The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-01-05
OR. &N. OBJECTS
TO $1,000 fine
STATION NOT BUILT AS ORDERED
STATE CAPITAL NEWS TOLD
In PARAGRAPH.

Olympia, Jan appeal of the 0.
K. & N. from the $1,000 fine for not
obeying the rail road commission or
der to build a station at Hay. was
argued to the state supreme court re-
Gently.
Effective at once, the Northern Pa
clhc has placed on sale 1000 mile
books interchangeable with other
roads and good in Oregon and Idaho
as well as this state. Formerly inter-
changeabie mileage was limited to
one state.
State primary election next year
Will cost at least 100000 according
to Fred Leghorn of the state bureau
OF inspection. Mr.. Leghorn has Just
compiled figures from the annual re-
ports of the several counties of the
state. They show that the primary
and general election last year cost
S157, ,9O1. With precincts nearly
doubled as result of the granting
of the franchise to women he esti-
mated the next general election and
primaries will together cost the tax
payers about 100000
The Industrial insurance commits
sion is working out details on ap-
proximately 100 cases to test out diff
ferent phases of the new law. These
will be brought by the attorney gem
eral. he first of them are expected
to reach the courts in the near fu-
ture.
District Horticultural Inspector C.
l.. Whitney of Walla Walla has
brought action through the attorney
generals office against Columbia
county to collect $205 for spraying
locust and elm trees surrounding the
court house of that county.
Pend Oreille county's set of tran
scribed records were accepted by the
commissioners this week, the records
being delivered by Henry r. Spedden,
president of the Title Guaranty and
Investment company of ColvilIe,
which had the contract to prepare
them. They cost $50.
Nearly all of the November auction
sales of state lands have been ap-
proved by the state land board. The
sale of Blake Island, Kitsap county,
failed of approval. The land will be
plated probably into five acre tracts
before being again placed ON the
market
Trial court cannot forfeit bail for
the absence of defendant from the
court room when the jury return it's
verdict of acquittal was the decision
of the state supreme court this week
reversing Superior Judge Main of
King county.
ENinIH Of ha - t.
trial insurance commission were
summoned to Olympia for a confer
ence and met here with the commits
sioners last week.
By an opinion rendered in the at
torney generals office the full
crew. law does not apply to work
trains.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
agree upon successor to Elmer z.
Todd, of Seattle, as United States dis
trict attorney, Senators Jones and
Poindexter have submitted to Presi-
dent Taft the names of their respec-
tive candidates, B. w. Coiner Of Ia
coma, and Herman Craven of Seattle.
j. T. S. Lyle, assistant attorney
general, holds in an opinion given to
l. M. Howell, secretary of state, that
when a corporation is eliminated
from the rolls and dissolved, it can
not be reinstated until a reincorpora-
tion is effected When the legislature
passed the law in 1909 striking the
names of over 5000 corporations,
additional time was allowed but as
this time has now expired the law
will be effective.
For the week ending December 81,
which also closes the year 1911, the
balance on hand in the state treas
ury is $1,129,478, according to the
weekly report of State Treasurer
John g. Lewis. The receipts for the
week were $75,122 while the war
rants total $126,19O. The overdraft
in the general and military funds
have risen to $386,256 and $7,626,
The accident fund now
has climbed to s238,752.
According to the report OF j. H.
Schively, state insurance commission
er, the receipts of the insurance de-
partment for the year 1911 amount
ed to S302,076.75, showing a net in
crease of S17,596.78 over the re-
ceipts for the preceding year, when
the receipts were $284,479.97. When
the amount necessary for the conduct
of the department is deducted, there
will be a remainder of $286,O00 ac-
cording to Commissioner Schively.