The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-14
TBLBGRAPHIC TOUCHES
W1rings of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From all Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, December 5.


North Yakima land office. Mr.. Cam
eron's nomination will be sent to the
senate for confirmation shortly.
The Roosevelt third term national
league has been formed in Chicago, and
today an application for a charter was
made at Springfield. The league aims ia
get 100000 members They will seek
to reach the people and to ignore the
politicians.
1t was announced today that several
| thousand employees of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad have been granted an in
crease in wages ranging from one cent to
four cents per hour.
1 The railways of Chicago contemplate
| making increases in the wages OF their
| employees. Advances are expected to be
| given between now and January l which
will make the combined incomes of the
100000 employees of the lines from $25,-
10000 to $30,OO0,0 900 greater in 1907.
Dangerous walls in San Francisco cor
| tinued to fall today before the attack OF
| President Duffy of the board of public
works and his army of shovelmen.
| The legislative committee of the South
ern immigration & Industrial AssOcia-
| tiOn inaugurated in Nash vile, Tennessee,
last month, met at Columbus, S. c., to
day. The object is to rush immigration
to the south.
Senator Frye today introduced a bill
regulating the succession to the presi-
| dency. 1t provides for constitutional
amendment giving congress authority to
legislate on the subject in case of death
or inability to serve of both the pres-
dent and vice president.
| Thursday, December 6.
| The Southern Pacific has ordered con.
structed $6,500,000 worth of new roll
ing stock, and has placed orders aggre
| eating $4,OOO,O00 with different loco
motive and car manufacturing concerns
A further advance OF 81 per thousand
| on pine and spruce lumber, and frsm 50
to $5 on redwood was announced yester
| day By the lumber dealers association
at Oakland, California.
The government today resumed the
| purchase Of silver, accepting bids for
1000 ounces at 6S 669 cents per fine
| ounce.
The Japanese pelagic sealing feet
which was reported in Bering sea during
| the summer consisted Of at least 16 YES
sells, each OF which carried crew of 80
| men and from five to seven small boats
for sealing. The seal herd is being dec
mated rapidly.
Nearly 1000 delegates are in Washing
ton attending the opening session of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
Speaker Cannon and Representative Bur
ton. chairman of the house committee
on rivers and harbors, are among the
speakers. The object of the convention
! is to secure an annual appropriation of
$50, 600, 900 for systematic work in the
improvements of the national water
ways.
A term of six years for the president
and vice president of the United States
is proposed by Senator Cullom in joint
resolution introduced today, providing
for an amendment to the constitution
The resolution declares also these of
ficials shall not be eligible for reelection.
Friday, December z.
Samuel Clemens mark Twain) brought
to close with laughter a day of argu-
mentative strife over the terms of the
copyright bill, now the subject of hear
iDgs before the senate and house com
mittees on patents. Twain thinks fruit
Of authors work should GO to his child
rem.
The Olympic forest reserve in Wash
ington passed the house without division.
For the first time in 20 years the
| great Treadwell mines in Alaska are
closed Douglas and Juneau are suffer
| ing from coal famine and lack of fuel
| has resulted in the closing down OF the
mines.
Today was the coldeet of the winter in
st. Paul. The mercury registered IL
below zero, drop OF 27 degrees in "a
hours. The coldest place is Winnipeg,
where % below zero is recorded.
William Howard, a negro, upon a
wager at Lexington, Kentucky, today,
lost his life by drinking two glasses OF
whisky and dozen glasses OF gin in a
saloon in half an hours time. The cor
onor's inquest said death was due to
alcoholic apoplexy.
President Roosevelt told the delegates
to the rivers and harbors congress who
called on him at the White House that
he would consult with the leaders in con
gress and expressed the hope that some
thing definite and effective could be done
in the way Of increased appropriations
for the Improvement OF the nations
waterways.
Hereafter in printing documents au
thorized by law or ordered by congress-
or either branch thereof the government
printing office shall follow the rules o
orthography established by Webster.
or other generally accepted dictionaries
of the English language" are the words
used in the legislative, executive and ju-
dicial appropriation bill for 1908, re
ported to the house. The bill carries
$31, ,315, ,525.
Saturday, December 3.
That in event of war the United States
would find more than two-thirds OF itt
coast defense guns useless through lacl
of eunners to man them is the remark
able statement vouched for by army Of
ficers at the Presidio, San Francisco, anC
at Atlantic coast stations.
Montana produced in the ealenda
wear OF 1905 copper, silver, gold anC
lead to the value OF $7O,677, $50.
About 800 citizens of Louisville CAV
: a banquet to Henry Watterson tonight
, the event being in the nature of a stir
run rup for the distinguished editor, wht