TWKNTT-KKMTH TEAR. COLFAX, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1904

The Leader Speaks!Owing to the conditions of the weather for the month past, and "being

largely stocked on cold weather merchandise, we are going to give thepeople of Colfax a ROUSING WAKE UP in regard to prices. "We aregoing to dispose of goods for the next 15 Days, with the Profits in yourfavor. "We will only mention a few Articles, "but remember everythingwillTae marked proportionately.

absolutely NOTHING RESERVED1. Any Suit, Overcoat or Mackinette 4^i || Oil(RainCoat)ia the house for f^J_"«Vr"

2. Boja Baitfl and Overcoats at one-half price. Wreare closing this line out entirely.

8. W. li. Douglas and Rice & Hutchene ti^%^ THI|8 50 and $4.00 Shoes, now f^jmd* 9 *.)

8. W. L. Douglas $2 50 Shoe. This ifl l|l|a good seamleHs work shoe, only <JJ^d«""

5. Celebrated Tiger and Sweet Dempster <jj»^ HL|~||S 50 Hntß, now «JP^«*JVf

6. All $1.25 Diess and Work shirt* fur Of"" ~(one fourth offou others, wool or cotton) O*-F f^l/&

7. Snow Excluders, the $1 25 grade, Q«^ fttiXnow Xr*J v 15^8. Wool underwear, $2 50 suits, now $175; $3 00BuitH now $2 15; $3 50 suits now $2.40; &O FL4\$5.00 suits now fpO»0""Heavy fl-eeed lined at 70 cents a suit

9. Wool .Sweaters, in all sizes and prices, reduced 25per cent on the dollar.

10. Trunks. Valises, Slickers. Duck Coats, Overalls,Suspenders, in fact everything is reduced proportionately

This is no fake—assured facts are all we advertise.

COME IN AND SEE USll' we uan't save you 25 per cent on the dollar, we wont ask you to buy.

This Sale Positively Ends

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1904Yours for Business,

THE LEADER CLOTHING STORE,Colfax, Washington.

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The Following Lands on Easy Terms:168 Acres—s miles north of Diamond. AH in cultivation. All ji")">()()rammer fullowed. The last of the Torrance tract. Price WW*'

NOT MADE BY THE TRUST

Ask Your Grocer for

Inland Crackersin the

Red PackagesEvery Package Lined with Parch-

ment Paper.

Asa result of « dr^am Mrs. LizzieCovet, together with her hust.und amichild,were fatally burned and their homepartly den*roved in ( iiicago. The wo-man dreamed that her money hud beenBtoleu from its biding place in the p«iu-try. Taking her baby and a lnmj. »hewent to investigate. The lamp fell andexploded, sefthig lire to the bouse. Herhusband attempted to extinguish theblnze, but was frightfully burued an wasthb mother aud child.

T. A. Carroll, a special agent of thedepartment of commerce and labor, hasbeen in Kansas City for a week, quietlyinvestigating the alleged beef trusr. Hecalled on the packers and took theirlists and vitrited butchers, who wt-re call-ed upon to furnich nceipted bills andother information that might b*» of usein a trial for violating the antitrust law.

Six negroes engaged iv a deadly tightin a 14 foot room near Curtis, La,, theparticipants being armed with shotgunsand pistols. After the battle three laydead. The other tbrei 1 escaped.

BETWEEN THE OCEANSConcise Summary of the Wired

News ol"a Week.

Important Happenings and Thingsof Intercut from All Over

a Great Country.

Wednesday, Novrmber 23Three murderers and holdup men who

killed Fred King and serioualj shotBartender Edward Ifingo daring theprogress of a turkey rnhV in n saloon atColumbia Heights, a suburb of Minne-apolis, were captured at Cambridge,Minn., after a ebam lancing 24 hours, ivwhich at leant 1000 men have engagedsince the killing.

Henry Henderson and hie nephew,George Henderson, colored, were shotand killed at Batbayree, 10 miles fromPhiladelphia. A po*se of citizens nanbeen scouring the couutry in search ofFrank Smyler, a negro, who is allegedto have committed the murders.

