The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-01-24
COURTHOUSE AND
COUNTY NEWS
Items of General Interest
to the Residents of
Stevens County


for Judge John Truax, and from
there will go to Okanogan for
few days before returning to Col
vile Jan. 80.
H. j. Brumble has brought suit
in the superior court against Henry
Brown, Basil Brown, Anthony Sch
neider and the unknown heirs of
Henry Brown, deceased to quiet title
to the south half of the northeast
southeast quarter in 27-32-40. A
similar suit against the same defend
ants has been filed by F. w. Dickey
and wife to quiet title to the north
west quarter of the Sc NE SW and
NV SW in 26-32-40
Arthur B. Mecklenberg has caused
an execution to issue by the clerk
of the superior court on judgment of
mortgage foreclosure entered Dec. 10,
1919, against j. H. Bolan for the
sum of S5265. The lands to be levied
upon are situated in 1896.
Joe Klass, on behalf of himself
and for the estate of his deceased
wife Elizabeth Klass, has brought
suit against Walter D. Hines. direc-
tor general of railways in the nited
States, and the Great Northern lail-
way, to recover the sum Of SABA
damages by reason of fire loss al
legged to have been sustained July s.
According to the complaint which has
been filed in the superior court, the
Of the International placer claim
upon which a part of the old town
of Boundary is located, and through
which the line of the Great Northern
runs. That there was situated upon
the placer claim a two-story IA
room hotel building, garage, ice
house and other buildings which were
OF frame construction. That the
right of way of the Great Northern
at that point was grown up in weeds
and small brush easily ignited by
fire and that when train drawn by
a steam locomotive passed along on
July 8, fire and sparks We're thrown
by the exhaust into the weeds, which
took fire. That the flames spread
to the buildings and destroyed them.
j. F. Hidy has brought suit in the
superior court against Charles b.
Faucet to quiet title to the east
half of the southwest quarter of the
northeast quarter of 7-31-41.
Garfield Raymond Klinger obtain
ed decree of divorce last Saturday
from Eta Maud Klinger. According
to the testimony introduced, they
were married at Colorado Springs
June 10, 1910 They moved upon
homestead. on Onion creek about 3
years ago and about June /, 1917,
Mrs. Klinger left. She wrote let
ter to her husband in May of 1917
saying she had no intention of re-
turning and that she was satisfied
to live where's she was, in Pueblo,
Col
The following marriage licenses
were issued January II: Arthur L.
Mccoy and Blanche Taylor, Chewe-
lah; Harry T. Murphy, Spokane, and
|, Estelle Ogle, Colville; I.crin C.
Faurot and leila Gindet, Colville;
George Varcol and Lola Harrison,
Inchelium.
Jack Montgomery and Enos E.
Alley have been in Colville this week
in the interest of the Colville Valley
Oil Co., which is making preparation
to drill for oil near Chewelah this
spring. Thirty-three Chewelah men
have signed up for 500 each in
stock, and it is believed that num-
Der of men from Colville and the sir-
rounding territory will also assist
in the venture. 1t is stated that
Spokane capital will be available 70
complete the funds necessary for
drilling, Spokane investors only wait
ing to make sure that the residents
of the Colville valley think we'll
enough of the proposition to first
put their own money into it.
G. 7. Rose, government official
hunter, has been travelling over Ste
vens county for the past four months
looking over the rabies situation. He
returned from Douglas mountain
where, he says, he saw fourteen of
the elk which were liberated there
six years ago. He says that Doug
las mountain is an ideal range for
elk, and the specimens he saw were
doing fine. His opinion is that
rabies have been completely elimin-
ated in Stevens county. He is now
trapping for coyotes with good sue
cess.
ID A. Setter of Daisy returned
Monday from a month spent in the
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