The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-10-10
What is the difference between Buffalo Bill and
VIM. H. Taft? Buffalo Bill has show.

George F. Cotterill, democratic candidate for
senator from this state, will speak at the court
house in Colvie on Thursday evening, Oct Is. He
is a man of great ability and the people of this
vicinity are favored in being able to hear him dur
ing this campaign.
The republican party of Stevens county is
thing of the past 1t has been superseded by
clique known as the ''Colville hog Pend 'Oreille
Press, Newport.
The labor vote will decide the presidential elec-
ton this year and the trend is toward Bryan. New
York has $4,000 idle tailors striking for higher
wages They have been getting from So to Sc per
week, under republican prosperity, and are not
satisfied
A most reasonable argument why Daisy Hard
should be retained in the office of school superin-
tendent is that by hard work and study she has
gained and possesses state certificate which is a
mark of efficiency There are only seven or eight
state certificates held by residents of Stevens
county. Miss Hard's opponent only holds first
grade certificate, which will expire next May
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You may as reasonably expect proper revision
proper trial of horse thief by men who have re-
ceived the stolen horses.
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In the November elections Washington electors
will be called upon to vote for or against two
amendments to the state constitution. One is an
amendment voted down two years ago which al
lows private companies and persons to condemn
private property for private use. The other pro-
ic fO tho md
taxation of property and is identical with consti-
tutional amendment also to be voted upon in Ohio
and Missouri. The same amendment was twice de-
feated in Minnesota, but was finally approved by
the voters of that state in 1906.
The first amendment words as follows:
Private property may be taken, under such terms cond
tions and limitations shall be prescribed by the Legislature
for dran fumes and bitches for agricultural domestic and
sanitary purposes and for the right of way for the removal
of timber timber products and the appropriation and
of property for such purposes hereby declared to be
public usage though such appropriation and may
nure to the special benefit of private individual firm,
corporation association: Provided however, that this
declaration to public shall not be constructed limit
the right to appropriate property for other public
Private property shall not be taken for private except
for private ways of necessity No private property shall be
taken damaged for public private without just
compensation having first been made paid into for
the and right of way shall be appropriated to the
pensaon therefor be first made money asceraned and
paid into for the owner irrespective any benefit
from improvement proposed by such corporation which
compensation shall be ascertaned by jury unless be
waived, in other civil in courts of record in the
prescribed by law. Whenever attempt is made
to take private property for alleged to be public the
question whether the contemplated be really shall
be judicial question: and determined such without
gard any legislative assertion that the public except
to the which herein declared to be public.
This amendment is subject of considerable dis
pute. At the present time an owner of timber
can not condemn right of way over private prop
erty to enable him to get his timber to market and
it is claimed wealthy timber men have bought key
sections which control the outlet to vast timber
tracts and thus hold up the small timber owner
who can not get his product to market except
across their land Therefore it is argued that the
small timber men are demanding this amendment
On the other hand, it is argued that under the
existing laws any logging railroad may condemn
right of way across private property, that private
timber owners do not desire to build logging
railroads and that the amendment is being urged
by big private logging companies so that they may
bottle up their small timber men. Now, if they
condemn private property they can only do so as
public service corporation, their road becomes
common carrier and every timber owner can have
his logs hauled upon it at the same reasonable
rates the owners of the road would have to pay for
hauling their own timber, while under the pro-
posed amendment this common carrier law would
not apply.
The second amendment is designed to do away
with what is now giving the board of equalization
much concern; that is, bringing the assessments
of all the counties of the state to the same relative
standard of value. If the amendment is adopted
it will enable the legislature by appropriate laws
to separate the sources of state taxation from the