The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-03-25

notice of an opening of almost 5000 acres OF
government land has been announced by Hal J!
Cole, register for the land Office. The tracts are
said to be desirable land across the Columbia river
from Kettle Falls. They will be open to filing May
19. Considerable of the township has been with
drawn for the power sites by the government.
The land open to settlement consists of 8943 acres
All vacant and unappropriated lands in sections =
4. 9, TO- Is, 16 II and q have been withdrawn for
waterpower sites by the secretary Of the interior.
The settlers in the sections open to settlement Will
be allowed 60 days from the date of opening in
which to offer their filings. Settlers in the north
halves of sections 5, 6 and T. which were with
drawn from the Colville national forest reserve
October II, 1906, will be allowed three months
from date of May 10 in which to offer their filings.
Out of the tangled skeins of legislation and pol
itics there now is beginning to assume something
definite upon which to base program that will in
terest the politicians for the next two years. The
program of the legislature included political
plan, which was sharply defined There were two
opposing camps, and the battle ragged fiercely.
Not until the gavel finally had fallen in both
houses on hopeless deadlock was it possible to
determine the victors. The result, however, dis
closed the real situation and the losers were then
known to be Governor M. E. Hay and W. H. Paul
hamus, the president of the senate.
The winners of the political fight were: Howard
D. Taylor, speaker of the house; James McNeely.
of Pierce county, chairman of the roads and bridges
committee; E. W. Ross, commissioner of public
lands, and John H. Schively insurance COM
missioner.
The lineup on either side is not exactly defined,
but it runs something like this: Governor Hay
was slated to succeed himself; Senator Paulhamus
sought the United States senatorship four years
hence; George Dickson, of Ellensburg, was slated
for a state job or as candidate for congress.
The winning side backs Howard D. Taylor for
governor two years from now; for the senatorship,
James McNeely or E. w. Ross; for congress in the
southwest district DR.. W. M. Beach, of Mason
county.
This, then, is the real explanation of the antagon
ism that existed between the two houses almost
from the start. Taylor made one of the most efi-
cient and popular speakers the house ever had.
He lives at Eagle Gorge, in King county, and this
was his third term in the house. He is 80 years
old and is wealthy.
Concerning McNeely it may be said that he is
man who rose to extraordinary heights. He was
made chairman of the roads and bridges committee
question was at stake. It seems certain that he
took the popular side, because he was on the side
of the farmers of the state
Land Commissioner Ross has been fighting the
administration for the past four years. 1t was
couple of years ago that the legislature appointed
an investigating committee to probe the land office
It did make probe, and rendered report that
was used by administration papers to show that
hoI hoop Of in fho ooo
dar. Senator Fishback made the investigation.
He admitted on the floor of the senate that he had
found nothing wrong with the Office. This was
used by McNeely in his great fight in the house.
He pointed out how this committee had been
packed and how they had been backed by news
papers in the state.-Inland Herald.
Grant Smith & Co., contractors, have completed
the work of putting in dam and gates across the
mouth of the Calispel river at Cusick and all the
lands of the valley are now protected against
the annual overflow of the Pend Oreille river.
About 10000 acres of agricultural land of the best
quality are now reclaimed and the farmers are pre-
pairing to put in grain crops where heretofore they
have been unable to grow anything but wild hay.
Dealers in corsets are not pleased with the latest
fad of the Washington, D. c., smart set. On ex-
cellent authority it is said that to be strictly swag
ger nowadays woman must discard the engird-
ling stays-a thing not impossible with the present
style of empire girdled frock.
The younger set promoted the back to nature"
idea at the capital. There have been many smart
dances there this winter, and one after another
the youthful damsels have cast aside the artificial
form. The first girl to appear at dance uncor-