The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-08-27

those Of tame alfalfa. Mr.. Hedeman found the
plants in the Hoodoo valley, formerly given over
to placer gold miners, in spot where there is no
chance for even nature to sub-irrigate plant life
and where all vegetation is practically dead. Pro-
lessor Heideman has sent specimens of the plant
to prominent botanists for examination and identi
hcation. Experts says the plant has been searched
for all over the world the last 10 years.
Official advices received by the United States
land office in Spokane say that 493, 1856 acres of
land in Washington Oregon, Idaho and Montana,
previously withdrawn from entry have been re-
stored to the public domain in an order issued by
the department of the interior following procla-
nation by President Taft The lands, which are
mostly covered with timber and are suitable for
agriculture, will become subject to settlement and
entry this year under the provisions of the home
stead laws at the land offices in the several states.
Oregon heads the list with more than 300, 600
acres, upon which filing may begin on October %.
entry on November 21. Idaho has 1860 acres
open to settlement on October 22, entry November
q. Washington is third with 81, 100 acres open to
settlement on October 18, entry November II.
Montana has 9, 120 acres open to settlement No
vember % and entry November 21 Some of the
lands are surveyed. 1t is also announced that
much of the land remains unappropriated
The premium list of the Stevens county fair has
been issued this week, and copies may be secured
from Secretary Howard W. Stull or Manager G. B..
Ide. The printing was done by Brooks of Kettle
Falls, and the cover page bears beautiful three
color apple In the 72 pages of the premium list
there are abundant prize offers to make this fair a
wonderful success, and it is hoped that the entire
county will respond.
A railway fare of one and one-thrd rate has
been secured for Sept. 26 to 20, with final return
limit Oct. l. All exhibits from out of town will be
returned by freight free, with the exception of
race horses.
Dates of the fair are Tuesday, Wednesday Thurs
day, Sept q, %, 20.
Three hundred thousand apple and pear trees
have been planted in Stevens county this year,
mostly in the Columbia river valley. vAlty-uine
thousand were planted in the Hunters district
alone.
Did you ever stop to think that the Wenatchee
and Hood river countries are as nothing compared
with the fruit district of Stevens county?
The Hunters or the Rice district either one is
larger than the entire Wenatchee fruit belt, and
the quality of fruit is BETTER cleaner and
better keeping qualities.
When you have the opportunity drop word to
your friends about Stevens county fruit. We need
the boosters.
With 36 states to elect governors between Sep
tember and November, the prospects for numer-
GUS political revolutions, in the present frame of
the public mind, were never so good as now. Ver-
mont, Maine and Arkansas will vote next month;
Georgia in October, and 33 other states in Novem-
ber This is the first time there have been so
many gubernatorials close together, and the re-
suits are likely to prove disquieting to number of
the old stand-bys, who have been accustomed to
hold the country in the hollow of their hand and to
regard it as their very own.-Seattle Times.
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James Mcdonnell of Olympia, state chairman,
has issued call for state prohibition convention
to be held at North Yakima, Sept. 1S, the day of
the primary elections. 1t is announced the party
will nominate supreme judges and congressman,
but will neither nominate nor indorse for United
States senator The statement is further made
that the prohibitionsts will demand in their plat
form the repeal of the local option law. Local
option has been the greatest obstacle in the way
of any attempt to secure vote on prohbtory
amendment in this state.
Mrs. Catherine Beknap, sole survivor of the
Watts wagon train party, which crossed the plains
from Iowa to Oregon in 1848, and oldest pioneer
woman in the northwest, celebrated the Goth an
niversary of her birthday at the home of her
grandson Walter Belknap, 1928 East Providence
avenue, Spokane, few days ago. She is in good
health and expects to reach the century mark.
She has not experienced days sickness in SO
years.