The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-12-09
NEWS FROM STATE CAPITAL
Facts Concerning the Government of the
Commonwealth from The Echo's
Special Correspondent


Special Correspondent
Two contracts for state-aid road work
have been completed in Chelan county,
according to a bulletin issued by State
Highway Commissioner H. L. Bowlby,
outlining all transactions under the
state-aid road law Of 1907. One con-
tract with J. E. McClimans, for grading
80 mile Of the T. J. Sherman road. was
completed in 1909 at a cost Of 81
867.54. A contract with J. w. Quigg
for II miles Of grading on the Wen
atchee River road was finished in May,
1909, the cost being $5, ,744.32. A
survey is in progress on resolution Of
the Chelan county commissioners for
the Leavenworth-Peshastin bridge road.
Of the $4,000 appropriated by the
legislature Of 1909 for the payment Of
bounties on wild animals, the report OF
State Auditor c. w. Clausen will show
that 1856 went to reimburse the audi
tor Of Chelan county.
1t will further be shown by this re-
port that between October l, 1908, and
September 80, 1910, the state paid
$35o.50 for cost bills in convictions Of
fellonies in Chelan county. In this
time the state expended in excess of
$42, 900 for bills of this nature.
At the executive mansion an 812-
pound daughter has been born to Gov
ernor and Mrs. M. E. Hay, bringing
the number Of children in their family
up to six, three girls and three boys.
To the child just born goes the dis
tinction of being the first to be born to
a chief executive Of Washington during
his term of Office.
There has been prepared by the state
bureau of inspection form OF duplicate
receipt to be used by county treasurers.
This form will be filed out with state
ment of the amount of personal and
real property taxes due from each tax
payer respectively, and sent to him as
a notice. Upon receiving this notifi-
cation a taxpayer will be enabled to
pay his taxes without the necessity OF
visiting the county treasurer's office, If
he so desires, as his remittance can be
made by mail. The only specification
is that he must return intact the dupli-
cate receipt.
The wards of the state in its institu-
tions for the feeble minded, insane and
criminal now number 4,202, as against
1910 in 1900, and $40 in 1890. In
addition a gain is noted in the ratio OF
abnormal persons to total population,
from l out Of every SAC twenty years
ago to / for about every 238 at the
present time. From this showing the
state board Of control hopes to convince
the state legislature of the necessity for
larger appropriations for state institu-
tions in its charge.
It will further be shown that, altho
wages at these institutions have in
creased but slightly in the past ten
years, the cost of sustenance has gained
materially. At the Western Washing
ton hospital for the insane the price OF
mutton in the past year has advanced
90 per cent; beef, 44.8 per cent; lard,
"A per cent; -four, 27.5 per cent; evap-
GRATED apples, 1872 per cent; butter,
19 per cent.
A dealer transacting both wholesale
and retail liquor business must secure
separate state licenses for each class OF
business, according to an opinion just
prepared by Attorney General W. P.
Bell.
The Okanogan county board OF COM
missioners has authorized the purchase
Of so trios Of Reeves pheasants for fall
delivery in 1911 from the Simpson
pheasant farm Of Corvallis, Oregon.
VIM. F. Robbins, aged a, promi-
nent and wealthy Yakima Indian, was
granted a permit to marry Miss Maud
L. Spencer, aged 81, pretty white
girl of Toppenish. Robbins, who is