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The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29
The Presidents Address.

1.-The life that counts is the life of the
man who is willing to take risks when
there is sufficient object to gain, and
who is always willing to pay in effort, in
labor, in toll, in daring for adequate re-
suit. just exactly as in the times of
the civil war, the victory could only
come to those who were willing, if neces =
sary, to pay the price and who went in
with their eyes open, knowing there
would be a price to pay, so in civic life
the prizes must come to those who are
willing to pay in toll and effort for them.
Just so it is with nations. A small and
stationary nation can afford not to
take risks, can afford to try to do great
deeds and hope to escape the necessity
for solving problems OF weighty mo-
ment. But we are not q small or sta
tionary nation. We belong to nation
which we hold now to be the greatest
upon earth, and we are bound to make
It's greatness grow steadily as the years
pass.
Il have but one word to say to the
children. | believe in play and believe
in work. Play hard while you play, and
when you work don't play at all. AS |
said, it has been great pleasure wher-
ever | went to meet the evidences of the
care paid through your schools, through
your colleges, to the welfare of the next
generation. We must have material
well being as base, as a foundation.
Unless we have good business men, hard
workers, men who can get the utmost
out OF our resources in mines, in lumber,
in agriculture, in grazing, in transporta-
ton, in every branch OF active work
unless we have that capacity, the nation
can not go on; but the capacity is not
by itself enough. On it we must build
the superstructure of the broader and
the higher life; there must be the chance
for mental and spiritual growth, in ad.
dition to caring for the things of the
body, otherwise we can not develop our
life as it should be developed.
"The tremendous complex Industrial
growth which has brought in its train sc
much that ia good has of necessity
| brought in it's train some dangers, some
evils. We do not because OF them re
gret the progress; we face resolutely the
evils, bent upon cutting them out il
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29
Monday. Nav 25.

A tornado has visited the country in
the vicinity of Minden and Pauline, Ne
braska, and 81 people are reported
dead. Nine OF the victims we're found
and IL are still missing.
The Western Federation of Miners and
it's powerful ally, the American Labor
Union, have opened their annual sessions
in Denver, Colo. Questions of great i'm
portance to labor have been taken up.
Southern Minnesota has been visited
by disastrous rain and wind storm.
Much damage has resulted to the grow
ing crops, but no loss of life is reported.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29
Northern Pacific Special Rates

The Northern Pacific Railway com.
pany will make rate of one and one
third fare for the round trip to the grand
lodge of Masonic bodies at Seattle June
8th to 18th. Ii you want the best ac-
commodations, purchase tickets via
Northern Pacific. Lennox & Larkin,
Agents.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

Lunches furnished in package, OF
served with hot tea or coffee at Mrs
Stinson's Home Bakery. Telephone
Black 541x
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

J. W. Poteet, proprietor of the Colfax
Candy Factory, will be pleased to meet
old and new customers at his new loca-
ton, formerly The Palm.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29
Land for Sale,

Stock and grain ranch, 470 acres,
good house, fine orchard, plenty of wood
and water, price $12 per acre. J. G.
Elliot, Colfax, Wash.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

Money to loan on city property. K.
Fl. Vermilyeo
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

The ice cream soda served at the Col
fax Candy Factory is refreshing and in
yigoratingo
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

For board and lodging, the Bakery
Restaurant
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

For board and lodging, the Bakery
Restaurant.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

J. B. Brown puts up the best pumps
and Windmills in the world+
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29

INSURE WITH SNYDER & MCDowELLo
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-05-29
Have You Seen

Brown & KimbalPs pretty lines of wash fabrics
If you have not we would be pleased to show
them to you. Our line is complete in all kinds of
wash goods, shirt waists, skirts and most every
thing in ladies and children's wearing apparel
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23

