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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1911
Page
1
West Coast Lumberman reports Washington state’s new Employers' Liability law is experimental and may need amendments. It notes insurance costs are uncertain, first aid funding concerns, and that employers should pay for their own risks with monthly assessments after a reserve fund is built.
The Herald promotes Old Subscribers Week with a vote bonus program for renewals and new subscriptions. It lists prizes including a $450 piano, $400 in gold, a Columbia Grafonola Regent, and other luxury items, urging readers to renew and recruit supporters to boost contestants.
Olympia reports the recent legislative action allowing delinquent corporations to settle owed taxes. The 1907 removal of defunct names plus 1909 and 1911 amendments extended arrears deadlines with escalating penalties, enabling name retention upon payment regardless of how long in arrears.
Senator Frank J. Allen leads a move to test the constitutionality of the commission law. A petition will seek an election on government by commission, aiming to halt bonds or improvements until a constitutional ruling. A taxpayer may file for an injunction and the case could go to the supreme court.
W J Patterson of Aberdeen, president of the Southwestern Washington Development association, urges executive committees to meet in Centralia at 1 39 p m Thursday after noon March 238 Elks club to discuss cuts in road appropriations and future relations with Puget Sound cities. The executive committee includes Southwestern Washington bankers and N B Coffman is favored as chairman.
Senator Miles Poindexter and wife arrived in Spokane ending a trip to Washington and plan to attend the extra session opening April 4. He voiced confidence no invasion of Mexico will occur and warned against private interests driving military action.
The Albee hotel in South Bend built by the Northern Pacific Railroad at 85 000 will be moved this summer to Collasset beach near Westport to serve as a summer resort. The structure, never occupied, was never finished after the 1893 panic and later sold for a few thousand dollars. Moving costs will be high but backers deem the preservation worth it.
Olympia March 19 Gov Hay signed senate bill No 280 yesterday disqualifying a superior court judge from trying any action where he is prejudiced against any party or attorney The judge must change venue or refer the case forthwith upon an affidavit of prejudice Only one change of judge is allowed The bill was introduced in the senate as a judiciary committee bill at the instance of Senator Bryan of Kitsap county
Governor M. E. Hay signed the forest fire bill after pressure. The measure concerns fire protection for mills and logging companies, drawing disapproval from lumbermen.
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