A monument erected to the memoryof the late President MeKinley, was un-veiled at the main entrance to GoldtnGate park, San Francisco, with impres-sive ceremonies.

Thursday, November 24.

James Wallace, who is charged withthe rheft of stock certificates valued at$90,000 from Edward M. Breitunj?, aMarquette, Mich., bauker, by whom hewas employed as confidential secretary,has been arrested in Liverpool. Nearly$2:">,000 of the sum alleged to have beenstolen was recovered.

By a rich strike in the Little Nell miceof Cripple Creek, Colo., Rev. FatherMichael F. Callahan, the Roman Catho-lic priest of Denver, who invested hit*church's funds in that mine, will bemade a rich man.

560 Acres— 2 mites from Winona.. 480 acres wheat land. (j» 1i) !\i)i)All fenced. Running water. Easy terrun. Price VM.&»V\J\*

Salvatore Pompimellak, leader of theItalian colony at New Palermo, eightmiles from Mobile, was assassinated bjFrancisco Ciucinuio, a. member of theItalian colony. The colony is in a ferment, there being partisans to bothside of the trouble, which brought onthe killing, and the authorities of Washington county look for further blood-shed.

Thanksgiving developed one of thetnost memorable celebrations on theworld's fair calendar, at St. Louie. Goldweather, coupled with the proaiis«e ofspecial events, attracted an estimatedattendance of 300,000.

Friday, November iJoHarry Mills, inventer of fulminate

mercury caps, was instantly killed atthe plant of the Western Cap & Chemicalcompany at East Alton, 111., and thebuilding in which he was working wanblown into kindling wood. For yearnhe has carefully guarded the secret ofhis invention, and always worked in alittle building which was isolated fromthe rest of the plant and located in thewoods. No one was allowed to go nearthe building.

Palouse Land CompanyWILBUK S. YEAKSL.EY, Mgr. Colfax, Wash.

Fully 50 pistol shots were exchangedin the Bowers district of New York, between eight or ten Chinese, and as a resuit two white men were wounded, oneprobably fatally. The shooting was between members of the Hip Sing Totig, areform organization, and members ofthe On Leon Tong. a Chinese secret so-ciety, which is reputed to foster opiumtraffic.

Can you afford'to buy trees from infecteddistricts and pay one-third more than we ask?Remember for 13 years no trees grown by ushave been condemned, provingj ''we grow thebe»t." You need not pay us in advance. Youtake no risk. Write us before buying from an«Kent —a postal card will sare you dollars infirst cost of your trees, and perhaps hundredsof them in the years to come.

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First Premium

Preferred Stock FlourGROUND AT WINONA

None returned in ten months. No complaint.No black bug*. No use to look for

them—they ain't there.

$125W. H. LACEY, Grocer.

Fxclusive Agent in Colfax, Wash.

Colfax Meat MarketJ. O. JOHNSTON, Prop'r.

The beat fresh and cured moats at all timesand specialties in season.

Highest market price paid for cattle andhides.

Phone Main 10.

ALEXANDER & CO. Spokane? Wash!keep the Gazette on file and are itsnuthomed agents for advertisements\u25a0\n<\ anbHcriptionn.

Uet Grain Insurance of Goffo

4 X^ The Holidays are at hand and[*JF you may want a new carving

~KLvjr"''^4^ «^Tr% se^ to dissect that turkey. We

.."Is^^-v/ , \^':ic,s have them. Our carvers cannot

: Jfflfe)si< "^^dfe-^V, H—— c dulled on the toughest bird.

JiPiM^ i^^^^y^^ An elegant line at prices ranging

Wt^m to $8 per set

Stuart's Stationery StoreA large stock of Blank Books just received.

Stuart's Drug StorePrescriptions accurately filled.

Stuart's Paint and Oil StoreLowest prices for best goods.

Bismark Block, Tel. Main 11. COLFAX, WASH

thi/^v"O dA T Ti1 The G-R Carfcer resi"Jj vJJLI OJ^l-AjIJJ dence property on Col

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this at a bargain. For particulars, call on

LENNOX & LARKIN, Colfax, Washington

\u25a0^Olhci'rilu* your Magaziaes and Newspapers tbroiigrh ih<DliUDCrillC Gazette and save money.

