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A Weekly Journal of Democracy Fourteenth Year HPHE crowning event of a woman's life •*• w when she takes to her heart the man of her j jfjijj choice for a life-time of love and companionship. In (electing your gift to com 101 morale ihit occa- || |j»!*~*l «ion, whether il be fr • oJ or relative, be sure il'i (anS PMltfy good, lasting and appropriate. Let it alway-R be Mfl • lemioder to her and her husband of your tboagutful remembrance and kindly regard. I i Oar ttock off art many 'aluabU imieitlom for wad- II I din; lift*,. ••pccUUy in ■■snutifui cilvcrware and cut |LJ I (Ua«. Thi. with our ••rvir.* «oa rapniatioo will in.ur* 1 . -- J.t Bg^3 ■atUfutttoia. *'<^> n IF ITS FROM RICH'S ITS RIGHT COLVILLE ABSTRACT CO. Abstracts of title to Stevens county lands, mines and water rights Frank Ko^tka Merchant Tailor Colville, Washington I TAKE PRIDE IN MAKING THIS ANNOUNCEMENT The Colville Song Shop has been appointed sales representative by Sherman, Clay & Co. for their full line of pianos and player pianos. These include the Steinway, the world's great est piano, and also the Aeolian Player Pianos, including the famous Duo Art reproducing piano. Colville Song Shop LOOSE LEAF SYSTEMS-RING AND POST BINDERS RULED FORMS—BLANK FILLERS AT EXAMINER \C^\ I M^^^^r^^ j PT^^^^^^^MB 'I'll !>' 'I'lr^fc'l' * I [tSnoch Flour MilljT 1 I COLVILL^.V/ASIIINGTON 11 Che Colvilk Examiner High class tailoring for men and women Dry cleaning, pressing, repairing, altering OFFICIAL NEWS OF CITY AND COUNTY Golville, Stevens County, Washington, Saturday, July 9, 1921 ROBBERY MOTIVE OF DAISY GRIME WONG FOOK NYN. MURDERED AND BROTHER WONG FOOK TYE. BEATEN BY ROBBERS Attack, Believed By Sheriff's Office To Have Been Carefully Planned —Clews May Lend to Capture What is thought by the County Sheriff's offire to he one of the most carefully planned robberies and murders in this part of the county in recent years took place at China camp near Daisy, Mon day evening Wonff Fook N'yn wa? murdered a~'\ his brother' Wong: Fook Tye •:■; .'."•(] and beaten by three men. Nyn md Tye, as the two China men are known, have been residents around Delay for the p;>st thirty two years. Purira: the time they made Daii v their home, the two celestial i have alwpys stnnj high :r the resp.et of their neighbors. Wlien the nev/s of \yn'- murder and heat ing of Tye became ! -«-•■- i\ aching was threatened if the culprits w«3 caught. Nyn, who was a Chinese doctor by profession conducted a little store where garden truck and Chinese lily bulbs was sold. The two men also did placer mining on the side. It was from their placer mining that the story spread around the coun try that they had considerable money stored away in their home. The robbery and murder is be lieved to have taken place between the hours of 8:30 and 9:30 p. m. Monday. Whether the murderers attacked Nyn in his cabin first and then met his brother Tye, who had gone about a mile from the cabin to get planks to fix a bridge near his camp is not known. The pre sumption is that Tye was attacked first and his brother murdered after ward. Earlier in the day a piece of paper was found by the two celestials in front of their home, bearing the words "Last warning China now leave." The paper was brought into the house by Tye where it was later picked up by Deputy Sh-Tiff C. A. Ledgerwood. It is now being held by the sheriff's office as evi dence. Neither the news of the murder or of the attack was not given by Tye until clo.se to 9 o'clock the next morning, due to the fact that he thought his brother was probably unconscious. From the meager de tails thar the sheriff has been able to get from Tye, the celestial after being gauged and beaten by his as sailants fieed himself and made for his cabin. Nearing the camp he called to his brother and getting no answer went closer, where he found him with two bullet holes in his body, one through his chest and the other through his lungs. At th" coronor's inquest, it was found thai Nyn had been shot four times. Instead of calling the officers, Tye administered first aid hoping that he could revive his brother. When he saw that he did not regain con sciousness on Tuesday morning, Tye went to Daisy and gave the alarm. That Nyn, a frail man between the ages of 75 and 80, was no match for the murderers, who in all probability overpowered him from behind is evidenced by the fact that the gun and knife which he has always carried was found by Dep uty Sheriff Ledgerwood to be in their accustomed places in his belt. An examination afterward of the gun proved that it had not been fired. Two clews which may greatly help in finding the men who committed the crimi' have been established by the sheriff's office. Shortly before Tye was bound and gi</'."''d, B farm er of Daisy was out looking for hi> cow. bearing the deserted camp where Tye went to get the plank he noticed two men arguing with the Chinaman over the boards. Ac cording to the reports received bj Sheriff Ledgerwood, the men report ed that they were officers and that they had bought the camp and weft trying to prevent Tye from taking the lumbei, which they claimed be longed to them. Thinking nothing of the matter, the farmer went on, after which it is thought Tye wa