The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1920-01-17
COURTHOUSE AND
COUNTY NEWS
Items of General Interest
to the Residents of
Stevens County

Laura IL. GllDerC, mary l.. DuCcnef
and William W. Keen have brought
suit in the superior court against
the city of Chewelah, municipal
corporation and SO others, including
the First National Bank of Chewelah,
the Bank of Chewelah, and Colville
Loan G. Trust Co., Union High
School district No. 2, to enforce the
payment of municipal improvement
bond issue of 800.
The Colville Loan & Trust Co. has
brought suit against Minnie M. Hall
Brownlow, w. H. Brownlow, Pacific
Fir Co., C. E. Ross, E. NJ Lee, Lee
Potter, E. D. Bunker, John Ruthven,
]. d. Bone and others to recover on
note executed May II, 1913, for the
sum of $500 on which has been
paid, according to the allegations of
the complaint filed in the superior
court, the sum of $1713.
In the case of G. A. Ramser as
guardian of the person and estate
Of f. T. Ramser, an insane person,
VS.. C. w. Connell, involving the ques-
ton of sale of the Bossburg ferry,
an order of dismissal of the cause
has been filed.
julie Lyons has brought suit in the
superior court against Gilbert Rich
ardson to have the terms of con-
tract reversed and for judgment
against the defendant. Plaintiff al
leges by his complaint filed with >the
clerk of the superior court that on
the 18th day of October, 1918, by a
written agreement, he arranged to
purchase Studebaker automobile
for which he was to pay the sum of
1925 cash, deliver tons of hay at
$50 per ton, and to slash Is acres of
land at Sc per acre, and to stump
221a acres of land, and when all the
conditions of the agreement should
have been performed the defendant
was to release a $495 chattel mort
gage against property of the plain
tiff. AS one of the grounds for the
suit plaintiff alleges that he did not
receive a Studebaker car, but that
the car which he did receive was an
E. NJ. & F.
w. B. Rettenger and his wife,
Ethel r. Rettenger have sued the j.
ID W. ~
ton, to quiet title to lands in sections
-, ID, and 90, township SO north of
range 81, f. w. NJ In their COM
plant they allege that on October 16,
1918, the Watkins Co., secured a
judgment in the superior court of
Ferry county against W. B. Retten-
ger in the sum of $988.24 and that
by reason of the record of the same
a cloud has been cast over the title
of the plaintiffs lands. 1t is claim
ed that the judgment in Ferry
county is an individual judgment
and is not lien against the com
munity of the plaintiffs.
r. NJ. Mckay, merchant of Daisy,
was a Colville visitor Monday.
A marriage license was issued this
week to Asher B. Hansen and Elsie
M. Monette, both residents of Hun
ters.
By a stipulation filed in the SUI
perior court in the case of Drainage
District No. 8, of Stevens county,
VS.. Thomas l.. Armstrong, ct al,
Tan action for collection of drainage
taxi the assessment for benefits on
Sk of SWA of section 10, township
80, range 40, E. w. M, which is
owned by the Benedictine Convent
of Perpetual Alteration, was cancel
ed on payment of the sum of $322.4O
and upon VIZ of SWA of section 2,
township 81, range 90, E. w. NJ,
which is owned by Joseph Open
heimer, a like cancellation was effect
ed on the payment of the sum of
S1475.1O. S. Carmichael, William
Boyd and John Collins are the COM
missioners of District 8, which en-
braces the Colville valley region adj
jacent to Chewelah. 1t is said other
land owners will follow by paying
the entire assessment at once, as a
matter of economy and to remove
the lien from their lands which are
rapidly increasing in value.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued this week by county
auditor w. C. Spedden:- Ben Screiber
and Vera Masterson, Colville; E. d.
Folansby of Kettle Falls and Flossie
f. Bussert, Rice; Matt Domitrovich
and Lillian Gilman, Northport;
George Enoch and Emma Oyacken,
Wellpinit.
: The board of county commission
ers at their January session appoint
ed the following registry clerks for
eight precincts of the county, as fol-
lows: Colville, j. H. King; Boss
burg, Charles Crockett; Deepcreek,
Nels OuaIev. Iakecreek. Mrs, A. B,