The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1908-10-30
TELEPHONE MESSAGES
TO ST. JOHN GALORE
Sheriff Ratliff Is Called Upon to
Explain This Mystery.
ltemized Statement of All MESSAGES
Sent, Addressed Mostly to Pleas
ant Valley Implement Co., Paid
for by Whitman County Why2

ant Valley Implement Co., Paid
for by Whitman County -Why2
The following was taken from the com
misaiOnera' records in the auditors 9
office showing telephone conversations
between the sheriff's office and parties at
st. John. The Gazette has statement
OF each conversation, the date on which
it occurred and to whom, and gives here
with each months conversations sepa-
rately. Bills for all these conversations
were O. k'd by Sheriff Ratlff, certified
az correct and ordered paid by the board
OF county commissioners.
During January, 1907
Conversations between RatIiff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co ................. 2
Sheriff to others Observation-Disclosures.
During February. 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement 90 Observation-Disclosures. 2
Sheriff to others /
During March, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co................ 6
Sheriff to others 3
During April, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Go Co 8
Sheriff to others 3
During May, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co ................. 8
Sheriff to White. Pleasant Valley Imple.
ment Co. Observation-Disclosures. 2
Sheriff to others 6
During June, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Go .. 10
Sheriff to Ratlif at St John. - 4
oherhl 20 others NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
During July, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co............... 3
Sheriff to White and Mills of Pleasant Val
Sheritt TO others Observation-Disclosures. 2
During August, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co o......1
Sheriff to others Observation-Disclosures. 2
During September, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement %. Oo......... 8
Sheriff to White Of Pleasant Valley I'm
plement 90 Observation-Disclosures. 2
Sheriff to Others 2
During October. 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleas
ant Valley Implement C0....... l3
Sheriff to White and Mills of Pleasant Val
Sheriff to others s
During November, 1907
Conversations between Ratiff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co ...... A
Sheriff to Others Observation-Disclosures. 2
During December, 1907
Conversations between Ratliff and Pleasant
Valley Implement Co................... 2
During January, 1903
Conversations between White and Mills of
Pleasant Valley Implement Go .... 8
Ratliff to others. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4
During February, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co.
To others Observation-Disclosures. 8
During March, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co
and Mills, manager er............... n. 8
During April, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co.
and Mills, manager .....................
During May, 1908
Sheriff's office to Ratliff and White at st.
John. .......... ........... ........... 3
During June, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co.
and Mills manager. >
During July 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co.
and Mills, manager Observation-Disclosures. 3
10 others ......--............. .
During August, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co..
Sheriff's office to Ratlitf at St. John. w 2
Sheriff's Office to others. s................... 3
During September, 1908
Sheriff to Pleasant Valley Implement Co.. 2
To others ...................... )
Total calls to Pleasant Valley Implement
Co and White and Mills, managers 126
Sheriff. office to Ratlff at st. John.
Total calls to others at st. John. . so
Grand total. 2l0
Ratliff's telephone bills for twenty-o
months amounted to S621.2l, or an average of
S29 5S per month, being greatly in excess of
Canutt's for the same length of time