The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-12-21

Clerks in the New York postoffice are
working overtime sending Christmas
mail matter for European countries,
Money sent by three vessels in registered
letters was 81, $40, 900.
A strange geological disturbance has
occurred near Hague, Warren county.
New York, at the north end of Lake
ueorge dere the bottom OF the lake
I0r an area OF 1000 square feet has sunk
Ihe spot has long been considered dan
gerous on account of the shallowness,
but now it is over 30 feet deep.
Sunday, December 16.
A strip in the pavement 20 feet in
width and extending 20 feet in Wall
street, New York, caved in, sinking from
three TO eleven feet below the surface
Inc depression was due to the breaking
OF water main by which steam, gas
and water pipes were undermined Some
alarm was felt lest the skyscrapers
might be affected.
Bailey says he is sure OF his election
as senator from Texas, claiming 116 on
joint ballot.
One OF the most important ethnologi-
cal expeditions in the history of Harvard
university will leave tomorrow for South
America, to make an investigation
among the Indian tribes of the Andes
mountains.
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
L0ngwOrth we're Occupsnts of an auto
mobile which crashed into the station
platform at Chevy Chase, suburb Of
Washington, today. Beyond a severe
shaking up the occupants were uninjured
Inspection of the terminal railroad
yards shows that there are 5000 empty
freight cars standing idle in the Kansas
CIty yards, because the railroads have
not sufficient motive power to move
them.
Monday, December IL.
The Interstate commerce commission
has taken hold of the fuel famine in the
northwest and promises to break it with
in "a hours. Coal is being rushed to the
suffering towns of North Dakota and
Montana.
Pacific coast members of the house
will hold a meeting to discuss legislation
affecting the japanese. The meeting
will be attended by congressman from
Washington, Oregon, California, Utah
and Idaho.
The senate has agreed to a resolution
presented by Mr.. Hansbrough, directing
the department Of commerce and labor
to make an investigation of the ''com
bnatlon or trust organization known
as the International Harvester COM
pany."
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff, the famous
designer of yachts which have borne the
brunt OF defending the America cup, was
severely burned on Sunday at PrOv |
dence, R. L., by the explosion of tank
OF naptha in the machinery department
Of the Herreshoff shops.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
road will build new $4,000, 900 depot
in Chicago.
The Mexican government has assented
to the proposition of the state depart
ment That United States engineer officers
shall enter Mexico for the purpose of |
closing the breach in the walls OF the |
Imperial canal which is causing the for
nation OF the SaltOn sea.
Another motion to strike from the |
files an Indictment charging Mayor e. E |
Schmitz and Abraham Ruef with extor
tiOn was made and denied in Judge |
Dunne's court in San Francisco today.
Tuesday, December 1S.
Representative Gaines introduced a |
bill today providing that senators and |
representatives shall have $13.75 a dav |
deducted from salaries for each day they |
fail to attend sessions. The sickness |
of members or illness in their families |
are to be the only valid excuses.
A fuel famine is on at Phoenix, Ari-
zOna. There is no oil and the gas and |
electric company shut down tonight.
The people must resort to wood for
cooking and heating purposes and kero-
sene and candles for light.
The exodus of senator's and congress-
men from Washington for the Christ
mas holidays has already commenced.
The model of a statue of Robert G.
lngersOll, the agnOstic and orator,
ordered some time ago by the IngersOIl
Monument association of Peoria, Ill,
has just been finished in clay in New
York. 1t will be cast in bronze early
next spring.
In death Arthur Brown, former United
States senator from Utah, rests beside
Isabel Cameron Brown, from whom he
was estranged during the last years of
their married life.
The coal famine in Nevada is reported
at an end. A trainload of coal was
started west from Ogden for the mining
camps in the sagebrush state.
The Hermann trial will begin in
Washington February 4. 1t looks bad
for the Oregon congressman.