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The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
Thursday, January IL,

Because the young lady he intended to
marry and for whom he had built and
furnished a new home Tilted him, Z.
DrOissart, a wealthy man of Victoria,
B. O., hanged himself with window cord
in his room. He was so years Of age.
The theater managers of New York
are trying to prevent J. s. Metcalf, the
editor Of Life" from going to any shows
The leading theatrical managers there
are Hebrews and Life" has been merciless
in it's dramatic criticisms and cartoons
OF the Jews.
P. R. Piersor, a wealthy resident of
Tarrytown, n. u, has purchased Of a
Massachusetts florist a carpation plant
for $50, 900. 1t is an entirely new bios
som developed from an eccentric carna-
tioD found in bed Of Lawson flowers.
Crazed with jealousy and drink Geo
Rowland, switchman employed in the
Southern Pacific yards at Oakland Cal,
ehot and killed his wife and then drew
razor across his throat, almost severing
his head from his body.
The Hotel keswick at keswick, Cal,
was robbed of $1667 in cash and $500
in cheeks by two men who held up the
barkeeper and the proprietor j. n. Stew
enson. There is no clew to the identity
of the robbers
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Moore sells oil meal aud stock goods
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
The Good Old WAY.

A severe cold or attack of la grippe is
like fire, the sooner you combat it the
better your chances are to Overpower it.
But few mothers in this age are willing
TO do the necessary work required to
give good old-fashioned reliable treat
ment such as would be administered by
their grandmothers, backed by Boschee' g
German Syrup, which was always liber-
ally used in connection with the home
treatment of colds and is still in greater
household favor than any known
remedy. But even without the applica-
ton of the old fashioned aids, German
Syrup will cure severe cold in quick
time. 1t will cure colds in children or
grown people. 1t relieves the congested
organs, allays the irritation, and effec-
lively stops the cough. Any child will
take it. 1t ls invaluable in househol
of children. Trial size bottle, 25c; regu.
lar size, 75c.
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General Claims.
The following claims were examinad
and allowed on the current expense
fund:
Duf, Il, salary as assessor ..esr
Engle, g expense as constable So
Eni Ei,is Ds DDLus 60 supplies for court house 90
E Eins Drug Co. supplies for clerk 10
EIns Drug 60, supplies for sheriff 10
Faught, Otis 4, supplies for co CLERK 4 ~
Godudard. b, supplies for co farm as 90
Dnras5 30rus' salary as clerk ia sur
Hanna Rfnn M salary as pros attorney. IS IS
hipP, n. expense as dep pros attorney ( 50
emaCEachern, JOS, supplies for indfgents S 20
Mccoy, W G, salary as co commisstonar 10 M
nicCaW' Y, supplies for co clerk 90
raIneF, u ", livery for surveyor . %
rae states & I Co, rental and service
kgPIey' J B. salary as co commissioner. u 90
squlbb, K X, meals for Jury - "a
smith, { h. supplies for indigeuts 10 ~
Wnndes r. salary as co commissioner. u "
Woous, Dehnls +. exp Of surveys office $50
n ~ ooIs ~, pennls I. salary as surveyor . 35 %
me claim OF VIM Stairet for seryices as
suard at Eiberton picnic In the sum of
$l2OO was rejected.
Road and Bridge Claims.
The following road and bridge claims
were examined and allowed on the
road and bridge fund:
Dlerks, Fred G. labor on co road ssz 90
C9stS ID the survey of the Dayc hauge
IN Moniux road ..,....................o Is 90
Costs IN the survey Of the change in d.
". Brldgeman road. 400
Road District Claims.
The following claims we're examined
and allowed on the various road district
funds:
DISTRICT No. 2.
oochrah' a. laoor.....-. .............$ 20
DISTRICT No 8.
Bilsland. Charley, labor. Sla26
Davis, Phil 1s m
Stan, Ed, N
Trlber, Fred, " ID go
DISTRICT No. 4.
Miller, ] J. ;" ., r ~ 90
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
Saturday, January IL.

