cars seldom had a passen ger. The tied up region extends from 1 ittstown to Forest City, a distance of o<* miles, and includes 65 miles of track. Monday, December 24. Thirty cars, forming part of the United States government exhioit at the receut Paris exposition, were suddenly laid under embargo at Havre, the rail road compuuy declining to surrender them pending payment of a claim of 1710 francs. This extraordinary action, seriously delaying the departure of the Inked States auxiliary cruiser Prairie *rom Havre for New York with the gov ernment exhibits, was made the subject of a formal protest to the French gov ernment by United States Ambassador Porter. The company bases its claim on demurrage charges on freight in the cars when the goods were brought to the exposition for installation. Ships arriving at Pacitic ports still re- The British ship Glenloehy, now in the harbor at Tacoma, is to establish a precedent in the exportation of Pacific coast wheat. She is to load with 221, --000 bushels in sacks, and will sail for Liverpool via the Sdcz canal, being the first steam vessel t« go from Tacoma to Europe over that route with wheat. There is a difference in favor of the Cape Horn route of 1800 miles, but the price of fuel at the coaling ports in South America is so much higher that it is be lieved it will be economy to steam the additional 1800 miles. VV. F. Meyer, banker and republican state senator-elect at Red Lodge, Mon tana, was arrested upon a warrant for assault in the third degree. Miss Dora Fullerton accuses him of an attempt to forcibly kiss her. Jessie Morrison, who murdered Mrs Oiiu Castle with a razor'at Eldorado, Kansas, and in whose case the jury dis agreed, was released on $50,000 bonds. The monthly statement of the collec tions of internal revenues shows that (luring November, 1900, the total re ceipts were $25,344,285, an increase as compared with November of last year of $886,851. The Southwestern Agricultural works at Louisville, Ky., went under. Tuesday, December 25, At Eufala, ladian Territory, John Tiger, a fullblooded Indian, a ferryman on the Arkansas river, two miles south of Eufala. went to Eufala with his wife this afternoon and while intoxicated met L. B. Roper and threatened to kill him. Eloper immediately struck the Indian with a board, no words passing between them. Tiger went to his boggy, got a Winchester and came back to kill Roper, but failed to find him on hit. return. En raged he proceeded to shoot at every one he saw, killing four men and a boy. He was captured. At Great Falls, Mont , James Werten shot and fatally wounded his son. Wer ten treated his wife badiy and the sou interfered to protect the mother. The father drew a reyolver and tired a bullet into the boy's neck. The son is paral yzed and will die. Werten surrendered. A race war is on at Cementville, Ind., and serious trouble is expected at any moment. The negroes are all armed and j the whites are keeping within doors to j avoid them. The outbreak began wheu i Lee Ranger and John Redmond, negroes, I both drunk, started in to intimidate j whites. Whenltheir insults were resented , other negroes jumped in In trying to collect a bill for saving i the life of a cowboy named Hainm at ) Ponca City, O. T., Dr. Hawkins was j killed by Hatnm dancing on his stomach. I An attempt to blow up a hotel at ! Alva, 0. T., was made by placing a I wagon thimble loaded with dynamite UDder a corner. The veranda was blown. I 150 feet high. No one was injured. , Joseph Elliott is under arrest. The Oregon & Oriental Co. will place a j line of direct steamers from Portland to ; Manila in February. The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with 1 Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound to the affected parts is superior to any ; plaster. When troubled with lame back ! or pains in the side or chest, give it a trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism. One application gives re lief. For sale by all druggists. Mem AIRIGW Senate Amended Treaty With That Idea in View. Senator Lodge Understood the Keel in X of the People ami Said We Kirn Control Washington, Dec. 21.—Senator Lodge, who hatt charge of the Hay-Paonct tote treaty, in the senate todaj made the fol lowing statement: "Flu' senate amendments were not dic tated by hostility towards Great Britain and still less were they in a degree a re flection on the secretary of etate. The amendments were tnadeaolelj because in the opinion ol the senate they were neces saryforthe United States in the avoid ance of any question as to the owner ship oi the canal and consequently for the sake of the peaceful and harmonious dealings with the rest of the world on that subject in the future. '•The first amendment inn simple decla ration that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty ceases to exist and in supereeded by the Hay-Pauneefote treaty. The object of the hitter was to remove the former an an obstacle to the construction of the isthmian canal. Some good judges thought the Ray-Pauncefote treaty did this completely as it Btood. Others be lieved that certain portions of the Clay