The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-10-03

With this issue, the Examiner starts on the
twelfth month of its existence. The only special
Importance to be attached to this fact is that it
furnishes a very good excuse to call upon sub
scrbers for the payment of their subscriptions for
the year. The greater part of the subscription list
is paid up. Those who have not yet paid anything
on their subscriptions will confer favor on the
management by attending to the matter. With
the campaign now on the party paper needs all
available funds
Mr.. Taft's political boosters are just now en-
gagged in lauding him as man who does not make
rash promises. Well, he would be sucker to
make any kind of promise at all-until he knows
just what his financial hackers want Of him.
A petition has been sent in to the land office at
Spokane for the establishment of government
townsite at Metaline. The town is in unsurveyed
territory and the residents have only squatters'
rights. The title to the townsite has been in dis
pute, the Sterling Slver-Lead Company claiming
it as placer ground, and J. O. Bettancourt claiming
it as cement clay proposition. A government
official recently inspected the ground and reported
adversely on the claims of both.
Congressman Wesley L. Jones was very anxious
to debate during the primary campaign and could
scarcely restrain his eagerness to force Senator
Ankeny upon the stump. Knowing that Senator
Ankeny was not public speaker his anxiety grew
with his knowledge that there was no danger that
his challenge would be accepted, but when George
F. Cotterill, democratic candidate for senator,
offers to meet the redoubtable Jones upon the
stump, and even suggests topics for a public de-
bate so that he could have time to get ready, the
Yakima orator suddenly finds that he hasn't time
to indulge in any such riotous pleasure. In brief,
Mr.. Cotterill is likely to prove too strong for him.
Mr.. Jones has arranged to spend most of his time
during the campaign in the east, where there
would be no risk to his own candidacy should his
defense of republican platforms and policies moi
prove as logical and convincing as it might. Can
it be that he is afraid the voters at large will turr
him down and express their preference for Mr..
Cotterll?
When we read of the censorship placed upon
Mr.. Taft's utterances, it gives rise to great
doubt Of the ability of the man to be trusted with
the great Office of president of the United States
Many of his friends are disappointed in his allow
ing himself to be placed in the position of an over
grown boyw who has to be watched all the time
VOL l, No. 1, of the Pend d'Oreille Press was
issued at Newport last Friday, with J. j. Amiott
publisher. The Newport Miner has hitherto been
the only paper in Newport, but the growth of the
Pend Oree river country has brought many in.
dustries to Newport, and now another newspaper
is added to the field. The new paper will be dem.
ocratic,in politics. The editor has had considerable
experience in newspaper work and in the propa.
CATION of the principles of democracy, and may be
expected to aid considerably in the work of the
party. Stevens county now has II weekly publ.
cations.
A Straightforward Course