The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-09-08
SMALL DISTRICTS
MUST PAY WELL
THREE SCHOOLS In WHITMAN PAY
S267 Per YEAR FOR
EACH PUPIL.

Olympia, Sept 6.-In Whitman
county the average cost of educat-
ing each child per year in district
where the daily average attendance
is less than FIVE pupils is $175.9O.
and, with the exception of three
counties, every county has such dis
tricts, the cost ranging from $25932
in Skamania county down 5000 in
Kittitas county. There are school
districts in i've of the counties of
the state where the average cost per
child is over three hundred dollars,
and in Grant county there is one dis
trlct where the average runs up to
$432.50, while there are twenty
counties having school district where
the cost of educating each child is
over two hundred dollars a year, and
Whitman county is one of these.
having three districts where the av-
erage annual cost per pupil is
$267.86. In Kittitas county the av-
erage in one district is $397.05, in
Skamania two districts pay an aver
age of $394.67; in Lewis county in
one district the average is $250.00,
and in King county two districts pay
an average of $323.05 These fig
ures, together with charts showing
how the bonded debt of the schools
has increased since 1890 from $780,
900 to $10.250,0O are being compil-
ed by F. F. Nader, deputy state su-
perintendant of public instruction.
1t is shown that in the public schools
the number of women teachers has.
in the past twenty years increased
four times faster than the number Of
men teachers. These statistics are
for use in school exhibits at the vari-
Gus fairs and educational meetings
Logged Off Information.
The pamphlet in regard to the
logged off lands of Washington has
been completed by H. F. Giles, who
has charge under the secretary of
state, l. NJ. Howell, of the bureau of
immigration and statistics, and it is
now ready for circulation. Mr..
Giles is now engaged on an irriga-
tion pamphlet, and when this is com
pleted he intend to begin gathering
statistics in regard to the dairy and
poultry conditions in every county Of
the state. This pamphlet, however.
will not be ready for publication for
some time to come.
Whitman Man Delegate to CHICAGO.
In Chicago, on Sept 26 to 90. viii.
be held the 14th annual session of
the American Mining Congress. and
Gov. Hay has appointed as delegates
to this congress the following, who
are to pay their own expenses: John
H. Doane of Pullman, Henry Landes,
Walter NJ. French and W. F. Shedd,
OF Seattle; F. D. Hudnutt of Spo-
kane, W. A. Logue of lone, c. F.
Murphy of Northport, J. L. Harper
and c. D. Blair of Republic, Elmer
D. Hall of BOssburg, H. E. Marble of
Twisp. Fl. F. Wilcox of Index, and
Ernest D. Ward of Orient
NOVEL;. Chief Physician.
For the State Industrial Insurance
Commission, DR.. w. J. w NOVEL;
of Olympia, has been chosen as Chief
Physician TO have charge of all the
other physicians of the state who
worK under the supervision of the
commission.
Who Owns Underground Water?
The public service commission has
been asked to determine as the re-
suit of the complaint filed with the
public service commission, the own
ership of artesian or subterranean
lakes. A resident of Mckee Valley,
in Yakima county, has filed COM
plant alleging that the owners of
big wells are taking out too much
water while the owners of the little
small we'll owners want this stop
ped.
Study i'm East.
In accordance with the plan of
the State Board of Control to send
all the heads of state institutions on
a trip to the East to visit the insti-
tutions of the Eastern states as a
means of securing for all the Wash
ington institutions the best ideas that
are in vogue in those states. c. c..
Aspinwall, superintendent of the
state training school, accompanied
by his wife visited the state insti-
tutions Of Utah, Missouri, Kansas,
Illinois, Ohio, New York, Massachus-
cites, Michigan, Wisconsin and Min
nesota. and have recently returned
to this state.
Beer and Ammonia Alike.
It was held in a ruling made by
the state industrial commission that
the makers of beer and the makers
of ammonia so far as risk is con-
cerned, are in the same class.
Taxes Always Due.
In letter to the assessor of Fer
ry county it was held by the state
tax commission that personal taxes
were always due, no matter how long
delinquent. The commission also
held that II county officers neglect
ed to collect taxes that they were
liable to a suit to recover the same
and that their bondsmen were also
liable.
Fortune Goes To Trial.