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THE-COL FAX GAZETTE
THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR.
NEW LODGE HALL
BUILT AT ALBION
ENTERPRISING SPIRIT AND LOVE
OF HOME MAKES THE TOWN
AN IDEAL PLACE.
"Albion is a school, church and i
lodge town. \S'e are particularly
proud of the fact that it it a good
place to raise our children —a good ;
dean town," said one of the leading
business men to a Gazette represen
tative a few days ago. You can
judge something of its Importance as
a business point from the fact that;
the Albion State bank handled more!
than a million dollars worth of busi
ness in the last year."
Walking up from the 0.-W. R. &
N. depot the visitor to the town for
the first time is favorably impressed !
with the excellent sidewalks. Few |
towns of its size anywhere can boast j
of anything as good. From the depot j
to the post office and on many of the i
wide streets are six-foot plank walks ;
—more than a mile of them in all.
The tirst marked step of progress ;
after the incorporation of the town \
a. year ago last February was the j
construction of the sidewalks. The i
second year saw the completion of'
the town hall, a building 24x34 feet, i
It is a one-fitory frame building suit
ed for general town purposes and ;
provided with a jail Town improve- |
menis are going on under the admin-I
istration of .Mayor O. D. Crawford;
Councilmen O. \V. Gates, E. P. Deer-'
ing, J. H. Stover, T. M. Farnsworth ,
and Win Willoughby; Clerk J. G. I
McCune and Treasurer A. R. MeClas- ;
key.
Like most other western towns
with Inadequate water supply, the j
fire demon has collected Li? toll at
aiff* rent times. The last row of un-|
sightly shacks, has disappeared, wip-;
ed out by the flames a year ago. |
Now every business enterprise of the \
little city is housed in comfortable i
quarters and well scattered to reduce!
the fire risk to the minimum.
Edwards College, under the au
spires of the I'nited Brethern church,
gay* instruction to t>o Btudents last ;
year. The college is an old institu-)
tion which has had its upe and downs ;
tmt since its reorganization two or!
three years ago has beer, steadily .
growing. There are four teachers in i
the college with Professor VV. H. j
Davis at The head. Instruction is
given in a classical college course I
and a course preparatory for the mm- \
istry. Students are registered from
all the northwestern states.
The support of the towr. comes
from <he large farming community
triubtary to it. Wheat ate oats are
the principal crops but as one man i
said, "we are getting enthused over;
diversified farming." One man has j
35 acres of potatoes, another 23 acres j
and another 12. Last year about 30 \
car loads of spuds were shipped out. j
The grain shipments were over 20u
car toads while 150 more oar loads I
were billed from Albion but were
loaded at Armstrong and Shawnee, j
the two nearest sidings.
Three warehouse companies han
dle the grain business. F. B. Peter
son is local agent for the Interior
Warehouse company. O. D. Craw
ford is agent for (he Pacific Coast
Elevator company and is also in I
charge of the warehouses at Shaw
nee and Armstrong. George Howell
is agent tor the Guy Farmers Alii- \
Alice Warehouse company, a com
pany formed by the farmers of that
vicinity many years ago and which is
an important factor in the grain bus
iness. All around Albion wheat is
yielding 4<j and 45 bushels.
Rev. A. J. Ware came from Oregon
to tak»- < harge of the United Breth
ren church. The society has a neat
little church building, built of con
crete blocks, that is a credit to the
town. It was dedicated last fall.
Rev. T ('. .Mountain is pastor of the
Methodist church. The Christian
church is being supplied by Rev. J.
H. McWhirter, a traveling evange
list, who will remain until September
when he will resume his regular
work.
For a town of only a few hundred
inhabitants an unusual interest is
taken in fraternal organizations. The
different lodges represented are the |
Masons. Eastern Star, Knights of Py
thias, Pythian Sisters. Modern Wood
men, Patrons of Husbandry and
Farmers Union. There are many Odd
Fellows in the town and vicinity and
it is probable that a lodge will be in
stituted in the near future.