later a photograph of a handsome man
30 years old, bearing this inscription, wa
found among Mrs. Hodges effects: w B
T., from Everywhere"
| A witness was discovered who identi.
! fed the picture as that of man he had
seen in camp with Ryan and Mrs. Hodge
! on July IL, the last day Ryan was seen
! alive. Mrs. Hodge denies that this man
! or any other man save Ryan was with her
| during any part of the trip from Ogden
When asked who the man is, she simply
says
He is a friend"
Then she refuses to utter one word more.
Every effort is now being made TO Locate
this man But when he left the Ryan
camp on the night of he murder he COW
cred up his trail so we'll that not one clue
| to his whereabouts has been obtained.
II IL evident that the man from every
where" is the lover the girl il shielding.
When asked point blank if the picture
of the stranger was not IA likeness of the
real murderer, she said doggedly'
Il killed Mr.. Ryan to save my honor.
There may be some discrepancies in my
story. but l will tell it without change
when am on trial. and if necessary l will
take the full penalty the law imposes and
still say did il. l alone killed him"
And there the case lands,
A peculiar feature Of he mystery is the
Identification of Mrs. Hodge by Spot, the
dead mans dog This animal, tied to the
wagon wheel, witnessed the murder of his
master.
When Mrs. Hodge was taken to Jail
upon her arrival here Spot was in the cor
rldor. When he spied her he rushed to-
ward her and barked with delight, Mrs.
Hodge became violently agitated and cX-
claimed:
Even the dog is "a witness"
Spot is being held TO identify the man
b.rl ln ha
Herwig lange, Ia retired wagon manu-
facturer of Pittsburg, will be a witness
Mrs Hodge says that Lange sent her the
S46 which Ryan collected for her at the
Ogden post Office the day they started on
the trip
In reply to this LANCE has wired from
PttsbIrg that he never sent Mrs Hodge
a cent, that while he was in San Jacinto.
in May last, he met Mrs. Hodge She told
him that she had been compelled to leave
home on account Of cruel treatment. He
did not know she was married.
Mrs. Hodge says that this s'5 is all the
money she took from Ryan, body after she
killed him II is known that Ryan carried!
5000 in gold with him, and that he was iii the
habit OF buryiug il at night.
The theory is that the murderer bounu
Ryan and when he refused to disclose the
location of the buried treasure he was
murdered.
-h'S' iiouRe 10 "th etLiCdItt' oHe uJl-
pears cheerful but determined to face the
music, no matter what is required of her TO
shield the man she loves. Those who have
watched the girl say that she will never
break down and betray her lover, and that
her every action shows that she Intends
TO save him at the sacrifice of her own life
if need be
Alfred Larsen, the girls brother said
Aurora never killed Ryan The very
idea Of that frail girl overpowerinp RYAN
and then binding him is ridiculous. She
is shielding some one. Evidently she loves
this man. Find him and YOU have the
murderer Aurora is determined to shield
this man. even at the sacrifice of her own
life"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
WHEN TIE STOCKS WENT DOWN.
Bucket shops IN PrOspcrity NATURALIZATION
in Banks Another Result.

One result Of the decline in stocks, on
which Wall Street is specializing with
interest, is the profits ACQUIRING to bucket
, shops The customers of these insttu-
tons rarely sell stocks: they generally
buy, and a declining market brings woe
to them.
Some of the bigger bucket shops carry
thousands of accounts. The managers
never actually buy and carry the stocks
ordered, but enter a notice of the order
on a sheet, They practically bet with tho
customer that the particular stock he Las
selected will not go up
II 1t happens To go up they pay him N
demand, Usually however, he does not
draw his profits, but buys, or bets, more
II number of customers, on rising mar
ket ask for their profits the proprietors ~
the institution are likely TO fade away at
once.
The long-continued decline, therefore,
was exactly to the taste of the bucket shop
people Wall Street is of the decided
opinion that many of the unfounded AMI
disturbing runners that were set ahuat
during the decline, whether regarding
individuals or corporations, might 10
traced to the bucket shops. The rumors
helped to put the market down and the
customers out
Inv, 'lite'l also DtHeNeS Inat on tDf ldHV
few days of the decline the bigger shops
put In heavy selling orders TO push down
the prices. II three or four Of the COR
Germs. carrying in all 100000 shares on thrlr
hooks, could get together and sell no
stocks represented down two or three points,
enough to wipe out the usual bucket shop
margins. it is evident that they wt.!ld 10
In two or three hundred Thousand dc,laEs
In any event. there are certain unmls'aN'
able evidences of prosperity around tho
headquarters of most of the bucket sh"is,
One concern, which has branches VI al
the cities of any size the country over, II
said to have cleaned up between January
last and the first of this month something
more than 81 200 900 As the declines hay"
averaged nearly 40 points II may b" tl'a'
the profits Of the concern have not been
overestimated
The Street also points to defalcatiurI ~
bank cashiers as u result Of the slump
The average defauting cashier, parti'H,,
larly in the country, if like the patron ~
the bucket shop, in that he lis likely to hwy
stocks. II the market goes up he seI's
them, restores his regulations and keeps
the profits, A declining market gensrL4y
makes exposure inevitable.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
THE PHONE AT THE TABLE.
An Arrangement by which You Can Use
the instrument While You Eat.

