The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-12-12

way, has moved his plant to Chewelah and will
start new paper there in few weeks. A new
building is being erected for the home of the new
paper.
The manner in which the republican party has
been sharing it's prosperity with the common
people reminds one of the man who offered cigar
to friend, saying that they were 'two for
quarter" cigars. The recipient, after few puffs,
remarked: Sorry you didn't give me the twenty
cent one"
James Odgers, editor of the Davenport Tribune,
died at his home in Davenport last week, after
short illness. Mr.. Odgers was one of the oldest
newspaper men of eastern Washington. He at
one time published paper at Waterville and later
went to Coulee City, where he published the News
for several years. In 1898 he moved to Davenport
and started the Tribune making it the leading
democratic paper of central Washington Mr.
Odgers was for years prominent in the councils of
the democratic party and exerted much influence
in party affairs. He was also a member of the
Washington State Press Association. He leaves
wife and two sons, one of the latter being Lee
Odgers, publisher of the Leavenworth Echo
Superior Judge Timan of Seattle has decided
that husbands profanity does not constitute
ground for divorce He says: 'If every wife
should be entitled to divorce because her hus-
band 'cussed' once in while when piqued or
vexed, dare say that one-third to one-haf of the
now married population would be legally separated
or on the way to the divorce COURT
The president of Stanford university says that
peek-a-boo waists should not be worn by the
girl students. Perhaps he has concluded that as
far as appearances go, they might just we'll not
be worn.
Fighting to vindcate his recent assertions that
he has discovered mathematical rule governing
reproduction and sex determination of the higher
animals, Professor William E. Castle of Harvard
university has bred two absolutely unheard of
varieties of guinea pigs The breeding of the two
new animals is looked upon as especially wonder
full from the fact that the two hybrid guinea pigs
are exactly the same character as Professor Castle
predicted they would be. His demonstration that
fixed rules can be applied to the reproduction of
animals of certain character and that the color
and length of hair and sex can be mathematically
and precisely determined has thrown new light up
on the possibilities of animal breeding.
Professor Castles experiments are looked upon
the farthest step yet taken in definitely solving
the secret of SEX
| Some sweet day, when the discovery has ad-
vanced to the stage of human kind, fond parents
may be able to determine in advance upon red,
| blue or green hair for their offspring, decide
whether it shall be boy girl, and name its polit-
ical and religious standard.
Supreme court decisions which now stand as the
law of the state have been written by young law
| clerks at Olympia. Judges have signed them as
the opinion of the court, after giving them little
more than perfunctory glance. In many cases
the reading of the briefs and the looking up of
citations for supreme court decisions has been left
entirely to one judge, making bribery and corrup-
| ton possible. These are some of the startling
facts as to the methods pursued by the supreme
court of this state which have been brought into
the light by the Root investigation, states the Spo-
kane Chronicle.
While no charges of misconduct have been made
against any of the members of the supreme court
except Judge Milo A. Root, it is freely asserted
that the business of the court has been handled in
| a grossly careless manner, and that every oppor-
tunity has been afforded for crookedness. Opn-
| ions in important cases have been written by one
of the judges and signed by his colleagues with
| out their giving any more attention to the case
than perhaps hearing brief oral argument from
the attorney and without any careful reading of
the briefs or the citations.
In addition to this it is claimed that in many
cases the writing of opinions has been framed out
by young law clerks around the capital and that
opinions have been handed down as the decision
of the supreme court which were in fact written
by outsiders and which now stand as the law of
the state without ever having been made the SUBJ
ect of calm deberaton or study on the part of the