gagged, bound, beaten and left for dead. The other clew which has con siderable bearing is the finding of Colville Has Quietest Fourth "The quietest fourth Colvillc hM ever had that I can remember," said G. I. Ido, idly stretching himself in hi- real estate office "And I have seen a Rood many in this town dur ing my 37 years residence. As for myself, I went up to Mill creek nnd did some fishing." "It was too quiet for me" stated Justice of the Peace J. H. Kinsr. "While I did not go any place out side of Colville, it peems most of the town wont to Chewelah to attend the celebration. I came down town once and then went hack. Apain Inter in the afternoon. I came down attain to see if thpre was anybody around but one look convinced me that the lakes, Chewelah and fnehr lium had been the mecca for the moat i>f Colville's citizens." Most of Colville divided in spend ing the fourth. A email number stayed home. Part wen', to tnche lium to attend the regular Indian celebration being held ai that place. But the largest part l>y far went to Chewelah where the Colville band and baseball team were the loading atl factions. Those who did no! iro to either of thi above named pl&.v* went tn In* Hiiferent streams and "ales in the ■ounty on camping and li iiing pa ;"« County Engineer T. M. OliVt and his assistant Fred Thomas went t ■' to the lakes but when the fish refused to bite they turned to other diver sions. "Home looked good to me, BO good in fact that I spent the fourth there" responded Justice A. L. Knapp when questioned as to his whereabouts. "."'peaking of quiet fourths, Colville had the quietest that I can remem- Power House at Kettle Falls Application has been made by the Washington Water Power company to construct a dam and power house at Kettle Falls, according to dis patches f vom the national capitol at Washington, D. C. The proposed dam and power hou.se is one of the biggest power projects that has yet come before the federal water pow er commission under the raw water power law. Officials of the Washington Water Power Company are busy closing the details of buying the property which will give them complete possession of the territory where (heir pro ject will be launched. According to officials of the company, this will be completed in a short time. Only meager details of the plan are MODEL BAKERY SOLD TO COLVILLE MEN Purchase of the Model Bakery by F. J. Van Buren and J. A. Stephen son from E. J. Strong and S. Fresh man has just been announced The price in the transaction was not mentioned. The new owners have taken charge and will continue to op erate the Model as a first class es tablishment. Mr. Stephenson will take over the managership. Included in the equipment •>( tin Model Bakery is an electric oven with a daily capacity of 1500 loaves of bread, an electric cake mixer with three heats ami a champion bread machine electrically operated. One of the features of the plant is the electric bread sealer which does away with the handling of the bread after it has been taken out of the pans. Mr. Van Buren, one of the new owners has been in the bakery, restaurant and hotel business in California, Montana, Washington and Canada for the past thirty-five years. S. Freshman will be retained as baker. Bakery lunches will also be served. E. .1. Strong will take a complete re3t before engaging in other busi ness. Willett Bros, will stage a stump pulling demonstration at the Chris. McDonald ranch 6 miles northwest of Colville on Tuesday, July 12. H. .1. Plumb, county agent, will assist, in the demoHtration, ami the work will be done by a Koidson tractor. the place where an auto, •■vidt-ntlj belonging to th. men who are al leged to have committed thfl deed, had been left while thry attacked the two Chinese. The car had l>een driven into a clump of tree.- to pre vent it from being noticed. Foot marks around the place when- the auto wan parked indicate that the men had been there Home time. ber." and Justice Knapp must be taken as an authority when the fact becomes known that he has lived in this vicinity for the past 32 years. Led by the Colvilk> band and aug mented by fourteen members of the Frank Star Post Noi. .17 of the American Legion, the celebration at Chewelah easily attracted more peo ple from Colville than any other single celebration. The Colville band was the only band of three adver tised to appear that actually put in an appearance. Much favorable comment was heard on all sides on the new cap adopted by the Frank Starr Post. The cap is modeled on the same pat tern as the cap worn overseas by the doughboys in the late war, and I* blue with gold trimmings. The individual features of the pa tiidi was the beautifully decorated automobile floats, with the comedy being furni.-hed by the clowns. K'i>'h' former < x-sailors from Che ivelah in their white uniforms also came in for their share of the at tention. In the parade, the post Hag of the Frank Starr Post was car ved by Color H-arers Hob Lee and Abe Denaon. Jack St. Clair and Warwick Stewart acted as color (rum Us. 