The Colfax gazette. [volume], December 17, 1909, Image 10

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WASHINGTON NEWS
STAID) IN BRIEF
TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLE OF
STATE HAPPENINGS.
SECURES CORNER ON HAY
Ellensburg Dealer Has From 10,000
to 18,000 Tons Under His
Control.
Ellensburg—-What is pronounced
by prominent hay men as the big
gest timothy hay corner in the his
tory of the northwest is held by
Henry Kleinberg, of Ellensburg. Mr.
Klemberg is said to hold more than
10,000 tons of Kittitas valley hay.
stored in his own and private barns
and warehouses in the valley. A
short crop in Montana and else
where has been instruments] in aid
ing in this gigantic corner. Others
estimate Mr. Klinberg's holdings in
Ellensburg at 18,000 tons
The shortage of hay in Seattle is
pronounced acute. Already hun
dreds of tons have been shipped
into the Puget Sound metropolis by
boat from San Francisco to break
the corner. The price of hay has
now gone to $22 per ton f. o. b.
EHensburg, and unless Mr. Klein
berg lets loose many say it will go
much higher.
The opposition forces are now
understoon to be relying on a con
tinuation of the railway strike to aid
them in breaking the corner. Mr.
Kleinberg's hay is all stored in Kit
titas valley warehouses, and a con
tinuation of the strike would make
it practically impossible to make any
early deliveries.
Hoquiam Gets Carnegie Library.
Hoquiam —The city of Hoquiam
having complied with all require
ments for the maintenance of a pub
lic library, Andrew Carnegie,
through his private secretary, has
advised Frank H. Lamb, of the
board of trustees, that the $20,000
offered by Mr. Carnegie is subject
to his order.
The board will endeavor to obtain
an additional $5000. A modern li
brary building will be erected where
the present building is being used
as a public library. The city guar
antees a fund of $2000 per annuam
to perpetuate maintenance.
Convicts to Give Minstrel Show.
Walla Walla Prisoners at the
state penitentiary are rehearsing for
a minstrel show during the holidays.
The show will be in two parts, the
first being the "Whitmarks" of the
Elks. Thirty-one prisoners are train
ing for this feature. The second
part consists of vaudeville, ballet
dancing, solos and dialogues and
will require nearly a score more
performers. None of the women
are allowed to take part, but will
have holiday festivities by them
selves.
Technicality Frees Riplinger.
Seattle —Following his return and
voluntary surrender several months
ago from Honduras, whither he took
refuge, long defying extradition,
John Riplinger, former comptroller
of the city of Seattle, was acquitted
of the charge of embezzlement.
Though it was alleged that he had
appropriated some $70,000 municipal
funds, the specific charge against
him was the embezzlement of $4000.
The jury was out but 10 minutes.
Hay Selects Site at Medical Lake.
Medical Lake —Selection of the
site for two wings to be built on
the school for the feeble-minded op
erated in connection with the East
ern Washington hospital for the in
sane by Gov. Hay at medical Lake
practically insures the retention of
the school in its present location,
setting at rest rumors that this divis
ion was to be removed to the west
side of the state.
Walla Walla Gets Convention.
Walla Walla—By a unanimous
vote the executive committee of the
Farmers' Co-operative and Educa
tion Union decided to hold the mid
winter convention, the principal one
of the year, in Walla Walla for
1910. The convention is to be held
January 17, 18 and 19.
McCredie's First Bill Passes.
Tacoma —Representative McCredie
has secured allowance of his first
pension case, that of Mrs. Mary E.
Whitaker, of Tacoma. widow of a
Captain of Eleventh Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
Attorney Stricken Prom Law Rolls.
Olympia—The name of Charles E.
George, the Tacoma lawyer, whose
martial troubles have been aired in
the press, has been stricken from
the roll of practicing attorneys, at
fell own request.
COLFAX GAZETTE, COLFAX, WASHINGTON, DEGEMBER 17, 1909.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
Vancouver—G. VV. Louden sold
to Charles Blurock, meat dealer of
Vancouver, a hog that weighed
dressed 570 pounds.
North Yakima —North Yakima
fruit and business men, and fruit
men throughout the valley as well,
favor holding the next national ap
ple show in Chicago instead of in
Spokane.
Spokane—The Spokane branch of
the American Mining Congress has
started a right against the conserva
tion policy and has instructed a
committee to draw resolutions con
demning it, to be forwarded to the
headquarters of the secretary.
Meadowdale —Raising goats for
milk they will produce is the novel
yet successful experiment worked
out near here by Arthur Lawson
and J. Jock. The two men have
about 35 of the animals on their
farm, and the number is to be
largely increased next year.
Vancouver —For being imprisoned
for an alleged debt fiom Saturday
evening until Monday morning, J.