Not long ago a stock company was
formed for the purpose of building a
lodge hall. Every stockholder in the
company is a member of Reynolds
Lodge No. 114, F. & A. M. and the
building, which is now complete, is
known as Masonic Hall. The build
ing committee consisted of J. C. Farr,
A. R. McClaskey, J. D. Carnegie, Ed.
Kelso and C. E. Hoag. The building,
which is a result of their labors, is
something of which every Mason and
enterprising citizen of the community
may well be proud. It is 28x60 feet
and two stories high. The lodge
rooms are on the second floor and the
first floor has been finished for a hall
which is for rent for any legitimate
purpose. The lodge room is finished
in Oregon fir and is being furnished
in the same kind of wood. The fur
niture is being made by members of
the lodge. One man makes the pieces,
another stains them and a third puts
on the varnish. The Masonic lodge
has 40 active members who are plan
ning to give a housewarming after
COLFAX GAZETTE, COLFAX, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 11, 1911.
harvest. Albion lodges are noted for
their hospitality and the housewarm
ing will be a banner event. C. E.
Hoag is master of the lodge and J.
C. Farr is secretary.
Albion is well equipped with busi
ness house;- The Albion State bank
has a capitalization of $25,000 and a
surplus of $1667.13. It was opened
July 9, 1906, as a strictly local in
stitution. Most of the stockholders
are farmers and the directors are all
local men. W. A. Standard is presi
dent; G. W. Gates, vice president; A.
R. McClaskey, cashier and I. W.
Jones, assistant cashier. Much of
the success of the institution is at
tributed to the interest of the stock
holders, monthly meetings of the di
rectors and careful oversight of the
business. In connection with bank
ing a real estate, insurance and farm
loan business is carried on.
T. M. Farnworth is the postmaster
and proprietor of a well stocked gro
cery and stationery store.
The Peoples store is ably handled
by C. E. Hoag. He has a large stock
of general merchandise and is ever
alert to provide for the needs of his
patrons.
A blacksmith shop especialy well
equipped for all kinds of business is
operated by £.. A. Stover. He has the
farm trade for a large territory.
• Continued on page 5.)
YOUTH KILLS SELF FOR
NO APPARENT REASON
Bought the Cheapest <iun That Was
Sure to Kill.
With plenty of money in his pock
et and no apparent reason for such a
crime Thomas B. Winnington, aged
23 years, placed a 38 caliber revolver
to his head and sent a bullet crashing
through his brain Monday afternoon
in his room at the Olympia lodging
house. A carefully written note said,
"Please notify my father, his name
and address is Thos. Winnington,
Hayden Lake, Ida., care of Corbin
ranch. P. S.—Give him what you
find in the room. It is all I have."
The shot was heard through the
house but the room was not located
until the smoke was seen coming
through the transom over the door.
Winnington had gone to his room,
fastened the door with the night lock,
stood before the mirror, placed a re
volver to his head above and slightly
in front of the right ear and pulled
the trigger. The bullet passed
straight through his head and came
out at the identical pont on the left
side of the head, struck the wall and
bounded to the floor where it was
picked up after the police had helped
a man through the transom to un
lock the door.
In the dead man's pocket was
$78.6 c besides a certificate of deposit
♦or $150 from the Exchange National
Hank of Spokane. He registered at
the Olympia Saturday about noon
and took one of the cheapest rooms.
He lay in his room most of the after
noon but from then until he took his
life he had been in and out in a very
ordinary manner and no one sus
picioned thi.t anything was wrong
with him. Work in the harvest fields
was what he was seeking and only a
few minutes before he committed
the deed he had told an acquaintance
on the street ro keep an eye open for
a job for him. Even then his pocket
contained the re\olver purchased a
half hour before for his own destruc
tion.
