Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-02-15
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

of Washington. for Chchnlls
County.
Grays Harbor and Puget Sound
Railway Company, corporation.
Petitioers, VS.. SIN. Willis and Phoebe
Willis, his wife, and Oswald Willis.
and . his wife. unknown hoirs
and owners. If any. having or claim
ing to have any interest or estate,
in the real property hereinafter de-
scribed, Respondents
Notice to the above named rcspon-
dents.
In the name OF the state of Wash
ington: TO S. NJ. Willis and Phoebe
Willis, his wife. and Oswald Willis.
and ---. Wills, his wife. and
unknown heirs and owners, II any,
having or claiming to have any in
terest or estate in the real prop
erty hereinafter described, respond
ents:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that the above named petit
toner, Grays Harbor and Puget
Sound Railway Company. Il corpora
ton will, on the 10th day OF March,
1909. at the hour of 1890 o'clock
'" ~" forenoon of said day or as
soon thereafter as said petitioner
can be heard, at the Court House
of Chehals County, Washington, in
the City of MOntesano, in said
County and State. in the Court Room
of said Court before the Honorable
Mason Irwin. the Judge thereof, pres
sent to the above entitled Superior
Court. and to the judge thereof, the
petition in the above entitled pro-
ceeding, which has been filed in the
office Of the clerk of the said court.
The object of said petition and of
said action or proceeding is to con-
denim and appropriate the whole of
the hereinafter described land and
property, and to vest the legal title
of the same, in said Grays Harbor
and Puget Sound Railway Company,
it's successors and assigns, for the
construction and operation Of line
of railroad thereon and thereoover,
said railroad to form part of a rail-
road to be constructed from some
point or points on Grays HarbOr,
Chehalis County, Washington some
point or points on or near Puget
Sound, in the State of Washington,
and said Grays HarbOr and Puget
Sound Railway Company in and by
the said proceeding and petition
seeks to have the court find and
decree that the use hereinbefore and
in said petition mentioned and set
forth, Is a public use, and that the
public interest requires the prose-
cution of the enterprise in said
petition set forth and that to con-
denim and appropriate the said land
and property is required and neces-
sary for the purposes Of said enter
prise, and then to procure the court
to cause a jury to be called and
empanelled to ascertain and deter
mine the compensation to be made
or damages to be paid in money to
you. the said respondents, and to
each of you for cOndemnatin and
appropriation thereof, or in case a
jury be waived as in other civil
cases in Courts OF record, in the
manner prescribed by law, then to
procure such compensation or dam
ages as may be ascertained and de-
termined by the Court or the Judge
thereof, as provided by law; and to
assess and award such compensation
or damages to you, said respondents,
and each of you; all to be done and
the judgment or decree of the court
to be rendered in accordance with
the law and the statutes of the
State of Washington, in such cases
made and provided; and that upon
payment of such damages or COM
pensation and costs by said Grays
Harbor and Puget Sound Railway
Company, to you the said respond
ents, or depositing the same with
the clerk of said court, then to pro-
cure the court to enter a judgment
of decree Of appropriation, con-
demning and appropriating to said
land and property and vesting the
legal title thereof in said Grays Har-
Dor and Puget Sound Railway Com
pany, it's successors and assigns.
That said land and property SO
to be condemned and appropriated
and taken is situated in the County
of Chehalis in the State of Washing
ton, and bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
A strip or piece Of land contain
ing 40 acres, more or less, being all
those parts of the east half of the
South East quarter, and the East
half of the East half of the West
half of the South East quarter of
Section 20. Township II North,
Range s West of the Willamette
Meridian, in Chehalis County. State
of Washington, that lie within so
feet on the northerly side, and with
in SO feet on the southerly side Of
the center line Of the railway of the
Grays Harbor and Puget Sound
Railway Company, as the same is
now surveyed, located and staked
out, over and across the South East
quarter of said Section %, said CEN
ter line of railway being more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at point on the North
and South quarter line of said Sec
ton 20, 1878 feet, more or less,
southerly from the center Of said
Section %; thence North II degrees
54 minutes East 1868 feet; thence
on spiraled curve to the left,
measured by 1888 foot chords a
distance of 266 feet; thence on 3
degree 80 minute curve to the left
5OS.9 feet, more or less to the East
line of said Section 90.
That the owners, tenants, encum-
berancers or lineors or other persons