The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-02-26

was predicted and expected in units which voted
dry" under the present Infamous liquor-make
law, it is not matter which should be sanctioned
by any reputable citizen, be he wet or dry in be-
lief. The basis of good government is enforce
ment of law, and no place in Stevens county can
afford to overlook this fact. Change the laws if
they are not good, but enforce those we have and
show up their weakness.
proposal to regulate the length of women's s
skirts comes from the Denver city council. Sani-
tary reasons have for some years been advanced
as reason for short skirts but just where the
Denver council gets look-in is a question. How
queer it would look if the ordinance was passed.
and the newspapers announced it with heading
Council Orders Women to Raise Their Skirts. !"
The news has reached Colville this week that
George Washington chopped down cherry tree
some years ago. That's nothing very much. If
he had shown his industry by chopping it up, it
might have been good moral lesson for follow
ing generations to teach their boys.
Editor L. O. Iveso the Humdnger has announced
his candidacy for congress on the republican ticket
He states that he has lived in the county year
and half, or almost as long as Veach has been a
republican; that he has never owned any brewery
stock or printed democratic paper; that he has
been indorsed by the Ives Congressional Club,
consisting of L. O. Ives and Mrs. L. O. Ives; and
that he wants the job because he needs the money.
There is strain of honesty in this announce
ment which has not been noticeable in the other
Stevens county candidacy, and be it also said in
his favor that since his residence in this county
Mr.. Ives has always been booster instead of a
knocker. He is not afraid to meet any man face
to face. He has short legs, hence has never tried
to straddle any fences to get ahead in the world.
He is republican because he was born of re-.
publican parentage-not because he was hired by
the republican central committee to be one.
We hesitate to state which of the two Colville
candidates we favor, for fear of making Ananias
E. sore.
For many years Washington had no law making
it a crime to play at gambling games, that is, no
law against the players, but had law which pun
ished the owner of the game. Such is the conten-
ton of H. J. Snvely in the state supreme court in
asking that the conviction of five Pasco men under
the supposed law be set aside.
Mf Snivey went back into the original records
and produced certified copy Of the original law
showing conclusively that as the act passed the
legislature the word "play" was not included.
Ballinger's code which is generally referred to by
attorneys rather than examine the individual Sec
ton laws, included the word play" and it was
this erroneous inclusion upon which the charges
were made and the trial and conviction had.
If Mr.. Sniveys contention is sustained by the
supreme court, as he confidently expects, it will
set aside the conviction of several persons who as
players were tried and convicted of violating the
law by playing poker in Sylvester's pool room at
Pasco 1t is said dozen or more men have been
tried and have sustained punishment under this
law, no other attorney having discovered the mis-
take.
A young San Francisco mechanic has invented
an apparatus which appears to register the amount
of affection members of one sex hold for the other
in each others presence. If an attachment can be
added which will maintain this affection in each
others absence, it will be worth while.