The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-29
THU SUPREME COURT
Decides Incorporation Of Pull
man and Centralia Valid.
MURDER vERoicTs AFFIRMED.
New Trial Refused Aanviile, Dominica
Cecilia and Ragan.
MURDER vsRoicrs AFFIRMED.
Barr. the Gun-Trap Murderer. SEN
fenced After Ref1sal Of New Trial
Cobb, the Paramour Of Mrs. Nc
Arthur, Arrested in Portland.

OLYMPIA, March cs.-tSpeciai. l-opin-
the supreme court today:
AN incorporation LAW DECLARED VALID.
City oil. Pullman, appellant. vs.. j. A.
Huugate and E:Taoeth Hungate, respond.
ents-The question involved in this case is
whether or not the city of Pullman is q
legal municipal corporation. Il was in
eorporated originally under the law Of
February 2, lsss. and an attempt was
made to reincorporate under the provis-
ions Of section 4, act of March 81, 1890 The
act of 1883 was declared demonstrations
by the court. and IL was further held tha.
attempted interpretations under said act
could not reincorporate under the act of
March q. lS9o, for the reason that so much
OF said act as attempted to confer such
right was unconstitutional. The conten-
ton that these conclusions were conclus-
i've In this case must be sustained unless
the situation has been changed BY the act
OF March 8 1888 legaiizing the incorpora-
ton or reineorporation of cities and towns
and Constituting al the language of said act
IN the light of circumstances surrounding
its enactment such must be its construc-
tion. From which it will follow that if
said act can have force under our consttu-
tion cities like the one under considera.
tion have been thereby transferred into
organized bodies corporate. In our opin-
ion the act in question is constitutional as
applied in this case, and by its terms made
these cities valid interpretations. Judg-
menr of superior court reversed. Stiles
and Anders not corcurring.
State of Washington ex rel. A. T.. Rec,
appellant, vs.. City of Csntralia ct al, re-
spondents: judgment affirmed. Many
questions were presented in this case not
involved in the Pullman case, and it is
prot abie that the action Of the court be-
low, sustaining the legality of the iacor-
poration of defendant. could be sustained
without the aid Of the act of March Q, 1893,
but the conclusions to which we have
come in case cited TO the effect Of the act
make it unnecessary to discuss other ques-
tions.
THE AANyfLIE MURDER CASE.
State of Washington, respondent, vs.
George Manville. appellant: affirmed. Ap-
peliant was tried for the murder OF J. s.
McCabe. near Tenno. Thurston county,
on August 3. 1893. found guilty Of murder
in the second degree and sentenced to
fourteen years. imprisonment. A motion
'-Ssfs-pew trial was Haads and overruled,
and upon this appellant appealed.
THE Raglan MANsLAUaHrER CASE.
State of Washington. respondent. Va.
Richard Ragan. appellant: from Snoho-
mish. Appellant was convicted Of man.
slaughter for killing one Edward Guthrie;
affirmed.
THE coEIIA uURDKs CASE
State of Washington, respondent, W..
Dominica Cecilia. appeilant-This case
was once before the supreme court. was re-
versed and remanded for new trial A
change Of venue was taken to Island
county, and in the retrial defendant, was
convicted of murder in the second degree
and appealed. The supreme court refused
to entertain any one OF several objections
raised by appellant on appeal. and con-
cludes the opinion: ''The case on the
whole was apparently carefully tried, and
We find 10 error therein; judgment af-