The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-01-09

the people for the last two years.
Sheriff W. H. Graham will remain in charge OF
the office at the county JAIL Mr.. Graham having
run ahead of his ticket nearly 300 in the recent
election. Messrs. Ledgerwood and Lynch are the
deputies.
D. H. Carey will remain in the office of superior
judge for another four years, he having received
than three-fths of the total vote in election.
W. Lon Johnson will take the office of clerk of
the court, and Clerk Geo. H. Shaver will be the
deputy.
L. E. Jesseph will succeed F. A. Savage as au-
ditor. W. C. Spedden and w. w. Campbell will
be the deputies
Treasurer Charles Adams will have no changes
in his office.
Hons. R. A. Thayer and Henry R. Spedden of
Colvile have gone to Olympia to be present on the
opening day of the meeting of the legislature,
where they will take the places which were held
by R. D. McRae and A. w. McMoran
H. G. Kirkpatrick will hereafter have charge of
the prosecuting attorneys work, with the assist
ance of O. w. Noble of Kettle Falls j. A. Roch-
ford will again take up his work in the firm of
Judson & Rockford, retiring from the county SER
vice with the knowledge that he has enforced the
law and given good honest labor to the county in
return for his salary. For the first time in the
history of Stevens county the law was fully en-
forced during the term of Mr.. Rockford.
Assessor F. F. Bottorff will enter upon his Sec
ond term Superintendent of Schools Daisy L.
Hard will continue with Prof. A. D. Foster as
deputy. Engineer W. M. Manning and Coroner
A. B. Cook were both reelected to second term.
W. W. Bryant of Daisy will succeed Thomas R.
Major of Cedonia as commissioner of the first dis
trict, while Geo. w. Sutherland of Newport will
for four years hold the office of commissioner
from the third district succeeding W. I. Fountain
of Locke. Mr. Major has been chairman of the
board for the last two years, and for four years
has given the county efficient service. He was not
a candidate for reelection. Mr.. Fountain was with
difficulty persuaded to run for reelection, but the
fact that he ran $40 ahead Of his ticket showed
his popularity in the trying office of commissioner.
S. S. Beggs has two more years to serve as COM
missioner from the second district. During the
two years of this democratic board of commission
ers the county Indebtedness was reduced $23, 900.
Every republican board in the last ten years had
increased the county's Indebtedness
The work of the county officials will be greatly
increased in the next two years, owing to the in
creasing population Of the county. In fact, this
rush seems to have started already, for the
auditors office has been giving employment to
eight persons, where formerly three competent
men could handle the work.
T. Roosevelt president, has sent his last mes
sage to the United States congress- We will now
await his next message, which will probably come
via Africa from some United Snakes congress-
The United States supreme court has refused to
hear an appeal by the government prosecution in
the $4,000, 900 Standard Oil fine, which was de-
clared illegal by the circuit court of appeals.
Thus the Standard Oil Company will not be fined
It seems that the giant oil company can and does
procure better legal protection than all the repubi
can administrative forces Does it sound good to
you?
The Commoner trusts that there is no founda-
ton for the report that the democrats propose to
contest the election of M. E. Hay to the office of
lieutenant governor on the ground that he was not
a qualified voter. If democratic candidates can
not secure enough votes to elect them, they had
better remain private citizens rather than try to
get office on technicaties. Let the people rule''
was the slogan of the democratic campaign. The
people have expressed their desire that Mr. Hay
serve them as lieutenant governor, and any man,
be he democrat or republican, is very foolish to
attempt to thwart the will of the people by legal
quibbles. Democrats should devote their attention
and energy to fighting for democratic policies in
stead of for republican Offices William Goodyear
in the Colfax Commoner.
The coming week will witness the gathering Of
the clans at Olympia, preparatory to the beginning
of the regular biennial session of the Washington
legislature which will convene in the capital city
Monday.
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