The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-01-21

decided that husband may pummel his wife all
ne pleases and she can not sue him for damages
to her person. If her husband tries to get her
property or to damage it, she can sue him and re-
cover but he can beat or kill her and she has no
recourse for damages. Chief Justice Hughes and
Justices Harlan and Holmes dissented from the
Judgment of the court. The decision was thus
made affirmative by vote of four to three.
Republican spellbinders have intmated the dem
ocratic party stands for free trade. Absolute free
trade is impractical with the United States. Every
country in the world, including Great Britain,
levies some tariff, and this country must always
do so.
The democratic position on the subject is SUBJ
stantialy as follows
The government should never collect one penny
more of revenue than necessary to administer its
affairs with rigid economy.
The lowest rate that will yield the greatest
amount of revenue should be imposed.
Luxuries should always bear the highest revenue
duties.
Experience has vindcated the wisdom of
advalorem duties as being the correct practice.
Revenue duties should be laid so as to operate
with equality throughout the Union, discriminat-
ing neither for nor against any class or section.
Absolute necessities should go on the free list.
There should be imposed revenue duty upon
practically all imports, with certain exceptions.
These exceptions should be determined by the test:
Imports coming in competition with trustcontrolled
products should be placed on the free list. and
articles of absolute necessity Should be imported
free of duty.
Kansas City is in the lead this time with new
one which will bear watching. A man there by
the name of Marvin Minnear Irregular ST.. so name)
has filed petition for divorce, claiming that his
wife has the power to separate her spirit from her
body and that she sends it around after him when
he is away from home
Whether this is fact, or whether Marvin has
been reading up on theosophy, the courts will have
to determine. In any event. it must be extremely
unpleasant for man to have his wife's astral
body travelling along with him, watching him as
he leaves the club and being present when he
falls through coal hole after visit down at Tom
& Jerrys place. This spiritual emanaton and
aura business may be all right in book, but to
drag a psychic wife all over town is too much,
Pauline.
Just imagine YOURSELF dear reader going out
for an evening with your conjugal affinity trailing
along in the rear, wearing nothing but cold
breeze and an air of resignation. Any wife who
will play such trick out to be brought up before
the postofice and prosecuted.
An omnibus county division bill which would
change the entire map of northeastern Washing
ton is being prepared by representatives of this
part of the state This plan would cut up Ste
vens, Ferry, Okanogan and Douglas counties, and
would leave in their stead six entirely new dv-
sions Of the state
The division of Stevens county by the amputa-
ton of the eastern half to form the new Pend
Oreille county is already practically assured. This
is only the first of the provisions of the proposed
omnibus BILL The Caspe mountains would form
the county line and Newport has already been
selected as the new county seat.
Next the trainers of the bill plan to take the
remainder of Stevens county and the east half OF
Ferry to make the second of the new counties.
The third county of the six proposed would be
formed from the west half Of Ferry county and
strip running north and south from the east side
of Okanogan county, comprising about one-third
of the territory of that disvision
The fourth county would be, under this plan,
the northwestern corner of Okanogan county.
This would be rectangular county including ap-
proximately half of the present territory OF Okla
hogan. The fifth county would be formed from
the southern part of Okanogan and the northern
part of Douglas. This county would be, roughly
speaking, triangular in shape, apexing at the
northeast corner of the present Douglas county.
The final county would be formed of the remainder
of Douglas.