The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-02-01
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Wirings of a Week Boiled Down
for Busy Readers.
Summary of Interesting News and
Events From All Over
Great Country.
Wednesday, January 20.

congress for AID to establish swift steam
ers to South America and Asiatic ports
He asks 81 ,500,0 900 for IA vessels on the
Atlantic side and 81, 225, ZOO for %
steamships trading with South America
| and Asiatlc ports.
t. j. ShOnts quits the Panama canal
| job and will have charge of the New York
rapid transit system His place will be
taken by Chief Engineer Stevens.
The livestock men Of the country, in
| convention at Denver, place themselves
on record for public land protection.
Prof. E. E Elliott of Pullman, Wash.
read paper on Live Stock Conditions
| in the Northwest-Present and Prospec-
tive" Conditions in that region, he
said, are steadily improving.
William Tappen, pioneer OF 1S4S in
the establishment of government posts
and exploring of Washington, Oregon
and Idaho and the Northwest, died at
Boston today.
in joint session Robert Taylor was
elected U 5 senator from Tennessee. He
succeeds COrmack.
Thursday, January "a.
Senator Russell A. Alger died suddenly
in Washington today.
An appropriation of about $95, ,00O,-
900 is provided for in the naval appro-
priation bill reported today by the house
committee on naval affairs.
Sixteen states west of the Mississippi
| river are represented in the dry farming
congress which convened at Denver to-
day.
The house committee Of the whole up
on the pension bill today adopted the
amendment abOlishng all pension agen-
cies in the United States save one, and
fixing that one at Washington.
Senator Ankeny has wired from Wash
ingtOn that the rivers and harbOrs bill
as reported will include the following ap
propriations: Columbia river at The
available; above Cello, to the mouth of
and Bridgeport, $42, 900.
A bill providing for an appropriation
OF $75, 900 to arrange for a Pennsylva-
MIA exhibit at the Seattle exposition in
1909 was introduced in the lower house
Of the Pennsylvania legislature today.
The bill also provides for commission
OF 20, headed by the governor.
The executors of the Marshall Field es-
tate today filed with the probate court
at Chicago an inventory of the late mer-
chants possessions. The approximate
value of the estate is placed at $75, 5,OOO,-
900.
The senate has passed the Jones bill
authorizing the North Coast railway to
construct bridges across the Columbia
between Walla Walla and Benton and
Franklin counties. These bills now go
to the president for his signature.
Friday, January rs.
The Omaha courts have decided that
works Of art BY famous painters, includ
ing Van Dyke, Rubens and Vanderwerff
are indecent, and that reproductions of
them can not be sold in Omaha stores.
The blizzard which started last Thurs
day is still raging throughout the Da-
kotas. The wind ranges from 36 to AZ
miles an hour in velocity. Train service
again has been practically paralyzed,
there having been practically no traffic
for the past "a hours.
Representative J Jones today introduced
bill authorizing the construction of a
dam across the Snake river at Five
Mile rapids by the Benton Water COM
pany.
The secretary Of the interior at Wash
ington has approved the bond, in $45,-
600, and executed the contract with
Theodore Weisberger of North Yakima,
Wash, for the construction of the main
canal in the "Tieton project" The bid
of the contractor was $780, 0,371. The
contract calls for manufacturing, fur
nishing, distributing and laying concrete
shapes for the canal and tunnel and for
the fumes.
A party of Burlington contractors and
constructors have begun building line
of railroad through the famous Big
Horn canyon in Wyoming in order to
forestall the Northwestern line, which
was to be built through the same can
yon next spring. For two miles there is
room for only one road through the
cleft. and it has been a race between the
two roads as to which could first reach
| the canyon and secure the right of way.
| The Big Horn canyon is the key to
! traffic in all Northern and Western Wy
oming and only route through the Owl
Creek mountains. The northwestern
must seek an outlet to the west far to
the south OF it's planned line.
Saturday, January 26.
The Northwestern railroad has con
cluded the experiments which it has been
carrying on on it's western division, and
orders have been issued TO prepare all