In the middle of the afternoon a
stranger appeared at Dreifus & com
pany's store and priced several re
volvers. A 32-caliber gun- was the
cheapest in the show case. He looked
at that but laid it aside with the re
mark, "That would not shoot very
hard, would it?" A 38-caliber Colts
looked good to him but he said $16
was too much. He finally decided on
a 38 Hopkins ft Allen for $9. In
paying for it he threw down $20 in
gold. Mr. \ <;n Sohnen, of whom he
made the purchase, said he would
have to go to the safe for change and
Winnington said, "All right. I am in
no hurry." His manner was perfectly
natural and Mr. Yon Sohnen did not
have the least suspicion that any
thing was wrong as he wrapped the
gun and cartridges in a package for
the purchaser to carry away. Jn a
half hour Winnington was dead.
The father was notified as request
ed in the no fp and a brother, J. R.
Winnington. came down from Hayden
Lake Tuesday to take charge of the
body. The dead man is survived by
a father and mother besides several
brothers and sisters. The brother
who came to take charge of the body
said he knew of no reason in the
world for the act. The body was tak
en to Coeur d' Alene for burial.
UNKNOWN MAN DEAD.
Relatives of George Hobbie in Last
Cannot be Located.
The body of a man who gave his j
name as George Hobbie lies at the j
Bruning undertaking parlors for
identification. Hobbie was taken to }
the hospital from near Pullman suf- l
fering with typhoid fever and died ;
mesday. He had been working in!
the harvest fields. He was well i
dressed and intelligent in appearance
and it is believed that he had abili
tes above those of a common laborer, j
It was supposed that he had relatives
in Nebraska but they could not be lo
cated.
Planning Inland Depot.
Superintendent Lillie and two or
three other Inland officials were in
town for several hours Sunday going
over the ground for the new depot.
They had blue prints of the proposed
station and were trying to find the
best location for the building.
METHODIST PEOPLE
RAISE $3,500.00
CHURCH PROPERTY VALUED AT
520,000 IS FREE FROM
ALL DEBT.
Four months of strenuous work '
on the part of the pastor and some of j
the leading members of the Metho
dist church have resulted in the com—
pletion of a fine brick church valued
at $20,000. At the service Sunday;
morning, $3,500 was raised which
cleared up the entire debt on the'
building. The only outstanding debt
at the present time is for the new '
organ and that is provided for. Rev. '
U. F. Hawk, of Coeur d' Alene, took j
charge of the financial part Sunday I
morning and raised the deficiency in I
a few minutes. There were twelve
pledges of $100 each, 20 of $50 each
and a dozen of $25.
Fully TOO people heard the dedica
tion sermon preached by Bishop
Charles Smith of Portland. The
church was packed at all of the three
services held Sunday and the attend
ance at the evening services during!
the week has been large.
Among the former pastors who I
spoke at the Sunday afternoon meet-1
ing was Rev. W. S. Turner, under!
whom the first Methodist church was j
built. Mr. Turner came here in 1879 j
and erected the church the following
year. When he came to this country j
from California, Colfax was the larg- j
est town in the territory north of the |
Snake river. The town had a popu
lation of less than 2.",0 and Spokane
Falls could boast of only 150 people.
Ever since coming to this country he
has been a member of the Columbia
river conference and is now retired
from active work and living in Spo
kane. He is 85 years of age. In
1852 Mr. Turner graduated from De
pauw Unversity in Indiana, was mar
ried the following day and started for |
California. For 27 years he made j
his home in tnat state being engaged \
actively in the ministry all the time!
with the exception of ten years in
educational fields. Since coming
here 32 years ago he has held the of-
Bee of {.'residing elder for two terms
and has had many pastorates of im
portance. But few people are left of
his acquaintances when he first came '
to Colfax. These he has enjoyed
meeting again during his stay in tne !
city this week.