VV. Hill, a farmer near Vancouver,
has sued the linn of Stumberg &
Son, grocers, who had him arrested,
for $5000 damages and $25 costs
of the justice court.
Raymond—Now that communica
tion has been estatblished through
out the county, it is possible to
estimate the damage done by the
late flood. Including the railroad
bridge washed away, it is believed
the damage will reach fully $30,000
and may go somewhat above that
figure.
Olympia—F. M. Lamed, of Seat
tle, has been appoined secretary of
the State Railroad Commission, to
assume his duties January 1. Lamed
is Sunday editor of the Seattle Post
[ntelligencer. The position of sec
retary of the commission has been
vacant many months while the com
mission has been looking for a sat
isfactory man.
Seattle — Personally to inspect
some mountain claims in litigation
in the superior court, Judge J. T.
Ronald and the attorneys and the
stenographer connected with the
case personally visited the claims,
situated in the foothills of the Cas
cades some ten miles from Sky
komish, and court was held on the
mountatin side during a »now storm.
Olympia—Simcoe & Western Rail
road has filed with the Secretary of
State resolutions adopted by its di
rectors announcing plans to conduct
a railway from Toppenish south
westerly through the Yakima Indian
reservation and through Klickitat
County to Lyle, 90 miles. F. A.
Williams is president of the com
pany.
Dayton—Several schools in Col
umbia county have been closed since
last fall because the boards of direc
tors could not secure teachers. Two
things are responsible for the dearth
of teachers —the higher standard de
manded and the fact that many
other avenues of employment are
open. Salaries of teachers are too
small.
Husum —Late developments indi
cate that miners have been pros
pecting for gold near the head
waters of the White Salmon river.
The latest tind was discovered by
John Williams in the western foot
hills of Mount Adams, about 15
miles northwest of Trout Lake. Be
fore making the discovery known
Williams took samples of the gold
ore to Portland, which assayed $165
to the ton.
Seattle —Of 27,000 pounds of
chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys
seized in two Seattle cold storage
plants during the past week, by
state officials, 13,000 pounds have
been condemned and sent to the
fertilizer factories, 8000 pounds have
been returned to the owners as un
fit for consumption, and 6000 pounds
are undergoing bacteriological tests
by the University of Washington
chemistry department.
North Yakima— Advices from
Washington state that the secretary
of the treasury has granted autho
rity to advertise for excavation, main
lateral, pipe, trenches and construc
tion of timber structures, including
flumes, measuring boxes, wood stave
pipe, highway bridges and culverts
required in the construction of the
Byron unit of Mabton division, Sun
nyside irrigation project, Washing
ton.
North Yakima—The bee industry
is an important one in Yakima coun
ty. The average yearly yield of
honey here is 2000 tons, or 400,000
pounds. The value of the crop each
year is $40,000. The beekeepers in
tend to renew their efforts to secure
the appointment of inspectors by the
county commissioners, as provided
by law. Beekeepers say they are
taxed $1.50 on each swarm, and that
they are entitled to protection for
this tax.
Warning.
When you go into the country
Upon a picnic merry
Don't sit on poison ivy.
Be very careful, very.
For poison ivy's dreadful.
There's nothing quite can match It.
It irritates so fiercely
You're simply mad to scratch it.
—Beaton Herald-
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
CONDENSED FOR READERS
The Navy Year Book for 1909
shows the race for second place
among the navies of the world st^ii
to be close between the United
States and Germany.
Red Cloud, the famous Sioux chief,
died at his home near Pine Ridge
agency. South Dakota, at the ad
vanced age of 88 years.
Fifteen lives and $500,000 worth of
property, both on land and sea, is
the total known to have been taken
by the storm that swept New
Foundland and its waters recently.
Industrial education, which formed
a lively topic of discussion at the
Toronto convention of the American
Federation of Labor, is to be taken
up with the national department of
commerce and labor in Washington.
Phineas Rachelder, said to be the
oldest member of the Independent
Order of Oddfellows in the world,
died at Bangor, Maine, aged 98
years.
The residence of Harry B. Wan
dell, city editor of the St. Louis
Star, was dynamited early Saturday
morning. The occupants escaped in
juries.
The Standard Oil interests have
financed the merging of independent
telephone companies of the east and
west central states into the Conti
nental Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany for the purpose of fighting the
American Telephone & Telegraph-
Western Union combination.
Mrs. Allen F. Road, recently con
victed of assault with intent to
blackmail Mrs. Gene vie ye Phipps, of
Denver, has been sentenced to not
less than one year nor more than 18
years in the Colorado penitentiary.
Willett M. Hays, assistant secre
tary of agriculture, will start a mag
azine devoted to the scientific breed
ing of plants and animals.
