The Colville examiner. [volume], March 06, 1915, Image 1

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A Weekly Journal of
Democracy
Issue Number 384
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OFFICIAL NEWS OF CITY AND COUNTY
Colville, Stevens County, Washington, Saturday, March 6, 1915
Cleaning and Repairing
Neatly Done
With steers selling in the Kan
sas city market for $11.30 per
100 pounds, it is not surprising
to note that the great farming
class in the United States is no
longer listening to tht wild-cat
claims of free trade bankruptcy.
The omnibus budget for the
state of Washington for the com
ing biennium totals $9,500,403,
which is $1,524,283 less than the
same appropriation two years
ago. This reduction is the result
of Governor Lister's effort to cut
expense?, and is appreciated by
the taxpayers, although not ap
preciated by some politicians.
Barring the board of control, the
eastern hospital for the insane
andtheschool for defective youth,
all institutions and departments
under Governor Lister are pruned
below estimates notwithstanding
that these estimates were well
below those of two years ago. On
the other hand republican state
officers received increases in their
forces and the state treasurer,
attorney general and the land
commissioner were given larger
appropriations than their esti
mates called for.
The Ides of March, that is on
or about the middle of the month
of Mars, is of ancient dates per
haps the best known for the
reason that it bears with it the
tragedy of the death of Julius
Caesar, the greatest of all
Romans, the most complete char
acter, Lord Bacon said, of all an
tiquity. The assassination of
Caesar on the Ides of March, B.
C. 44, was preceded by a num
ber of prodigies: A dream of
Caesar's wife Calpurnia, that
their house had fallen in, that he
had been wounded by assassins,
and had taken refuge in her
bosom; the arms of Mars, deposi
ted in Caesar's house, rattled at
night; the doors of the room in
which he slept flew open spon
taneously; the victims and birds
were inauspicious in the auguries;
solitary birds appeared in the
forum; there were lights in the
sky, and the sheeted dead did
shriek and gibber in the Roman
streets; firey figures of men were
seen; a flame issued from the
hand of a soldier's slave without
hurting him; after the murder of
Caesar it was remembered that
the attendant removed his gilded
chair from the senate house,
thinking that he would not attend
the meeting. What a time that
should have been for palmistry,
divination and dream books. By
astronomical tables the exact
date of Caesar's landing on the
coast of Britain has been ascer
tained to have been Sunday,
August 27, 55 B. C.
The United States Weather
Bureau announces that there is
no scientific basis for the belief,
prevalent in all ages, that the
moon and planets exert any in
fluence on our weather. The
bureau says, on the contrary,
that there is every reason to be
lieve that the moon and planets
do NOT have any influence on
weather, and that the weather
records substantiate it.
The Rev. Irl Hicks, the noted
St. Louis forecaster, says that
the moon and planets DO in a
large measure influence weather
conditions on the earth. And
he shows the cases wherein his
predictions have been true.
And there you are again! Are
our superstitions scientific, or are
our scientific results mere super
stitions?
The matter of planting pota
toes in certain phases of the moon
is general. But from the lips of
eminent men we can't decide
whether this lends virtue to the
potato sprout or not. We do
know, however, that when we
plant too many potatoes, the
market drops—regardless of the
moon. And we know that if the
neighbor's cow tramps in the
spuds, the moon don't help much
if she doesn't quickly show us
the cow.
If potatoes are planted on a
dark night, with no moon, care
should be used not to get too
many in the flower bed, for it
has been demonstrated that in
about three-quarters of a moon
aftmvard there will be family
eruptions, followed by other sink
ing spoils in the garden. Straw
berry trees should be sown when
the moon is about half full, while
it is claimed that corn husks will
sprout quicker when the left
hand corner of the moon has
been scraped off.
The press agency of the repub
lican Kang in control of the legis
lature is sending weekly letters
to the papers of the state, giving
wholesale laudation to the re
publicans on certain matters,
and covering up the other things
which do not look so well in
print. We note that the States
man-Index has been running
these letters, but that the author
ship is never given. This week's
lettfr starts off as follows:
OI.YMPIA, Feb. The repub
lican organization in the senate and
housi> of the 1915 legislature has saved
money for the taxpayer by inaugu
rating a system by which many pro
posed bills have been killed off in ad
vance by having them taken up with
the different committees. At every
sessiion of the legislature many bills are
introduced which have to be printed
and referred to committees, and then
later are found to be of little value.
In many cases it is found that they are
of little value on account of being un
constitutional, or because there if al
ready a law covering the point, or, as
in many cases, they would have an
effect on something that the author had
failed to consider in drafting the pro
posed new law. Wherever there has been
the least doubt, the republicans have
urged that the bills be senj. firat to the
cotimittee for consideration, and this
has resulted in the saving of a great
many printing bills.
That the republican scheme of
killing bills before they can get
into the legislature is a good one
for the machine, there is no ques
tion. Matters of demanded in
vestigation of republican meth
ods, questions as to excessive
cost of republican offices, and
bills which the gang do not
want to come up before the pub
lic gaze, can thus be strangled.
But more than any thing else
the gag rule keeps the party
from ridicule by suppressing
most of the fool bills which the
overwhelming republican mem
bership might be expected to
produce. The desire to put re
publicans in office does not al
ways permit capable men being
elected, and it is wisdom for the
party to keep in the background
those men and those bills which
would make a greater laughing
stock of the party.