Rev. NJ. L. Stimson, a South Sea mis-
sionary who arrived at San Francisco
on the steamer Dorice, brings the details
of the murder of five Catholic priests
and five nuns at New Britain, one of the
Caroline islands, last October. After the
murders the savages ate the bodies Of
their victims.
fire in the paint department OF the
New Jersey state reformatory threw the
inmates into a panic, many of them
praying, singing and cursing. Thirty
prisoners were overcome by smoke be-
fore they could be liberated; but all re-
covered. The loss by fire was trivial.
Deposits OF Chicago banks are greater
now by $10,0O0,000 than were ever re-
ported before. The total in the five ma
tiOnal and % state institutions is in
excess of 1902, 100000. The gain in
deposits for the year is nearly $780,
100000.
Five persons were suffocated and died
in fire that broke out in a dwelling
house on West Thirteenth street, n. 7.
One of the victims was w. I. Mason, a
prominent lawyer.
Government temperature readings in
the middle west today we're as follows:
Chicago, degrees below zero; Wichita,
Kans., 10 degrees below; La Crosse,
Wis, 20 degrees below; Salina, Kan, p
degrees below.
Sunday, January IS.
A fanatic giving his name as "Gessler
Rousseau" who was arrested at Philadel
phia last Thursday with an Internal ma
/ chine in his possession, has admitted to
the police that he is the man who at,
tempted to destroy the statute OF Fred
rick the Great at Washington, D c., anC
also that he sent the Internal machine tC
the steamer Umbria in New York las
May.
John Brant, one of the publishers 0
the Veederburg (Ind.l News, and Chas
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
Imperfect Digestion

Means less nutrition and in conse.
quence less vitality. When the liver fails
to secrete bile, the blood becomes loaded
with bilious properties, the digestion be.
comes impaired and the bowels consti.
pated. Herbine will rectify this; it gives
tone to the stomach, liver and kidneys,
strengthens the appetite, clears and i'm
proves the complexion, infuses new life
and vigor TO the whole system. so cents
a bottle. Sold by Elk Drugstore.
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Ihe monthly report of the Florence
Crittenten Mission was approved.
Appointments Approved.
The following appointments of depu-
ties were approved:
I. ]. Welty, deputy auditor.
Maud l.. Marsh, deputy auditor.
l.. T.. Abrams, deputy assessor for
seven months.
Geo; L Corner, deputy county clerk.
A. X. Metz, deputy treasurer.
G. B. Carter, deputy sheriff.
A. E. Nessley, deputy sheriff.
The appointment of VIM. Curry az
deputy sheriff was rejected.
J. Howard was appointed sheep COM
missioner for Whitman county.
Appointments.
+. Davidson and Chas. Won Soehnen
were. appointed janItors at the court
house.
R. A. Cox was appointed superinten-
dent OF the county farm.
I. II. Mckinney was appointed county
nuree for Whitman county.
A. K. Stuht was appointed county
health officer and county physician for a
period of one year at a salary of 500 per
month, and his bond was approved.
Upon the petition OF j. Cam pbell and
others of Pampa precinct, L. Plowman
was appointed justice of the peace of
Pampa Precinct, No. 81
Road Supervisors Appointed.
The following persons were appointed
road supervisors for the year 1906:
E. E. Huntley, supervisor dist. Mol.
J. W. Anderson, %.
E. E. Sherfey, %.
Frank McClintock, ~.
The applications of S. A. Bodine, w.
W. Robertson and H. T. Horton for ap-
polntments as supervisors were rejected.
Miscellaneous.
The assessor was authorized to employ
"A field deputy assessors to make the
assessment for 1905 and the salary fixed
ats 300 per day.
U. l.. Ettinger was allowed $40 for
balance payment of his claim of $3.50,
which had been disallowed by the board
at the September meeting.
John w. Matthews was allowed $40.
balance payment of his claim for 500
which had been disallowed at the Sep
tember meeting of the board.
The board fixed the salaries of the
county employees at the same amounts
as for the year 1904 and the same num-
Der Of employees allowed.
The application of F. G. Davidson for
duplicate warrant issued in july for
&.25, which has been lost, was allowed
and duplicate warrant ordered Issued.
Bonds Approved.
The bond of w. II. Thomas and others
to remove, relay and re-establish a GER
tain pipe line owned by VIM. Huntley
on the county road was approved.
The following constables; and iustices'
bonds were approved:
John McMahan. constable, prect. 30.
Y. .Engle, constable, precinct 40.
j. b. Holt, constable, prect. Al and 81.
j: r. Hill, constable, prect. Al and 81.
VIM. Swain, justice Of the peace No.
Al and 81.
The board liked the time for the hear
ing of the surveyors report on the fol-
lowing named roads as follows:
Day change in Monlux road, Feb. y,
1905, at o'clock.
Change in D. W. Bridgeman road,
Feb. 8, 1905, at 2 o'clock.
List of Jurors for 1905.
The following is list of jurors chosen
by the board for the year 1910;
Lounsbury, NJ, st John.
Lounsbury, N N, Sunset.
| Love, w, Albion.
Love, A, Colfax.
Love. L G, Garfield.
Low. Mart, Fallon.
Lowerv, J P, Palouse.
Lowery. G W, Moscow, Idaho.
Iubben, Fred, Dusty.
Lncus. Riley, Palouse.
/ Luce, II K. Albion.
Lucken, II T, st John
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For Rent,