'ihn V. Folsom post of Ohewola'- also took part in the pa r:xl' und later acted as host to the Colville post at a dinner. The ball game in the afternoon between Chewelah and Colville at tracted Its share of the crowd at tending the celebration. In the evening dancing was the chief form or amusement offered. Numerous automobile parties made little side trips into the country. known. It is the intention of men in charge of the work to build the dam in three .stages. The first step will be the buildm* of a dwn thtrty-fl« feel high across the minor channel. A dam sixty feet in height across the main channel is the proposed second step while the building of (.he gates at the crest of the corn-ret, dam raising both dams to a height of seventy-five feet will complete the work. A total of 158,000 horsepower will be the installed primary power at the end of the third step. Should ;i market for secondary power develop, it can easily he generated in the opinion of officials of the company. FEATHKRKILE IS HELP IN NOKTIU'OKT ROBBERY In Howard Keathorkile, age 40, a farmer living across the river from Northport, Sheriff W. H. Graham believes that he has the man want ed for robbing and shooting W. Stewart, a logging contractor at Northport Monday evening. Feather kile, who is lodged in the Stevens county jail without bail denies any part in the robbery or holdup, but admits that he was in Xorthport at the time of the. robbery. According to Stewart, Keatherkili and another man had been after him twice on the previous evening to ge'. a drink of liquor which Keatherkili In alleged to have cached across the river. On both occasions Stewart refuted to accompany the two aCTOM, Toward- morning between 'i and I o'clock Stewart according to the story told Sheriff draham, went across the river to pet his horse. Seeing him do this, I'eatherkile is said to have called out to him to stop and wait for blnucli and his friend. Stewart did thli and the other two men quickly catching op vtarted to walk along the railroad track. Where the track rounds a short curve, the three (topped md according to Stewart. Featherkil* hit him with the butt of his revolver knocking him down. A: he was ittempting to get up he al leges that rVatherkile shot him twice, onc<- through the right arm anil the other time through the lung The amount of money taken fron. Stewart according to Sheriff Gra ham was eight dollars. Seventy three rents, in a pocket book in on< of SttWUt'l packets was left un touched. At the hospital in Northport where Stewart was taken by a pausing motorist, it is said that the chances for his recovery are good unlest pneumonia set* in. Doctor Robinson removed the bullets from Stewart. Colville experienced one of the hot test dayi thin summer on Thursday. An Exponent for Stevens County $2.00 Year in Advance; 5c Copy CHEWELAH WINS FROM COLVILLE LOCAL TEAM LOSES EXHIBITION GAME SUNDAY BY ONI SIDED SCORE i.rmiT Graham Calls Home Nini> Off Field in Second Contest With Opposing Side in Lead Featured by the clever pitching of Snoddy ami Spurtreon, Oolville went down to defeat at Chowelah 6 to 1 July 1. Moth teams playe<l great ball up to the iMphth mitu r. when Colville left the field after hemp (riven the worst of a poor decision. The trouble arose when Snoddy was refused hla base after being hit on the wriil l>y :i pitched bait, the umpire claiming the hall was dead. In the eighth, the same situation arose when Barton for Chewelah was hit. Instead of ordering- him bark to the plate the umpire im mediately gave him his base on halls. Qrover Graham immediately called the Colville players off the field. Chewelah opened the scoring in the first inning netting two runs after two were down. Smith knocked down a hard hit hall to short, the batter hemp given credit for a hit. Leepe.r tripled and scored a minute later on a single. Colville started ;t rally in thp third which looked had for Che welah. .loe Rogers was safe on first. Smith, next. up singled, Rogers going to second and Hydorn, show ing some of his Babe Ruth ability hit to eente.rfield for a double. Sweeney fielded the hall cleanly and threw Rogers out at the plate. Smith «oing to third. Smith scor ed n minute later when Altman threw wild t<i third in an attempt to catch him off the base. Prom the third to the sixth, both nines put up a higi class brand of ball, fast fielding and clever work by the pitchers being the outstand ing features. Chewelah broke Into the scoring column again on the sixth when it scored three runs on a combination of hits and errors. Then tli«' eighth inning came when the local team walked off the field after having been handed the poor end of the de cisions throughout the entire game. Score by innings: Chewelah 2 0 0 0 o 3 o—6 Colville <> 0 I 0 0 0 o—l Battering: Chewelalji Spurgeon and Altman; Colvflle, Snoil<ly and <lra ham. NotM on !ln- (Jame. Smith on short for (tic home team celebrated his return by play ing a fast game. Joi" Koger-H a«ain rtarred around thi- keystone .sack. With Wernli he pulled off ;i clever double play. Roth Snoddy and Spurgeon pitch ed airtight ball. Chewelah and Colville/ played an exhibition game in Colvillc Sunday, losing 1-') to 2, before a small crowd. Colville tried out Murphy, a recruit pitcher. Murphy went well for the first four innings but the visitors fell on him the fifth for five runs ami the (fame from then on wan a farce, Colville shifting its lineup re paatedly and trying out different pitchers. iContinued on pag« nlna.) Lucky Strike cigarette (wasted])