The scoring which the legisla
ture has received from the papers
of the state has made necessary
some such press bureau as has
been started by the republicans,
in effort to head off an attack by
the public, and those papers that
print the stuff in violation of the
facts in the case can be properly
labeled and laid on the shelf for
future reference by the taxpayers
who are interested in knowing
the exact facts.
Reports on the work of Fish
Commissioner Darwin show a
record of achievement out-dis
tancing that of any predecessor
since the department was in
augurated. In the first 22 months
he was in office Darwin collected
$40,000 more than had ever been
collected by the department prev
iously in any twenty-four months.
The first year in office he reduced
the cost of production at the state
hatcheries from 88£ cents per
thousand fry liberated to 54 cents,
- a clean cut of 50 ','< over the
cost of production of the previous
year. In the 22 months in office
he has made more arrests, se-
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cured more convictions for fishing
law violations and turned more
money from this source into the
state treasury than was done in
all the remainder of the time
since the department came into
existence. Darwin is the first
fish commissioner that ever sys
tematically went after illegal trap
fishing. In one memorable raid
he seized traps fishing in illegal
depths of water that contained
nearly $6,000 worth of fish, which
money was turned into the state
coffers. While heretofore tax
payers have paid approximately
40 % of the upkeep of the state
fish commissioner's department,
since Darwin took hold the fishery
department has not only paid all
of its expenses but has turned a
revenue into the treasury. And
with it all Darwin's political
enemies have been making a fight
on him.
The Spokane Chronicle says:
"After more than six months of
disastrous European war, with
its tremendous tendency to
increase the demand and dimin
ish the supply of foodstuffs, Spo
kane householders are finding
their grocery bills as light as
they have been for many years.
The fact is the cost of living
is less than it has been for nearly
a decade. Meat has not been so
cheap for many years as it is in
Spokane markets. And meat be
ing one of the biggest items on
the expense account of an Amer
ican household, is an important
factor in raising or lowering
the cost of living. Wheat and
sugar, which have been affected
more by the war than any other
domestic commodity, are not
alarming Spokane folks with
their flighty tendencies Retail
grocers have found it possible to
sell sugar and flour with very
little advance over ante-bellum
figures. Sugar at 16 and 17
pounds for a dollar, which many
retailers a:e quoting, is cheaper
than it can be bought wholesale
and is almost as cheap as it has
been sold here for years. Flour
is another commodity that deal
ers are generous with. Many
local grocers are retailing their
flour at prices as low if not lower
than the wholesale quotations.
Eggs and butter, a substantial
portion of the average bill of fare,
are astonishing dealers and cus
tomers alike with their recent
slumps. All of these things have
greatly helped Spokane people to
disillusion themselves concern
ing the "bugaboo" that the dec
laration of war produced for the
average family man."
The Post-Intelligencer states
that Seattle is the healthiest city
in the country. Its death rate,
8.4, is the lowest among Ameri
can cities; Memphis, Term., with
a rate of 20.8, is highest, while
the average for this country is
14.1 per 1,000 of population. The
state of Washington, with a death
rate of 8.5, is the lowest of all
states; otherwise it is the health
iest.
The annual report on mortality
in the United States for the cal
endar year 1913 contains these
figures.
These statistics, of course,
relate only to what is known as
registration area of the United
States, covering those cities
where the accurate mortality
statistics are recorded. The es
timated population of the reg
istered area in 1913 was 63,298,
--718, or 65 per cent of the total
population. Twenty-four states,
the District of Columbia and
forty one cities in non-registra
tion districts are included.
Comparative figures for foreign
countries are not available for
1913, but in 1912 the only impor
tant countries having lower death
rate than the United states were
Norway 13.4 per 1,000, England
and Wales 13.3, Denmark 13, the
(Continued on p**« •!«bt.)
An Exponent for
Stevens County
•L frank b. goetter
DRUGGIST
DRUQ9TOR*
Stevens County
Drug Store
Homeopathic Drugs
Help the Chronic and
Cure the Sick
C. DeKEYZER,coivUie
HOTEL
TOURAINE
Solicits your patronage while in
Spokane.
EUROPEAN PLAN
Rates 60 cents and up. Reasonable rates
by week or month, i block from post
office, near new Monroe Street bridge.
Full view down Riverside Avenue from
Lobby.
Wm Snow, Prop. R. H. Snow, Mgr.
Spokane, Washington.
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Make the
New Madison
Hotel
Your headquarters in
SPOKANE
Rates 50c and up. Special rates
by the week.
We have a clean and homelike
hotel and are anxious to make
your stay in the city so pleas
ant that you will look us up
again.
Corner First and Madison
The Management of
ARTHUR G. JURY
Gilson & Thomas
444 S. Walnut
Well Drilling
See us for estimates or prices
Declare War!
On hawks and owls. I want all kinds
of birds that are not protected by law,
between now and May 1. Birds that
are badly shot or otherwise badly dam
aged are no good.
Send them by parcel post
L. Loew, Taxidermist
Box 74, Colville, Wash.
The Colville
Flour Mills
has its goods in all the stores
Top Noch
Patent,
Graham Flour,
Whole Wheat Flour
and Farina
Chopped Wheat
and Oats
We have our chopper running
and can chop or roll your grain
to suit you
We are paying $1.30
per bushel for wheat
We retail and wholesale. Give
us a trial
Colville Flour Mills
Jones & Zuck