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ep-; be taee ich-•A. dies'itiSBliiss lias e to' theThereatWAHKIAKUM COUNTY HAS'? , NO JOYS OK AUTOTNG♦ ♦ ♦ .♦r ..♦ ♦ : ♦Assessment Rolls Show, that NiJt Sin*' gle Machine is Owned Willi in the Comity.OLYMPIA, Sept.' i “Wahkiakumcounty, which formerly boasted one automobile within* its boundaries, now has the distinction of being the only section'of Washington without a go-wagon, according .to the assessor's report to the state board ' of equalization. For years past Wahkiakum county has possessed and reported in its assessments one automobile. *■ Last year, when Chairman C. It. i Jackson was touring the state, checking assessments, the Wahkiakum ' county assessor stated he would in-jVite the state official for a joy ride♦^;ln this venerable vehicle'but for.the ^! fact that it was showing signs of de-jcay and might fait to pieces at anyfrom their fishlug, Freeland declares. • ’ • •President Bishop says . Freeland has never, evidently, read the'treaty agreed upon by the Quiuaiilt, Qiiijl-eutesh and allied tribes, nor the recommendations of Samuel A. Eliot to congress. -Bishop wants to know how the fishing privileges of the Indians can'1,he protected after the land and water privileges have been sold. He asks if Freeland thinks lie could get the Indians to sell away their rights. One of the first questions asked by them would be: “If it takes the government 63 years to settle a claim of $-25,000,000 'claim?” He asked if Freeland did not think the Indians would till the soil and be producers, as are the Tulalip Indians: He cited the recommendations of Dr. Eliot to the department of the interior and to congress of re-allotting by desk or offico, building roads and a bridge over the MoclipsI time, like .the -deacon’s “onc-hoss river, erecting agency buildings, a “'shay.” Now that the assessment school house, additional day schools, sheet shows no automobile whatever. health regulations, no more oil leasing, reimbursable loans to the aged and infirm from timber sales, etc,Mr. Jackson concludes that the inevitable has occurred.Another reduction in material prosperity suffered by Wahkiakum county in the past year is shown in the column of the assessment report devoted - to watched Last • year 14 * citizens of the' county confessed the ^ ownership of • timepieces, but three | terday afternoon. Vzano, who was ^ have parted with their property since; employed by -the Markham ShingleBODY IS RECOVERED ABERDEEN, Sept. 1.—Drowned in the river at Markham yesterday morning, the body of George Vzano, 2'4 years of age, was recovered yes-Uhat time, for new there are only 11 watches in the county.INDIANS WILL FIGHT.HOQUIAM, Sept. 1—Thatthe♦ Northwestern Federation of Araeri-♦ |Can Indians will fight the scheme♦ | of Mose Freeland of this city, now♦ | in the hands of members of congress,.♦ jis indicated by a letter to Freeland♦ I by T. G- Bishop of Tacoma, presi-♦ I dent of the federation.♦ j Bishop deplores the plan of Free-,♦ j land to sell, all the land of the Quin-♦! ault Indians except fishing rights for♦ ($25,000,000, which money the fed-♦! eral government is to hold and pay♦ .only the interest annually. The in-♦ come would make the Indians Indo-♦ pendent for life, and, in addition, - ♦ ♦ they would have the big earningscompany in the capacity of boom-man, fell from a log boom. His brother, Mitchell, is proprietor of the Fashion saloon here.TITLE OF OYSTER LAND .. OLYMPIA, Sept. 1.—Practically without exception all purchasers of state oyster lands under the Callow act are taking advantage of‘the law passed by the recent legislature allowing them to perfect their titles by purchasing the-reversionary right of the state. There were 665 acres of oyster lands, practically all In Mason and Thurston counties, purchased in small tracts under the Callow act, and these original purchasers have now nearly all filed their applications for the reversionary right.In the Immediate future the state
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Centralia Daily Chronicle Examiner
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Wed, Sep 01, 1915
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