State legislation forbidding the play-ing of football in Illinois, Indiana, Michi-gan and Wisconsin is urged by James F.Rowley, whose son died of injuries received in a game on November 5.

George W. Gay and his son Lesterwere arrested at the entrance to thecemetery near Agency, Mo., on thecharge of Mrs. George Gay, wife andmother of the prisoners, last Wednesday.

The Republic Iron & Steel companyhas advanced the price of bar ironf3 a ton. Their agents are instructedto receive no business under $1.55, Pitts-burg basis.

Alfred DeOro of New York, pool cham-! pk>n of the world, snecessfotlj defendedbis title tiguiiißt Thotnas Huearon at St

I Lonfal, defeating him in the third and| final block of the (500 point neries, I*BIto 151. Total wore: DeOro. 600; Hues-; Urn, 470.

J. W. Burdette of Kentucky, a stu-dent at the Michigan agricultural col-lege, died of injuries received in a foot-ball game last week.

Saturday, November 26.

I^etson Halliett, who pleaded guilty tocharges preferred by the government ofusing the mails with intent to promotea gigantic mining swindle, wan sentencedto three months in the county jftil andto pay a One of $300, at Dei Moines,lowa.

Sunday, November 27.The money, amounting to $G»>oo, of

which the Placer county bauk last Maywas robbed, has been found iva cowfined ori the Weber place near Auburn,I al. The money wan buried in an oldlive pound lard cau. Adolph Weber,who in under arrest on the charge ofmnrderiog bin parents, brother and sister, haH been formally charged with sav-ing also held up the lunik.

Mrs. T. J. Stanley drank the entirecontents of a two ounce bottle of car-bolic mid at Butte, Mont. She died sixhours later in terrible agony. She andher busbaud bad quarreled upon retir-ing early in the evening.

An illicitwhiskey plant in New YorkCity blew up and caused a serious bre inthe teuemeut house where it was located.Internal revenue officers are making asearch for the owners of the still.

Sir William Laurier, premier of l.'an-ada, in an interview at. Salt Lake, Utah,where he is stoppiug for recreation, saidthat there was no question of the GrandTrunk Pacific railroad aud that theterminus would be Simpsou, U. C.

While driving with a friend at Alber-qnerqae, N. M., Col. H. F. Chaves waskilled by a phot which was tired througha window. It is supposed to have beenfired by some political enemy, as Col.Chaves was a prominent politician. Hewas a veteran of the Indian wars of NewMexico aud served under Kit Carson.

Mary Cortes, a 17 year oid girl of Ho-boken, N. V., drank carbolic acid be-cause a ru>;n kissed her. She had beentaught by her pareutH that kissing waswrong. William htriebenger, a youngman visiting at her home, met her onthe stairs and laughingly told her hewhs going to kiss her. She said "Don'tyou dart-," but Striebenger took thechance. The girl fainted and the youthraised her to her feet, when she ran toher room and took poison.

Monday, November lit*.While the pilot train preceding the

President Roosevelt train, was pass-ing near Brazil, lnd., four men threwstones, breaking several windows. Se-cret service men chased the perpetratorsof the deed, but they escaped.

A gnrig of train robbers are operatingin Chaffee county, Col. Two attemptedholdups have been reported since Satur-day. The (ir«t attempt was on theCalifornia limited and the secoud on theDenver & O^den express. Both were un-successful.

One mnn was killed and several in-jured at St. Lonis by a street car jump-ing the track and overturning. CharlesJ. Warner, a passenger, was thrown offthe platform and struck headforemoston a pile ofrails.

In a battle between a posse of citizensand three robbers at Fonda, la., onerobber, whose name is unknown, was*hot and fatally wounded. The othertwo escaped, but a posse is in pursuit.A smftll amount of booty was found onthe wounded man.

Three laborers employed in th» dig-ging of a trench for the lavintr of watermains in Southwestern St. Louis wereburied by a cave in and it is believed allhave perished. The men were workingclose together when, without warning,tons of clay fell on top of them. Abursting water pipe caused the cave in.

