The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1911-02-25

The futile contention that county of more than
2o,OO0 population needs no road running east and
west through the county is met by the fact that
principally all traffic between the Pend Oree and
Oolve valleys must of necessity pass through
Spokane, necessitating from 100 to 13O miles of
extra travel The territory between. the two val
leys is thickly settled, and rich in natural products
This road, if completed, would pass diagonally
through several sections of land owned by the
state, and if this state land were merely raised 81
per acre in value by the building of the road the
returns to the state in added value and subsequent
taxes would more than meet the required expendi-
ture. 1t would also add to the value of the land
that is already patented as timber claims and
homesteads, and would enhance the value of all
that will be patented in the future, to the extent
that it would furnish additional revenue in the
next five years sufficient to pay the cost of con-
structon.
The oranges of Stevens county are a unit in de-
carlng that the state road law is failure so far
as any facts have come to their knowledge, but so
long as the law stands, they with the other tax
payers demand that the states first effort in east
ern Washington be pushed to completion.
Again the reading public is staggered by a sam
pie of unvarnished news from New York. 1t
seems that the black hand has been operating to
some extent in that peaceful city recently and in
one of the entertainments pulled off by that inst
tuition, dynamite explosion blew two Italians
from their beds through a four-nch partition.
The Associated Press simply stated that they
were injured, " and then passed on to announce
that somebody or other got drunk and had been
raising the devil down in New ORLEANS.
1t is hardly fair to the man who takes the
trouble to borrow another mans daily paper, to
find the bald statement that being blown from a
bed through four-nch partition injured two men,
without any explanation of why it hurt them
When it comes to paying debts due Indians,
Uncle Sam is the slowest paymaster in the world,
but when it comes to paying interest to bloated
bendholders our dear old uncle falls all over him
eseaitt 70 plank down the ash.-San Poll Eagle.
In response to request for a statement showing
just how much money Stevens county has saved in
court expenses, etc., under local option, as COM
pared with the expenses during the period of open
Saloons the Examiner has taken the following
figures from the official records of the county
auditor. The column headed 1909 is for the year
ended July 81, 1909 The column headed 1910 is
for the year ended Dec. 81, 1910
1909 1910 Increase
Superior expenses $O59783 $l6 39437 $5 1876 81
Prosecuting attorneys office 292.78 3929O8 1,637aO
Sherfs office 6,332.1 7,527.43 1,194.72
Coroner's office 284.75 4l27O 1875
Justice courts 1,O64.3O 96542
County Jail 1,OOO.79 1,15594 155. Is
Poor farm and paupers 6,21l.12 8,2Ol.83 1,99OH
Refund liquor licenses 36355O 3635 so
Thus the increase on the above items in the
dry year amounted to $l4 437 SO, or more than
so per cent and the only item on which saving
was made was justice court expense, which
dropped $685.
It is reasonable to believe that part of the in
creased cost of the above items in 1910 was due to
the gradual growth of the county, but a compara
tive estimate Of the ratio of increase in cost of
operating ALL the business of the county shows
the increase would come far from being so per
cent higher in 1910 than in 1909.
1t is true that the lamented Veatch claimed the
county could be run cheaper under local option
but the Examiner does not remember of any one
else making such claim.
Dairymen in and near Spokane are in the market
for $500 Holstein, Ayrshire and Jersey cows and
are ready to pay the highest cash price for
tuberculin tested animals. Thomas S. Griffith,
president of the Glen Tana Farm Dairy Company
which owns the largest herd of thoroughbred cat
tie in eastern Washington, declares there are not
sufficient cows in this part of the northwest to
meet the demands for milk and cream, and has
undertaken campaign on behalf of the dairy
farmers to bring animals into this district from
the central and eastern states.
II will go as far as to say that Spokane and
eastern Washington and northern Idaho are facing
a milk famine Mr. Griffith says, but | know
am we'll within the mark when mention the fact
that the dairymen in this part Of the country and