The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-02-22

. Due TO the food conditions Of the
Platte river five transcOntinentaI rail
roads through Nebraska, are TODAY us
ing the line Of the Burlington railroad
to the west The Union Pacific is tied
| up Tor 200 miles west of Omaha and the
! Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, North.
western, Union Pacific and Burlington
! are using the Burlington tracks between
| Omaha and Lincoln. No freight trains
are moving.
Sunday, February II.
| Several hundred anarchists. sociaIists
and trade unionists paraded the streets
/ OF Chic go today, carrying red flags and
| banners, to mark the anniversary OF the
arrest and deportation from Colorado
OF Charles Fl. Meyer, William d. Hav-
wood and George A. Pettibone. The
| parade was followed by a mass meeting
where revolutionary speeches in English
and German were made in denunciatiOn
of capitalists
! japanese immigrants are filing up
Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city oppo,
site I'll Paso, seeking admission into the
United States Many of them are penni.
less and are denied admission.
apparently champagne drinking In
| the United States is on the wane Both
| the quantity aud value of that beverage
| imported into this country last wear
were less than in the preceding one, and
practically no greater than a dozen
years ago.
A bill apprOpriating $4,000 for the
| Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition will be
| introduced in the Kansas senate Tues
| day by the committee on Wavs and
means.
Alexander Fullerton, secretary of the
municipal society in New York, an
Dounces the death today at Adyar,
India. OF Henry Steel OlcOtt, cofOunder
with Nine. Bavatsky of theOsophy in
this country.
Monday, February 49,
japanese children are to be admitted
to the Nhite schools of San Francisco
under certain restrictions; skilled and
| unskilled labOrers coming from Japan
barred from the mainland of the United
| States, and American labOrers, skilled
| and unskilled, are to be excluded from
Japan.
President Gilbert of the Alaska Yukon
| Pacific exposition reached Washington
today on tour advocating the enter
prise. 1t is understood there is little
hope the appropriation will get through
| this congress.
Representative CARRIER of Ohio intro.
duced bill today to abolish fraudulent
mining companies. The bill makes it a
penal offense to use the mails, telegraph
or express companies in advertising
fraudulent mining stocks.
,e Al, ~ -
of Omaha makes specific bequests OF ST.
100000. of which $25O,0O goes to rel
| atives and his hOusekeeper, and 5000
900 to education and benevolent insti-
tutiOns, the Creighton university leading
with $500,000.
Abraham Ruef was compelled by Judge
Dunno Of San Francisco this morning
over the objections of his attorneys, to
enter his plea in the indictment cases
against him. He pleaded not guilty.
r. A. Ballinger, who is to be commits
sioner Of the general land office, arrived
at Washington today preparing to as
| sumo his duties March 4.
A forest fire is raging in the govern
ment forest reserve in the Wichita noun
| tains, 10 miles southwest Of Oklahoma
| City, and is threatening to devastate the
entire tract. Despite efforts of the super
visor, his assistants and hundreds OF cit
| zens from nearby towns, the damage al
ready amounts to thousands of dollars
| to trees, grass and livestock. In the
heart Of the Wichita forest reserve is sit
uated the national game reserve, created
last year by act of congress for the pro-
| pagation of buffalo. A fence costing
| SIS, 900 is now being constructed and
4 49,
| rial.
Tuesday, February 19.
Commissioner of the General Land Of
| fice-elect r. A. Ballnger dined tonight
| with President Roosevelt.