The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-09-25

ner Will not know what the prize Is
when he comes to the booth and Mr..
Covington is anxiously waiting to see
what will happen when the ticket
holder makes the discovery.
Northern Pacific to Fight Reduction.
Seattle.-Resistanc to the 12A
per cent reduction in the grain rate
recently ordered by the Washington
Railroad Commission will be made
by the Northern Pacific. This Is one
of the most sweeping reductions ever
made by a State Commission in the
West, and in the ultimate would ef-
feet rates on all commodities handled
in the Northwest. The fight will be
made on constitutional grounds in
that the proposed reduction is held
to be prohibitive, ruinous and con-
fiscatory. AS now planned, the pro-
ceedings will take the form Of an
injunction in the Federal courts.
The employees of the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway Com
pany have voted to walk out. All
lines in both cities are tied up.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
has adopted resolutions condemning
the proposed Spokane freight rates
and has voted to send delegates to
the hearing at Spokane September
20. The Chamber will file at once a
ton.
At the closing session of the Amer
lean Bankers Association convention
In Chicago. resolutions condemning
In strong terms both guaranty de-
posit laws and the establishment Of
postal savings banks were adopted.
In criticising these two propositions.
Arthur Reynolds, OF Des Moines, Ia.
chairman of the Federal legislative
committee. referring to the postal
savings banks, declared that the
danger of the political use of such
a power should cause all patriotic
men to hesitate before adopting such
radical measure"
Mrs Edward T. Hartman, who,
by the terms of her husbands will,
was left all his property, probably
becomes the worlds richest woman.
She is expected to ask for an official
appraisement of the financier's es-
tate within two weeks. Until this
appraisement is made nothing def
of wealth accumulated by Hartman,
but in Wall street 1t is the common
opinion that 1t will be close to
$1OO,OO0,O
More money was added to the
reclamation fund during the last
year than any year since the recla-
nation law was passed, save 1908.
Receipts from the sale OF public
lands last year exceeded those OF all
previous years, save 1908. The total
receipts for the year ending June 30.
1909, amounted to $11 ,627 ,6S7. or
this amount it is estimated that ap-
proximately $S,5OO,OOO will be
turned into the reclamation fund.
After having warned the neigh
borhood that unless three white men
In the strictly negro town of Taft.
Okla, left town Immediately, death
would follow, negroes dynamited the
store of the ona of the whites. The
building was partially demolished.
The Irish land bill introduced in
Parliament on March 80 by August
Inc Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, passed through its final stage
in the House of Commons by vote
Of 174 to 81. The House OF Lords
probably will pass the measure after
modifying the clause regarding COM
pulsory ACQUISITION Of lands.
OHhcial announcement has been
made of the appointment Of Y. Uchi-
da. ex-Minister Of Foreign Affairs
and now Ambassador to the Court
Of Austria, to succeed Baron X, Ia
kahira, japanese Minister to Wash
ington.
Rival propositions to carry the
mails from Chicago to Seattle In 81
hours have been submitted by the
Great Northern Railroad company
and by the Chicago. Milwaukee q
st. Paul railroad. This would clip
IA hours off the present schedule for
the 22OO miles. The threatened
speed war has for It's reward the
four-year contract for carrying the
overland mail from Chicago for the
Puget Sound country, Alaska and
transpacific ports and from Chicago
to st. Paul and Minneapolis.