The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-09-01
WHITMAN COUNTY
COURT upheld
SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS DECIS.
IONS--- WAREHOUSE BONDS
ARE SCRUTINIzED.

III IHe case OF Milan Still and others
against the PaIouse Irrigation 4
Power company, H. c. Peters and the
Netherlands American Mortgage
Bank, holding that the building OF a
dam across the outlet of Rock Lake
would damage the owners of the land
along the creek, along the Palouse
river and in WaShtucna Coulee, and
that due diligence had not been
used by the irrigation company in
pressing its rights and completing
its projects.
Ihe supreme court has upheld the
superior court OF Whitman county in
the case OF White Brothers and Crum
Company Ltd, appellants against
Jacob H. Watson and Mary Watson.
The appellants had through a fiume
diverted the waters of the KakiWa-
wal creek on to their land, but later
the WatsOnS secured title to the land
over which the f1ume passed and
when the fume was damaged by
Hood, they sought to put in a pipe
line in place of the fiume. The su-
preme court says in this case that
although one person may need some
thing which is in the possession of
another more than the one who owns
it, yet the courts cannot take it away
from the owner and give it to the one
who most needs it, and holds that
the lower court was right in not
granting an injunction to prevent
the WatsOns from interfering.
Whitman Leads in Good Bonds.
NinnfU-nna
the current year were submitted by
the public service commission to the
attorney generals Office for approval
and thirty-tive of these have been ap-
proved while sc were disapproyed.
OF the forty houses covered by the
80 bonds approved, i were in Whit
man county which takes the lead in
the number of warehouses covered
by approved bonds. A total Of ZIG
warehouses are covered by the sc
bonds which were disapproved and
of this number 81 are in Whitman
county.
Who Pays for LateralS?
The ruling of the public service
commission in the case of the resi-
dents of Hoquiam against the water
company of that place which was
heard before the commission at
Hoquiam will directly affect every
municipality in Whitman county
which has either a municipal water
system or a private one, as the Ques-
ton as to whether or not a water
company is to pay for the lateralS
reaching from the main to the prop
erty line or whether the patrons of
the system are to pay for the tapping
OF the main will be passed upon by
the commission when the ruling is
made in this case. The water com
pany at HOquiam forced the prop
erty holders to pay for the larerals
and a complaint was made to the
commission. No ruling has yet been
made, but if the patrons of the line
are to pay for the laterals the com
pany cannot charge rates so as to get
return upon anything but the main
as the company will not own the lat
erals. The laterals cost about ten
dollars apiece. The commission will
pass upon the question very soon.
superintendent to Meet.
J. o. Mattoon, the superintendent
of schools of Whitman county, has
been informed by a letter from H.
B. Dewey, state uperintendent Of
public instruction that the annual
convention of the superintendents of
the state will be held on Sept. Is TO
Sept. % at Olympia. 1t is expected
that at this convention every county
will be represented as a great many
of
school district will be taken up and
discussed. 1t is announced that these
meetings are doing much for the uni
fication of the school work il the
various counties. They were former
ly held every two years but now they
are held annually.
Governor Wants Frequent State
ments.
Gov. Hay says that no private
corporation doing the amount Of
business done by the state would be
satisfied with an annual report or a
biennial report, and he has therefore
in line with his policy Of business !
administration issued orders 10 the
heads of the state departments that
they send to his Office monthly state
ments so that he may know exactly
what is taking place. Although dur
ing the past two years the state has
made an excellent showing financial
ly, having retired s1,200,000 worth
of bonds and freed the general fund
from debt and also returned s314,-
600 of the 1909 appropriations unex-
pended to the general fund, the gov
ernor thinks that still better show |
ing can be made during the coming
two years.
Ban on Sucker" Companies.
S. A Madge, deputy commissioner
of insurance announces that If posi- !
bic the state insurance department
will round up all the sucker com
panies doing business in this state
and will put a stop to their opera !
tions. These are companies which
have not been admitted to the state
but which seek to get business by
having an agent for the regular com
panies turn over to them risks which