The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-02-18

prepare and send to the commission abstracts
showing all water right filings and DEGREES in their
respective offices.
Heavy penalties are provided in the bill for in
reference with irrigation bitches, fumes and
canals, for stealing water, and other offenses
against irrigated property. The commission is
empowered to void any rights for failure to use
the same within limited time
When John Dewitt, poet laureate of the Inland
Empire, wrote Little drops of water, mingled
with the sand make mighty difference in the
price of land, " or words to that effect, he gave
conclusive testimony that he had some experience
in the cost of orchard lands before and after rrga-
tion. Land is worth what it will produce and ex-
perts declare that land will never be cheaper than
it is today.
Senator Lodge has refused to become the ambas-
sador to England, because he fears that the demo-
cratic party may elect president in two years,
which would relieve him of his position He pre-
fers to remain senator, where his term of four
years more is certain. It's curious how the wind
blows in the east-and how the belief is increasing
that the next national executive will be democrat.
Electrical science has achieved new triumph.
Toronto railroad man, Frank w. Prentice by
name, has perfected a device by which railroad
train going at high rate of speed can be brought
to standstl by brakes operated by electric power
transmitted by wireless.
The device has been put to practical tests At
Ottawa, the other day. hundreds Of persons stood
by and saw powerful locomotive drawing train
of II heavily loaded cars, with the throttle wide
open, and running at the rate of 40 miles an hour,
%oo n oIo%,n
boy stops steer with lariat
The electric brakes on every one of the IL cars
had been applied by wireless wave of electricity
The invention will eliminate the dangers of
head-on collision between railroad trains A train
dispatcher who gives the wrong order may correct
his error if he discovers it in time by simply turn
ingarselectric switch on his desk and sending
wifeiess wave of electrical energy leaping into
space to the train in danger of collision.
every member gained by the Methodist
Episcopal church in 1910 represented an expendi-
ture of $1,000 and property investment of $7OO0"
declared Rev. DR.. E. Blake of Chicago, in an
address before a convention of Methodist Episcopal
Sunday schools of the Columbia River conference
in Spokane, which was attended by delegates from
all the northwestern states
serious situation" DR.. Blake added. ''The net
gain in members was only Al 1897 in 1910, an in
crease of about 12qo. This convnces me that the
DID, methods of evangelism are not producing
results. We have never had more evangelists
than at the present time, and they have never
accomplished so little as now. The weakness of
modern evangelism is that it makes it's main appeal
to adults, when it is matter of fact that 85% of
all conversions are under 18 years of age The
church must make its appeal to youth, and the
earlier this is made the better the result will be
for the church."
Both houses of the Indiana legislature have
passed, by large majorities, bill amending the
county unit local option law by substituting for the
county unit the municipal and township unit that
u.s. each incorporated city or town votes by itself
and each township outside of incorporated cities
and towns votes by itself.
Local option by county unit was found not to be
'local'' option in Indiana. In Washington the
township and municipal unit is found not sufi-
GENTLY 'local'' and bill has been introduced to
make the county the unit. Somehow or other this
local option business has to be patched up good
deal to make it do anything.
How will you have your ducks with or without
gold filling? And if there is reputed money in
chicken raising, how much gold is there in ducks?
These questions arise from the discovery of four
gold nuggets found in the gizzards of two ducks
which were raised by W. A. McNeilly in the White
Mud country, and which when being dressed by
Mrs. McKeown this week were found to be better
gold producers than some alleged mining proper
ties Two of the nuggets were of pure gold as
large as apple Seeds
Some months ago Mr. McNeilly had occasion to