In his talk at the dedicatory ser
vices Mr. Turner spoke from the text, I
"The glory of this house shall be
greater than the former." He said I
in part:
"The prophet approves of the Di-j
vine plan to improve on thg past, in
temple building, both in enlarge
ment, cost, and architectural excel
lence. Soloman's Temple here refer
red to, excelled in grandeur and cost
all the world had ever witnessed.
Nothing is too good for God's house.
So with this house; it greatly excells
your first in all its appointments and
cost, as I am able to testify.
"It is important to remember, that
this House as it was with that of
Soloman's, is set apart exclusively!
for Divine worship and purely relig-!
ious purposes. I fear that the place
of religious worship, the high place
and due proportion of time it de
serves in most Christian churches, is
not always well-timed. Prayer is the
highest order of worship. "My house
shall be called the House of Prayer."
Mental and vocal prayer led by the
minister or some leader. Congrega
tion joining as in "The Lord's Pray
er." The midweek prayer service is
invaluable to any church —a place to
cultivate the gift of audible prayer.
The prayer meeting has been well
named the pulse of the church, and is
lamentably neglected by the rank and
file, nay rather by the officiary of the
churches. Prayer is the Christian's
vital breath and native air.
"The service of song is an import
ant part of Divine worship—l mean
sacred song. It is elevating and sanc
tifying and is a great aid to spiritu
ality. It stands next to the pulpit in
importance.
"There are two sacraments con
nected with Divine worship, that to
my mind, stand at the very summit
of true worship, in excellence and
spiritual tenderness. These are the
ordinaces of Christian baptism and
the Lord's Supper. If I were asked
to name what stands next to these in
importance and sacredness, I would
name the Marriage relation. It is
ordained of God in the time of man's
innoeency in Eden, and is not to be
entered into irrevently or indiscreet
ly. I hold it to be a religious sacra
ment and the most appropriate place
for its solemnization is in the House
of God or the home and by a minis
ter or Jesus Christ. It is a mockery
or travesty to take it out of its high
moral and religious plane where God
placed it in Eden. No w ronder it is
treated so lightly and flippantly, and
sundered so easily and often, to the
disgrace of Christendom.
"But lastly the ideal House of God
is, that it is to be preeminently the ;
birth place of souls. Where the pre- :
vious conditions mentioned are j
wholesome, normal, and active, men j
"dead in the trespasses and sins" will
be born into the Kingdom of God and
his Dear Son. Of Zion of old it was i
said, that "this and that man was j
born in her." So may it be said of
this new church that hundreds were
born here unto a better and purer
life is the prayer and expectations of
your humble servant and well wisher.
W. S. TURNER.
SOUTH END TO BE
PAVED THIS FALL
PROPERTY OWNERS TO CHOOSE
KIND OF PAVING-ORDER
SIDEWALKS LAID.
Another improvement district lg
to be formed and the south end of
Colfax is to be paved this fall. This
was decided at a meeting of the coun
cil Monday night when a resolution
calling for the paving was passed.
The choice of paving is left to the
property owners. Monday evening,
Aug. 28, is the date set for hearing
objections and it is probable that the
kind of paving will be decided at that
time.
The proposed district covers near
ly all of the residence section of the
city south of Cooper lake including
Main street from the Cooper lake
bridge to lot 11 in block 56, Mill
street from Wawawai street to the
south city limits, East street from
James street to the city limits, Lake
street from Cooper street to the city
limits, Thorn street, Main street and
the west line of block 39, Wawawai
street between Mill and Lake streets,
.lames street between East street and
Lake street except that part between
Main and Mill streets, Fairview street
between East street and the east line
of Meadow street on the south side
of Fairview street except 140 feet
between Main and Mill streets and
South street between Mill and East
streets.
The width of the roadway to be
paved is to be 21 feet on all the
streets with the exception of parts
of Main which are to be 56 and 27
feet and Wawawai street between
Main and Mill which is to be 27 '• I
It is estimated by the city engineer
that the cost of the proposed im
provement will be $67,439.67. Prop
erty owners will pay for the paving
in ten equal annual installments.