Rev. Isaac Selby of Australia shot atSuperior Judge Uebbard, while thelatter was on the bench at San Fran-cisco. Selby whs suing a man named 1).MeKae for alienating his wife'saffectionsand was conducting his own case. JudgeUebbard ruled against him on a law

point, when Selby quickly drew his re-volver and h'red pome blank at thejudge. The bullet struck in the back ofa chair not an inch from the judges head.

Tuesday, November 29According to the report of State Bank

Examiner Siebert, the accounts of A. F.Mishpagel, former cashier of the St.Charles Savings Bank of St. Louis areshort $78,000.

At a mass meeting of citizens of Mur-ray, Utah, called to consider means forgetting rid of the foreign laborers em-ployed at the smelters, who are held re-sponsible for the recent series of crimes,including two murders, it was voted tohave a committee confer with the immi-gration bureau of the Mormon church inan effort to bring in a more desirableclass of laborers to supersede the Greekeand Aufetriane now employed.

The New York state court of appealsdeclared unconstitutional the labor lawwhich prohibits a contractor from em-ploying his men more than eight hoursa day on city, county or state work.

The will of Richard M. Scruggß, theprominent merchant and philanthropist,who died recently at St. Loois, providesfor the distribution of $147,000 amon(treligious institutions, including $5000to each of the bishops of the Methodistchurch for use in foreign missionarywork.The mills of the Illinois Steel Company

at Chicago, were closed down for an in-definite period, owing to lack of business.Three thousand men were thrown out ofemployment.

Samuel Gompers was reelected presi-dent of the American Federation ofLabor at the annual session of thefederation in San Francisco. The nextsession will be held at Pittsburg, Pa,

At the Old Glory sale of horses atMadison Square, New York, G49 horsesbrought $336,120.

William Dye, accused of the murder ofhis employer, John Mottner at Glasgow,Mont., has been found guilty of murderin the second degree by a jury.

John F. McKnight, a foreman in thewoolen mills at Provo, Utah, was killedin a horrible manner. While adjustinga belt his coat caught in the sbaftiugand the unfortunate man was whirledaround for nearly two minutee, pound-ing against the machinery. Nearlyevery bone in his body whs broken, whilepieces of fleah were scattered about theroom.

The Vanderbilt and Rockefeller hold-ings in the great railroad interests havebeen pooled and placed in the hands ofJames Stillman as trustee. Stillmanis president of the National City bank,the head of the Rockefeller chain ofbanks, and he is also first of the Rocke-feller lieutenants in railroad and otherinvestments.

A letter has been received from IsoAbe, superintendent of the athletic de-partment of Wasenda university, Japan,expressing a desire to arrange an inter-national baseball match between Stan-ford and the Japanese university.

Removes the microbes which impover-ish the blood and circulation. Stopsall trouble th*t interferes with nutrition.That's what Hollistef's Rocky MountainTea will do. 35 cents. Tea or tabletform. Elk Drug Store.

Bring your turkeys and other poultryat any time to C. H*. Moore and get high-est prices.

Tri2sK COLFAX QAZETTE.PRICI FIVE CENTS.

HIS OWN SELECTORPresident Roosevelt Writes a

Pointed Letter.

Serve. Notice That Appointment.Must Stand on Merit, Not on

"l»ull"_President Select..

President Roosevelt bus written a let-ter to Representative Gardner of Miumachiwettii. which has found its way intoprint, and to eansing cold chills to runup and down tbe bucks of patronajre-loyinK senators and representative*

In his characteristic, terse style, thepresident, throne* Representative Gardnvr jms served notice upon senatorsthat be will carry oat their recommen-dations for appointments only when heim H«tiHtif>d they are makinßKood ret'oiu-ineudationH; and that whenever be findnthem recommending unworthy men forniH consideration, he will immediatelynet them amde n« men whose counsel i«worth nothing. As to the recommendft-tu>nH of mere congreHHtuen, be says ineffect, that they oii«ht to be Rlad to boable to name the postmasters in theirhome towns, and to {pave all other Hp-pointments to senators in whom he bancontidence. It is rather a severe jolttobe administered before the new udmiuiMtration begins, but it shows in advancewhat consideration pure patronage brok-ers may expect at the White House forthe next four years.