ton-Boiler treaty still remained in force. To allow this doubt to continue would have been a grave mistake. The Ameri can people desired to be rid of the (lav ton Bulwer treaty finally and beyond question. Under article IV, of the Hay-Poneefote treaty an it stood we were clearly bound, if engaged in war, to permit a hoHtile fleet if it succeeded in getting inside the three-mile zone, to pass unmolested through the canal. This may or may not be a practical question and it in of no consequence whether it is or not. It in a solemn promise to permit a hostile fleet to use the canal. That promise we either intended to keep as we made it or did not intend to keep, knowing that under the stress of war we should break it. If we meant to keep it then it was a promise no nation ought to make. If we knew that we should not keep it in time of war, then it was only honest and ' fair to relieve ourselves of the obligation in the treaty itself. This wan the pur , pose of the second or Davis amendment, which entirely disposes of any such promise, and which follows exactly in principle and almost exactly in words. article X, of the Suez convention, which ', reserved similar rights to Turkey, whose interest in the Suez omul is trivial com pared to ours in that proposed in Nica- • ratrua. "The third amendment strikes out article 111, by which we engaged to in vite other nations to adhere to the ' Had tJiere been no (laytotiHulvver treatY we should have negotiated with no one except Costa Rica and Nicaragua as to the building of the canal. With England, owing to the Clayton-Bulger treaty, we were obliged to treat, but as we expect Europe to keep out of this hemisphere, it seemed to the senate an unwise, bow ever excellent and liberal intention, to invite European nations to share in American treaty and thin give them a , right to meddle in American affairs at , any poiut. " We desire to dispose of the Clayton Bulwer treaty in the most friendly way possible. We are most averse to any other disposition of it. England does not intend to go to war to prevent our building the canal, and if it is physically possible to build it we mean in any event to do so. Coder th>*se circumstances we are very clear that it is as much for Eng- i land's interest as for ours to accept the new propositions in the friendly spirit in which they are offered and thus end a controversy over a worn out treat] which is only n stumbling block to both nations. It is not to be doubted that the English ministers, whose ability, ex perience and reputation are known to all the world, will duly weinh all these considerations and rightly comprehend the purpose of the senate amendments and the spirit in which they are pre sented." NEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND. Secretary Hoot Says the Army Hill Must Be Passed Washington, Dec. 23.—At the last meeting of the senate committee on mili tary affairs, the proceedings of which have just been made public, Secretary Root made a strong presentation of the necessity for immediate legislation for the relief of the army. He stated broad ly that if congress did not at once in dorse the army bill in substantial ac cordance v.ith the recommendations of the war department the United States would be obliged to abandon a large portion of the Philippine islands where civil government is established. If the present garrisons are withdrawn from certain portions of the inlands the mu nicipal officers, mostly Filipinos, will be ; l^ft defenseless, with every prospect of | being deprived of tbei? lives and proper i ty, and at the same time the United • States will be disgraced, the secretary i argued that it was necessary to pase the i department bill as a whole in order to j ! properly adjust the military organiza- | j tion to the new conditions created by ; the increase of numbers "We do sot any of us,"" he eaid, "ex j ppct that for «r;y considerable period an army of 100,000 men will be main | tamed, and for an army of 60,000 men . the provisions mad*- (by the committee) are sufficient." TALE OF FIGHTING ME>. Boers Broke Through the British Fighting Line. Bloemfontein, Thursday, Dec. 20.— Th' details of General Dewet's escape from the genera' encircling British col umns show that it was one of the bold est incidents of the war. When Haas broek's command joined Dewet December 12, some 15 miles east of Thaba N'Chu, General Knox was only about an hour distant and the Boer situation appeared | desperate. I But Dewet was equal to the occasion. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Dispatching Baa»broek westward to make,, Nat Mf Victoria \,k, ({pnnrHl Uewet prepared ... break through tim British columns at Springbau Neck mm about four miles^ ahead. At tbe entrance were two fortified poata, wbtle artillery •"*»£» on a bill sastward, watcE nig the Boera, Suddenly a majrnifieeot meetaefc wan mmd. The .hole B% nr,nv of -■.mi me n started at a gallop in ooee order through the nek. President SteJ! "<1 Peit Fourie led tbe charge an I*™* brought up the rear. TneßritSb guns near tbe drift boomed and rattled inceaaantly. The Boer. BrJt tried ibe eastward route, but encounter,™ Lr M( >• tll(1; diverged and galloped to "','■"■'"!' "f ""• hi" to the westward '"v- ">• wboh maneuver was ■ piece ol magniflceni daring, and its sue <**».was complete, in spitert thalW^ 8 ..;' P»und-r *nd 25 prisoners. II'" British force detarbed after Haa* brock cnroe in contact with bii com mando at nightfall. The burgbera were Welsh yeomanrj galloped among tbe retreating Boers, using their r-y.