Other business taken up by the
council at th^ meeting Monday even-
Ing included insTrnc-Tions to the city
clerk to advertise for bids for the
construction of cement Walks in front
of Myrick and city park properties
on Lake street and on Main street
between the Reid buildine and the
Island street bridge. Bids for the
construction of these walks will be
onened at the next meeting of the
city council and the contracts will be
let immediate}-- following.
The city has aleo decided to put in
an additional two-foot drain pipe
from the Methodist church on Can
yon street to the river to carry off
surplus water.
Contractor .Tanney. who is building
the Codd bridge on Main street sug
gested to the council that the water
main at the bridge should be lower
ed. The matter was left in the hands
of the water committee with power
to act.
On motion the street superintend
ent was instructed to notify William
Codd to put in a cement walk in front
of hip residence property on North
Main street.
All applications for picture show
licenses must hereafter be referred
to the council by the clerk before
such licenses arp granted.
Bills to the amount of ?e.°,<<.7o
were allowed and ordered paid.
CONTROVERSY OVER WIDTH.
Dr. Tifft Learns What Other Cities
Have in Residence Districts.
Considerable agitation has risen
over the proper width of paving in
the residence districts of cities and in
order to inform himself Councilman
J. F. Tifft has written to Mayor
James R. Hanna, superintendent of
the department of public affairs in
Dcs Moines. In reply Mayor Hanna
has sent the following information:
Dcs Moines has nearly 600 miles of
streets. Of these about one-seventh
are now paved. Our big street ques
tion is how vre can get more streets
paved without a prohibitive expense.
I have long felt that we must adopt
the policy of making narrow pavings
and wide parkings. Some people
have feared that this would not be
satisfactory, but upon wide inquiry
among various American cities I find
that there is a very strong feeling
that we are wasting money in wide
pavings. There is no practical rea
son why pavings from IS to 22 or 24
feet in width in purely residental dis
tricts will not serve all of the pur
poses of the pavings 30 and 40 feet
wide. We can then have parkings
of double the present width filled
with trees, green grass and flowers.
It will really be much more beauti
ful and more healthful also since we
will not have the broad expanse of
brick or other paving for the heat oi
the sun to glare down onto or for
the w rind to blow dust and rubbish
up and down.
For our purely residental streets
we should adopt the narrow width.
I have made careful inquiries from
the engineering and street depart
ments of many American cities and
have careful responses from sixteen
of them. Almost awithout exception
they recommend for the purely resi
dence streets wide parkings with
paving of from 18 to 22% feet.
"It has been our experience that a
24 foot street is ample to sustain the
traffic."—Seattle.
"1 think the theory is correct."—
< 'olorado Springs.
A number of our streets are
paved to the width of 22 feet and a
lew l'm feet. Our country roads are
being paved 12 to 16 feet. We have
approximately 50 miles of these
roads." —Omaha.
"1 believe the position you have
taken is perfectly right and proper.
If 1 had my way about it 1 should
adopt the 20 foot width in residental
districts where there are no Btreet
car tracks."—Springfield, Mass.
"This city has pursued the policy
of paving or macadamizing strips 18
to 27 feet wide in The middle of the
streets of our residental districts."
Duluth, Minn.
The tendency in recent years has
been to narrow the paving and widen
the grass pla< "s or boulevards. We
have no streets <juite as narrow as
you mention but it Is Quite possible
that IS or 20 feet would be suffic
ient."— Spokane, Wash.
"We have followed out the plan
that you outlined in the residence
districts and have narrowed up to a
width of 2 6 feet where there are no
<ar tracks. We have a combined
curb and gutter which leaves 22 feet
of paving."—Oklahoma City.
JAMES R. HANNA.
Mayor.
FIRST LOAD OF WHEAT
DELIVERED IN COLFAX
Scarcity of Teams and Low Market
Holds Back Grata.
