The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-12-15
COUNTY CLERK
COLLECTS S3,307
EXPENSES WERE A SMALL AMOUNT
Higher In 1910 THAN In
PREVIOUS YEAR.

Olympia, Dec. 13.-In Whitman
county the fees collected by the coun-
ty Jerks office in 1910 announced to
$3,307.95 and the cost of conducting
the office amounted to $3,6O7.74,
showing that the office did not pay
expenses and was run at a loss of
S299.79. The percentage of fees ex-
pended for operating the office in
1910 was 1O9.03 per cent while in
1903 the percentage of fees expended
was only 107.30 per cent. Twenty
nine of the counties of the state how
ever made better showing in 1910
than in the previous year and in four
instances where the clerks office was
run at loss in 1909 the reverse was
shown in 1910. In 1909 in Ferry
county the largest percentage of fees
was expended for conducting the
clerks office of any county, or 452.3O
per cent, while in 1910 Wahkiakum
county spent larger percentage of
fees than any other county in the
state. The best showing was made
in 1909 in Adams county where only
$3.50 per cent of the fees were ex-
pended while Chehalis county made
the best record in 1910 as only 4981
per cent was spent. The largest
profit in money was in King county
where in 1910 the fees collected ex-
ceeded the expenses by SIS, 5,62465,
while the smallest profit was in Ben
ton county or $500. Eighteen of
the counties of the state in 1910 ran
their county clerks office at a profit
Felony to Bribe Policeman.
In Seattle case the supreme court
has ruled that the offering of a bribe
to policeman is felony, and that
policeman is public officer.
Cutting Freight Rate.
From the state quarry at Meskill
in Lewis county to Willapa Harbor
the public service commission has
authorized the Northern Pacific rail-
road to cut the rate of crushed rock
from eight to three cents a hundred
in order to promote improvements in
Raymond and South Bend.
MUST sell at Eaf.
That municipal securities cannot be
sold for less than par is the holding
of the attorney general in a letter
written to the commissioner of Spo-
kane, which city wishes to dispose of
a million dollars worth of water eX-
tension warrants at 90. This the at
torney general after the matter was
brought to his attention by the state
bureau of inspection, held could not
be done.
Cannot Set Aside Deed.
Even though there is more than
one million feet of timber on 160
acres of land sold by the state as
agricultural land the deed cannot be
set aside if the cruisers of the state
have failed to discover the discrep-
ancy, is the ruling made by the su-
preme court in the first of the suits
started as result of the investigation
of the land office. This means that
before a deed can be set aside the
state must show fraud and not mis-
takes of cruisers or discrepancies
which they did not discover.
Landscape Gardners at Olympia.
To have charge of the landscape
work for the new capitol, the state
capitol commission has engaged Ohm
stead Bros. of Brookline, Mass, and
they will have the work started i'm
mediately.
Can Have Accident Fund.
In a letter to George Walter, the
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tax commission lays down the rule
that it is not necessary to change the
tax rolls by reason of the fact that an
incorporated town creates an accl-
dent fund by ordinance and instructs
the assessor to make levy after the
tax rolls have been finished.
KIP. Out for Office.
Announcement has just been made
by Clark V. Savidge of Olympia that
he is a candidate on the republican
ticket for the nomination to the Of
fee of state land commissioner. rms
is the office now held by E. w. Ross,
and the department has supervision
over all state lands, the estimated
value of which is about 100000, 900.
Mr.. Savidge has lived in Olympia
since 1888, and was in the postal
service for nineteen years, advancing
from the position of letter carrier to
that Of assistant postmaster. He de-
clined the assistant postmastership,
however, owing to the confining ma
ture of the duties, and took up the
work of the Knights of Pythias
lodge, the office of Grand Instructor
being created for his especial benefit
on account of his success as organizer
while serving as Grand Chancellor.