The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-03-01

lem is universal and that the remedy i
IN more tracks, equipment and cars.
The house tonight adopted an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill providing
that no bar or canteen where intOxicat
ing liquors are sold shall be maintained
in national soldiers homes.
The convention of the United Mine
workers Of America, Illinois district, a.
Springfield, ILL.,, today voted down tn,
recommendation of President Walker
that members of the Industrial Worker.
OF the World be expelled from member
ship in the minewOrkers' organic alton.
At conference Of leading republican,
today it was decided to nominate Post
master Busse for mayor of Chicago. Tht
democrats have already nominated
Mayor Dunno on municipal ownership
platform.
Sunday, February "a.
That the cost Of milk and cream ba,
advanced enormously since 1900 as th,
result OF the curtailment of supply tC
the factories and the increasing market
in the large cities is indicated in censu.
bulletin issued today relative to thu
manufacture OF butter, cheese, condensed
milk, flour and grist mill products anG
starch, for 1905 A substantial increase
IN the manufacture of all these products
is shown since 1900 except starch, which
declined markedly. The cost OF crea n
increased 2479 8 per cent and milk 3 I
per cent.
The leather industry contributed $50.
600, 900 to the foreign commerce of the
United States in the year 1906
against less than $55,0OO,OOO a
decade earlier. These figures were
announced by the bureau of sta
tistics of the department of commerce
and labor today. The value of hides
and skins imported in the calendar year
1896 was practically SS4, 100000, hav-
ing quadrupled in ten years.
Victor B. Dolliver, 46 years old. 8
brother OF Senator DOlliver of Iowa, was
found dead in bed at his home in Fort
Dodge, Iowa. this afternoon.
Control was secured today over the
dangerous crevasse near Jesuits' bend
near New Orleans, the state engineers
succeeding in tying in" the ends of the
broken levee so that the breach did not
widen.
"Sh0oyg GSs
James Bryce, ambassador from Eng
land, was formally presented to Presi
dent Roosevelt today by Secretary Root
The Texas state senate exonerates
Senator Bailey and discharges investi.
eating committee.
Senator Fulton of Oregon won a sig
nificant fight today in the senate by
having his amendment adopted to the
agricultural bill providing that hence
forth no forest reserves shall be located
without an act of congress in Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho, Montana or Colo
RADIO. This takes entirely out Of the
hands of the executive the creation oi
reserves.
The anti tipping bill applicable to the
District of Columbia, was defeated in the
house today without division.
The senate today passed bill pro.
viding for the appointment of an addi-
tional district Judge for the northern
judicial district of California.
The sundry civil bill as reported to the
senate today carries SHAFTS, SCI, q
net increase Of $1O,O47,5 SAT over the
house bill.
When Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary OF the
treasury, leaves President Roosevelt e
cabinet next Monday he will go to
New York and assume the duties as
president Of the newly organized Car
negie Trust company of New York city
This is considered a fat job.
Tuesday, February 26.
Major G W. Cocktails has been named
by the president as chief engineer of the
Panama canal to succeed Stevens.
Chief Forester Pinchot has agreed to
restore to the public domain all that
portion of the proposed increase of the
Priest river forest reserve lying west
from the Pend Oreille river.
Owing to railway legislation and the
difficulty OF raising money, as well as
the increased cost of labor and material
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road has temporarily abandoned i'm
provements and extensions for which The
management expected to spend between
$6,O0O,OOO and $S,O00,OOO.
The department of superintendence o
the National Educational society to
night declared in favor of simplified
spelling, despite a strenuous fight to the
contrary by John Mcdonald of Topeka
Kan.
The Gal japanese coolies who came in
on the Pacific Mail liner Mongolia al
San Francisco last night we're allowed tC
land this morning. Commissioner o
Immigration North stated that he had
received no instructions to hold them
the amendment to the immigration bill