The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-12-24

count than was anticipated, and it may be correct
or it may not be correct. Estimates by reliable
citizens of the county have been placing the figure
somewhere between 10000 and 35, 600, and two
years ago this county was raised to the 9Th class
ifcation of counties upon the basis of an assured
population of 30, 900.
The new figure will reduce the rank of this
county, although it will not reduce any of the sal
aries of the county officials or cause any trouble or
change in it's business matters.
The supreme court has decided that when
town is incorporated within dry county unit,
that town has the privilege of voting on the local
option question: even though the county unit may
have voted dry. Stevens county has had two ex-
amples of this, lone and Marcus, and several
attorneys of the county have differed in opinion on
the matter.
1t doesn't frighten us to read in democratic ex-
changes that 'the republican party is in the last
ditch" Democratic editors say lot Of things be-
sides their prayers. Wilbur Register
Carelessness is the cause of 9096 of the acci-
dents that happen in public places, at railway sta
tions at street crossings, and getting on and off
cars It has become so gross that in order to pro-
tect themselves from the ever-increasng pile
of personal injury claims, the street officials of
Spokane, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco have
started campaign of education, at their expense,
for the children in the public schools of these
cities. By this method it is hoped that in the
future the records may be held down instead OF
enlarging, as they do now, at the rate of 1870
every month.
Frederick S. Hughes of Portland, who is con-
Quoting the campaign in Spokane, assisted by j.
NJ Hone claim agent of the Spokane & Inland En-
pire system, began his work in the Spokane
schools last week, and already nearly half of
the children of school age in the city have had the
dangers of carelessness shown to them in mental
pictures which they will not soon forget
The Washington Water Power Company is
associated in this move, and later on the trans
continental lines of railway that enter Spokane
may take the matter up and send representative
to the schools of the smaller towns.
The records of accidents in this state show that
the public needs lessons on the matter of crossing
railway tracks. The proper advice is to CROSS
them, not trying to meet them half way. Stand
ing on the tracks or Understanding the speed of
approaching trains seem to have no deeterious
effect upon the trains, but they do play hob with
the human.
Glancing occasionally at the hospital records
will assure any of the fact that hands and feet
placed in proximity with moving machinery is at
least hard on the nervous system, and causes
much valuable land in increasing cemeteries to be
occupied by lunch baskets filled with fragments of
corpse.
Track Inspector A. W. Perley of the Great
Northern announces in connection with his report
to the railway commission that the Great Northern
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public is entitled to the information that there is
at least one man in Washington who believes in
the Great Northern, but the life and limb expert
ence of the last few years is likely to make most
people cautious for some time to come
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Five million dollars will be expended by the
city of Spokane upon municipal power plant to
be located on the Pend Oreille river near Meta
line, if the recommendations of a committee hav-
ing charge of fire, water and sewer matters are
adopted by the common council. Morton Macart-
ney, city ENGINEER, and W. E. Moore, hydraulic
engineer, say in reports to the council that be-
tween $500 and 5000 horse power electrical energy
can be delivered to Spokane from the site over
1OO-mie high tension without appreciable loss in
transmission. Mccartney adds that the cost of
development will be reasonable considering the
amount of power available for manufacturing and
other purposes. He estimates the cost of the
plant and equipment at fully 100000. The site
and water rights are owned by Messrs Ham,
Yearsley and Ryrie of Spokane, who received per-
mission from congress, several years ago, to build
dam and span the Pend Oreille river with bridge.
Among the items of supposed news sent out
from the state capital appears one which eminated
from the state highway commissioners office, and