The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-03-27

According to one of the leading real estate men
of this section there are about 100 sawmills in op
GRAFTON in this county. That is one branch of in
dustry which offers opportunities to men who come
west for labor. Stevens county has many millions
of feet of pine, fir and tamarack timber which can
be easily marketed, and the demand for men to
cut sawlogs, cordwood and ties is growing greater
every year.
A good guaranteed deposits" story comes from
the Houston Texas) correspondent for the New
York World The story follows Every night
for month Carl Summers, employed by the State
Bank of Bishop at salary of $50 month to serve
for the purpose, has been locked in the cell of the
Bishop county jail with all the funds of the bank
in his possession for safe keeping. Now he is on
strike, and the officials of the institution are
compelled to buy vault. No one else is willing
to assume the task. Summers was hired when
condition demanded action. The bank was organ
lied and secondhand safe was bought. The
first days deposits were large and at night the
money was laid away in the strong box. The
president tried to lock the vault door and couldn't.
Something had to be done, and so Summers was
hired to go to Jail with $5O, ,OO0. He was escorted
to the Jail by the bank president, who personally
turned the key in the cell door and left the clerk
inside to sleep on a pillow of bank notes. In the
morning the prisoner with the money was released.
All went we'll until Summer was invited to take
dinner with the family of the girl he is going to
marry. The president was willing to wait up, but
the sheriff wasn't Summers quit without further
notice. and that night the president, his pockets
stuffed with bills sat up in Jail. The next day he
ordered real vault
While President Taft is restoring industrial
peace, reviving languid commerce and nfusing
confidence into timid capital he is confronted by
bankrupt treasury, due to the riotous extrava-
gance of the Roosevelt administration Thus his
secretary of the treasury is talking of stamp tax
to supply funds to carry business in the face OF
$780, 900 deficiency, while the entire admins
tration is trying to find way to redeem its prom
ses to hold the corporations in check and guard
the masses against the aggressions of organized
wealth. Under these conditions, President Taft
will need all the help he can get.
The first scheme to overcome the little shortage
of $13O, O0O, 900 in the national treasury left by
the extravaganza of the Roosevelt administration,
is to put stamp tax upon all amusements. Thus
every one that enjoys the theater, the ball game,
the circus and kindred luxuries will be expected
and required to put up an extra penny or two to
help avert national bankruptcy Few patriotic cit
lZ0nS can OBJECT CO CulS UuC CucIc ID HOCliilS W
prevent them from criticising the system of loud
talk and bluster that brought it about.
Roosevelt not only made Taft president, but he
left him the unenvable task of wrestling with
tariff revision and the elimination of hundred
million dollar deficit. Taft will have to straighten
out the Rooseveltian tangles. If he succeeds,
Roosevelt will share the glory; if he fails the peo
pie will say it was because Roosevelt wasn't here
to help him. The method excites admiration, for
it is certainly modern instance of 'playing both
ends against the middle Seattle Times.
The Spokesman Review is planning to issue
special anniversary number which will deal with
the resources of the state of Washington and the
Spokane country, and this issue will be sent all
over the world for the small sum of 10 cents per
COPY 1t is an excellant scheme for the portrayal