The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-10-09

One hundred and sixty-fve representative DEM
ocrats of eastern Washington have been selected
as reception committee to welcome William J.
Bryan to Spokane today. Those from Stevens
county on the committee are M. M. Sammons,
John P. Judson, E. M. Hefner, John B. Lacey.
Mr.. Bryan will make an address from the big
stand at the corner of Monroe and Riverside.
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The Great Northern was awarded the mail SER
vice from St. Paul to Seattle for the next four
years and began the fast service Oct S. The mail
contract entered into by the United States govern
ment requires that the mail be carried from St.
Paul to Seattle in 47a hours The sum involved is
81, 2,OOO,0O There will be three mail cars and two
express cars and four relays of clerks between St.
Paul and Seattle The first relay works from
st. Paul to Devil Lake, 395 miles; the second from
there to Glasgow, Mont, 1886 miles; Glasgow to
Whitefish, 41O miles, and from White6sh to Seattle,
GA miles. The very best type of the fastest pas
senger engines will be used on the fast mail.
Within short time the Great Northern will also
have pressed steel mail cars and solid color will
be used for the train. Bright yellow is recon-
mended. saving of Is hours is accomplished by
this contract. Other roads have been competing
for the mail service from the east to Seattle and
the Great Northern has won splendid victory.
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DIR. Menard a celebrated French physician, has
published an apparently conclusive scientific argu-
ment against fighting off old age He declares that
every one is old as his arteries and his organs;
that diet, exercise, massage, TRANSMISSION or physi-
cal operation can only produce a temporary and
extremely limited effect. Though these may re-
tard age slightly the ravages of years are rrepara
BILE and we must resign ourselves to becoming old.
San Francisco having put her house in order has
extended an invitation to the nations of the world
to come to the Golden Gate in mid October and see
the results of her handiwork and be her guests at
the big festival that is to celebrate the rehabilita-
tion of the city.
The festival, to be held Oct 19 to %, will also
commemorate the discovery in 1859 of the Bay of
San Francisco by Don Gaspar de Portola, first
Spanish governor of California. From this the
celebration has taken it's name and is known as the
Portola Festival.
To fttingly entertain the nations of the world
and to be in accord with the task Of rebuilding the
city the Portola Festival has been planned to
eclipse anything of its kind ever before undertaken
in this country.
It has lately transpired that during the session
of congress which ended March a, a law was en-
acted which makes it penal offense to make,
issue or circulate any note check, memorandum,
token or other obligation for sum less than 81.
The penalty prescribed for the perpetraton of this
enormity is fine which must not exceed $500 or
Imprisonment for period not more prolonged than
six months.
This is about the most fragrant example of
oppressive and preposterous legislation that has
1,ot hoop hrou to tho ovI
only have reached place on the statute book
through inadvertence. Had it attracted any at
tention during its progress through congress it
must have been promptly killed by the ridicule it
would have provoked while it must be assumed
that the president signed it in a moment of dis
traction without clearly apprehending its import.
To create artificial crimes and misdemeanors is
an undesirable proceeding at all times which moth
ing short of some urgent public need can justify
excuse. But what public need requires that the
making of check for less sum than 81 be pro-
hibited? That is a matter of mere private concern
of which legislature has any call to take notice.
It is not customary to write check for less than
81 and most people would not think of doing SO,
but if the banks do not object, why any one else
should mind does not at first appear. Philadelphia
Inquirer
Aman in Olympia beat his wife into insensibility
and was arrested. Now he has sued his wife for
divorce on the ground that he is in Jail. He is
like the young fellow who murdered his father and
mother and then asked the mercy of the court on
the ground that he was a poor orphan boy. We
know case where man got drunk, beat his wife
to DEATH died in Jail of delerium tremens, his rela
tives bought him beautiful monument. We did
the carving Carving is part of our trade), and