The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-07

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umet and Hecla company, whose mines
adIoln the Osceola, recently granted a
similar increase TO it's employees.
Unless the fuel famine in Nevada ia
/ broken Immediately, says a Reno dis
| patch, suffering and sickness and per-
haps death will follow in the wake of the
storm which has been raging for the past
Two days in southern Nevada.
At many points in Minnesota the fuel
| question has reached the acute stage.
At GarretsOn, S. D, many residents
| threaten to move away unless furnished
| with coal.
| The war and navy departments have
| nnalIy decided the arrangements OF the
stars IN the national flag when Oklaho-
ma comes into the union The second
and nth rows will contain seven stars
each, while the first, third, fourth and
sixth will have eight.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad today filed with the secretary of
state articles increasing the capital stock
q the company S15O000. 900 For so
DONG the company paid S150,O1O.
Sunday, December z.
The passage Of the approximation bills
| and as little other general legislation as
possible. Such in brief is the forecast
Tor the short session of the Fifty-ninth
congress, which will begin at noon to-
morrow.
The magnificent stained glass window.
qedlcated TO the memory of the late
John Hay, WAS unveiled TODAY in the
lar 10
enfIal Jewish church in Philadelphia.
The annual report of the commissioner
OF Internal revenue. John W. Yerkes, for
the past fiscal wear, shows total receipts
n $249, ,1O2, ,73S, an excess of Saba
'o2 over the preceding year.
With winter at hand and more or less
serious railroad blOckades threatened at
any time the entire country west of the
Missouri river and almost from the Can
adian border to the Rio Grande is run
ming literally on little more than hand.
ful of coal
Tomorrow the government land Office
at Lawton, Okla. will begin receiving
bids for l, 100000 acres of land iu the |
hloWa, COmma0che and Apache Indian |
reservations in Oklahoma, carrying out |
an act OF congress opening to settlement |
The land is spoken of az the "big past |
ure." Most of it is good for farming |
purposes.
Chicago saloons are TO be closed next |
Sunday for the first time in decades. if |
the Sunday closing league succeeds in its |
plans to force Mayor Dunne's hand by |
means OF writ OF mandamus.
Silverware and valuables, including the |
handsome service presented by the CITY |
of Minneapolis, have been stolen from |
the cruiser Minneapolis at League Island, |
Philadelphia The articles stolen will |
aggregate $4,000 in value.
Mayor Schmitz, OF San Francisco, and |
Abe Ruef will be called on to answer
to the indictments in the French restaur- |
ant cases 10 Judge Dunne's court to-
morrow. Both will plead not guilty to |
the charges of extortion.
Monday, December 8.
The second session of the Fifty. ninth |
congress assembled in Washington to.
day, both houses being called to order at |
noon.
The federal supreme court today de.
MED the habeas corpus OF Meyer, Hay.
wood and PettihOne, the representative
OF the Western Federation of Miners,
who are now held in prison in Idaho on
the charge OF completely in the murder
OF ez-GovernOr Steunenberg, adversely
to the men. The opinion was by Justice
Harlan. The effect of the decision will
be to continues to hold the men for trial
in Idaho.
The president sent to the senate the
following nominations: Secretary of the
treasury, George B. COrtelyou; attorney
Fhar
master general, George Won L. Never
secretary of the navy, Victor FL. Metcalf;
secretary OF the interior, James R. Gar
field; secretary OF commerce and labor,
Oscar s. Straus; associate Justice su-
preme court, William H. Moody.
Secretary Shaw recommends appropri-
ations as follows: Continuation of work
on public buildings. Spokane, 81 so 900;
Tacoma, $155, 900; Moscow, Idaho, $15,-
900; for work on The Dalles Cello
canal, $75O,00O.
More coal lands have been withdrawn
from entry in Utah. This is another
blow at the coal land grabbers.
The restoration host" which was
built up by John Alexander Dowie at
Chicago after years OF strenuous effort,
will shortly be left to it's creditors by
Oyerseer Wilbur Glenn YoIiva, who, like
new Moses, will lead his people forth
from the discredited gates to found
another Zion.
John Alexander Dowie's mind became
blank today. The followers of the
wonderful old man sadly shook their
heads. Their grief gave evidence of a
firm belief that the intellect that had
swayed them so long had departed
Tuesday, December 5.
President Roosevelt in his message to |
congress demands that the japanese in
the United States be given a fair deal.
and says be will enforce the laws.
The jury in the trial of Chester E
Gillette, former schoolboy OF Spokane,