The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-10-20
SAY TELEPHONE
SERVICE IS BAD
MAIDEN MAKES COMPLAINT. PA.
LOUISE BANKER MUST GO TO
PENITENTIARY.

that il is not being treated fairly by
the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company in regard to long distance
connection with Spokane. Maiden
is a town of some importance as it
is a division point on the Milwaukee
railroad, and it has to pay local
rates to RoSalia and then the full toll
rate into Spokane. The Bell Tele-
phone company has leased the ex-
change at Rosalia to private COM
pany and this company operates a
line TO Maiden. The Pacific Tele-
graph and Telephone company does
not want to build direct to Maiden
from Spokane, but the public service
commission will take the matter up
with the Bell company in order to
get them to put in joint rate by
! way of Rosalia or TO build q direct
line to Maiden.
Boone Loses in Supreme Court.
H. NJ. Boone, former senator from
Whitman county and identified with
the Palouse country for many years
will have to spend from one to ten
years in prison, as the supreme
the Whitman county superior court.
Boone was accused of the crime of
larceny by embezzlement, ii being
claimed that he had juggled funds
and converted $4,000 of the banks
money to his own use. Altho the
defendant had made many assign
ments in the original case he appeal
ed on but two points and he claimed
that the special prosecutor had made
an unfair and prejudicial statement
in his opening address to the jury
and that the state had failed to elect
upon which of the numerous counts
TO stand. The supreme court brush
es both aside as mere technical
grounds and say that they did not
prejudice the jury, so the verdict is
sustained. Senator Boone has play
ed a prominent part in Eastern
Washington and in state politics and
was connected with the Palouse
State Bank of Palouse. He is the
second banker whose conviction has
been affirmed by the supreme court.
Recently H. ]. Welty, convicted of
appropriating money belonging to
the Home Security Savings Bank of
Bellingham lost his appeal. Mr..
Welty is now practicing law at Pull
man in Whitman county and is 60
ing to argue his own appeal for re-
! hearing before the supreme court.
Two Tracts for Sale.
A total of 1873 tracts of state land
are listed for sale at public auction
in the various counties of the state
by the board of state land commis-
sioners This sale is to take place
at ten o'clock in the forenoon of
Nov. 4, 1911, and will be conducted
in the various counties by the coun-
ty auditors under the direction of
the board. S. NJ. McCroskey, audi
tor of Whitman county, will on the
date mentioned sell at public auc-
tion two tracts of state lands in that
county, one being about so acres To-
Gated on Snake river about l p
miles from Charleston and about L
mile from Lewiston, Idaho, and the
other being 100 acres located about
, miles from Charleston and about
p miles from Lewiston.
Whitman Has Two Cases.
On the October bar docket of the
supreme court there are total of
272 cases and this is the largest
docket in the history of the state.
To dispose of these cases the session
will have to be extended over into
January of next year and the ses-
sion will close only in time for the
Rew term TO be opened, so the court
I, r,Sxy n
day to hear from now until April,
1912. There is only two cases from
Whitman county on the calendar.
King county furnishes ia of the
272 cases to be argued, while Spo-
kane county has so and Pierce coun-
ty %; Snohomish county has s cases
but none of the other counties have
"a large number of cases.
State School Money.
The school money for the period
ending Oct 10, has just been ap-
portioned by H. B. Dewey, state sup
erintendent of public instruction,
and the total amount divided among
the various counties is $231,4 ,451.55.
OF this amount King county is to re-
ceive 49,740.27. Spokane county
gets $2S,3S7.15 and Pierce county
S23, ,571 Wahkiakum county gets
the smallest amount or $534.00 and
Whitman county's share of the
school money is SS,617.0S.
A Capable Official.
The sudden death of H. A. Fair
child, of the public service commits
sion at his home in Olympia, on Oct.
s has cost the state one of its bright
est men, and one who has caused the
Washington commission to be placed
at the head of all other commissions
In the United States. He was one of
the hardest workers l ever knew,
says j. c. Lawrence, of the pubic
service commission who was assocl-
ated with him on the commission
since it's organization. He also says
that he never knew a man with
greater capacity for solving difficult
problems or q man whose honesty