Large bedroom on ground floor, well
furnished, near center OF town. Inquire
at Gazette Office for location.
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WANTED-Land Give particulars.
Will invest in irrigation project. d. 3.
Wallace, Box 1868, Spokane.
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Friday, January IS

The National Live Stock association
in session at Denver, Col, was rent in
twain by the adoption of new consti-
tuition which admitted the packers and
railroad managers to membership. The
sheepmen agreed to the new rule, but all
the other stockmen withdrew and formed
a new association.
The Postal Progress league at its
meeting in New York decided to prepare
papers asking the .. S. supreme
court for a restraining order to prevent
Senator T. c. Platt from taking his seat.
1t is charged that the senator, who is
president of one of the large express
companies refused to lend his aid in Sc
curing the enactment of a parcel post
bill because such measure would be in
imicable to his company.
1t took jury at Kansas City just six
minutes to find verdict of murder in
the first degree against Frank Hoffman
who was tried for killing Charles Meyers,
a printer, at the latter's home in Kansas
City May 10 last. Meyers widow is in
jail awaiting trial for completely in the
murder.
The FIVE textile unions involved in the
cotton mill strike at Fall River, Mass,
voted to confer on the textile council full
power to settle the strike or conduct
other negotiations with the mill owners.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
THEIR FIRST REPORT
New Board of County Commits
siOners.
They Prepare a Largo Jury List
and Transact Other Business
OF Importance.

The members of the new board OF
county commissioners met on Monday,
January 8, 1905, and organized by elect
ing b. +. Sherfey as chairman.
General Claims.
The following claims were examined
ana allowed on the current expense
fund.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-01-20
BETWEEN THE OCEANS
Concise Summary of the Wired
News of a Week.
Important Happenings and Things
OF Interest from All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, January IL.

Frank 2. Flint OF Los Angeles was
chosen in the republican caucus at Sacre-
mento, Cal. for United States senator.
he Is a wealthy lawyer and served for
four years as u. 5, attorney for the
Southern District OF California.
In Utah the joint caucus of the repub-
lican members of the legislature unanim-
ousy endorsed George Switzerland for
u. ). senator to succeed Thomas kearns
Mr.. SOutl e-land, while not a mormon,
received the support OF II e mormon mem
bers OF the legislature
With pistol and razor, John Miller.
cOoh, killed his wife aud infant daughter
at Chicago, fatally wounded another
young daughter and then attempted sui
eide. Jealousy WAS the cause.
One of the largest buildings OF the
plant of the Farr Il Bailey Company
manufactures OF oil cloths at Camden,
n. j., was burned. Loss, $50, 900.
The boilers of locomotive on the fast
express on the Erie road blew up while
standing at the station at Creston, Ohio,
killing Engineer Keller and Fireman
Halfck
President Roosevelt announced that
unless the present congress enacts legis-
lation looking to q regulation of rail-
road freight rates, an extra session will
be called. He regards the Interstate com
merce question as the paramount issue
before the American people.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
WRECK COST $SSI,OOO.
More Costly to Insurance Companies Than
to the Railroad.

CHICAGO, June 2s.--The wreck OF the
Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake
Shore cost S77l 900. This is the estimate
made to-day. following the disbursement
by two life insurance companies OF $2es 600
to heirs Of the dead. or this sum 500 900
was paid on life policies ard $lee 900 on ao-
cident policies. There remains yet to he
paid by life insurance companies for deaths
In this wreck $50 900.
How much the railway company affected
by the wreck must pay is something Of a
question. but the figures among local COM
panies to-. day show that Sos ,O00 will he paid
for nineteen deaths without litigation.
Injury claims are estimated to represent
at the present time without litigation
$500 900. The loss OF the engine stands
for $25 900 and Of the library car $4,000.
To these figures is to be added for incidental
losses not enumerated, such az delay OF
trains, track repairs, investigation e1-
penses, &c, $3.50
The total OF this is Ss55. 900. which, added to
what the insurance companies have dis
bursed. makes S77i 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
~ INCH RIFLE PIER(ES iRNOR
One shell Passes Through Plate ~ Inches
Thick -t;ei,. WINS sees Test.

