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

This is fair sample of the method by which the
people OF the state are constantly misled regarding
the work of the state aid road law in the hands OF
the state highway commission. In the first place
Chls matter came up this year. not in 1909; the
estimate of cost, which was $12 149. rs, was not
the estimate of the cost of the road as one would
naturally suppose from reading the report but
was the estimate Of the FURTHER cost to Ste.
Vens county of building the road by state aid.
The actual cost estimate of 6.34 miles of road sent
IN by the state highway commissioners office was
9z4 4299.5O, and of course the county commission.
ers turned it down, for it was exhorbitant
Supposing the road had been built at the esti.
mated cost Of $24, 29950, how much of this amount
would Stevens county have paid? The answer is,
ALL OF 1T, for according to the state aid law the
state pays no part of the COST but simply holds
the county's money until the county is willing to
put up like amount AGAIN for the construction
of road
The commissioners tried to get the state aid
funds used in the completion of the state road be-
tween the Colville and Pend Oree valleys, but
the state would not consent to it. If the state aid
funds are not used each year, they default to the
state road fund, and the county's money goes
gmmering
The work OF Stevens county's representatives
at the coming legislature will be watched with in
terest on the state aid road matter, and their
attention to public need in killing the present law
will be watched by the burdened taxpayers of this
county,
The National Monthly sounds warning to the
democratic party in the following: I'm the last
election the people took a most advanced step.
They will not go back again to the old condition.
They have demanded reduction in the tariff and
have placed their confidence in the democratic
party ability to bring about that reduction with
out disturbing business or upsetting trade. Grover
Cleveland once wrought great injury on democ-
racy by failing to correctly interpret the tariff
sentiment of the nation, and Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt have succeeded in grounding the repub-
can party on the same bar The reestablished
democracy should profit by the examples of the
past and move forward now strong in the wisdom
that experience has brought.
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E. F. Cartier Van Disse, vice president and
chairman of the board of trustees of the National
Apple Show, has submitted proposition to the
trustees of the Spokane chamber of commerce to
erect a permanent structure to house the annual
competitive expositons in Spokane next year and
make that city the headquarters for an apple
show circuit to include st. Louis or Kansus City,
Omaha, Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia Boston,
New York, Atlanta, and several cities in the mid
die western and southern states. Several cities on
the Pacific coast, including Portland, have asked
to be visited in 1911 but it is not believed the ex-
hibits will be sent into the northwestern country
The fourth annual show will be larger and more
complete than any two others combined The cost
of the two shows in Spokane and Chicago this
year was $85, 600.
Say, ma," said Billy, 81 think the man who
comes around to dump our ashes is real good
Christian man."
What makes you think that, my dear?' asked
his mother
'Well, ma, ssid Billy, yesterday when he was
at Mrs. Browns house he took up the ash barrel and
was about to dump it in the ash cart when the bot.
tom of the barrel came out and ashes fell all over
him. He was a terrible sight, but he didn't get a
bit angry He brushed himself off, and then just
sat down on the curb and told God all about it,"
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Plans have been completed by the Spokane
chamber of commerce for the industrial develop
ment of the Inland Empire, and to bring this about,
committee headed by R. Lewis Rutter manager
of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company, has
been appointed to investigate mercantile and in
dustrial conditions.
R. j. Maclean secretary of the chamber of COM
merce, is sending letters to manufacturers in all
parts of the Inland Empire, asking them to pre-
pare lists of articles manufactured in the various
communities. These lists will be compiled and
published so that consumers may ask for the goods
made in the Inland Empire when making pur-
chases. He says in his letter:
1T is believed that if the people of the several
communities know what is manufactured there
they will give preference to these articles, other