The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-08-07

bigger than that of last year. Stock, fruit ant
grains and vegetables, and horse races of course
make the bone and bottom of all great fairs: ant
in the latter feature, aso 1909 promises to offer
better harness and running program than eve
seen before in the northwest
There are good reasons for this. This is a bis
fair year all over the west and northwest. An(
the Spokane Interstate Fair. the biggest fair hel(
annually west of the Missouri will be visited th
year by strings of race horses from all over Wash
ington, from Idaho and Montana, California anC
Oregon. From the Minnesota State Fair the
greatest state fair in the United States will come
the prize winning livestock, three special trains ir
ALL to compete with the best of the Inland Empire
The men who created the local option law ir
the interest of the liquor manufacturers are the
same men who are now threatening to take away
the Columbia river appropriation money if the
'drys' take any drastic measures against
Schively and the republican bunch of boodlers al
the state capital It's asking good deal of ar
honest man that he work with such a crowd anC
adopt their laws for their interests and pay
higher taxes that they and their friends may op
crate without taxes.
A fowl with the body of hen and the well-de-
veloped head of rooster, laying eggs and crow.
ing, is the prodigy possessed by an Aberdeen
woman. She did not notice at first that the
chicken which was raised with brood last year
was any different from the others, but after it
was laying she saw it coming from the chicken
house one day growing, and from that time she
watched its pecuiarties. Since then she has OBJ
served that the hen crows after laying. The large
comb and heavy waffle developed after it had
grown to be considerable of hen. The peculiar
combination of the qualities of a hen and rooster
have attracted attention, and the owner has num-
erous visitors to see the curiosity as the story of
its peculiar development extends. She has been
off red $25 for the hen for exhibition purposes
Do you realize that the late Congressman Cush
mans successor will likely be democrat? The
democrats have an excellent chance to fill the
vacancy in congress by one from their own party
The republicans are split into many bitter factions
the outgroWth of enmity created at the last legis
lature and the corruption that has been made
public since the Inauguration of the present ad
ministration. There seems to be no chance fol
Governor Hay, Senator Paulhamus and others to
reach common ground, which greatly increases
the chances of good democrat. The action OF
the republican party in violating its campaign
pledges on the tariff and the criminal record of its
officials in this state has left the people without
regard to party, crying for revenge If the dem.
ocrats choose good man he will be winner. -
Davenport Tribune.
The Washington state commission, on behalf OF
the people of the state of Washington, has in
stalled a comprehensive exhibit at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacfc Exposition in Seattle, in each of the
following departments Educational, displayed in
the state educational building; mining displayed
in the mines building; agricultural and horticul,
tural displayed in the agricultural building; for
estry fisheries historical and health, each dis
played in the state forestry building; dairy, dis
played in the state dairy building; good roads, dis
played in the state good roads building; women's
exhibits, displayed in the state women's building
For the exclusive use of this states exhibits this
commission has erected the forestry educational
dairy, good roads, womens model dairy barn. and
the Washington state building -Four of these
buildings are permanent and will be used by the
University of Washington after the close of the
fair, namely: Forestry, good roads, womens and
Washington state building. In making these foul
buildings permanent. the taxpayers of the state
will be relieved of the expense of building for the
university library buildings for the school OF
forestry and for the school of good roads, and g
building for young women of the university
The Washington state building is used during
the exposition as the exposition home for all the
state. This building will be open at all hours dur
ing the day to all of the people, and is a place OF
meeting and rest.
A Chicago whisky salesman laughed so hard one
day last week that he fell into a hole and broke
his neck Evidently he had heard of the Wash
ington local option" law.