The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-01-02

feler will give $4,000, 900 to help enlighten the
Orient. Kerosene John got this money by
assisting in the enlightenment of this country, and
the numerous Standard Oil Investigations have
given us still further enlightenment. Now ne
will help light up the old country. Everything OF
his seems to go to blazes. Wonder how about
him?
Government statisticians tell us that the aver
age citizen consumes half his own weight in sugar.
The disposition of some men don't show it.
Taft says that he will carry out the Roosevelt
policies If he completes the job started by Roose-
velt he may be able to throw still further light up
on the statement of David that all men are liars.
The postofice department warns the public from
cashing money orders issued from South Belling-
ham postofice. Some thieves broke into the above
named office recently and stole book of blank
money orders. Finding that the money orders
were of no value unless stamped by the stamp of
that Office they broke in again the next night and
stole the stamp. With this equipment they are
capable of making out orders to large amount
and may try to pass them in any section of the
state. The numbers on the book taken by them
began with 1902, but the thieves have changed the
first figure to a 4.
Tom and Jerry have made their headquarters in
Colville during the holidays.
Marching clubs are to be organized in 100 horti-
cultural districts in Washington, Oregon Idaho
Montana, California, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado,
Texas Wyoming, British Columbia and Alberta to
take part in an industrial parade at the opening Of
the 18th National Irrigation Congress in Spokane,
Aug. to IA. Most of them will be accompanied
by bands. Prizes will be awarded to the districts
outside of Spokane county sending the largest del
egations, also purses will be given for the most
original makeup the clubs coming the longest
distance and the organizations presenting the best
appearance There will also be several band con-
tests. It is expected to have President Taft and
prominent men from various parts of the United
States and Canada, including railroad presidents,
men interested in irrigation, orcharding reclama-
tion, forestry, water power and home building, and
members of congress-
1t is now in order for Theodore Roosevelt to ex-
plain about how it was that his brother-in-aw
Mr.. Douglas Robinson, got into the Panama canal
deal without spending any of his own money, and
then got out again without losing on the deal. 1t
will soon be in order for President-elect William
H. Taft to explain how his brother Charles P
Taft, the Cincinnati millionaire, hooked up with
Robinson on the canal project, and what if any,
money he lost on the transaction. According to
some of the reports that have been floating around
congress, somebody gathered up the French claims
against the canal de Panama for $4,000, 900 and
unloaded them upon the United States government
for $40, 600, 600. At the time the deal was being
hatched some of the congress raised voice of
protest, but this voice was hushed by the process
of showing the big stick down the congressional
throat. One thing is very plainly to be seen, and
that is the fog that the higher authorities at Wash
ington are all the time kicking up down in Pan
anna by which all evil smells of graft are hidden
from the sight of the folks at home, is beginning
to dsspate under the blazing sun of the Pulitzer
criticism and in return for the brazen affrontery
of the editor of the New York World he is liable
to get an official cudgeng that he will remember
for the next four years.
There have been few more severe arraignments
of the republican party than that contained in the
current issue of Success magazine in which
Charles Edward Russell writes on THE Breaking
Up of the Parties." This is the way he tells of
the republican party's protective policy and what
it has brought about:
Being thus committed to protection (which was
an old whig doctrine) the exigencies of the Civil
war furnished an excuse for an abnormaly high
degree of protection, and the country saw the
heaviest import duties it had ever known. The
science of craftsmanship is still in it's infancy and
in modern times at least no man has appeared
with trustworthy gift of prophecy Nobody
suspected what might come of this, or it is certain
that the party leaders would have thought many
times before they started the organization upon