Teams to haul grain to the ware
houses are in demand. Owing to the
scarcity of horses very little wheat
has been delivered up to the present
time.
Winter wheat in the vicinity of
Colfax is practically all in the shock
and a good start is being made on
the spring grain. Threshing is in
full blast.
C. L. Miller has the distinction or
bringing the first load of new wheat
to town last Saturday. It was stored
in the Colfax Milling company ware
house. Thomas Sanders delivered a
load of No. 1 forty-fold to the Farm
ers warehouse at Mockonema a few
days earlier.
Last week Elmer Gentry put a new
Minneapolis thresher with double
cylinder gasoline engine, 20-40 horse
power to work. From a field of 70
acres of Dab's Glory wheat he
threshed 1575 sacks.
Frank Crampton made a record run
last week when he secured Mr 3 bush
els oi six row barley with a 16-foot
Haines and Hauser combine in a
day s run.
Jones Brothers of Alkali Flat fin
ished their fall wheat Tuesday. They
had 150 acres of which 4 5 was .no.
143 hybrid and the balance was tur
key red. It averaged 45 bushels to
the acre. Their Bluest.em gives
promise of yielding 25 bushels.
Winter wheat in the vicinity of
Colfax has been running all the way
from 35 to 45 bushels to the acre.
The market Thursday afternoon
was as follows: Red Russian, 63;
Fife, Club and Turkey Red, 65; For
ty-fold, 66 and Bluestem, 69.
DELEGATE TO ATLANTIC CITY.
Funeral Director Bruiting Wins High
Honor and Trip East.
L. L. Bruning was elected president
of the Washington State Board of
Kmbalmer Examiners at a meeting
Oi the board held in Seattle last Fri
day and will represent this state be
fore the conference of Embalming
Boards of North America at Atlantic
City, N. J., in* Sept. Mr. Bruning
also attended the Washington State
Funeral Directors Association and
was elected delegate to the National
Convention which also convenes at
Atlantic City following the confer
ence.
The Funeral directors convention
met on board the ship l.'matilla.
making a four-days' trip on the
sound.
The Atlantic City convention will
be held during the latter part of next
month and Mr. Bruning will also im
prove the opportunity to visit his
former home in Nebraska.
BOVD HAMILTON* I\Jl "RED.
Hit in Bye With Rock While. Driving
Automobile.
Small boys are responsible for an
injury to Boyd Hamilton which may
result in the loss of sight in one of
his eyes. Wednesday night Mr. Ham
ilton and wife were out in an auto
mobile when some reckless boys
threw rocks at them and hit Mr.
Hamilton in the eye. Earl Browne,
a brother-in-law, took the injured
man to Spokane for treatment. He
was put to bed at the Pennington ho
tel and will be compelled to remain
there for several days. It is not yet
known whethre the sight is destroyed
or not. The accident occurred at
Coeur d' Alene.
Automobile Burns.
While coming into town Monday
afternoon Charles Laßue passed the
charred remains of a new Reo car
about eight miles north of this city.
The machine was completely destroy
ed and had been abandoned by the
driver. It was owned by Spokane
parties.
Vill Funeral Thursday.
Charles Vill was brought to the
hospital from Tekoa last week and
died Saturday. Relatives in Cleve
land, Ohio, were notified and friends
in Spokane took charge of the body.
Burial was in the Colfax cemetery at
2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SHERIFF OETS
MANY GOOD FEES
COLLECTS MORE THAN $1,400 TO
WARDS RUNNING EXPENSES
OF KIS OFFICE.
Olympia, A ig. 9 Throughout the
state of Washington there is not one
sheriffs office where the expenses
did not exceed 'he receipts, as is
shown by figures in the \ari<»us coun
ties by the state bureau of public in
spection. This Indicate! that the of
fice of sheriff is Dot a paying one, and
this is due to the fad that many of
the duties of 'he sheriff are perform
ed without any direct compensation.
