The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1916-01-08

seem TO snow CnaC Cne IdmOuS olu
institute of marriage is still pop
ular there by a three-fourths
vote. But in Seattle the divorces
were almost so per cent OF the
marriages, showing that on the
west side they are harder to please.
The fourth annual newspaper
institute will be held at the State
University, Seattle, Jan. 1915.
1t is expected that $50 newspaper
men of the state will be present.
Visiting editors will be cared for
in fraternity houses near the
campus. The three-days' pro-
gram covers all branches of the
newspaper and printing business,
and every facility Of the univer-
sity's department of journalism
will be at the command of those
who attend.
While it is generally maintained
that governmental expenditures
always increase and never de-
crease, the Fish commissioners
report shows that while the cost
was 89.8 cents per thousand to
hatch and iberate salmon in 1912,
during the first year of the pres
ent administration, the cost was
reduced to Sc cents per thousand,
and, during the second year
(1914), it was reduced to 43
cents per thousand or less than
half of what it was during the
last year of the preceding admin
istration.
Showing collections $41, 900 in
excess of any previous biennium,
and which practically made the
Fisheries Department of the
state self-sustaining for the first
time; hatch of salmon eggs of
| 207, ,8O7, ,749, which was far in ex-
cess of any previous biennium IS
output of the state salmon hatch
cries; trout hatch and distribu-
ton Of $1O,414,939, or about the
number heretofore Matched dur
ing any two year period; a reduc-
ton of the Matching cost OF more
than one-half the second year OF
lis incumbency of the office; and
recording the greatest output Of
NE fisheries in the history Of the
tate, which occurred in 1913;
and, of course, the greatest num-
Der of fish taken, totaling A.
439,441, State Fish Commission
er L. III. Darwin has just sub
mitted his first biennial report to
Governor Lister for the two year
period ending March 81, 1915.
On the editorial page of the
Washington Cd. O. Times ap-
peared the following article on
| Congressman G. G. Dill Of this
| district:
The day Congressman c. G.
Dill from Washington state rises
up in congress and makes his
maiden speech it's going to cost
him 25 cents. No, more than that
-25 cents plus compound interest
thereon for fourteen years.
The congressman, this sessions
youngest, has owed that quarter
ever since he was sixteen. His
creditor is Mrs. Fanny Berry Bell,
Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and she has his
note to prove it. 1t reads:
Fredericktown, Ohio,
$0.25 March 10, 1901.
For value received | promise
to pay Fanny Berry Bell the sum
of 25 cents with compound in
terest at 6 per cent, when | shall
have made my first speech in the
state legislature or the United
States Congress or shall have won
my first fight in either.
G. G. DILL.
That note may account for the
fact that Dill is a national law
maker at so early an age. He
simply couldn't wait any longer
to get that debt off his mind.
The circumstances are these:
Dill lived on rented farm near
Fredericktown, Ohio. Mrs. Bell
was the wife of the owner. On
one corner of the farm was the
Salem M. e. church and one day