Politicians and state officials ad
mit that renewed interest in equal
suffrage in Kansas means that soon
er or later the women are going to
vote and enjoy equal privileges with
men.
The American Federation of La
bor will support the railroad switch
men on strike in the northwest to
the extent of its powers.
Bishop Pascal, who has charge
of the diocese of Prince Albert,
which embraces the sub-Arctic coun
try to the north of that city, brings
back with him a story of the find
ing of traces of a balloon in which
S. A. Andre, Swedish explorer, at
tempted to drift act oss to the North
Pole.
At a monster meeting in Albert
hall, Herbert Asqttith, British pre
mier, laid down the policy on which
the Liberal government is appealing
to the country. He repeated what
had been said by other ministers—
that, if it were returned to power,
the government would demand the
limitation of the power of the
House of Lords —and he pledged
that the liberal party would grant
self-government to Ireland.
Charles M. Schwab has given to
the children of New York property
which is estimated valued at $2,000,
--000. He deeded a magnificent pleas
ure resort to the Sisters of Charity
of New York.
That the bitterest sort of an in
tercity feud is to wage between San
Francisco and San Diego over the
question of the Panama-Pacific ex
position in 1915 is the verdict of
those who have been following the
activities of the two California cities
during the past week.
Evasion of lawful duties by the
rich, and their frequent willingness
to bribe customs inspectors are
characterized by Secretary Mac-
Veagh as one of the leading ob
stacles in the way of straightening
ou the customs-frauds in New York.
For the first time in the history
of Yale university the Ten Eyck
prize for speaking was won by a
Chinese, when Yun Hsiang Ts Ao,
of Shanghai, China, was awarded the
honor.
THE MARKETS
Portland.
Wheat —New crop, track prices:
club, $1.06; bluestem, $1.17; red Rus
sian, $1.04.
Barley—Feed and brewing, $29.
Oats—s33 per ton.
Hay—Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$18@2O per ton; Eastern Oregon,
$18@21; alfalfa, $16; clover, $16.
Butter —Extra, 39c; fancy, 33@36c.
Eggs—Ranch, candled, 46c.
Hops—l9o9 crop. 18@22c; 1908
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Wool —Eastern Oregon, 16@23c
per pound
Mohair —25c.
Seattle.
Wheat—Bluestem, $1.16; club, $1.02
@1.05.
Oats—New, $29@31 per ton.
Barley—New, $28 per ton.
Hay—Eastern Washington timothy,
$18(2)20 per ton; Puget Sound hay,
$13@14 per ton; alfalfa, $16 per ton.
Butter —Washington creamery 39c;
ranch, 22c.
Eggs—Selected, locat, 47@50c.
Potatoes—sl4@lß per ton.
GOOD CHEER FOR CHRISTMAS
AT
M. BOYER CO.
CLOAK AND SUIT HOUSE
THE HOLIDAY spirit permeates the entire store. Every
where and at every turn suitable Xmas Merchandise
greets the store visitor. Never before have we provided
such liberal assortments, never before have we offered such
splendid values. Your Christmas shopping is best done here
for many important reasons. The merchandise display doubles
any in the city, the superiority not found elsewhere. We are
prepared to serve you satisfactorily. Just seven more shop
ping days left before Cnristmas, and while not a special sale,
our offerings for these seven remaining shopping days is so
extraordinary—it will be safest to make your selections as
soon as possible. Come with the expectation of finding all
the latest styles and useful Christmas presents at a great sav
ing of time and money and you won't be disappointed.
M. BOYER GO. igssra COLFAX, WN.
X lVfe?\ S
All the good things for Holiday
cheer—you'll find our menu offers the
widest of choice. We make it a point
to serve the finest food in season—
serve it the way you like to have it.
Better dine with us the next time.
Melrose Cafe
W. H. Melrose, Prop. 317 Main St.
Holiday Time
Laying plans for the New Year?
Don't overlook the buying of that nec
essary Feed Mill. Make a sensible
and lasting gift to yourself of a labor
saving devise that is approved by
every wide awake person. Let us
demonstrate the " Oarley Roller Feed
Mill" or send you full information.
Carley Brothers
For the very best in
PHOTOS
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Colfax, Wash.
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Money to loan on Whitman county lands at low rate of interest.
"Perfect Stock"
"Monogram"
Two names that have become household words in homes
where bread and pastry of the first quality is the rule. The
words denote the brands of flour manufactured from Blue
Stem Wheat by the WillOlia Milling Co., and the ver
dict of users is that no better Hour is made anywhere by any
body. Specify either of these brands when you order and you
will be pleased with the results obtained from their use.
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Hotel Whitman
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