The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-02-08

900.
The house committee on public lands
today authorized favorable report on
the senate bill which carries $4,000, 900
to contine the Colorado river to it's
| banks.
The bill before congress authorizes
a government loan of $S00,OOO to the
jamestown exposition, the government
to take lien on the real estate and
other property OF the company as Sc
curity.
The heavy rainfall OF the past "a
hours has caused a swelling of all
streams IN the Sacramento valley.
Sunday, February 3.
Storms almost wipe out Montana
herds. Thousands of cattle and sheen
die in the drifts. Loss is reported to be
80 per cent.
The cold wave that descended upon
Chicago, accompanied by a gale of bit
ing WIND, sent the mercury down to 2
degrees below zero during the early
hours of today.
The severest storm of the winter ia
raging through Kansas and western
Missouri
David Peck Rhoades, one OF the found
ers OF the New York Tribune, and an
associate Of Horace Greeley. died at his
home in Stratford, Conn, today, aged
"a.
Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and members
OF the San Francisco board of education
left that city today for Washington to
confer with President Roosevelt concern
ing the exclusion of Japanese from the
public schools.
Edward E. Clark, a member of the
interstate commerce commission saws
the railroads are not wholly to blame
for the fuel situation. The fuel subject,
he says, was shelved till the frosts came,
then the roads were swamped.
The river continues to rise at New
Orleans.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is serious
ly i'll at Washington with la grippe.
Monday, February 4.
Winter weather throughout northern
Montana is now more severe than at
any time for 27 years. Not a wheel is
turning on the main line of the Great
Northern. No freight train has passed
through Havre for 48 hours.
The Panama Construction company,
Incorporated to finance the Panama
contract bid for by William j Oliver OF
Knoxville, Tenn, filed articles OF incor
pOration today with the secretary OF
state of New York. The capital author
lied is 100000.
Hereditary insanity is the plea OF
Harry Thaw in New York for the killing
of Stanford White.
To relieve the congestion in federal
courts on the Pacific coast, the senate
committee on Judiciary today author
lied a favorable report on bills provd-
ing for the appointment of an additional
district Judge and for two additional
judges in the ninth circuit, comprising
the Pacific coast states, Idaho, Montana,
and Nevada and Arizona.
The first sign of difficulty between
Caucasian union labor and the Japanese
in Los Angeles occurred today at the
Palace cafe, when II out of the 20 mem
bers of the Southern California Walters
association there inaugurated a strike
because of the alleged better treatment
being received by the japanese from the
management of the cafe.
The house today passed the senate
service pension bill by vote OF 1876 to
90 The bill provides that veterans
having reached the age of 50 years shall
receive $12 per month 70 years, SIG;
and rs years, $40.
Tuesday, February 5.
Senator Hey burn today offered reso-
luton to appoint a committee OF five
senators to investigate whether the
Northern Pacific company should not
have it's charter anDulled.
Senator Warren of the committee on
military affairs today reported to the
senate the army appropriation bill. The
bill carries $S1 100000.
The coldest weather OF the present
winter was felt at Omaha at 3 O'Clock
this evening, when the thermometer
registered II degrees below zero. Twen-
ty-two degrees below zero was registered
by government thermometers at st.
Paul.
The vote in which the proposed amend
ment to the report Of the committee on
suffrage, extending the franchise to the
women OF Oklahoma, was tabled by the
constitutional convention today, is in
dicative of the position of that body on
the woman's suffrage question.
The willamette valley, Oregon, is in
the throes of great food, with trains
on the 0. R. & N. tied up, and the
Southern Pacific threatened. The large
docks at Portland are under water. 1t
is thought the highest stage has been
reached, as several tributaries of the
Willamette river had ceased to rise.
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