Representative Gardner, who is Sen-ator Lodge's son in-law, attempted toprevent the appointment of a certainpostmaster in his district in Massachusetts, and to name a man of bis ownchoice tor the office. In reply to Repre-sentative Gardner's letter of recommen-dation, President Roosevelt said:

Senators Do Not "Select."'You speak of jour privilege of uam-

ing the Haverhill postmaster.' You sayIn Massachusetts it has been under-stood that a congressman shall select

the postmaster in the cities and townsiv bin own district.'"To clear up any possible miaappre

hension, Iwould like at the outset tonay that the senators do not "select 1

postmasters in any state while I ampresident.

"1 consult them always, and in thevast majority of cases act on the recom-mendations they make, but the selectioniemineaud not theirs, and time andtime again during the three years Ihave been president I have positively re-fused to select individuals suggested tome for nomination as postmasters byvarious senators. If lam not satisfiedwith the character and standing of theman whose name is suggested to me, Inever nominate him.

"Iunderstand perfectly that under thetirst article of the constitution the sena-tors are h part of the appointing power,and tbat therefore the appointment mustrepresent an agreement between themand me, and, as the acquaintance oftbenenßtor with bis state is alwaysmuch greater than the knowledge of thepresident can possibly be, it is the nor-mal and natural thina: that I shouldlisten to his advice as to these appoint-ments, and I generally do so.

"Hut Istop listening to it as soon asI realize that he is advising me wrongly.

"The relation of a congressman to theHppoiutmeuts rests not upon law, butupon custom. I wish to point out toyou that it is also the custom to payheed to the wishes not only of cabinetofficers, but even senators of the oppo-site party, and, occasionally, to thewishes of congressmen of the oppositeparty in the case of nominations to of-fice in their own towns."

NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING BEST.

liarge Circus Owners Say PostersDo Nor linng Keen Its.

New York, Nov.2B—BarnumA Baileyand Ringling Brothers have entered intoan agreement which ends the 15 yearfight of the big circuses. An agreementprovides that hereafter there will be noraising of prices after a successful firstperformance, fewer free tickets shall begiven out and the circuses will do thebulk of the advertising in the newspapersinstead of on billboards and barns.

R. F. Hamilton, Barnum & Bailey'srepresentative, suid today: "The dayof the flaring circus poster is about over.Its value as an advertising medium isdoubtful. Hereafter uewspapera willget more and dead walls less. This alsomeans we will not have to give out any-where near as many free tickets as webaye had to in past years."

The Secret of Sncceii.Forty million bottles of August Flower

aold in the United States alone since itsintroduction ! And the demand for it isstill growing, Isn't that a tine showingof success? Don't it prove that AugustFlower has had unfailing success in thecure of indigestion and dyspepsia—thetwo greatest enemies of health and hap-pinr-HB? Does it not afford the best evi-dence that August Flower is a curespeciUc for all stomach and intestinaldisorders?—that it has proved itself thebest of all liver regulators? AugustFlower has a matchless record of overthirty five years in curing the ailing mil-lions of these distressing comuiaints —asuccess that is becoming wider in itsecope every day, at home and abroad, asthe fame of August Flower spreads.Trial bottles, 25c; regular size, 75c.

The Best ol Everythingin the way of fruit trees and shrubberycan be supplied at very reasonable price*by the Colfax Nursery, the oldest nur-sery in the Palouse country. Order*should be sent in without delay. Qeo.Ruedv. Box 126. Colfax, Wash. PhonaRed 421.

J. H. St. Lawrence has opened a realestate office in connection with bis pianobusiness. All persons wanting to buror sell farm or city property will makemoney by calling on him. Come in sodlist your*property with himc

For best insurance and cheapest rates,see J. G. Elliot, Culfax, Wash.

C. H. Moore pays highest price cash torturkeys o .

H, W. (sorr, *IBS Lnbc&JINCX.