A man accompanied by two women
entered an uptown restaurant the other
night and sat down at a table near the
wall, toward the rear Of the room After
the man had given his order to the waiter
he added
"Oh, yes; and bring me telephone"
"A telephones" repeated one Of the
women. How can you eat telephone?"
Its the latest wrinkle" responded the
man. wait and you will see"
Sure enough, the waiter returned in a
few minutes with a desk telephone and
several yards Of silken electric cord. The
telephone was placed on the dinner table,
and the waiter then attached the silken cord
to a socket in the side wall
The man Of the party picked up the re-
ceiver, moved the telephone into a con-
venient position and then asked central
to give him the box office Of Broadway
theatre. After ordering three seats for
the performance that night he asked the
women with him if they had any message
they wished to send to any one.
One of the women telephoned to her
hotel about some rings she had mislait,
and the other telephoned to a friend rpla-
tive to a shopping engagement for the
next day. BY the time they had finished
with the telephone the waiter had re-
turned with the dinner. Before serving
1t he disconnected the silken cord from
the wall socket and carried the telephone
away
These portable telephones" said the
head waiter of the restaurant, after the
party had gone to the theatre, "are novelties
which are fast becoming popular We
have just introduced them here
Each table lis so arranged that there il
socket handy to which we can attach
portable telephone. The wires all lead 10
private branch telephone exchange which
we maintain in an upper room. Each wire
and socket has a number, and n guest at
table can arrange to have a friend call
him up on the telephone while he is at
dinner.
"Of course we charge something for the
service. If you will read the bill of faro
you will see that the charge for telephone
at the table is only rs cents. In addition
to this charge for making the connection
there are the usual charges for each call
These phones are n great convenience.
Many men become impatient while waiting
LOT tne WATERS 10 serve their orders, and
n table phone often serves a useful pur-
pose by giving diners something to Keen
them busy.
Another advantage is apparent in the
business part of the town. Brokers' going
out for lunch can reserve certain tables in
advance aNd keep in constant communi-
cation with their offices, even though they
spend an hour or more al lunch. II enables
them to eat with more composure.
Most of the high-priced restaurants arc
these table phones, and thew
must be appreciated by the public for
often half dozen are in use at the same
time In our establishment
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
HERE rs A FIREB4LL SPOOk.
Moving Like Light ming in Nebraska with
Legs Sin DisOrderIy Array"

