The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-14

The supreme court OF the United States
VIII be asked to pass on the constitu.
tionality of the eight hour law.
The Teachers federation, the union OF
which many Of Chicago's teachers are
members, was bitterly scored by DR.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president OF
Columbia university, at banquet OF
the Merchants club tonight.
The fuel famine in northwestern Da.
kota has assumed serious proportions
| lhe transcOntinental lines passing
through Minot are compelled to confis-
cate coal held by local dealers in order
TO keep trains running The Great Nor
thern TODAY confiscated several cars.
Former United States Senator Arthur
Brown OF Utah tonight lies in a critical
condition in the emergency hospital with
| a pistol shot wound in the abdomen in
fiicted by Mrs. Anna NJ. Bradley OF Salt
Lake, who arrived ia Washington today
from that city. Ii is the aftermath of
an old scandal connected with the couple
Brown may die.
The official count in Montana shows
that the republicans carried the state
last November by $40 plurality.
Sunday, December
Once more the entire Colorado river is
flowing into the Saltou sink and Impe-
rial ani Coacheia valleys are menaced
by rising waters.
News was received today at FL Paso,
Texas, OF the contamination OF the sale
OF two of the most famous gold and sill
yer mining properties in the state of So
nora. Las Chishas, famous producer,
has been sold TO New York and Paris
syndicate for 100000 pesos ($3,OOO,-
900 gold).
While there may be a strike at the
HOmestake mine at Lead, S. D., yet,
there is a postponement caused by the
action of 1900 miners at meeting to-
day. The question OF eight hour day
is the ultimatum.
The annual report of the postmaster
general shows that the receipts for the
year we're $167 ,932. 1872 95; the expendi-
lures $178, ,449,77 80: excess of expen-
ditures over receipts, $10.516, ,995 "a.
Monday, December 10
The cost of transporting the mails of
the United States during the last fiscal
year was $76, ,65S, 500.
In regard to the break in the Colorado
river endangering the Southern Pacific
tracks, General Manager E. E. Calvin at
San Francisco said today that the re
ports from Yuma were not encouraging
The water from the Colorado river is
pouring into SaltOn sink and a new road
bed will have to be built
Representative Kahn of California. in
troduced a bill today appropriating
So 900, 900 for the construction of tor
pedo boats to be used in the defense of
the Pacific coast.
Chester Z Gillette wde today sentenced
at Herkimer, n. Y, to die in the electric
chair at Auburn prison during the week
beginning January % The youth, con.
victed OF the murder OF Grace Brown,
showed NJ Sign OF emotion when Justice
BevendOrf pronounced sentence.
Secretary Shaw has announced that
he will deposit $10,000,000 in deposi
tory banks and that he will buy $1O,-
900, 900 in bonds of 1907.
Andrew Carnegie has sent to the board
of trustees of st. Viateur's college, Kan.
kakee, H., a check for $32 900 for the
was recently destroyed by fire.
southeast gale along the coast at a
rate of 4S miles an hour today, resulted
IN the death of one man in San Fran
cisco and in the severe injury of several
Others. Shipping in the harbor was
damaged considerably and in all quar-
ters Of the city tottering walls were
hurled to the ground, blocking streets
and interrupting traffic. Owing to
danger from falling walls street car SER
vice was entirely suspended.
Tuesday, December IL.
The SaltOn sea problem in the Colo
RADIO desert is a serious one. 1t is said
the Mexican government will be asked to
make the repairs to the canal, which is
on the Mexican side of the line.
The official returns from New York
shows that Hughes was elected governor
over Hearst by 57,973 votes.
The report of the director OF the mint
shows that the total coinage for the last
year was 167, 81 ,035 pieces, of the
value of $60,216,741. OF this, $53.
OO2,O97 was in gold coin, $4,O16,3 ,367
was subsidiary silver coin, $2,302,3 1897
was in cent nickes and 1896, ,SS4 was
in bronze l cent pieces.
A fierce snowstorm is raging in the
Sierra Nevada and Siskiyou mountains
in California and as a result trains on
all lines OF the Southern Pacific are late
It is said that 1900 men are now
working on the Panama canal, 5000 of
whom are white.