The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-10

the city of Wenatchee have Joined
in a movement to stop the $3.50, 900
sewer work now in progress, and T
Z. Cade, an attorney of Bellingham,
appeared before the city council
last night with a statement that the
work was without authority of law
and served notice that he would go
into court on behalf of his clients
and seek an estoppel of the work.
During the past month there have
been many rumors of dissatisfaction
among a few and the matter is now
taking concrete form. 1t is likely
that some sort of a sewer case will
go into the courts in a short time
Attorney Cade, in his statement
to the council, takes the ground that
the entire procedure is without the
authority of law, insisting that the
city is without jurisdiction to con-
struct the sewer, to call for bids or
to levy the assessments. At the
time set for protest on the sewer
work, there was little objection to
the general plans, but at the time
OF approval of the assessment roll a
number of Mission street property
owners objected to the method of
levying the assessment and several
local firms of attorneys were con-
suited relative to taking the case in
to court, but the first news that an
outside attorney had been employed
was when Mr.. Cade appeared before
the council last night. He did not
ask a suspension of the work pend
ing the suit but did ask that the
city should not accept the assign
ment of the contract from Wetsel &
Foster to Arthur D. Jones & COM
pany of Spokane. He stated that
in the course of a few days the mat
ter would be tried out in the super
ior court. 1t is not known what
form this trial will take, but it is
not likely that an Injunction will
be asked, as in that case it would
require a very large bond, and 1t is
not likely that the petitioners would
care to furnish the amount re-
CURED.
There was considerable protest
over the approval of the assessment
roll for the big sewer, owing to the
method adopted in levying this as
sessment. The city council adopted
the plan in vogue in SpOkane-that
of levying the assessment half on
the area and half on the assessed
valuation of the property. In other
words, fifty-foot lot on Mission
street would carry a heavier sewer
assessment than a fifty foot lot on
d. street, owing to the difference
In the assessed valuation of the two
properties, the council believing that
property close in to the business dis
trict would be benefited in greater
proportion than residence property,
and consequently should be assessed
higher for sewerage.
While the most dissatisfaction
over the sewer work is among the
Mission street property owners, yet
among the fifty or sixty interested
III the proceedings against the city,
il is said that there are a number
OF residents of other sections of the
city.
The city authorities are not TAX
ing the contemplated legal proceed
ings seriously from the fact that
very technical attorneys who exam
ined the proceedings for the bond
buyers approved the proceedings in
every pacticular and should there
have been any defects in the legal
proceedings it is safe to say that
they would have been found by the
bond buyers attorneys.
Louis Crollard, city attorney,
stated last night that the matter was
giving him very little worry, as he
was satisfied that the protestants
had no legal grounds on which to
base the case, and the statutes in
every respect had been complied
with in the sewer proceedings.
The following is the statement of