SANDY HOOK, June IS. Brig Gen Sam
rlel W. Mills chief OF artillery and president
Of the Board Of Ordnance and Fortiiication-,
made his first official visit to the proving
grounds to-day. After witnessing fring-
from rapid fire guns, his party, which in
cluded the members of the torpedo 8 'hool
Of Fort Totten, under command of Major
Murray, went Two miles down the beach to
the lower end of the firing range. where IA
SPECIALLY mounted II inch coast defense
rife had been prepared for firing high ex-
plosives.
Facing it and near the high water mark
was an ar,nor plate. ~ by feet, IS
inches in thickness, fastened to an oaken
backing. Two arIor piercing shells were
fired under ordinary service conditions.
each Loaded with twenty pounds Of duanite
Or high explosive D., dis it l. also called,
each shell weighing | 900 pounds. The first
she'll went through the plate and burst in the
sand. but the second shell burst while pier
cling the target and did considerable dam
age. The test of the gun was considered
successful.
A trial will soon he made firing agains;
battleship armor. The target, built at the
navy yard, Brooklyn, was delivered at
the sandy Hook wharf YESTERDAY
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
BOLT AND FLOOD FRDM THE BIZ
Tank ship struck 10y lightning anu Ncari!
Swamped by Rain-Sky clear.

The oil tank steamship Maverick, in
Yesterday from Port Arthur, Tex. tow
ing a barge. was about 100 miles south OF
Hatteras on Monday night sailing serenely
through a gentle swelling sea and under
clear sky when bolt came out OF the
ernpyrean striking and splintering the
mainmast of the ship and carrying away
the port main rigging.
The De Forest wireless apparatus at
tached to the topmast absorbed most OF
the electricity, The wireless operator.
who had been chatting few minutes before
with the Mallory liner Denver. had just left
his office when the lightning struck.
There had not been breath of air, and
Capt. Read marveled at the phenomenon
which was'followed by torrent of rain that
smashed in the awnings and split two
trysails.
The food. which Capt. Read described
as a cloudburst OF suddenly formed
cloud lasted only minute and a half.
1t came in 50 tremendous a volume that the
ships decks we're waist deep with water.
The skipper said that II the downpour
had continued two minutes longer 1t would
have swamped the ship.
The wireless plant was not put out OF
commission, and the operator made known
TO the De Forest folks here. as he was coming
up the coast yesterday morning the ship
experience in the sudden storm
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
BLOWN OFT or STREET TRENCH
Isborer Hits Fragment OF Dynamite
With ITS Hammer After . Blast.

Patrick Golden OF All Fast Sixty-third
street and Michael Philips Of .So East Thirty
fourth street rockrnen employed by John
Slattery. a contractor OF gas Park avenue,
are in the Presbyt erian Hospital. suffering
from contusons aud lacerated wounds
of the face and body. rs the result OF IL small
dynamite explosion yesterday afternoon
in an excavation on First avenue between
Sixty eighth and Sixty ninth streets Stat
terry is building new conduit on this block
for the Edison company. The excavation
I. only on one side of the street, and is about
four feet wide. After n light charge had
been exploded. Yesterday, Golden and
Philips Jumped into the excavation tn
break of the sharp ends of the exposed
rock. Both had hammers. and the one
Philips used struck a fragment OF dynamite.
He and Golden were blown out Of the
excavation into the roadway
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
an ARMY SCANDAL nook.
EA.t'ap,. kIrkman Writes a Novel About
Ills Experience.

KANSAS CITY. Mo. June 2s,-George w
krkman. ex-Captain OF INFANTRY. l. 5. A.,
now prisoner in the Federal foiii eiitiaf y
at Fort Leavenworth. is to appear soon
as an author. He has written book that
pretends to portray the dark side OF socia
life in the army. The book was written
while Kirkman was under arrest In Fort
Niobrara. charged with enough breaches
of good conduct to dismiss a hundred
officers. Under the title Thirty Years Of
Army Life" kirkman il to tell all Of the
scandals that have come to him "a officer d
son, cadet and officer. Kirkman has been
tried by courts-martial five times,
His manuscript is now in the hands OF a
Chicago publisher, and wealthy relatives
Of the ex-officer are said to be assisting in
the publication. 1t In expected to he out
In a few weeks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
FILIPINO STUDENT WEDS.
Antonio T.. Torres Marries al American
l:lrl In Washington.

