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

Oiu washington, Cne WOTQS OF WHICH were WIZ
ten by Burton E. Hborn, Spokane newspaper
man. Joseph E. Howard, the we'll known popular
song composer, wrote the music.
The song will be printed by the state and fur
nshed to the orphans asylums of Spokane, Seattle
and Tacoma at cost, Il cents per copy. The
asylums will sell copies to raise money for the
support of the orphans.
A feature of the song is the unique cover, bear
ing the great seal of the state of Washington the
signature of Governor Hay and his 20. K" the
signature of Captain I. NJ Howell, secretary Of
state, and the heading Selected as the Official
Song of the State of Washington" It is unlikely
that the song can be printed in quantities before
the adjournment of the legislature, as the state
printing office is blocked with work on the multi
tude of bills at present.
You can't see my husband. He is not at home. :"
But madam, want to see him the worst way"
well, if that's the way you want to see him
you'd better sit right there on the steps until he
comes from the club"
II suppose, |" said sympathetic neighbor, that
you will erect handsome monument to your
husbands memory"
''To his memory?" echoed the fearful widow.
'Why poor John hadn't any. l was sorting over
some of his clothes today, and found the pockets
full of letters had given him to post.
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Declaring it utterly useless and worthless, a
thing without good, G. S. Reed, warden at the
state penitentiary at Walla Walla, has formally
consigned the prison lock-step to the oblivion from
which it came Since the beginning the lock-step
has been the custom at. the penitentiary. When
the prisoners came in to their meals or marched
out to them they did so in the lock-step. The
lock-step, stripes and other relics of more bar
barous age are thing of the past at Walla Walla
The ock-step and the striped suits, says Warden
Reed, have come down to us from the past. Why
or how they originated is of little interest. It
suffices that whatever may have been the reasons
which actuated their orginators, they do not hold
good today. The lock-step serves no purpose. It
accomplishes no good It is a senseless custom
which has outlved it's time The striped suit has
not been seen here for some time. The prisoners
wear plain gray clothes, with no distinguishing
mark but the prison number"
The department of the interior has been asked
to intervene in behalf of the entrymen on the Spo
kane Indian reservation whom the Northern
Pacific railroad is trying to oust in suits recently
filed.
Judge James Lewelyn, chief law clerk of the
land Office received telegram from Mabel D. Nc
Nickle of Springdale who obtained claim No. 1 on
the reservation, asking the government to defend
her title. Other claimants have made similar
appeals.
The department is in some doubt as to whether
it should allow itself to be drawn into the or
let the entrymen fight it out with the railroads.
However, a recommendation has been made to
Secretary Ballinger by his legal advisors that the
attorney general be asked either to intervene
behalf of the Indians whose original titles are
clouded by the Northern Pacific suit or that gov
ernment counsel appear on behalf of the claimants.
The Northern Pacific contends that under it's
original grant it received every odd numbered Sec
ton on the Spokane Indian reservation while the
governments contention always has been that
lands on the reservation were excepted from such
grants.
The house committee on the census after many
weeks of hard work. has whitfield the house men,
bership under the new census down to 432 which
will be a gain of 41 seats in the house. When
Arizona and New Mexico are admitted the number
will be inreased to 435, being three additional.
Under the bill as now framed the south gains 10
members, counting Oklahoma as a southern state.
The north gains 81 The gains are divided as
follows:
South-Alabama, l; Florida, 1; Georgia, 1; Lou
siana, 1; Oklahoma, g. Texas g. West Virginia l.
California, 3; Colorado, L. Illinois, 2;
Massachusetts, 3; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Mon
tana, 1; New Jersey, 2; New York, 6; Ohio, 2;
Oregon, l; Pennsylvania, 4; South Dakota 1;
Utah, l; Washington, g.
The United States supreme, court has decided