The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-11-16

be the last surviving widow OF soldier
v OF the revolutionary war, died at hel
home in Plymouth Union, Vermont
/ aged 90.
! 4 gigantic theater trust was organ
iEed In Chicago, to include $50 Of the
Y country Z biggest show houses, every city
4 in the Union to be represented, with a
| $5O,OO0,0O0 combine. Later-The re
| port that a theatrical trust has been
formed is denied.
The Progressive Health club Of Chi
cago will call on the managers of the
Chicago street car lines tomorrow for
cleaner street cars.
The Associated Press correspondent at
Trinidad, Col, went to StOnewall, n. NJ,
today to investigate the report that
Mount Culebra was in state of eruption.
lie wires that the report is untrue; that
the smoke issuing apparently from the
summit OF the peak really comes from
burning timber on the New Mexico side
OF the mountain.
The first winter storm of the season
struck New England today with rain in
the southern section and snow in the
hills OF Vermont and New Hampshire
Although the labor vote failed to show
results at the recent election Samuel
Gompers says he will keep up the fight
Monday, November
Secretary Shaw has stopped the pur-
chase of silver, declaring the price to be
too high.
Mrs. Russell Sage will give away the
bulk OF the fortune of about $S0,O0O,-
900 bequeathed to her by her late hus-
band to individuals whom she considers
worthy, who, through no fault of their
own, are so unfortunate as to need as
sistance and too proud to ask. It will
not be given to endOw churches nor to
those who write begging letters.
Major General William Rufus Shafter,
U. 5. a., retired. died at 1915 D. M,
Monday, at the ranch of Captain W. II,
Mckittrick, his son in law, 20 miles
south of Bakersfield, Cal, after an illness
of seven days, despite the best medical
attention in California.
Football under the new rules, as dem
OnstTated in the Harvard-Carlisle game
dt Cambridge, Saturday, meets with
favorable comment from President Chas.
W. Eliot Of Harvard in an interview
made public today. Football is consid-
cred on probation at Harvard this year.
Mark Twain is said to have bronchitis.
Senator Cullom Of Illinois is out for
tariff change.
All doubts as to whether President
Mitchell intends continuing as president
OF the United Mineworkers of America
or not have been set at rest by the an
nOuncement that Mr.. Mitchell has been
renOminated for the Office and that he
will permit his nomination to stand.
Charles A. Barnes, supreme chancellor
Knights OF Pythias, announced tonight
that IenO Host, insurance commissioners
OF Wisconsin, will. after January | be
general manager OF the insurance depart
ment OF the Knights OF Pythias
Tuesday, November IL
Fill the south with whites is the solu--
ton proposed for the race problem.
General Mckenzie, chief of engineers,
estimates that $3.50, 900 could be profit
ably expended on the Cello canal during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1908.
When completed the Cello canal will
make possible the navigation of the
Snake and Columbia rivers from Lewis
ton to the Pacific ocean.
The final official returns from every
county in Kansas have been received in
Topeka. They show Governor HOch re-
elected by plurality of 1886.
The remains of General Shafter will be
buried in the military cemetery at the
Preside, San Francisco.
Congressman Longworth's majority is
6074
The Jews OF Philadelphia have honored
the memory of the late Secretary John
Hay by placing a window in their syna-
gOgue to be dedicated December 2.
1t is said that Peary will again make
the attempt to reach the north pole next
year