The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-06-23
1910 BANNER YEAR IN
FISHING BUSINESS
Washington Shows Wealth in
the Finny Tribe.
From Various State Hatcheries IS
T91 ,96f Little Fish Were Put Out
--$7t6.15 Cash on Hand in Game
Fund Of Whitman County.

OLYMPIA, June 2l.-For an cf year
1910 was the banner year in the fishing
bu-iness, says the state fish commis-
siOner, John l.. Riselaud, in his annual
report, which he has just filed with Gov
ernor Hay, and which il the Dist annual
report OF the department. The report
says that the year 1909 being the year
of the last big run OF salmon, which
OtS:Vvs Ofce in four years, was the mOst
pAberous in the history OF the industry,
a6S that owing to the good prices Oh
tanned and the great quantity of the
product the value exceeded that of any
previous year by So los. .G46. la the
fl hing industry last year u, 1862 people
w,re employed, and their earnings totaled
$3.5l4 500. while $4,57O,00O worth of
capital was employed in the work IN
1910 the total value of the fish products
of Washington was 81, 500, 564, and of
this amount $3.50 $50 represented the
value of the shell tieh, which was more
than ever before in the history OF the
industry.
From the various state hatcherieR 10,
79l ,9Sl little fish were put out, and the
report shows by figures covering a period
of 10 years that the propagation of
fish through the hatcheries Of the state
has been of much benefit 10 the industry.
aud that he pack each year is growing
larger. although tn salmon are not now
permitted to crowd the streams and die
in great numbers before reaching the
spawning grounds as in former years,
but are intercepted and taken while in
prime condition and most wholesome for
food
A table is also embodied in the report
which shows the condition Of the game
fuuds in the various counties covering a
According TO this table kittitas county
has spent $4,000 of this fund for 400
Hungarian partridges and so 600 trout;
SAomish county has spent Sl999 80
iOT pa tiiuEtS anu pheoVdhCN' hbh
Stevens county has purchased S1904
worth of partridges and pheasante.
In Whitman connty on April l, 1911,
there was $7l6 > cash on hand in this
fund, aud during the two years there
had been issued in the county l24
licenses.
Will Enforce the Law.
Attorney General Tanner has instituted
suit against the Cooperative Orchards
Co. of New Jersey, which is doing busi-
ness in Benton county, to collect the
$3.50 penalty which the law provides
shall be paid by all foreign corporations
which do not obey the law by fling their
articles of incorporation and name an
agent in Washington. The attorney
general says that he intends to enforce
this law, although in the past no atten-
tion has been paid to these corporations
Legal Ground for Divorce.
A wife is entitled to a divorce if her
husband, who is worth $12 900, places
her in the charity ward of a hospital at
the time her first child is born, holds the
supreme court in King county case
The supreme court says that the husband
showed no interest in his vile and that
Lo is not entitled to any consideration,
and affirms the verdict of the lower
court which gave the wife a divorce, the
custody of the child and $4,000 worth of
property.
Hospital Fees Can Be Collected.
s.SAsvs is nothing in the law against
eHYE.ogers OF labor collecting hospital
fees for care of their injured workmen,
holds the industrial insurance commits
sion.
Use of Library Free.
The law requires that tuition in the
State University shall be free, and stu
dents at the State University cannot be
charged an annual fee of $40 for use of
the library, any more than they can be
charged for rent of rooms and for use OF
the furniture, holds ". Y. Tanner, at
tOrney general.
Actual Value Must Prevail in Assess
ment.
The valuation placed on railroads by
the state railroad commission (now the
public service commission) are TO prevail
over the value placed upon them by the
state tax commission for purposes of
taxation, according to ruling made by
the supreme court, which directs that the
value OF the o. r. & n. system in Wash.
ington be fixed at $19, 100000 as found
by the railroad commission, instead of
at 1000, 900 as fixed by the state tax
commission. The tax commission took
into consideration the terminals OF the
Hartman system in Portland, and de-
termined its values upon the stock and
bond basis, while the railroad commits.
s;acsiound the actual value OF the road
Washington