The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-02-06

l9O9, the remainder Will run until Nov. ~, l9U9,
without interest, provided, the total amount of the
tax must not be less than $2
And further provided that if said last half is not
paid on or before Nov. &c. 1909, interest on same
shall be computed from June 1st, 1909.
Three per cent rebate allowed on 1908 real estate
taxes if paid in full in one payment before March
Is, 1909.
Personal taxes become delinquent 80 days after
due, or March 2, after which they draw Is % in
terest Notices are mailed to all persons owing
personal tax but owners Of real estate should
write to the county treasurer, giving description,
and they will receive statement of taxes DUE
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All children are born liars" e" says Prof. E. "
O'Shea of Winconsn University. And he might
have added that some of them never outgrow it,
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Seven laws are asked by the state good roads
association and have been introduced in the legis-
ature by the joint committee on roads and bridges.
They provide certifcation of road engineers by an
engineers examining board; make the possession
of such certificate qualification for county engi-
neers; that no state road shall be authorized until
it has been reported upon by the state highway
commission; and for survey for the location of
and the establishment of state stone quarries;
make it unlawful to injure public road or to run
an automobile on such road at speed greater
than Is miles an hour; provide for the survey of
certain extensions of existing state roads, and
abolish the state road commission and repose it's
functions in the state highway commission with a
salary increased to $4,000 year.
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This winter in Stevens county shows the need
of a change in the game bounty law. Reports
from all over the county show that the number of
deer being killed by cougar is very large. The
present bounty of S. on a cougar scalp does not
justify hunter in tracking cougar, and the result
is that the cougar get all the deer, while the deer
hunter gets nothing but the exercise.
Sportsmen over the state have united in asking
the legislature for an additional bounty on cougar
If the various counties would then place an addi-
tional bounty on their scalps the deer race might
be kept from becoming extinct. If bounty of
$25 was placed on cougar there would be few
cougar left in the spring. AS it u.s. an average of
25 deer may be figured for every cougars meals
during the winter
At banquet of the Fat Mems Club in New York
last week one man, weighing $50 pounds, ate 275
oysters, 81 pounds Of steak, IL rolls, pies, and
washed it all down with IL cups of coffee.
The Statesman Index, regulator of the republi-
can party, etc. says that Governor Cosgrove is in
an emicated condition. Whatever may have been
said against Mr.. Cosgrove during the heat of the
campaign, we really didn't think he would go so
far, but the Bingve Bugle ought to know.
After 10 years struggle, the socialists among
the members of the United Mine Workers of
America have at last obtained the balance of
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at indianapolis last week. 1t is estimated that
300 of the 14OO delegates are either active
socialists or have engaged to support members of
socialistic tendencies in the convention A
resolution for the public ownership of public
utilities" was adopted by the convention without
dissenting vote.
We shall now see what kind of tariff revision we
are to have when the revision is entrusted to the
friends of tariff" The republican platform
pledges the party "unequivocally" to revision to
be made Immediately after Inauguration. The
word "unequivocally" is Of course an admission
that former promises have not been kept, and the
word Immediately" is confession that the
patience of the public has been strained to the
point of breaking. But the word revision" may
mean anything or nothing according to the opinion
of those who interpret it. The tariff may be re-
vised up or down or sideways, and it. will be re-
vised. Revision has height and depth, length and
breadth, latitude and longitude-it has everything
except certainty. Revision may be anything from
the change of comma to the repeal of the entire
tariff law. Mr.. Taft was very careful not to COM
NIT himself by any definite statement on the sub
ject but said that some of the schedules ought to
be raised and others lowered, but this is not very
explicit statement. At another time he said that