The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-07-16

people may get to the county seat by wagon il
they choose. Generally people from this part OF
the county having business at the county seat pre-
fer the railroad to the long drive over the noun
tains by wagon. Certainly Colville can not expect
to freight goods over the mountains by wagon anG
compete with the railroad. Then why cinch the
taxpayers to build these roads? Why for mere
political reason burden them with high taxes and
debt? 1t is cheaper and far better to divide the
county than to build expensive mountain roads for
political purposes. Think of the debt that is being
piled up.-Ione Record.
The above item points out the very condition
which the Examiner has endeavored to show al
different times, but without apparent results,
namely, the result of the state road law and the
state aid road law, both of which are republican
measures, and therefore at least indirectly sup.
ported by the Record, which claims to be repub
lican paper.
These laws are not only unfair but they are ab-
solutey rotten. They have been pronounced so
by the master of the state grange, by the state
convention of county commissioners, and by the
democrats of the state and of THIS COUNTY.
But to no avail.
The only way Stevens county can get any of its
road money which it is forced to pay to the state
state has directed that road be built from the
Pend Oreille to Colville. It is Being done. The
residents of the Pend Oreille are helping to pay
for whether they want to or not, although we
infer that most of them want to or they would not
continue to vote the republican state ticket which
upholds these road laws. The county is not build
ing the road, but the people all forced to help
pay the state for it.
We are pleased to see the republican papers
gradually waking up to the conditions which their
party is bringing upon us. 1t may mean change
some time. It may mean the election of a state
senator who is not in favor of taxing all the people
to build roads for few of them
S~S
The Stevens County Revee newspaper plant
arrived in Colve this week, after an absence OF
little more than year, and is once more in the
hands of it's owner the Rev. Ananias E.. We make
haste to bid it welcome 1t is said that old faces
bring back pleasant memories certain it is
that no plant in this section contains more ole
faces than the Revee.
When Red Top" arrived in Colville three years
ago, he found would-be congressman Veatch own.
ing and controlling both the republican and demo.
cratic papers of this city, and therefore doing
quite nicely in financial way, although the public
was led to believe that the republican editor had
no connection with the democratic paper
With the coming of the Examiner the Reveille
contracted hard cold. 1t also contracted it's cir
culation. Its last issue was printed May of last
year. and owner Veatch shipped the plant to Rock.
ford. Later the plant was sent to Bonners Ferry.
Now it is in Colve, and will probably remain
here until Veatch carries it back to Kansas with
him.
Ten thousand apple trees, Is, 900 apple seedlings,
1900 grape vines, 300 cherry trees 25O pear trees,
IT'S peach trees and 25 prune trees have been
offered to the management of the National Apple
show as additional prizes in various contests at the
third exposition in Spokane, November ID to 49,
The donors are nursery companies in Oregon,
Montana, Washington, California Missouri, Iowa
and Nebraska
Accompanying the offers are the companies
endorsements of the scope and purpose of the
exhibition, one of them saying that the last two
shows have accomplished more to encourage fruit
growing in the northwest and throughout the
country than any other agency. Another writes
that the apple industry has been exploited from
one end of the continent to the other by the shows
also that the standard of fruit required has beer
raised by the keen competition.
A farmer in a ramshacke old buggy was driving
down one of the principal streets of a certain city
oblivous of any danger. A policeman yelled al
him to look out, that the fire department was
coming.
Turning in by the curb the farmer watched the
salvage wagon, engine and hose cart whzz past.
He then turned out into the street again and started
to drive on. Hardly had he started when the hook
and ladder truck came tearing along. The real
wheel of the truck slowed into his buggy, smashing