-ivTH and tbe butt ends ol their rifle* with great effect An incident of the fight was tbe gallop 01 a nntiafa ammunition wagon right through the scattered Boera, tbe gunner* nwng their revolver. freely? klllinirM WVBR AM> BARBQB MONEY. Appropriations for WaMhlngton and Oregon HtrcaiiiN. WaHhington. DC., Dec. 21.~The river and harbor committee lum recommended an appropriation for the iVn.i d'Oreille river of $10,000; Okanogan river $15 --000; L«wia river |5,000 for maiDtenaoee north fork Lewis river, $5,000 new project; Cowlits river, $2,000 for 'main ten.nice; 1 uget Sound tributarj waten f»,000 Cbehalls river, $3000; Olympia harbor $25,000 to complete work- Ta coma harbor, $30,000; Soohomiafa slough $20,000, and Wbateom harbor, •> 1 .>,00(). The committee did not appropriate anything for tbe Seattle canal, connect ing t'u K et Bound with InkcH rjoioa and waabington, two reaaooa being given: one that then- waa already $170,000 available, and the other that (be engi neer had not given any detailed estimate of tbe total coal of tbe projects. Oregon—Columbia rfv-t-r at the Caw cades, .ash $30,000; mouth of Columbia nv.-r, cash, |400. i; eontracta *1 . 500,000; lower U.llamHte and Cohuii bia rivers below Portland, (■■.nh, |125- - -000; Willamette river above Portland and Vambill river, caah. fTO.OOO; ("(. quille river, general improvements $140,000; Siuslaw riv.-r, mouth of, canb, 926,000; examinations, surreys and contingencies of riverH and barbora, in spection of bridges, etc., cash, $200,000; niluinook bay and bar, cash, $27,000! The river and harbor bill will be '•om pleted tonight and Chairman Burton gave out a statement Himwiog tlie amounts appropriated. The total is about $23,000,000 in on direct appro priations and about $37,000,000 in the autboruation of contracts for eontinu oue work. Compared with former river and harbor bills tbe present one is Ike -ccoikl UrncHt on record, and after the senate has added amendments, it in ex pected to be well up to if uot abend, of all previous records. The bill of 1000 carried $39 598,165, and that of IS',»7, which was the largest on record, carried $72.71:)..).-.-. 1. M'KINLF.Y WAS A LEABBR. More Than Several Tlioueand In 1 lie Great Race. New York, I>.v. 20.—The Times thin morning publishes a table showing the popular vote for presidential Hectors in the recent election. Minnesota was tin ln^-t Htate to declare its vote, this not having been done until yesterday. In pome Ht;ircF, )iH in Louisiana and South Carolina there were tbe uominations of bui two parties, republican and demo cratic upon the ballots; in other states then: were three and f«»ur and in some eight. Tbe total vote, including 6,211 scat tering, w;irf 13,967,299 Of thin M< - Kinley received 7,217,(>77 ami Bryan 6,357,853. The prohibition vote waa ho fur an r> ported 207,368; Marker, middle-of-the-road populist, 5,118; l>eb«, social democrat, 98,552 and Mnloney, social labor, .'{.'{.4."»o. McKinley'n ma jority was 468,055. Same Old Fight I aft Yell. Washington, Dec. 20. — The following cablegram from Admiral Remey, giving an account of a sbarn briHh with Fili pino iLHur^iTitri, wan received today at tbe navy department: Fifteen troopers of the Fourth cavalry and five of the crew were landei from the gunboat Basco yenterday at LimbaneH, in Cavite province. They surprised HO inHurgentu, and in a Hharp Hkirraixh, laßting half an hour, 13 of the insurgents were killed,l2 riflen were captured, and a large amount of Htorert wan dentroved. One American eoldier was wounded. An indication. GlaKgow,ricotland,l)tc. 20. —ClydeHhip- bui!dern recently placed ordern for 150, --000 tons of plates in the Doited States at a Having of £50,0Q0. The deprennion in Scotch steel arid malleable iron trader irt acute. Fourteen furnacen will be damped at the end of the year and own er* of creel work* are talking of cloning indefi n i tely. A New Year's Uuide. There ie one book every one should make an effort to get. for the new year. It contahiH nimple and valuable hints concerning health, many am jning anec dotes, and much general information. We refer to Hontett^r'n Almanac, pub lished by The Hoatetter Co , Pittsburgh, ! Pa. It will prove valuable to any house hold. Sixty employes are kept at work on this valuable book. The issue for 1901 will be over eight millions, printed in the Knglish, German, French. Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohemi an and Spanish languages. It contains proof of the efficacy of Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters, the great remedy pre pared by the publishers, and is worthy S-of careful preservation. Tbe almanac , may be obtained free of cost, of any diuggist or general dealer in the coun try.