The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-05-26
NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL
Automobile State Licenses Must Be Paid
Business of Express Company increasing
Important Ruling by Attorney General
Olupopia Nav ID 1911
Olympia, May "a, 1911.

Important Ruling by Attorney General
Olympia, May "a, 1911.
In a letter written to the assessor of
Garfield county the state tax commits
sion holds that if man disposes of per-
sonal property in his possession before
the taxes on it are collected, and ac-
quires real property later, the latter can
be held for the personal property taxes.
In the year ended March 81, 1911,
gross business amounting to $685.
1874 was done by the Northern Express
Company in Washington over the North
ern Pacific railroad, on which it paid a
tax in the sum of $33, 3,459.21, being
the per cent gross privilege tax. In
1910 the company paid $30,204.34.
A. A. Tozer of Everett has been re-
appointed state oil inspector by Gov
ernor Hay, and julius Lyse OF Wilbur
has been appointed to succeed O. w.
Stone of Davenport as a member OF the
board of embalmers examiners. Mr..
Tozer's commission expires June II,
1915, and MI. Lyse's June IL, 1915.
In an opinion gived to the adjutant
general, the attorney general holds il
horses are needed for the use Of the
national guard the quartermaster must
contract for them at cost of not less
than 50 day, but the adjutant general
has no authority to purchase them with
money appropriated for the maintenance
of the guard.
On account OF the continual viola
tions of the law relating to the licensing
OF automobiles and motorcycles, Secre-
tary of State Howell has announced he
will send out men all over the state to
check up these licenses and in the
event the owner of motor vehicle re-
fuses to pay the license as required by
law he will be prosecuted.
The state tax commission has pre-
pared a statement showing that there
are now in force in the state of Wash
ington 1908 state liquor licenses, bring
ing in to the state treasury the sum Of
$57,575. In King county there are
500, or more than one-fourth OF the total
number. In San Juan county there are
but two, and Island county has but one.
In an opinion to the state bureau OF
inspection Assistant Attorney General
Lyle holds that county commissioners
are not authorized to receive compen-
sation under the law for services per-
formed while acting an ex-officio mem
bers of the board and inspecting roads
in their districts. This will eliminate a
custom which has grown up of allowing
each commissioner pay for caring for
the roads in his district.
The attorney generals Office also
holds that where a retail and wholesale
liquor business is conducted by the
same man in the same building that he
must have two state licenses, the same
as is required by the federal government.
H. A. Fairchild, chairman OF the state
railroad commission, has been appointed
by Governor Hay as a member OF the
new public utilities commission. His
appointment takes effect June 9, one
day after the new law is operative. His
present commission expires June 8.
His new appointment holds good until
June 8, 1917.
AS chairman of the state railroad
commission Mr.. Fairchild has made an
excellent record, having been with the
commission since its inception, assist
ing in the preliminary organization and
taking an important part in the famous
wheat rate case which netted the farm
ers of Eastern Washington 100000 a
year as a result OF the commissions
order; handling the interurban rate case
on the electric line between Seattle and