The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-12-10


it's sweetness to be wasted upon the desert air.
A prominent eastern physician rushes forward
to save the day by the statement that the liquor
habit may be cured by surgical operation.
Now wouldn't that make you weary? To think
that all this time the public has been trying any
and every old thing to cure the habit, and yet
never thought of surgery as possible cure. 1t is
simplicity ITSELF and the editor is disgusted with
himself for not having thought of it himself.
Any one afflicted with the liquor habit is now
informed that all he has to do is simply to cut it out
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In 1890 the state had $40 criminal, insane and
feeble minded wards; in 1900 164O, and in 1910 it
has 1902, according to statistics to appear in the
report of the state board of control. In 1890 the
ratio of abnormal persons in the states charge to
the total population out of every 546; in l9OO
l for every 316; and in 1910 is for every 238.
Locally much enthusiasm is felt over the method
of payment of taxes hereafter in this state, the
state bureau of Inspection having prepared form
of duplicate of receipt to be used by county treas
urers in notifying taxpayers of taxes DUE When
the notification is thus received by taxpayer, ne
can return his remittance with the duplicate re-
ceipt intact, by mail or in person. without loss OF
time.
Eugene Lorton, one of the brilliant newspaper
men of Washington, has assumed editorial charge
of the Saturday Review, Seattle, with Senator A.
S. Ruth as associate The Review under the new
management is credit to this state, and the edi-
torial and news comments upon the dongs of this
great commonwealth are we'll worth reading.
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into those who want prohibition constitutional
amendment, those who are seeking straight pro-
hibition law, those who favor the county unit
those who favor the county unit excepting first
class Cities and those who want to let the present
local option law alone The vets will be divided
into those who would wipe out all liquor legisla-
ton, those who favor prohibition in order to bring
about reaction, those who want the precinct unit,
and those who would let the present law alone.
Now the question is, taking them as whole, what
kind of liquor legislation will they produce?
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In the future all unclaimed letters bearing the
sender's name and address will be returned with
out being advertised, as was the custom in the
past This is the result of an order issued by the
postal department. which deals with the disposal
of unclaimed letters. Five days is the time that
letters of this class will be allowed to remain in
postoffice before being returned to their writer
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The state railway commission has discovered
and announced that there are a great many un-
necessary wrecks on the Great Northern railway,
and that there is general unrest among en-
ployes of the road, coupled with frequent disre
gard of orders.
It is pleasing to note that the railway commits
sion has at last taken cognizance of conditions on
the Great Northern, from whose uncertain
tracks the population of our state has been hurled
into the subsequent with such alarming frequency
that the common forms of shooting, knitting, or
the other diverting forms of murder pale into in
significance.
Of course nothing is done. What could be done?
"An act of God' has come to be the ascribed cause
of the mangled remains picked up from various
portions of Jim Hills tracks, and you know when
God and the Great Northern both get their heads
together to depopulate the country there is bound
to be something doing, especially when the Great
Northerns god is said to be the desire for gain ir-
respective of any other persons desire for life,
liberty, or the pursuit of livestock which gets
scared at the slow trains.
These statements may seem trifle unkind in
the face of the fact that Covile has been recently
granted lights at the station in less than two years
after the petition was made And it may be that
some of the people who have been killed ought to
have been killed anyway. We don't claim to know.
But it does seem tough for man to be jerked into
eternity with telegraph pole protruding from his
anatomy, or to be introduced to the harp playing
brigade minus large share of his limbs and rear
seat stuck in his left eye.
According to a report just issued by State Health
Commissioner Heg we are killing too many people
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