The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-12-08
BETTER SHOWING
SECOND YEAR
SHERIFF'S OFFICE COLLECTS MORE
FEESIN 1910 THAN In Pre-.
VIOUS YEAR.

Olympia, Dec. Considerable de-
creases are shown in 1910 in the ep-
pense of maintaining the office of
sheriff in some of the counties of the
state over the expense in 1909. as ap-
pears by statistics which have been
gathered by the state bureau of in
spection in checking up the offices of
the various county officers, as i'll &c
of the counties of the state the sher-
IFS have cut down the percentage of
fees expended for maintaining their
offices and in some of the counties
the cut is remarkably great. The
greatest reduction in the cost of run
ming the office of sheriff is in King
county where in 1909 it cost $4,000
while in 1910 this was reduced to
$4,000, while in Kitsap county the
greatest reduction was made in the
percentage of fees expended, as in
1909 1,039.8l per cent of the fees
were necessary to run the office but
in 1910 this was reduced to 467.44
per cent. In Whatcom, Chehalis,
Walla Walla, Clarke, Stevens, Lincoln,
Okanogan, Adams, Jefferson, Asotin
and Wahkiakum counties the per-
centages of fees expended were great
er in 1910 than in 1909. Whitman
county is one of the 26 in which a
better showing was made, as in 1909
the fees and mileage collected was
$1,425.30, while the cost of running
the office was $S,44s.8S making the
percentage of fees expended 1921,
while in 1910 the fees and mileage
collected amounted to $1,476.8O
1o Of 0f
flee was s9,704.17, making the per-
centage $3.50.
Country Life" Helps.
Gov. NJ. E. Hay entertained as his
guests Gov. Hawley and wife of Ida
ho, while in Spokane the latter part
OF November attending the meeting
of the Country Life Commission in
that city. Gov Hay has interested
himself greatly in the work of the
commission and has been a leading
member of the organization, devoting
much time and attention to the work
as he is anxious to have the rural
schools and roads of the state i'm
proved so as to tighten the cost of
transportation of the produce of the
farmer to the markets, which he
thinks will be a benefit to the entire
state The commission has done
much for the farmer and ranger dur
ing the past two years, and the rural
districts are in better condition as
a r,ault of the work of the commits
sioL5
Death Bed Evidence.
For shooting a Seattle policeman
Axel Mist was convicted of second
degree murder, but the supreme
court has granted him new trial
and has laid down the rule that the
death bed statement of dying man
cannot be used as evidence against a
third party. Mist and his partner had
a fight with the police; there was
shooting on both sides and in which
the partner of Mist, John Ford, was
mortally wounded and a patrolman
was killed. Ford upon his death bed
made a statement which incriminated
Mist, but this should not have been
used as evidence on the trial against
him holds the supreme court.
State Controls Street Railways.
Stephen V. Carey, assistant attor-
ney general in an opinion recently
given to the public service commits
have concurrent jurisdiction over
street railways that the jurisdiction
of the state is paramount, in case OF
a conflict, which means that altho
city may regulate street railways, the
state has authority to control.
School Lands in Question.
A case which will probably be car
ried up to the United States supreme
court is now pending before the su-
preme court. This is the case of the
state against Edward r Whitney, in
. which the state wants TO get title to
some land which Whitney has settled
upon and on which he has patent,
but which the state claims is school
land and that therefore the govern
ment had no right 10 pass title to
any one other than TO the state.
victory in this case means that the
state may recover 100000 or more
acres of school land which was once
granted TO the state but which the
government has since given to private
individuals.
State Treasurer as Policeman.
John c. Lewis, state treasurer, was
one of the 500 special policemen who
were sworn in to assist in enforcing
the law when the l. w. w. adherents
threatened to make trouble in Aber-
deem. on Nov. 25 and &c. He says,
that the special police patroled the
streets all night and all day and sent
all agitators out of town who tried 10
make any trouble.
Whitman Inheritance Tax.
ed an inheritance tax of S157.95
from the estate Of Emma Boardman
of Whitman county. The estate was
valued at $7.323.