The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-12-26

Bryan, democrat, 6, 1913, 1872.
Debs, socialist 49, 49,
Chafin prohibtionist, 241, ,252.
Hsgen, independence, 49, 1856.
Watson, peoples, 1881.
Gilhaus, socialist-labor, 15,421
Total for all candidates, Ia, 852, ,238.
This grand total exceeds by 341, 531 the total
number of votes cast in the presidential election
of 1904, when the grand total was 13, 510708.
Compared with the 1904 election the candidates
of the republican and democratic and socialist
parties increased their vote this year. The reverse
is true Of the candidates of the prohibition, popu-
list and socialist-labor parties. The independence
party did not figure in the presidential election
four years ago.
Now that the election is over there can be no
objection to pointing out the high quality of busi-
ness management exhibited by the present admin
istration, as shown by the comprehensive report
of Secretary George B. Cortelyou of the treasury!
Mr.. Cortelyou admits deficiency for the
past fiscal year of $58, ,07O, ,2O1 and estimates de-
ficit for the present fiscal year of STA OOO 600.
The frenzied fnanciers are not the only ones that
have been going the pace that kills. The repub-
lican party has been squandering the money of
the people and doing all it could to keep taxes
Times.
The new issue of United States postage stamps,
which will soon appear, will contain new design for
the general delivery stamp, it being about an inch
square, green across its face an illustration of an
olive branch, the leaves of which entwine Mer-
curry hat symbolic of peace and haste.
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An intelligent member of the Vermont legislature
has proposed bill to that body intended to guard
newspapers against lying nformants. He would
make the giving of false news to newspaper
with intent to deceive punishable by fine ranging
from S. to $40 for each offence. IL
That Roosevelt in a previous existence was un-
doubtedly Roman emperor. probably Augustus,
and that John D. Rockefeller was Roman tax
gatherer is the belief of L. W. Rogers, national
lecturer of the theosophcal society.
Mr.. Rogers is the man who recently said Miss
Elkins was princess in former existence. Mr..
Rogers was forced to admit that from the point of
view of power Mr.. Roosevelt had taken an appre-
cable slump since landing this side of the Styx
But President Roosevelt shows so plainly that he
was equipped for the position from the start Mr..
Rogers thinks there is no doubt that he had had
precious practice. He wouldn't identify him to
hair with Augustus, but he recalls that the en-
peror on occasion got off pretty hot remarks
in his annual messages on the question of family
life and race suicide, and that he had way of
knocking local abuses that is strongely suggestive
of the big stick.
John D., however, in the professors judgment,
was not much different from what he is now, only
the opportunities for a poor boy to get ahead
and absorb the earth were not so abundant in
Rome in the first century. He thinks John was
just a publican and sinner in his previous ex-
istence but that the process of evolution dropped
off the first part of the title when he came to the
United States of America and began to accumulate,
1t would be interesting if Mr. Rogers could de-
scribe the previous incarnations Of others of our
citizens so prominent some of them so f1agranty
prominent-in public life. Taft may have been
Roman slave, following implicitly the dictates of
his master. Fairbanks may have been tall
sycamore tree Billy Sunday undoubtedly be-
longed to some 18th century fire department, per-
haps in the salvage brigade. Andrew Carnegie
possibly peddled books on the banks of the Nile.
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The announcement is made that after January l
a two-cent postage rate between this country and
Germany will be in effect This is following the ex-
ample set by Great Britain in establishing two
cent rate with America last fall.
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The Northern Idaho Forestry Association COM
posed of lumbermen Of Washington Idaho, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska, owning
hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest
lands in the panhandle of Idaho will urge the for
estry department to cooperate with in protecting
standing timber. including several hundred thou
sand acres in the national forest declared to
he the LARGEST stand of white nine left intact the