The Colville examiner. [volume], November 23, 1907, Image 21

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THE NEWS OF STEVENS COUNTY
The registration at Springdale for the city elec
tion is 87.
W. I. Russell, the Echo merchant, is bedfast with
an acute attack of lumbago.
The Newport Miner will hereafter be published
on Thursday evening instead of Saturday.
L. E. Whitcomb has purchased the Joe Burtline
place near Mud Lake and will fix it up for a
chicken ranch.
Thomas Kidte is the new manager of the smelter
at Northport, succeeding A. I. Goodell, who goes
to Marysville, B. C.
A Pennsylvania company has taken an option on
the Wisner sawmill at Mud Lake and men are
crusing the timber in that vicinity.
J. E. Pickrell, the Spokane insurance man who
has been in the county for several weeks looking
after business, returned to his home Wednesday.
The town council at Springdale has ordered a
contract let for one year to light the streets with
electricity and have city water for fire protection.
The Jupiter Lead Company has bought an inter
est in the Last Chance mine on Deep Creek and
development work will be pushed on this excellent
property.
Judge Carey of the superior court is sitting for
Judge W. 0. Chapman at Tacoma this week,
Judge Chapman filling the bench here in Judge
Carey's place.
Another electric light plant will be erected at
Deep Creek falls by Robert Morril of Spokane, re
placing the one which was burned. This will
again furnish light for use at Northport.
John Keough left last Saturday night for the
International mine near Boundary, where he will
remain this winter, developing and caring for the
properties of the company of which he is president.
A new ruling under the government land office
regulations is that no commutation proof offered
under under a homestead entry will be accepted
unless with sufficient proof to show that the home
steader has actually lived upon and improved the
land for the full 14 months period. The ' 'construc
tive residence" which has been recognized hereto
fore will no longer entitle a person to prove up on
homesteads and will do away with any further
speculation on government land.
Don't delay coming for those Christmas photos.
Give us time to get you up some fine ones for gifts.
Justus & Treadwell.
Engineer R. B. Thomas has completed his work
on two new additions to the town of Chewelah,
Oppenheimer's Central Park addition and Mona
han's fourth addition. Chewelah is growing fast
and is doing her part in the building up of Stevens
county.
The board of county commissioners will meet
next month on the 9th instead of on the first Mon
day. They have set Dec. 14 as the time to deter
mine when and on what terms to sell the old jail
fixtures, including also the court house stoves ren
dered of no further use as property by reason of
the new jail and heating plant.
Settlement has been made in the suit which
pended between the Kettle Falls Power Company
and the Fruitland Irrigation Company over the
right to use the waters of the Colville river. The
irrgation company has been granted possession of
the water for irrigation purposes, but as this
settlement was made out of court, the terms are
not made public.
The case of H. M. Lund of Newport was tried in
the office of Attorney S. Douglas in this city Mon
day and Tuesday, with the result of a permanent
injunction being granted against the road.
Judge W. 0. Chapman, of Tacoma, sitting for
Judge Carey, announced his decision Tuesday
evening. Witnesses for Mr. Lund were Judge M.
M. Sammons, T. J. Kelly, John Koch and James
McDonald, all property owners and business men
of Newport. The attorneys present were Messrs.
Cannon and Lee of Spokane for Mr. Lund and
Messrs. Baldwin and Post of Spokane for the rail
way. This is the case wherein the cause of action
was the fact that the railway company laid its
tracks at night along the street close to Mr. Lund's
hardwere establishment, thereby causing alleged
damage to Mr. Lund's property and business.
C. H. Parliament, living seven miles northeast
of Colville on the Metaline road, was in town Sat
urday and made this office a pleasant visit. Mr.
Parlament has conducted a nursery at his place for
the last six years, having five acres averaging
15,000 trees to the acre, the greater part being
set to apples of the Jonathan, Wagner, Spitz
bergen, Rome Beauty and Winter Banana varieties.
During the last season he sold 10,000 trees of these
varieties and also about 1,000 each of cherry, pear,
prune and plum, together with small plants of all
kinds. All his product is sold in this vicinity, no
attempt having been made to extend operations or
ship to outside points. He sells all he can raise
and has refused a number of outside orders. He
sees a great field for profitable fruit raising in
Stevens county and predicts that operations on a
much larger scale will soon result in the fruit
raising business.