WASHINGTON. June ?s. Antonio G. Torres
of Manila p l.. one Of the large colony OF
Filipino students in this country, was
married to-day at half past | o'clock to
Miss Alberta $. James. in the rectOry Of
st. Patricks Catholic Church.
Mr. Torres is student in the George
town College and the bride is pupil in
the Georgetown convent. They will lie
members Of the party which will sail on the
Manchuria with the Secretary OF War FOR
Manila. The bridegroom's father is Chief
Justice OF the Philippines.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
DIR. HARPER on HIS WAY HERE
Leaves Chicago for Rest and TO he Treated
by DR.. Me13urney.

CHICAGO. H., June 2s,-President W. R.
Harper Of the University Of Chicago left
this afternoon on the Twentieth Century
Limited for New York, accompanied by
Mrs. Harper. He expects to be absent
about a week 1t was stated at his home
that he took the trip in order to secure
res and to continue the treatment he Is
receiving under charge OF DR.. MoBurney.
Members OF his family and OF the faculty
say that DR.. Harper has been improving
steadily and this trip to New York need
cause no alarm concerning his condition.
While In New York DR.. Harper may attend
the sessions OF the National Educational
Association.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
WON'T PAY FOR SILVER SERVICE.
Trouble Over CIT OF kansas to Her Name.
sake Battiestlip.

TOPEKA. Kan, June 2s-Seth q. Wells,
Auditor OF State, informed the members
OF the executive committee this afternoon
that he intends to refuse to audit the war
rants for the purchase OF a silver service for
the battleship Kansas. Mr.. Wells says that
while the Legislature made an appropria-
tion OF 81. 900 for the purchase of the silver
service 1t failed to designate by whom the
money il to be expended. He does not
believe that the executive committee has
authority to make the Governor a purchas-
ing agent, and will refuse to audit warrants
for any part Of the appropriation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
PATTISON AND TEMPERANCE.
Dem ooratic Candidate and issue In ohio
-JOhnsOn's Plank In.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 20. John NJ. Patti
son OF Cincinnati, president Of the Central
Union Life Insurance Company, was nomi-
mated for Governor by the Ohio Democratic
convention on the second ballot to-day
M. A. Daugherty Of Lancaster, the tenn
porary chairman, denounced George b.
Cox, the Republican Cincinnati leather, and
called the last Republican State convention
grafters' meeting. He accused Gov. Her
rick Of bargaining with the raoehorse men
and then becoming weak kneed and vetoing
the poolseling bill, and OF making con-
tract with the liquor people before his cleo
ton and throwing them down to curry
favor with the Anti-Saloon League people
after he was in Office.
As to Chairman Taft's address, he chal-
lenged the sincerity of the cry for extension
Of the powers OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission and attacked President Roose
welt for his appointment Of Paul Morton.
"a self-confessed lawbreaker."
The platform az adopted Is a victory for
Tom l.. johnson Of Cleveland, who was
defeated last night In his efforts to get
through plank calling for the taxation
Of railroads as other property is taxed
This plank was adopted to-day by the COM
mittee and convention. He was defeated,
however, on his two cent railroad fare
plank.
By the nomination Of Pattison temperance
is made the leading issue in the coming CAM
paign. Gov. Herrick who recently was
renominated. has been attacked for his
alleged opposition to the Brannock local
option law by the Anti-Saloon League,
whose candidate Pattison is declared to be-
In accepting the nomination Pattison said
he was in favor Of Christian Sabbath.
Az member Of the General Assembly and
Of Congress Pattison has aided temperance
legislation. Pattison was nominated by
the rural counties, those counties of large
population being divided among local can
didates. Charles F.. Mason, a Hamilton
brewer, is the nominee for State Treasurer
letter was received from John K Mclean
resigning as Ohio member Of the national
committee.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-29
MORILIZING THE RESERVES.
Go, ernmcnt VIII Assemble 80 .O<h| Men In
the Russian Capital.

Special Cdbie Despatch TO TrE SrS.
ST. PETEHsBuR". June 2s.-All the bar
ra cks and Government structures available
in the capital have been prepared for the
coming mobilization Of the reserves, an
operation which will last three weeks.
Eighty thousand men from st. Petersburg
and the surrounding factory districts will
I've assembled. A ukase ordering the levy
is expected to-day. 1t ia temporarily
withheld until Gen. Trepoff completes his
preparations for the prevention of trouble.