The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1903-02-20

Senator George Turner, Secretary O
War Root and Senator Lodge have been
/ appointed by the president as the com
mission to meet the British commission
| regarding the Alaskan boundary.
| One person was cremated, two fatally
hurt, two Others seriously injured and
seven buildings totally destroyed by fire
IN Ierentum. a village II miles north OF
Pittsburg, Pa
The blizzard which has been raging
over Wyoming for the paat three daye
Is over, but has been followed by weather
| so intensely cold that stockmen are 40
prehensive.
An order has been received in Denver
from the war department for the aban-
donment of Fort Grant in Arizona.
Plate glass window fronts of four of
tie finest Kansas avenue saloons
OF Topeka have been smashed by Miss
Biance Boise, disciple OF Mrs. Carrie
Nation.
Sunday, February 10.
One OF the severest billiards. experi.
enced in years is raging in the middle
west from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
The storm is accompanied by much snow
and heavy winds, and many trains are
delayed.
Lieutenant General Miles and party
have arrived at New York from their
trip around the world. They are all in
excellent health.
DR.. Albert Alonzo Ames, formerly
mayor OF Minneapolis, has been arrested
at Hancock, n. H., by the local author
tiles al the request of the Minneapolis
officials. He is wanted in the flour
city for Offering bribes
A sleigh containing a party of 10 men
and women was struck by Rio GranJp
passenger train in Salt Lake. One of
the occupants Of the sleigh was killed
and the Others thrown in every direction,
all being more or less seriously Injured.
The United States cruiser Albany has
sailed from Brooklyn navy yard for her
cruise in the Mediterranean. The cruiser
Will receive orders upon reaching Algiers.
During the week call is to be issued
by Naval Constructor Wright OF the
Puget Sound navy yard for $50 joiners
and ship carpenters, upon whom will de-
vOIve the work OF converting the United
States cruiser Philadelphia into a receiv-
ing ship.
At the close of the session at Detroit
OF the American ROadmakers all of the
old officers were reelected, with H. S.
Earle OF Detroit as president and Chas.
ID. Willard OF Los Angeles as vice presi-
dent.
Monday, February 10
The immigration season opened up at
st. Paul with a temperature of from 10
to 38 degrees below zero. NOtwith
standing this unfayOrable situation the
west bound roads report that the sg
gregate number of hOmeseekers was,
about 800. They were about evenly d.
vided between the roads and most OF
them left for the far northwest.
Two thousand dentists from all parts
OF the country are in Chicago to attend
the celebration of the fifteenth anniver
sary OF the Odontographic society Of
Chicago.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of George B. Cortelyou to be sec
retary of commerce and labor under the
act creating the new department. Few
other men in American public life are
more widely or more favOrablv known
The Philippine currency bill passed by
the senate prescribes that the unit Of
value in the Philippines shall be the gold
peso of 1919 grains of gold, nine-tenths
fine. The gold coins Of the United
States at the rate of 81 for two pesos
shall be legal tender in the islands The
bill also provides for the issue OF certifi-
Gates of Indebtedness to maintain the
parity of the silver and gold pesos.
Eight persons were killed and four in
jured by an explosion in the Peter &
Fox Magazine Cane factory at Fostorio,
Ohio.
Tuesday. February II
Franklin Baer, who was arrested in
Baltimore on Sunday, on the charge of
robbery, has told the detectives that he
was concerned in the recent hoIdup Oh
the Northern Pacific in Montana in
which he secured the larger part OF the
sum OF $11 $50, which he saws is to his
credit in the DrOver's National bank Of
Chicago.
The government has formally accepted
the offer OF the Panama Canal company
to sell the canal property and all the
compauy's rights therein for $40.000,-
600, subject to the ratification of the
pending treaty with Colombia.
1t is the present intention of the navy
department to order Captain Purnell F.
Harrington, now of the New York navy
yard, to Bremerton, to take charge of
the Puget Sound yard.
Preparations are practically com
pleted for a protest against the grant
ing by the governor and counsel of ex-
tradition papers for the removal to
Minnesota of former Mayor Ames of
Minneapolis, who has been arrested in
New Hampshire.
While WOTkmen were engaged in tear
ing down an old engine house at Placer
vile, Cal, one OF the brick walls fell,
burying several people. Two are dead
and several injured as a result OF the
accident.
Intense cold, the most severe OF the
winter, is being experienced in the middle
! western states. At Louisville, KY, the
thermometer registered "a. degrees be-
low zero.
According to a published statement
Richard Croker has reconsidered his in.
tention of coming to America for a visit
before 1904.
A Mothers Recommendation.
I have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy for a number of years and have