CALLAwAY, Neb,, Aug % A spook of
the old style fre-displayng. man-pursu-
ing brand is racing around the country
southeast OF this city, and many weird
stories OF narrow escapes and fearful ex-
periences are told by belated travellers
upon the road. So panic-stricken is the
neighborhood that 1t is difficult TO get CO.
herent stories about the spook, and when
discussing the phenomenon the farmers
keep close watch over their shoulder
The apparition appears to have fixed
upon the old Swan place, farm of once
unsavory repute, for its habitation The
old house Is otherwise untenanted. The
ghost is said to have leaped into the buggy
OF Farmer Dickson, who was driving home
late at night with his wife Both describe
the apparition in the same phrases and
both leaped from their buggy the moment
1t cambered in. The frightened horse
careered down the road and was found the
next morning five miles away The ghost
sprang out after riding quarter Of mile
and disappeared in the woods.
Aaother young man, returning home
from escorting his girl from a country
dance, saw the thing rise suddenly in the
roadside. He dashed his horse into a gallon
and. turning in at the next farmhouse
could not be induced to stir a step until
daylight. searching party went back
over the road, but could find nothing.
Others tell Of similar experiences
They describe the ghost as large ball
Of fire. from which can DO seen arms and
legs protruding in disorderly array. Ii
moves with lightning speed, and invariably
appears at a lonely spot in the road, where
there is a small bridge crossing creek
the banks OF which are thickly lined with
brush. The occupants of the farmhouse
nearby say they are awakened in the night
by rappings upon the doors, first one and
then another. Upon opening them there
Is nothing in sight.
The first time the noise was heard a
feminine member OF the family opened the
door, only to have it slammed in her face.
She could not open il again. The father
and son tried to force it open but were
unable to move it an inch. The next morn
ing it worked easily upon it's hinges This
family is panic-stricken and has practically
abandoned the place.
Galloway whiskey has some powerful
properties, but none of those who
have seen the ghost partake of IL. An
effort is to be made next week to lay the
ghost.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
FEiTS or A ONE-HANDED MAN.
John 4. De Baum. Printer. Miller. MelOdeOn
Maker. GunsmIth and Author.

! A three minutes walk from the station
at Ta!lman, Rockand county, y. Y, brings
one to two-story building close by little
stream and an artificial pond. Here John
| A. De Baum has worked many years, ac-
comprising what it might seem impossible
I for any one to do without a pair of good
| hands.
! Mr. De Baum was born Jan. 8, 1927 When
! two years old he suffered stroke of paraly-
sis which left his right arm useless. There
is a little activity in the hand. which can
feebiy grasp an object placed in it,
Fairly he manifested a mechanical turn
of mind and when n boy surprised his
parents and phynates by making TOYS
A stock and dies made out of horseshoe
nail rod with file, bow guns, matchbox
guns, turning lathe, windmills and water
wheels operating trip-hammers were some
of the boys handiwork.
When young man he made the atterns
for much of the iron work Of a lathe which
he has used for fifty years and more. This
lathe is made eft-handed. especially adapted
for his use.
He built up general repairing business.
and repaired guns, clocks. pumps, tinware,
and the like. ne has uiau,; many "A gun
stock, and he constru ted wooden -barrelled
gun, which has been successfully fired
Having both fondness and a good ear
for music II was natural for him TO become
lnterestei IN musical instruments. He
nrst TOOK up the accordion, and for years
nag sooa business IN repairing such
Instruments wheh they were used more
thah they are today.
Ahout lhe beginning OF the civil war
ne started 10 make melodeons He did
the WORK himself; even 70 saving the scroll
tor the n"oRracks' putting the ivory on
the Keys, N"htrr'ng me case and tuning
and rolcing the reeds. Few men have
more completely Lnllt musical Instruments
that mas Mr' ip hauir ms melodeons were
ho,eG i"r helnE well uit ard fun and
rich in tone The organ has displaced the
mr'o ieon' ana Mr., DE Baum has practically
ceased IN" manufacture OF mt steal iustr,i-
ments
me printer realm was next invaded,
and Tor several Years Mr. De Ra,n did quite
business III Ite way OF printing circulars
ana lane Is Not satisfied with his press,
ne 10y ingenious devices converted it into
sen-lnking rotary press,
Aholt twenty years ago Mr. De Baum
decided 10 pun set OF millstones into his
snon and grind his own chicken feed
WIN no eSpell'nc IN such work he cut
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
TAXES on ADJUSTMENTS.
/ Russian Charfty-American Theatres
Pay SlSO,OOO Year In License Fees.