In Whitman county the receipts of
the sheriffs office in 1910 amounted
to $1,476.80 and the expenses of the
office were $9,704.17. In the entire
state the re<>Mpts of ah the sheriffs
offices amounted to a total of $55.
--911.01', while th*" expenses of the of
fices ran up to $138,737.50. In King
county the receipts were the biggest,
amounting to $16,546.10 while the
disbursements of the office were
$42,181.07, while in Wahkiakum
county the receipts were $88.35 and
me expenses $1000.69.
Colfax Save*; on Freight.
The rates on the Spokane Falls and
Northern branch of the Great North
ern system will be cut an average of
25 per cent and in nome instances as
much as fifty per cent by an order
just entered by the public service
commission, which directs the Great
Northern to consider the Spokane
i alls and Northern branch running
north from Spokane to the Okanogan
country through Stfnens and Ferry
counties, as a. part of the Great
Northern system. It was found by
the commission that not only were
the rates higher on this branch than
in any other par' of the system but
thai there was trouble when ship
ments originated outside ot Spokane.
When a shipment is made the rail
road company figures in addition .o
th< distance haul".l, two terminal
■ harges had to be pu.«l, that is a ship
ment originating at OoHax in Whit
man county and sent to Colville
would pay fouj charges being nraoM
ed Terminal charges at Colfax, at Spo
kane, again a' Spokane and at Col
viile, us thf local rate would be
charged from Spokane out. lint this
condition is changed by the order
which direels that such shipments
are to be treated as one through haul
instead of two local hauls. Now the
Colville and Kettle River valleys will
oe able to shin their produce into
Spokane or to other points and re
ceive rheir shipments on the same
basis as other lines not on the main
line. Shipments passing througn
HriMsh Columbia on this line, how
ever, are not affected by this order,
96 irja i is interstate business, but an
effort is being made by the commis
sion to have the same privileges ac
corded to shipments passing through
British Columbia as are accorded to
shipments in th<- state. It is probable
that the railroad will appeal to the
courts from this order as it means a
big reduction of th*-ir revenues.
Would Separate tiiils anil Hoys.
If the state will provide the main
tenance and pay the matrons and
teachers, some i itizena of Seattle
have offered to donate a site and
buildings on Mercei island for tue
establishment of an institution for
the care of the incorrigible girls of
the state who ar" now being cared
for at the srate training school at.
i hehalis, and :L« question as to
ther or not the Mate has a right
to use a part of the maintenance
money appropriated for tho state
training school for the maintenance
of pupils and the paying of teachers
ome other place than Chehalis
has been asked by Governor Hay of
fhe attorney general in a letter writ
ten to him in regard to this matter.
The legislature aai never made any
provision for the segregation of the
sexes at the state training school, ai
though various investigating com
mittees have recommended that this
be dor.c.
(io«,«i Collections.
An average of $1,140 per day, or
a total of $30,799.91 has been col
: lected by the state tax commission
during the month of July. Of this
amount inheHfanrp taxes brought in
$21,036, $9,660 from liquor licenses
and $103.00 from escheats.
Many Architects in Race.
Plans for the erection of the new
■■rate capitol at Olympia have been
submitted by tLirty architects, and
these plans will be reported upon by
the committee of architects who will
consider them and make report on
the best dozen or so and the com
mission will then make the final se
lection. As soon as the plans are
selected the commission will rush
the work through to completion and
bids will be called for within a short
time for the new Temple of Justice,
and another sale of timber lands will
be held from which the money for
the work will be obtained.
New Judge for King.
Although there have been many
applicants, Governor Hay has ap
pointed H. A. P. Meyers, of Seattle,
as the new superior judge of King
county to succeed Judge Prigmore,
who was killed recently while on a
hunting trip in SkagU county. The
new judge is a brother of Senator
Myers of Lincoln county.
