The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-01-23

wrathful-down the line and point out some of the
fooishness which is continually going on in Wash
ington, D. c., at the expense of the taxpayer and
at the cost of many sadly needed public works.
Here are a few of his citations of bad business
methods upon the part of the United States gov
ernment
If private citizen wished to send cargo of
lumber from the United States to Manila or some
other Oriental point, he would charter the cheap
est bottom he could find upon the Pacific coast
without regard to the flag she flew or the port at
which the lumber should be loaded. The United
States limits the charter to American bottoms and
limits the loading ports to about two.
If floating dry dock were to be built for Ma
Mia by private individual, he would build it on
the Pacific coast The United States builds it on
the Atlantic because of difference of $4,000 in
the bids and spends 100000 in the extra cost of
towing it around the world.
If private individual wanted to build three
ghtships for our north Pacific coast they would
be built upon the Pacific coast. Our government
builds them upon the Atlantic and then sujects
them to the expense and danger of 14,000-mie
trip around Cape Horn with the result that upon
arrival they will have to be sent for repairs to the
navy yards in which they might have been built.
'Stenographers employed in the forestry service
in Washington, D. c., are being sent to the Pacific
northwest at the expense of the government.
Grain inspectors have headquarters at Weiser,
Idaho, and the government pays the expense of
their trips to the wheat centers in Portland Seat
tie and Tacoma
There is good deal of truth and just grounds
for sincerely patriotic anger in what the Oregonian
says.
A. j. Laws Of Vancouver Wash, one of the few
surviving Indian fighters of the Indian of 1856
Sc, has started a movement to secure petition to
have the legislature pay pension to the old veter
ans He intends to make an entire personal can
of the state, using horse and buggy to carry
him from one town and county to the next. Mr..
Laws claims to have killed the first Indian in that
war.
The discovery of gold in the regions near Fort
Colville led to great influx of miners This of
course precipitated the Indian war, which began
in 1856 and had it's ending in 1856. Near the first
of August in 55 the chief of the Kettle Falls peo-
pie, August Pierre Jerome, declared that no Amer
leans could pass through the country General
Philip Sheridan was one of the officers in this war.
This was about six years before the outbreak Of
the Civil war, and he was then lieutenant.
The war was very strenuous nearly 700 whites
being killed and ITO wounded. The cost was about
SIS, 600, 900. Of the few veterans of this war,
which is known as the Kamiakin war, from the
chief of that name who was the leading spirit of
the campaigns, Francis Wolff of Colville is one,
and he was one of the first to enlist The veter-
ans of this war are deserving of the 81 per day
asked for in the petition. The legislature of
Oregon passed bill in 1903 providing for pen
sion to be paid to these veterans
One of the many factories of the country that
agreed to raise wages in case Taft was elected
was the National Fireproofng Company of Perth
Amboy N. J. The firm refused to fulfill its promise
and it's Ignorant foreign workmen" struck and
were forthwith intmdated by calling out the state
militia The Intelligent American workmen''
evidently appreciated the prediction joke of their
employers, for they remained at work during the
trouble.
The editor of The Covile Examiner says he
saw robin in that burg the other day. We have
heard of men seeing snakes flying elephants,
horned flies, COWS with wings and singing snails,
but this is the first time we ever heard of man
seeing robin when the thermometer was down
and out. Journal, Orient.
Now that's what comes from trying to promul-
gate the wonderfully salubrous climatic conditions
of this section If we had made it three robins
and thrown in a few grasshoppers for good meas
ure the story might have gone through, but near
y every paper in this section has jumped onto this
poor lone robin since it appeared in print. If a
buejay or woodtick looks like a robin on a cold
morning what's the difference? We ought to be
thankful that this climate makes man optomistic.
It isn't our fault if the robin was not there. 1t
could have been, so far as we are concerned. We