Some one in England has made the dis
covery that Russia has "the most curious
tax in the world" 1t is called the amuse-
ment tax and was instituted about two
years ago to found an institution for the
poor under the title of the Empress Marie
Foundation"
The tax is laid upon every amusement
ticket sold and the managers increase the
price accordingly. Already more than
1000 ,0c0 roubles have been raised
million roubes has an impressive sound,
but when reduced to American money it
does not amount TO 80 much. A Russian
rouble, according to the standard of value
of foreign coins fixed by the United States
Treasury, is 81 cents, and a million roubles
is about half million dollars.
Under the War Tax bill which went into
effect soon after the beginning of the Span
ish-American War, every theatre in the
country had to pay 800 annual tax, and the
sum obtained from this source was SAT, 17S
in the first year and S47 sos in the second.
Each of the theatres in the country pays
an additional local tax, and in New York
city this tax, which is $500 for each house,
amounts to SIS 900 year, exclusive of the
internal revenue tax, Actually. in year,
there is collected from theatres in the
United States about sl5O,OOO, exclusive
of 100000 year from crcuses, or,
put according TO the Russian monetary
standard, the equivalent of half million
roubles year.
An amusement tax ia by no means new
One has been in force in France for fully
century. and stated percentage of all the
revenues Of the theatres OF Paris il turned
over to charitable purposes each year
There are few countries. and fewer cities,
which do not collect some tax from the
patrons OF amusements, and the Russian
application Of the idea Is not an innovation.
1t is merely an imitation.
More money is spent for amusement
in the United States than in any other coun-
try in the world In no other country
are the restrictions upon amusements 80
few.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
BUYS RAILROADS Quickly.
President ID. r. IOakum's Way-ROck
island system second In Size.

One Of the results of recent events in
Wall Street is that the Rock Island system
has in two years become the second road,
AZ regards mileage, in the United States.
1t has nearly 1850 miles of track. This
result was due TO the purchase Of the Sea
board Air Line system by the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad, which belongs to
the Rock Island system.
In connection with the Seaboard and
Terre Haute deals, Wall Street has found
time to wonder at the methods Of President
b. + Yoakum of the Frisco Railroad when
it is question of buying railroads Within
two years the silent and self-contained man
who directs the 'Frisco's affairs has ought
four railroads, and in every case has begun
and closed the transaction within twenty
four hours.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23

her neck, and one that high" lowering
her hand to her waist, -and the baby
who takes care Of them alp"
Il do, and do the housework, too"
II don't believe in children volunt eered
an ex-little mother who had gradual ed, as
many of them do, from housekeeping in a
tenement to- work in a department store,
and was spending her vacation at Hunt er's
Island "Why not? That's easy. Be-
cause they cost too much. and you can't
tend to them right if you have to work
Yourself"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-08
RAIL WAY STRIKE AVERTED.
The Rock Island Company Makes
Concessions Demanded by Its
Conductors and Trainmen.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-After a long con-
ference between General Manager c.
A. Goodenow, of the Rock Island Rail-
way company, and committees of train
men and conductors over the wage
scale demanded, the company made
concessions which may avert strike.
Officials of the railway brotherhoods
are maintaining great secrecy about
the negotiations and refused to say
what offer had been made.
The conference was attended by e.
E. Clarke, chief of the Conductors
union; w. G. Lee, first vice grand
master of the trainmen; J. T. Joyce,
chairman of the conductors meeting,
and w. V. Bailey, chairmon of the
was held in the Offices of the company
at the new La Sale street station.
Mr.. Joyce said when it was over:
There is now no danger of strike.
We have practically reached an I'M
Outstanding and expect no trouble"
The trainmen and conductors of the
Rock Island road have been demand
ing an increase Of from 12h to Is per
cent. in wages, and negotiations pend
ing for the last six weeks reached Tie
acute stage Tuesday, when it is said
the men were ready to present an
ultimatum to the company that unless
their demands were granted they
would call strike.
The wages asked are the standard
railway rates recently granted by SO
other roads.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-08

Lecturer New York state sfansal
IN enthusiastic worker and wise
counselor. She Is one Of the best
grange speakers on the platform today,
always interesting, always impressive.
Her ability along this line has been
recognized in her assignment, during
the winter, to address farmers inst1-
tutes, and she never suffers In COM
parison with the speakers Of the
"sterner SEX Mrs. Lord was in
charge Of the grange headquarters at
the Pan-American at Buffalo, and there
many Patrons had the pleasure Of
meeting her. The marked success Of
the venture-for such it was-was due
in great measure to her presence thers
and to her careful and painstakin8
oversight Of all details. She was elect
ed worthy lecturer Of the state grange
In 1901 and is one Of its most efficient
officers. III "