COLFAX,  Wash.,  Nov. 23.—Whitman county's new  jail is completed and has been accepted by the board of  commissioners.  The building  is
of concrete and steel throughout and is fireproof. It contains a six-room   apartment for the sheriff's family,  ample office rooms and a vault in connection, two juvenile wards for boys and girls, a women's ward and a matron's apartment, a padded cell and steel cages for men prisoners. Sheriff W. I. Dailey will remove his family and household goods to the new quarters in a few days  and his office from his present quarters in the courthouse. The total cost of the building and equipment was slightly more than $50,00. 
Not much interest is being taken in the coming city election in Colfax. There is only one contest, two persons having been nominated for councilman in the Third ward, A. F. Brookhart and W. E. Thomas. The other candidates are Charles L. Chamberlin, mayor; S. M. McCroskey, clerk; C. E. Scriber, treasurer; R. L. Wilkinson, attorney; Robert Sawhill, councilman at large; J. M. Robbie, councilman, First ward; M. J. Grady, councilman, Second ward, four years; Charles Folkins, councilman, Second ward, two years.