The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-09-18
THE COUNTY FAIR
A. GREAT SUCCESS

The moving picture show at the opera house
each evening drew large crowds and served to en-
tertain the many out-of-town visitors. An extra
service provided for the fair complete changes
OF program being provided each evening of the
week.
The prize winners in the horse races for the
three days were:
Monday
2:15 pace, Ladysmith 1st Buster Brown I'd.
2:25 trot, La Carresta 1st, 3D.
300 yard dash Rabbit 1st Wild Bill I'd.
SO mile dash. Diamond 1st, Wild Bill 3D.
Tuesday
2:3O pace, King Cassell 1st, Lottie Dishman I'd.
2:4O trot or pace, Babe Brandon 1st, Ella Fisher 3D.
Ia mile dash, Puss 1st. Gray Jack I'd.
Ia mile running, Nankipoo 1st, White Bird I'd.
Wednesday,
2:20 trot, LaCarresta 1st, u N l 3D.
Free for all, Del McKinnon 1st, King Casse I'd.
Ia mile dash Pedro 1st. Diamond I'd.
mile dash, Bill 1st, White Bird 3D.
A total of $1525 was awarded as prizes to the
above named horses a fourth of which sum accrued
from the entrance fees.
The steamer Yakima has been bought by the
Columbia River Improvement Commission for use
in the Improvement work on the Columbia river.
The Yakima is the largest boat on the Columbia
above Wenatchee. She was owned by the Coum-
bia & Okanogan Steamboat Company, and was
built two years ago at cost of $24 000 The price
paid by the state is $4,000, besides which the
selling company is now giving the boat thorough
overhauling, so that she will be turned over to the
state practically good as new This will require a
month or six weeks.
Commenting on the deal the Wenatchee papers
say that the closing of the negotiations which
Capt. McDermott has been conducting for some
time for the purchase of the steamer is considered
q most advantageous transaction on the part of
the state. The desire of the company to see the
river opened to Kettle Falls was one of the strong
est influences governing the cheap sale of the
steamer, as the Yakima is the biggest and best
running boat now on the river and has set of
machinery in her which is alone practically worth
the price given by the state. AS to size she comes
up to the approval of the U. S. government engi-
neers, and in this matter Capt. McDermott, as ex-
ecutive commissioner, representing the commission,
has also secured another point for the state.
The legislature of the state appropriated the sum
of $50, 600 for the improvement of the upper COL
umbia river from Wenatchee to Kettle Falls The
greatest factor that has hitherto prevented the
navigation of this great stream was the famous
Rickey rapids, noted in story and legend. They
are located about eight miles below the city of
Kettle Falls and extend across the river. Great
boulders show themselves in low water several
feet above the surface of the water. When the
river is high and rushes along at great speed, the
rocks, which are then submerged beneath the
foamng torrent, toss the water on high in jets of
spray. 1t is to remove the dangers incident to the
passage of these rocks that the greater portion of
the appropriation will be expended. Other narrow
canyons in the river will likewise be worked over
to allow the passage of steamboats,. This will
materially cheaper transportation and will afford
the fruitraisers of the valley speedy means of
placing their product on the market The COM
mission appointed by the legislature will i'm
mediately begin work on the preparation of this
river for navigation, and when the vast labor is
completed fleet of steamboats, will be required to
meet the heavy traffic demands which will be
made by the ranchers.
That wedding that took place on the top of
Mount Rainier last week could be called wedding
in high life.
John D. Rockefeller has done all kinds of things
with Standard Oil, but now he proposes to make
the people eat it on their bread. A petrobutter
plant has been put in commission and we may
soon see the product sold as pure country butter
William j. Bryan says, regarding the discovery
of the north pole: This discussion about who
discovered the north pole has interested me consid-
erably. don't know why politics should enter the
thiAgt but somehow I've wondered what political
beljefsthese two men they are talking about have
believe they are democrats. Why? Well, Just be-
cause democrats have got so used to being out in