The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-06-11

autnentlc history, but must be written in the
writer's own style and must not be copied All
stories must be written in ink or typewriter, on
one side of the paper only, and must be confined
to not more than one thousand words. The name
age, and school attendance should be plainly writ
ten at top of first page Send all stories and re-
quests for information to Robt. H. Cosgrove, Sec
retary, 2l7 Hutton block, Spokane Wash. The
contest will close August first, but stories may
be mailed in at any time previous There will be
fifteen prizes aggregatng $40 in cash, and a
number of tickets allotted as follows:
For the best story, $40 in cash and season
ticket to the fair worth $3.50.
For the second best story, $5 in cash and sea-
son ticket
For the third SO in cash and season ticket.
For the fourth, 81 in cash and season ticket.
For the fifth, one season ticket.
For the next five best two admission tickets
worth so cents each.
For the next five best one admission ticket.
1t costs absolutely nothing to enter this contest
and the fair management trusts that it will be
popular enough to secure large number of en-
tries
The complete list of fully accredited high schools
in this state is now as follows:
Four-year schools Aberdeen, Anacortes, Airing
ton, Asotin, Auburn, Ballard, Bellingham, Blaine,
Bremerton Burton, Burlington, Castle Rock, Gen.
tralia Cashmere, Chehalis, Chean, Charleston, Col
fax Colvile, Coupeve, Davenport Dayton Ed
monds, Ellensburg, Elma Everett Garfield, Gold
endae, Harrington, Holy Names academy of Spo-
kane Hoquiam Kelso, Kent, Kennewick, Kirkland,
LaConner, Latah Lynden, Marysvile, Montesano,
Mount Vernon, Newport, North Yakima, Olympia,
Palouse, Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Pullman,
Puyallup, Prosser, Pomeroy Ritzville, Rosalia,
Roslyn, Seattle (including Broadway, Lincoln and
Queen Anne high schooD, Sedro- Woolley, Shelton,
Snohomish Spokane (ncluding North Central and
South Central high schools) South Bend, Sprague,
Sumner, Sunnyside, Tacoma, Tekoa, preparatory
department of the University Of Puget Sound,
Vancouver Waitsburg, Walla Wala, Waterville,
Wenatchee and Wilbur.
Mills in Spokane and through the Inland Empire
are working day and night on apple, peach, cherry,
plum and berry boxes more than 10000 600 of
which, each holding so pounds, will be required to
pack the fruit crop in eastern Washington and
Oregon, north and central Idaho, western Montana
and southeastern British Columbia the coming sum-
mer and next fall Packed with fruit these pack
ages would fill 15 CTS freight cars, or 625 trains of
25 cars each. The value of the crop is estimated
at from Sis, 100000 to $2O OOO 600, and may reach
higher figure because of the shortages reported
in middle western states
The United States senate now has GO republicans
to 80 democrats. Some exuberant democrats are
claiming that they going to elect senators from
Delaware, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
New Jersey, New York, Indiana, Ohio and Wiscon-
sin. This would make AZ democrats to so repub-
licans.
Although the colossal sum of S., 600, 900 is carried
by the sundry civil appropriation bill for the main
tenance of soldiers homes, the republicans are
forcing the old soldiers of the nation to subsst on
from II to IA cents worth of food per day.
An inspector of the war department reported
that the food in the soldiers home no more in
quantity than that supplied to prisoners in the fed
eral penitentaries.
An idea of the wasteful methods employed in con-
Quoting the homes may be had from the fact that
although the cost of maintenance more than doubled
in the 10 years between 1893 and 1908, the number
of soldiers cared for had increased but per cent
Let your imagination spread this outlay of IA
cents over days food supply" suggested Repre-
sentative Cox of Ohio, and you have an accurate
picture of how the nations heroes are being fed
Observe the evening meal, and you will appreciate
what it was that moved Inspector Brewster to pity,
and inspired his recommendation that there was at
least bowl of milk added to the scant fare.
: S~s
Governor M E. Hay would read the insurgents
out of the republican party He says the party
wants no one who is engaged in tearing down the
work in which President Taft is engaged" For
some time it has been the hope of the nsurgent
party that the governor would take sides with