The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-28

House were today presented with tur
Keys, with the compliments OF the presi-
dent
All OF the coal mines at Scranton, Pa
are closed because there are no empty
cars to haul away the fuel. This is caus
ing great hardship among the miners
who are out OF work.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, wife OF the son
OF the former secretary of state, was
granted divorce at Yankton, N. ID.
| The grounds alleged in the complaint
we're nonsupport and desertion.
The will Of the late w. Bourien, who
died early this week, was prOhated at
Indianapolis this afternoon His estate
is said to approximate 81 100000 His
museum, containing one of the finest
geological collections in the country, is
left to the people Of Indiana
Senator Dubois of Idaho, it is said. /.
will go on the lecture platform after his
term expires in he senate
The war department has issued orders
that in purchasing horses for the caval-
ry arm OF the service white or gray be
excluded.
Sunday, December 23.
The annual report OF Miss Estelle Reel,
su oerintendent OF the Indian schools,
indicates that manual training is becom
ing a feature OF education among the
Indians and with entirely satisfactory
results.
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
citic will soon begin the grading of
cutoff which will leave the main line at
or near Miles City, Montana, and follow
10 ri
strike the present road not far from
Helena This will involve $50 miles OF
new track.
At mass meeting held in San Fran
cisco today under the auspices of the
japanese and Korean exclusion league,
formal protest in the form of resolutions
was made against the unrestricted ad-
mission of japanese and Koreans to the
United States and the admission of Mon
goliaOs to the public schools Of San
Francisco.
The Kansas, Mexico & Orient railroad,
projected from Kansas City to TopOlo.
bampo bay, will be running trains from
Kansas City to San Angelo, Texas, a
distance of I'll miles, by October, 1907
Secretary Taft and DR.. David P. Bar
rows, director of education of the
Philippines, spent several hours tonight
discussing the educational conditions in
the islands with President Roosevelt
DR.. BaIrOws told the president that
within six or seven years there would be
practically no ignorant children among
the 100000 OF Christianizpd Filipinos
Monday, December "a.
The college of ph, sicians in Phila-
i
from Andrew Carnegie of a 100000 do
nation to help build home and library
L. B. Hicks, the rescued Bakersfield
Cal, miner, this morning walked out
from the hospital with DR.. Stinchfield
and his 4 year old daughter, and assist
ed in cutting a Christmas tree in the
forest.
With practically all the members OF,
the Arctic expedition which left in July,
1905, under command of Robert +
Peary on voyage to discover the north
pole, the ship Roosevelt arrived in New
York bay tonight.
A strike at New Orleans ties up freight
on the Southern Pacific railroad. Pass
enger service only is handled.
The government thermometer reached
"a degrees at Jacksonville, Fla, today
It is believed the early vegetable crop il
seriously damaged.
As a result of strike called on Fri
day by the Industrial Workers Of the
World the miners of Goldfeld, New, are
leaving in trainloads. GOldfield is rapid
ly becoming a deserted city 1t has de-
creased from IL, 900 to about 1000.
The number of packages containing
Christmas presents received at the White
House this year is larger than for many
seasons and they come from all parts OF
the country.
The sixth annual report of the director
of education in the Philippines concern
ing the activities OF the educational work
in the islands for the year ending June
30. 1906, shows that there are now
3166 primary schools in the islands with
an average of 375,554 pupils. Seven
hundred American and 1924 Filipino
teachers are employed.
Tue output of Montana mines for
1906 is estimated at $80.00O,0O0.
Tuesday, December 20.
Three men we're killed and four fatally
wounded in battle late last night be-
tween guards employed by the West
hentuCky COdI COmphny at OCQrglS,
Union county, and striking miners at
that place.
S. K. McHarg, who recently sold his
Virginia < Southwestern railway to the
Southern, handsomely remembered all
his officials and employees He ran a
"Santa Claus" special over the line,
'Santa Claus" being the conductor To
every employe who had been in the ser
vice for one year Santa Claus" gave
one months salary as a Christmas gift
New York contributed today to the
most bounteous Christmas it has bad in
several years. Thirty-seven thousand
of the city's poor shared in the distribu-
tion OF Christmas dinners by the SALIVA
tion Army. Timothy ID. Sullivan and the
Bowery mission.
To add % miles to the water front OF
San Francisco, bill is to be introduced
at the coming session of the state legis-
lature for the annexation OF two thirds
of San MateO county to the city and
county OF San Francisco.
The 1000 printers who are still on
strike in the United States for an eight
hour working day will receive today
Christmas present from the Internation-
al Typographical Union OF $4,000.
The strike situation at Goldfield, New,
remains unchanged. The miners appear