The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-05-12

opened May 9Th, and which Will close
June 2oth, 90 are from King county,
1o from Spokane county, Is from Pierce
county and II from Thurston County.
No cases from Chelan county are to
come up at this session of the court.
In Chelan county during the month
of March state taxes were collected in
the sum- of, $40, 1881, which have
been remitted to the state treasurer.
OF this amount $40, ,485.39 belongs to
the genera, fund, ,s$731.33 to the mil
itary fund and sS4, ,o20.7o to the state
highway fund.
Two more delegates have been ap-
pointed by the governor to represent
the state at Helena, Montana, May
As at the Northwestern Development
Association Congress. These are A. A.
Piper of.Wenatchee, who was appoint
ed as representative of the CONNER
cial club OF that city, and Fred w.
Graham OF Seattle, immigration agent
for the Northern Pacific.
J. T. S. Lyle, Assistant Attorney
general in an opinion to the state bu-
reau of inspection in which he rules that
when road foreman employs his men
for ten hours day and then makes ont
the payroll for day and quarter, that
he is doing so in violation OF the state
law, and says if this is done except in
cases of emergency it is against public
policy and the contract is void.
Undeveloped water sites in Washing
ton are to be assessed under ruling OF
the state tax commission given to the
assessor OF Klickitat county. The COM
mission says that power sites cannot be
assessed as power sites, but that ii 100
acres OF land with a power site upon it
is worth from four to forty times as
much as the adjoining 100 acres OF
land it is to be assessed at from four TO
forty times as much.
State Labor Commissioner Hubbard
says that the new eight hour law for
women passed at the last legislature,
includes bookkeepers and stenographers
as well as all other women employees
of mercantile and mechanical estab-
lishments, hotels, restaurants and laun-
dries. He declares that the law makes
no exception and that he proposes to
make none, and that bookkeepers and
stenographers are to be protected as
we'll as others performing manual labor.
AS it would be difficult to locate 200
tracts OF 10, 900 acres each of rich farm
ing lands located in fertile valleys which
have not been already settled, and as it
would be hard to find those tracts with
out railroads somewhere in the vicinity,
and as Washington can sell none OF its
public land for less than $40 an acre,
the governors Office has replied TO the
letter OF a Cincinnati, Ohio man who
writes that he would like to lease that
amount of land located in fertile val
leys, and upon which he proposes to
settle 100000 people and eventually
build up 200 towns oinot less than 5000
population, and who wants TO lease the
land first and then pay for it at the rate
of So. 90 an acre, and who prefers that
there be no railroad upon the land, that
il is impossible to accept the offer as
the price the promoter is willing to pay
is too small.
Monday, May l, the state board OF
finance redeemed 100000 worth Of
outstanding bonds against the state
general fund, and for the first time in
the history Of Washington the state is
without a bonded debt. There is still
outstanding S2o6, 900 worth Of bonds
issued in 1909 to care for the old nor
NAL school warrants issued 10 years